Pro Se Litigant Dismissed From Suit Filed By Attorney William Z. White
With the tenacity of a pit bull, endless hours of tedious work and the favor of God, not necessarily in that order, even a pro se litigant can prevail against a licensed attorney.
It helps quite a bit if the attorney has a horrible track record and no case.
This writer just won a case, even though the presiding Judge, Susan K. Weaver, appeared to many attorneys and lay people to have a bias in favor of the opposing attorney, Mr. William Zac White of Heber Springs, Arkansas.
The Court might have made a further error by making an oral order for judgment against an unrepresented trust by default. In a case such as this, there is caselaw suggesting that when two parties are named jointly, if the non-defaulting party prevails, the defaulting party must also be dismissed. Because I am not an attorney, I must hire an attorney to represent the trust on appeal (if Judge Weaver does not reconsider her possible error before committing it to writing.)
Here is the order dismissing me as an individual with prejudice.
Willy White Wins One: Judge Susan Weaver Refuses to Allow a Joint Defendant to Argue
Attorney William Z. White out of Heber Springs Arkansas played the role of plaintiff’s attorney in a kangaroo court presided over by Judge Susan Weaver on March 17, 2022. He won an outrageous default judgment against an unrepresented trust, for now.
There is no published order on the hearing yet. Mr. White might be too busy gloating to put whole sentences on paper as he was ordered to do by the court.
The way I remember it, Mr. White opened the “trial” by saying he would dismiss me as an individual and only ask for default damages against the Rural Revival Living Trust.
Judge Weaver acted as if I was already dismissed and forbid me from cross examining the plaintiff, objecting to violations like leading the witness, and presenting the evidence I had that the plaintiff had deprived me of over $260,000 by fraud.
Judge Weaver transferred title of the property in dispute from the trust to the plaintiff.
I tried to explain to Judge Weaver that the trust was not represented because every attorney I consulted said taking the case would end his career. Judge Weaver said those allegations were “unfounded”.
It does not matter if allegations of bias are unfounded. It is the appearance of bias that makes a judge’s refusal to recuse unethical.
If the trust cannot engage counsel because of the appearance of bias by the judge, then the trust is denied due process…because of the judge.
Still, Mr. White bragged himself up all weekend and into the new week.
On Monday, March 21, 2022, 02:08:15 PM CDT, William Z. White <wzwhite@wzwhite.com> wrote this email to me:
“You really have no idea how the legal processes in the State of Arkansas work. You should be mindful of that. You have tried the whole ‘the system is against me’ approach in several of your other losing cases. How did that work out for you then?”
I’ll tell you an entertaining story.
A champion poker player was telling me about the game he was in the night before. He said he knew there were other players cheating.
I asked why he stayed if he knew the players were cheating. He said, “if they are so bad they have to cheat to win, they may win a few hands, but I will win overall. And I did.”
Sorry to be a downer to Mr. White, but a victory by default because all the attorneys I consulted with think Judge Weaver is throwing the case is not something that should make him proud.
In my mind, he looks like a pudgy bully who stole an ice-cream cone from a girl half his size.
Then as he gleefully walked down the street, licking the ball of ice-cream, he licked too hard and it fell right off the cone and landed in a pile of dog poop.
Hope Willy White enjoys his cone while he can.
Repost: Nothing changes. Unless we make it.
Still true.
A copy of some of my early writing came to me as a gift in the mail today.
As I began to read the one posted below, I thought “This is good! Am I really that brilliant?”
Unfortunately, the answer was “no.” The article begins with a long quote from the People’s Party of America written in 1890.
The quote is just as pertinent today. Maybe more so.
The conditions which surround us best justify
our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a
nation brought to the verge of moral, political,
and material ruin. Corruption dominates the
ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress,
and touches even the ermine of the bench. The
people are demoralized; most of the States
have been compelled to isolate the voters at
the polling places to prevent universal
intimidation and bribery. The newspapers are
largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion
silenced, business prostrated, homes covered
with mortgages, labor impoverished’ and the
land concentrating in the hands of capitalists.
