Lesson Learned from a Friend in the Trenches: Other People’s Labor Leads to Victory

One of my dearest friends is another victim of court corruption.

We met when I was writing about some evil lawyers appointed to positions as minor’s counsel in the family courts of Los Angeles.

My friend is a deeply faithful Christian, college educated and a health nut. We spent several weeks together, and she did not abuse her body in any way. As we travelled around, staying in Airbnbs, she was considerate and inclusive of everyone. She is in fact a woman of color herself, I am white, and she never exhibited animosity or resentment toward me based on my skin color, my Jewish heritage nor any other reason.

It is shear evil in our courts that basically terminated her parental rights with her beloved child.

My friend, probably due to her faith, was not defeated.

Neither of us is an attorney, so we cannot give each other legal advice. We are allowed to share tips on dealing with the stress created by the bad apples in the legal community. We are allowed to discuss what the word of God tells us, the higher law. And we can give practical tips for navigating the halls of justice.

This is advice from my friend.

Let other people do the work for you.

I wish I listened to my friends more often. (I don’t listen to anyone. Just ask my mother. lol.)

There are about 20 banker-boxes of legal documents in this world that were generated by me, alone.

But I am trying to use other people’s labor more and more, especially as my own body becomes less useful.

Examples of other people’s labor that is available to everyone for free or cheap:

You can contact government agencies. Try the CFPB, judicial ethics commissions, state bars and committees on professional conduct, medical boards, court reporter boards, the FBI’s public integrity unit, insurance commissioners, and local law enforcement, to name a few.

Don’t expect too much. Many organizations are toothless tigers. Many bureaucrats are there to collect a paycheck and discuss their future pension. (I worked for the Department of Building and Safety for 10 years, and wish I had a nickel for every discussion my coworkers had about their pension plans, when we should have been helping the public.)

Occasionally, the government is our friend.

Sometimes the agencies don’t have power to change corrupt decisions that have already affected you. Sometimes their influence is subtle.

Three judicial officers I complained about voluntarily retired. Two of them are still working in alternative dispute resolution and one went back to private law practice before dying at the age of 64. So, they were not apparently ready to quit working, when they gave up their cushy and prestigious jobs.

It is probable that the Commission on Judicial Performance influenced the disgraced judges’ departures.

One of my active cases is against Shelter Insurance. Usually, my experience with the company was positive. But at the worst time in my economic life, when the COVID-Crash wiped out most of my working capital, Shelter decided not to pay a legitimate claim.

There was an ex-convict renting my property for below market rate. That is him in the picture above. After several months of missing rent payments, I told him to leave. He left. Then he came back and vandalized my property and stole an ATV.

I know the damage was done after the tenant, Nate Rowe, left the property, because one thing he did was to shut off the heat in the pump room, causing the pipes to freeze and burst. He could not live there without water, so he must have waited until after he left and decided to remove the rest of my property.

Shelter said that Mr. Rowe was a tenant, and therefore the damage was not covered.

The case should have been simple. Unfortunately, Judge Susan Kaye Weaver presided.

Suzy Weaver presided on another case of mine that concerned the rental property. She gave the property to attorney William White’s client. This despite a handwritten, signed letter describing the fraud that the gang was committing on me. (That decision is on appeal, the White gang didn’t file an opposition, and the COA has sat on it for almost a year.)

At the end of 2019, I went to the Searcy County Sheriff Department to file a police report against Nathaniel Rowe.

Four years later, Mr. Rowe pled guilty to theft and malicious mischief.

That case document is in today’s FREE Docs of the Day.

Barring a corrupt court, like Judge Susan Weaver, that is evidence that my rendition of the damage to the property is true.

Barring a corrupt court, like Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, that is more evidence that I was suffering from acute stress during the time Portfolio Recovery Associates was trying to collect a non-existent debt from me, by calling me incessantly.

Other people’s labor, though slow, helped me attain justice.

My hat’s off to Prosecutor Chad Brown, who recently took over the case against Nate. Thank you for bringing a four-year-old case to a close.