More Crappy Childhood Fairy Open Practice: How to Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee P. Rudofsky
A few days back, I shared a method of writing about fears and resentments in order to release them. Read about the practice that I learned on a website called The Crappy Childhood Fairy on my previous “How to Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee P. Rudofsky” here.
In the spirit of CoDA (Co-Dependents Anonymous) I am sharing my practice from this morning with you, my readers.
CoDA is another helpful tool to deal with difficult people like narcissists and try to find what in us is attracting those relationships. I went to meetings and a home group for about three years. I wish I did not stop when I was feeling “cured”. It may have saved me from being in a six-year relationship with an alcoholic, fraudster who brought prostitutes into our home. (My current husband is a dream come true. We can learn and change and find a happy ending.)
My handwritten note, above, says:
“Fear I did not get enough sleep last night. I fear I will be tired all day. I fear I will not be able to do my court work. I fear my anxiety will increase and I won’t be able to fall asleep tonight. I resent PRA and Judge Rudofsky for making a simple case so difficult by lying and colluding. I resent not having a fair and honest judiciary. I fear people with positions as judges will force me into bankruptcy. I fear that my body and mind won’t carry me through building up my retirement fund again. I resent that I have been a hardworking, productive member of society and will spend my old age in poverty.
“I am now ready and humbly ask that you, God, remove these fears and resentments. I pray to know your will for me today, and have the strength to carry it out.”
Now it is time to ritually release these resentments and fears by soaking the paper in water, wadding it up and throwing it out.
I suggest you write your practice by hand, instead of typing on a computer keyboard. First, handwriting is said to access a certain part of our brains that does not happen with typing. Second, I would hate for you to have to smash your computer with a baseball bat or throw your cell phone in the toilet to accomplish the ritual release.
How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee Rudofsky, Susan Weaver or Alan Friedenthal (deceased)
You’d think that the passing of retired in disgrace California Commissioner Alan Friedenthal would end the need to “cope”.
The problem with corrupt judges is that they have power to destroy lives and cancel the culture for which the rest of us peasants voted.
Friedenthal forced me to cease all communications with my two sons. We were completely separated; the way people complain that children of allegedly illegal immigrants are torn from their mothers and fathers.
I was not forced to live in a cage, but there was the threat of incarceration if I disobeyed the misogynistic, reported abuser of women and children. Because he was appointed to the bench, he wielded that much power.
My now adult children had their childhoods ruined and struggle emotionally and financially. This is a constant reminder of the damage done by the evil judge.
Judge Susan Weaver of Arkansas merely transferred $200,000 of my property to the alcoholic with whom I spent six grueling years of my life. She ignored his handwritten signed note that gave step-by-step instructions on how his father and attorney William Zac White would defraud me of what they hoped to be three times their haul.
Living without property is easier than living without children. But I am 60 years old and live on a $630 per month pension. $200,000 would make a huge difference in my anticipation of the future.
Lee Rudofsky, on a trajectory to the Supreme Court if we don’t stop him, used the rules of procedure as a sword against me, while purposefully misinterpreting and misstating my testimony. He failed to warn me that the company he represented prior to judgeship, Walmart, issued credit cards in collaboration with a finance company and their bad debts were sold to the defendant in my case, debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, for pennies on the dollar. It is likely both buyer and seller knew the portfolios were riddled with errors.
Rudofsky dismissed my case summarily, meaning without allowing it to go to a jury, and will probably make me pay the costs of the billion-dollar collectors.
On a grander scale, Rudofsky is paving the way for debt collectors to ignore the FDCPA completely and condoning their spoliation of evidence.
I have previously written about spiritual coping mechanisms I use. Yoga, meditation, prayer…these are all good.
Writing is also therapeutic. It is good to share experience with others. WordPress is a free or cheap forum.
I suggest you try sharing your experience concerning these and other bad judges. You can start by writing in the comments section below.
There are also government agencies to whom you can write complaints. In California they are called the Commission on Judicial Performance. Arkansas has the JDDC. “If your complaint is against a federal circuit judge, federal district judge, federal bankruptcy judge, or federal magistrate judge, you must file the complaint at the clerk’s office of the United States court of appeals for the regional circuit in which the judge serves.” (https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-conduct-disability/faqs-filing-judicial-conduct-or-disability-complaint#faq-Where-do-I-file-my-complaint?)
A conduct or ethics complaint is not a way to get bad decisions overturned. You will only be helping the next guy in line.
If you want to write a complaint about Judge Susan Weaver or Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, or any other judge, I am happy to proofread your complaint. I am not an attorney and not allowed to give legal advice. I am allowed to give encouragement, share my personal experience, and help you express yourself.
Contact me at bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
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Mystery Solved: Why Judge Lee P. Rudofsky Appears to Favor Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC over Me
Today you get two FREE Docs of the Day. One is a background report written by the Alliance for Justice on Federal District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky written soon after then President Donald Trump nominated him to his lifetime position.
I am a Christian Libertarian Populist, so I agree with many but not all of Judge Rudofsky’s stated opinions. He panders to Christian conservatives and pretends to be a Federalist, but he is openly anti-populist. I say “stated opinions” because I think Mr. Rudofsky is disingenuous. He may disagree with me, but I think his “opinions” are motivated by a political power grab, and allegiance to big business and the moneyed elite.
