Archive | December 2024
December 31, 2024  

Will All Lawyers Burn in Hell? I Hope Not.

December 31, 2024  

Court Corruption causes stress. Relax and let go by doing Yin Yoga with Matt.

At the end, Matt suggests I send a link to this video to my friends who can use it and tell them I love them. Christ suggests I do the same for my enemies as well, through another Matthew who memorialized the Sermon on the Mount in writing.

Matthew 5: 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

I love you, friends and foes. Happy New Years!

December 28, 2024  

A Law License Is Not a Free Pass to Defame

James K. Trefil of the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP wrote a defamatory letter to the company that owns WordPress, this blog’s host. Mr. Trefil’s intent was to scare WordPress into deleting this blog. It was supposedly mailed on December 19, 2024, according to court documents filed by Mr. Trefil.

Thus far, and to the credit of WordPress and Automattic, Inc., you are still able to read my blog.

Here is a copy of the letter:

Doc 299-1 exhibit A Letter demanding to remove my blogDownload

Here is a letter I just emailed to Mr. Trefil and will put in the mail when it stops raining.

Signed scan defamation retraction letterDownload

ChatGPT is not an attorney. It is a tool that uses artificial intelligence. It is a good sounding board, that offers avenues to explore with more authoritative sources. Here is what ChatGPT had to say about the defamatory letter and whether an attorney could be found liable for damages caused by a defamatory letter to a non-governmental agency.

Yes, a lawyer can potentially be found guilty of defamation for statements made in a letter to a non-governmental agency, even if those statements are made on behalf of their client. However, whether the lawyer can be held liable depends on several factors:

Key Considerations:

  1. Privilege:
    • Absolute Privilege: Lawyers generally have absolute privilege for statements made in court filings, during litigation, or in other official judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings. This privilege does not extend to communications with non-governmental agencies unless those communications are part of such a proceeding.
    • Qualified Privilege: If the communication is related to a matter of mutual interest or made in good faith, a lawyer may have qualified privilege. However, this can be lost if the statement is made with malice or without a legitimate basis.
  2. Truth as a Defense: Defamation requires the statement to be false. If the statements made in the letter are true, the lawyer cannot be held liable for defamation, regardless of how damaging they are.
  3. Malice: If the lawyer makes statements with actual malice—knowing they are false or with reckless disregard for the truth—they could be held liable for defamation.
  4. Role and Intent:
    • If the lawyer is merely relaying information provided by the client, their liability could depend on whether they exercised reasonable care in verifying the claims before making them.
    • If the lawyer independently makes defamatory statements, they may face greater liability.
  5. Non-Privileged Contexts: Communications with non-governmental agencies, especially those unrelated to litigation, are less likely to be protected by absolute privilege. For instance, a letter to a private organization or regulatory body could expose the lawyer to liability if it contains defamatory remarks and lacks privilege or justification.

Stay tuned.

December 27, 2024  

Judge Lee P. Rudofsky Might Take this Blog Down – Find Me Elsewhere

Dear Readers,

Portfolio Recovery Associates, part of PRA Group Inc, asked -or maybe “instructed”- Judge Lee P. Rudofsky to take this blog down.

I am going to the courthouse to file a response to PRA’s “Emergency” Christmas week motion.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Judge Rudofsky already has his order prepared and takes my blog down before I can get a truly emergency order from a higher court to stop him.

If he does take down this blog, find me on YouTube. @LauraLynnHammett https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pzkjWBLTRfU

I will also start a new blog. It will have a broader subject than corrupt courts. It will ride the wave started by Luigi Mangione to stop accepting the rule of the oligarchy. Of course, I only suggest using peaceful means to bring change.

Here are the documents I am filing today, without the exhibits.

response to emergency motion for sanctionsDownload
brief in support of response to motion to ban Plaintiff’s blogDownload
Declaration in Support of response to motion for sanctions for posting appendicesDownload

Here are the dire emergency documents PRA filed:

Doc 298 2024.12.20. Motion to Enforce Protective OrderDownload
Doc 299 2024.12.20. Brief in Support of Emergency Motion to Enforce Protective Order (1)Download
Doc 299-1 exhibit A Letter demanding to remove my blogDownload
Doc 299-2 Exhibit B Email telling me transcript I downloaded from PACER and posted was unredactedDownload
Doc 299-3 Exhibit C Blog post saying PACER transcript was unredacted and swapping with redacted versionDownload

I’ll miss y’all.

December 25, 2024  

SCOTUS clerk confuses the case. Wrong date. Wrong title.

Now Judge Rudofsky might order this blog deleted in its entirety. All 15 years worth.

December 24, 2024  

SCOTUS Missing Motion: Troutman & Pepper lie that the motion was not served on them.

What made me think the clerks in the Supreme Court of the United States would be honest?

Defense firm Troutman & Pepper is working for debt buyer Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC, and apparently Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, trying to get this blog banned.

Make copies of everything you want to keep. My response to the motion to ban the blog is due on Friday December 27th. My experience with Lee Rudofsky foretells that he will grant the motion.

The basis of the motion is that PRA did not receive a copy of my motion to initially seal certain appendices to my petition for writ of certiorari served on October 7th, and then immediately unseal them. The idea to first ask to seal the documents came from Case Analyst Angela Jimenez. She wanted me to write two separate motions, but I combined them as one.