The urban workmen are denied the right to
organize for self-protection, imported
pauperized labor beats down their wages, a
hireling standing army, unrecognized by our
laws, is established to shoot them down, and
they are rapidly degenerating into European
conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are
boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a
few, unprecedented in the history of mankind;
and the possessors of those, in turn, despise
the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes – tramps and
millionaires.
-From the People’s Party of America platform1890s. (Also known as the Populist
Movement.)
Unfortunately, this is the common tale of too
many stripped of any parent-child relationship
by a seemingly corrupt court. The
court creates a pauper, enslaved to enriching
the collaterals, the lawyers, therapists and
monitors appointed by the court. The rulers
are acting upon the threat of force. They act
under the color of law, but not under the laws
this once great nation was built upon. – Laura Lynn Hammett 2009
Can A Victim of Corrupt Government Workers Win a Constitutional Claim? Yes!
Back in the day… I was writing about corrupt government employees, especially in the judicial branch, and as a benefit, met some wonderful friends and colleagues.
Thank you to one of the ladies who sent two packets of printouts of my articles that were deleted from the internet when Examiner.com closed down. (Hint. When the say back-up your files, they mean it.)
I’ll repost a few of my faves in the next few days.
Here is one about a beautiful person, inside and out, who had her children removed from her by evil DCFS employees and the judge who went along with the scum.
Open Email to Attorney William Z. White
This blogger is ill and has used all the time she was able to sit up today to write an email concerning the unethical transfer of property from an older woman to the man who defrauded her into thinking he was in love with her. Cliche, yes. But true.
Hopefully, if God does not heal my disease, I will leave a legacy that helps the good people of Arkansas fend off tyrannical government employees, like judges, that transfer property to their friends and family, and themselves, of course.
Pardon the quality of this writing. It is done while I have eaten only a bowl of rice in more than two days, and can barely lift my head.
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Mr. White and Staff,
I am extremely ill right now and can only sit for a few minutes at a time. Standing to scan makes me need to puke. But, because Judge Weaver appears to me to be ruling unethically and illegally, I won’t assume she will give me the stay I requested.
My Jewish grandmother who lived in the USSR survived the Bolsheviks and the Russian oligarchy stealing her property, killing her nine siblings and mother and ran, physically on her legs I was told, to Poland, then Germany, then crossed the Atlantic by ship and made it to Los Angeles. We are a tough breed.
Attached is a copy of the Laura Lynn Living Trust Dated December 25, 2014 and Designation of Successor Trustee for the Laura Lynn Living Trust Dated December 25, 2014 that transferred control of my assets to Micheal Pietrczak on July 23, 2015. Attached also is a revocation of Micheal Pietrczak as Trustee of the Laura Lynn Living Trust Dated December 25, 2014. A lawsuit regarding the trust will be filed as soon as Judge Weaver is removed from the bench, as I have no expectation of justice with Judge Weaver presiding.
I made my sons the trustees until July 2015 because Mr. Pietrczak was on a drunken binge, driving from California to Arkansas with our furniture and he was paying prostitutes for sex at the time. Mr. Pietrczak called me about December 28 and begged me to fly out to meet him because he was out of money already. He spent $15,000 driving from California to Clarendon Texas.
Once in Arkansas, Mr. Pietrczak defrauded me again into believing he loved me and considered me his “wife in the eyes of God”. Those were his words.
Mr. Pietrczak had no assets when we met. He was a felon on probation for using fraudulent documents at the US-Mexico border.
He used all my money and my unpaid labor to build a business. When we were denied our opportunity to purchase the property the business was in, I did all the physical labor of writing our arguments for court documents and won the case in spite of Mr. Pietrczak’s continual drinking binges and 24/7 use of cannabis. The arbitrator wrote that he favored the plaintiffs because my family had the assets to purchase the property, not that the broke alcoholic felon had the assets to buy the property. (The arbitrator even noted in writing that he considered me “a rescuer”.)
Mr. Pietrczak put everything that we both earned into his name, including the property on Lick Fork.
Mr. Pietrczak showed a loss on his income tax returns every year, and in fact did not file income tax returns until he met me, he said.
I offered in writing to give him half of what we had left from six years of my Silver Strand Plaza, LLC income and the lawsuit money. Instead of taking my gift gratefully, he and you greedily pursued this lawsuit that could only be won if you had a crooked judge on your side. (It was dismissed when I could afford to hire an attorney in 2018.)