Good thing! The motion is not posted or linked on the docket. The bulk of the 10-page motion, discussing why the documents should be unsealed, was not mentioned. The date of filing was changed to October 7, 2024, more than two weeks before the motion was written and served.

Don’t believe me? Here is some proof.

Motion to Unseal Petition for Writ of Certiorari 4-pages servedDownload

Missing Motion

SCOTUS Missing Motion Proof of Service Oct 24 2024Download
SCOTUS Missing Motion Served on Troutman Pepper Oct 24 2024 USPS TrackingDownload
SCOTUS Missing Motion Served on Clerk Oct 24 2024 USPS trackingDownload

SCOTUS Missing Motion letter dated Oct 10 2024 errantly stated filed Oct 7 2024Download

Letter from Case Manager Angela Jimenez dated December 10, 2024, envelope was postmarked December 12, 2024 and USPS informed delivery shows that it was upside down in the mail and did not get delivered until December 18th. Defense Team of Troutman & Pepper and Rose Law Firm filed their motion to ban my blog on December 20, 2024. I sent a request for a certified copy of the motion I filed with a check for fees on December 12, 2024. No word back.

SCOTUS Missing Motion letter dated Dec 10 2024 errantly stated filed Oct 7 2024Download

I don’t know if I can get this letter in the mail today. I’ll try.

Letter to SCOTUS Clerk re missing motionDownload
December 23, 2024  

Motion to Ban this Blog: Rose Law Firm Fibs About Service

  1. Attorneys from Rose Law Firm and Troutman & Pepper waited 11 days to file an “emergency” motion for sanctions.
  2. David Mitchell certified that the motion was handed to me and mailed to me on December 20th.
  3. There was neither kind of service made until December 23rd.
  4. Judge Lee P. Rudofsky ordered me to file my response in the clerk’s office by close of business on the 27th.
  5. I’d rather be organizing my laundry room and pantry before Christmas, but working on this response will point me to some interesting evidence to share with you, my dear readers.
  6. Enjoy the video.
  7. May your Christmas be filled with peace and joy.
December 22, 2024  

Sunday Funday: Comedian Josh Johnson on the Grounds of a Brewing Revolution

I am not and never have advocated for violence. Josh Johnson is not, either. We both are commentators to what we see happening in this country. Sticking our heads in the sand will not change what is happening up above.

An oligarchy of corporate kings and their puppet politicians and judges tried, and some say succeeded at enslaving the masses. There is no justice for the everyday person.

One example: Walmart and major credit card companies partner to create million entry portfolios of account numbers. If one of the accounts appears to be in default and the person associated with that account refuses to pay, whether for a legitimate reason or not, the account may be written off for a tax break to the corporations, then sold to a debt buyer like Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC.

An account associated with my name before I married, Laura Lynn, was one of the default accounts on a list generated by Capital One. (There is no indication that the Capital One account was a Walmart branded account. I mention Walmart, because the judge who was supposed to deliver justice on the matter, Lee P. Rudofsky, was general counsel to Walmart before his lifetime appointment to the federal bench.)

There was also an account sold to PRA that was associated with Laura Lyman. After I filed a lawsuit against Portfolio Recovery Asociates, LLC for violating the Fair Debt Consumer Protection Act (FDCPA) and my privacy, PRA sent a letter to Laura Lynn that said it completed the investigation into Laura Lyman’s dispute and set the balance of Laura Lyman’s account number to zero.

When pressed, PRA sent a letter to Laura Lynn saying her account was closed. When pressed again, the debt company sent a letter with the same language as the Laura Lyman letter, only with “Laura Lynn” and the account number associated with Laura Lynn. PRA and Judge Rudofsky maintain to this day that Laura Lynn owed $2,297.63 and admitted she owed the money. Total bullshit.

Judge Rudofsky and Portfolio Recovery kept me in court for years. Rudofsky lied about what I said. He lied by implication about the evidence that he allowed PRA to file under seal. The judge refused to allow a jury to hear and see the evidence.

Finally, PRA asked Judge Rudofsky to tax the costs of the goliath credit collector’s defense to me. In protest, I gave a copy of my tax return for the latest year and swore under penalty of perjury that my income is a pension that is under $650 per month. I said I qualify for Medicaid.

Judge Lee P. Rudofsky grumbled that I gave two different amounts, $630 and $639 off the top of my head, for my pension. (I didn’t realize I got a cost-of-living increase on the part of my pension that came from a QUADRO in a divorce filed in 1996.) He complained that I only gave one year of taxes. (President Trump, who nominated Rudofsky, wouldn’t show any of his tax returns to the public.)

The judge said something like “let her eat cake” and rubber stamped the order for costs to the company that buys debt from his past employer.

Josh Johnson got it right. It is looking like Versailles.

December 20, 2024  

Three Cheers for Tom Cotton! Boo, Hiss to Dick Durbin (Doesn’t he know 3,000 wrongs don’t make a right?)

December 18, 2024  

Commoner’s Commentary on Lawyers Proofread by Blogger Laura Lynn Hammett

This is a fictional work. But it resonates with many people. Most people are not capable to or comfortable fighting their own legal battles. Yet, legal services are too expensive for the working class (slaves), and the stars must align perfectly for a lawyer to take a case on contingency.

Our legal system is the giant thumb of the oligarchy keeping us down.

Sean Lynn priced this book high. If he ever becomes famous, it is the unedited version and will be collectable. I’ll post links to a couple of his other books, including the one he co-authored with me before his fall. Some are cheaper, especially as Kindle offerings.

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