But you saw another opportunity to have Judge Weaver transfer assets from an older woman’s trust to you and your client. Your client will need to pay all the money he keeps to medical bills that the government has paid for him thus far. So, unless you are slipping him some cash, the only individuals who profit are you and those you pay off to help you.
Hopefully Judge Weaver gives me at least a couple weeks to meet with doctors and rest. If she does not, and I am forced to comply with your overbroad subpoena, instead of caring for my health, I hope she will be charged with honest services fraud or at least removed from the bench. Those are probably appropriate outcomes already.
If not, I will keep in mind a friend of my family who was one of the people memorialized in the movie Defiance. I asked him why he believed in God. He said that if there was no God, he would not have survived 18 months in a forest in Germany after being shot in the leg by Nazis while escaping a concentration camp.
Regards,
Laura Hammett
The Rant of Attorney William Zac White
Cut and paste of an email.
Ms. Lynn,
As usual your legal conclusions are wrong. You are attempting to dodge, evade, and obfuscate a valid subpoena duces tecum. I will be filing a motion for contempt on day 11 if you have not provided the information I have commanded you to produce. In any event, I look forward to returning ownership of the property to my client at the upcoming hearing. I wonder what happens to your other suits when you no longer have any claim to an interest (however untenable your claim is) in the disputed real property. I’ll be certain to reach out to those attorneys to let them know that the property is once again in the complete unfettered ownership of my client. Your days of abusing the Arkansas legal season are coming to an end, and I look forward to being a part of it. I am sure you will file a flurry of illegible and unnecessarily voluminous pleadings that will likewise fail. I just wish you would quit wasting everyone’s time and resources on your personal irrational vendetta.
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The information he commanded me to produce:
All financial documents pertaining to me, all “intangible items” pertaining to me, and all other items pertaining to me since 2009.
And that is just #1.
Portfolio Recovery Associates did not just do this to me or you: One Assurance of Discontinuance
If Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, any of the PRA Group, Inc. Subsidiaries or any other debt collector called you and said you owe a debt that you don’t recall and refused to give you adequate documentation of the debt, you might think about filing a lawsuit against them for violations of the FDCPA or your state law regarding debt collection.
Agencies at both the state and federal level have gone as far as obtaining consent agreements to cause PRA to cease the bad conduct and make multi-million-dollar payments of one kind or another. But those agreements do not seem to slow the greedy company from violating the same provisions of state and federal law again.
Here is one Assurance of Discontinuance obtained against Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC by the Attorney General of Massachusetts.
The Just Us System
Here is a weird thing I noticed when I was researching for an FDCPA claim I brought against a debt buyer called Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC:
Similar cases that are brought by attorneys settle for about $1,000 to $5,000 per plaintiff with $20,000 to the attorney who filed the case. I have seen cases that did not settle quickly, where the plaintiffs got about $10,000 and the attorneys got $200,000.
Portfolio Recovery Associates gave me offers of judgment for $1,000 and $5,000. I told them no.
Filing the average case is not rocket science. The attorneys who specialize in consumer protection law can probably write and file a case in 35 minutes.
So, why do the attorneys earn disproportionately more than a litigant who is willing to do the paperwork on her own? Doesn’t that incentivize the lawyers to settle quickly and often, instead of working hard to get to trial? If one or two people make it to trial and a jury awards significant punitive damages, Boom! PRA and its ilk will need to find a different way to harass and rip off the rest of us.
Records From Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, one of the nation’s most dishonest debt buyers, will often tell a person she owes money to PRA because PRA bought the old debt, even without adequate proof the debt exists.
According to a long line of actions by the CFPB and various State Attorney Generals, Portfolio Recovery Associates does not verify or validate the debts it bought before aggressively trying to collect. PRA knows the portfolios it purchased for pennies on the dollar are riddled with errors.
I am suing PRA for making incessant phone calls to me on a debt that I don’t recall and for which it has inadequate proof. Each call I answered began the same way. “Hi. This is [random person’s name] calling from a recorded line to speak with Laura Lynn. Is she available?”
They knew I had an Arkansas landline, but still treated me as if I still lived in California which is a two party consent state for recording purposes.
Part of PRA’s defense is that it did not make the numerous calls I received in which I hung up on them. They won’t tell me who provides them telephone service so I could subpoena their records. But they did provide their own call log.
Their call log does not match up to my cell phone records.
If you decide to sue PRA to try to deter them from making more improper calls, keep good records. Tape the calls if it is legal in your state. Look up “single-party consent recording” or, if PRA starts the conversation by telling you the call may be recorded it sounds to me like they are giving you permission to record also. (Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. This is just what sounds fair to me and what I presume when someone tells me he is recording a call.)
All the PRA numbers they called me from two years ago that I tried calling back yesterday are now disconnected.
Here is a short list: If you know some of Portfolio Recovery Associate’s old numbers please email them to me or post in the comments.
(760) 823-3149
(720) 307-1681
(760) 258-4596
(442) 286-3194
No Need to Reinvent the Wheel: Government Officials in Searcy County, Arkansas are Repeat Offenders
Did you buy property in Searcy County, Arkansas? Did your lovely rural retreat turn into Hell on Earth?
Join the club.
I’ve complained about Judge Susan Weaver, Sheriff Deputy Ezra Pierce and Court Reporter Jana Perry.
It seems that the RICO type enterprise in Searcy County, Arkansas spreads into more than just the court and sheriff’s office. The clerk’s office looks a little fishy, too.
I researched Caseinfo.arcourts.gov to find other properties that Judge Weaver transferred from control by a trustee to a plaintiff who was purposefully left out of the trust, to see if there is a pattern.
One troubling case I found was not quite on target. The property was lost by judicial foreclosure, sold and the proceeds given to a bank. But the case was hotly contested for about seven years. Yikes!
The part that concerns me most is that the winner of the courthouse sale was the Deputy Clerk of Searcy County, Arkansas, Michelle Loggins.
So, the Clerk Debbie Loggins was the auctioneer of the property and the winner of the auction was Deputy Clerk Michelle Loggins and her husband Paul, who bid $82,000. Hmm?
You may ask, how does a deputy county clerk in podunk Arkansas afford to pay $82,000 cash at a courthouse sale? Well, the receipt from a month after the sale said the payor was “L & L Drywall”. There is an L & L Acoustic and Drywall in Mountain Home, Arkansas. Maybe Paul Loggins is involved with the drywall company. Or maybe the enterprising clerk is double escrowing the cheap deals that can be had through judicial foreclosures. [In reviewing the judgement written by Judge Susan Weaver, I see that Judge Weaver allowed the successful bidder three months of credit at 10% interest per annum. I have not seen any courthouse sale that extended credit before. Some non-judicial foreclosures require immediate payment. Some allow 24 hours. The one judicial foreclosure I’ve been involved with as a purchaser allowed us a brief time to pay, but we had the cash on the day we bid. (2/26/2022)]
The auction sale was not advertised in the local Marshall Mountain Wave. It was advertised in a paper out of Fayetteville in Northwest Arkansas.
The order confirming the sale in Searcy County Circuit Court case No. 65CV-14-20 was signed by Judge Susan Weaver on February 16, 2022.
Another thing that caught my attention is that the person who lost the property was named in two capacities in the suit, once as an individual, Jo Elliot, and once as a trustee of the John Paxton Elliot Trust. There were two summonses issued and served on the woman, one as an individual and one as “trustee”.
I’ve been complaining to Judge Weaver since June 2021 that I was sued as codefendant with a trust as the other defendant and no summons was issued to a trustee of the trust. After more than 200 days Judge Weaver convinced the plaintiff attorney William White to issue a second summons, but White wrote “c/o Laura Lynn (Hammett)” instead of “Laura Lynn Hammett as trustee of the Rural Revival Living Trust”. Summonses are supposed to withstand strict scrutiny of the law. That summons cannot.
All I can say is that if you don’t want to lose your property through a court action, don’t buy property anywhere Susan Weaver is the judge. She said she likes to play with other people’s money, according to an article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Apparently, many of the little people in the government of Marshall, Arkansas and the other small towns under Queen Weaver’s reign have gotten in on the game.
What fun.
A Higher Law 