Judge Rudofsky presides over my FDCPA (Federal Debt Collection Practices Act) case against Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC. The Cornell and Harvard educated judge acts like he is mentally challenged. He misquotes and misinterprets simple English, always in a way that benefits PRA. He accepts the most transparent lies as truth. So much for “veritas”.
Why the apparent bias?
According to the AFJ:
“Rudofsky worked on a 2016 article titled ‘The CFPB’s unconstitutional power grab,’ which examined the D.C. Circuit’s decision in PHH Corporation v. CFPB. The decision, written by then-judge Brett Kavanaugh, held in part that the statute creating the CFPB was unconstitutional as it related to the President’s lack of authority to fire the single-director except for ‘inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.’
“However, in January 2018, the D.C. Circuit reheard the claim en banc and held, ‘[b]ecause we see no constitutional defect in Congress’s choice to bestow on the CFPB Director protection against removal except for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,” we sustain it.’ The court recognized Congress’s intent in protecting consumers following the 2008 financial crisis and concluded that ‘[n]o relevant consideration gives us reason to doubt the constitutionality of the independent CFPB’s single-member structure. Congress made constitutionally permissible institutional design choices for the CFPB with which courts should hesitate to interfere.’
“The CFPB serves a vital role in protecting consumers and Rudofsky’s labeling of the actions of this agency as an ‘unconstitutional power grab’ raises serious concerns.”
I am preparing for an appeal of Judge Rudofsky’s orders on my case and took a close look at some evidence entered in another case against Portfolio Recovery. (That case was settled confidentially of course.)
One of PRA’s lies in my case was that a written interrogation it sent to me was “NOT” an attempt to collect a debt. The affidavit that I was supposed to fill out asked for my social security number, birthdate, driver’s license, and the details of who I suspected used my credit card fraudulently, any police reports I filed and if I was willing to assist in the prosecution of the 9-year-old fraud. (As if they haven’t heard of a statute of limitations and think I might still have the documentation to prove what happened in another State a decade back.) I was supposed to have it notarized or witnessed.
They sent a similar letter to an old lady named Loretta Burks. Ms. Burks filled it out and it didn’t help her one bit. PRA continued suing her and won by default. (Ms. Burks got representation and had the judgment set aside and filed the FDCPA action.)
Look at the fraud affidavit posted below. Check out page 7. The institution that issued one of the fraudulent accounts was “Portfolio Recovery/GE Capital Retail Walmart”. On page 2, Mrs. Burks’ response to the lawsuit against her included, “[t]his acct. was proven fraud before portfolio assoc. assumed it.”
Now look at page 1 of the AFJ background report, in the biography section. Judge Rudofsky was an assistant general counsel at Walmart and worked his way up from there.
I didn’t even realize Walmart issued credit cards. I live under a rock.
It seems to me that there is a conflict of interest where a defendant debt buyer purchased a bunch of junk debt from the judge’s former employer. Call me crazy.
I was watching a random trial in California years back. The dignified looking judge was listening to opening arguments intently. There was an accounting of some kind projected on a screen. The judge stopped the attorney suddenly and said, (paraphrased) “I am probably ok to continue, but I think I should let you know that the accountant who signed that document did my taxes for me, and we sometimes see each other at a party. We are just acquainted, but I think I should be transparent in case you think a motion for recusal is in order.” The attorneys declined to ask for a recusal.
Hey. I am going to take my case to the Court of Appeals. I am right, but PRA’s army of attorneys will probably annihilate me. This is not David and Goliath. This is David and 1,000 goliaths.
Any good and brave attorney who wants to help, hit me up at bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
Found Guilty for Being Blue Collar?
This is a response I made to a comment left on the post titled “How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Susan K. Weaver of Arkansas“.
To My Reader, I am slammed with work this week. Hopefully we can talk after that. You can give me a contact phone number at my email, bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
There is an often-used phrase, “he was arrested for driving while black”. I think our courts are more equal opportunity than that. I’d like to coin a corollary phrase. “He was found guilty for being blue color.”
It is difficult for me to decipher what you wrote in the comments. You obviously didn’t study journalism and join the college debate team. It is also obvious that you didn’t read the rules of civil procedure, or at least did not comprehend them, remember them at the appropriate moment and comply with them.
That does not mean you should lose custody of your children.
It is a flawed system that caters to big business and the moneyed elite.
My hope is that I can help open up our courts to the common person.
How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Lee P. Rudofsky of The Federal District Court
My most popular post over the past year was “How I Cope with a Corrupt Judge Like Susan K. Weaver of Arkansas”.
One of my readers who is now a close friend led me to another mental health tool since I wrote that post. In lieu of the Doc of the Day, I am sharing a link to the website that teaches this coping device, “The Crappy Childhood Fairy“. The basic program is free.
This is a way to deal with fears and resentments by writing and meditation. (Meditation to me is akin to prayer.)
For example, I might write:
I feel resentment toward Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. I fear that he will continue to pretend to miscomprehend my arguments and testimony in order to write orders that look legitimate on their face. I fear the justices on the court of appeals will also justify showing partiality. I fear the work that is required to appeal will be a waste of time. I resent attorneys David Mitchell of Rose Law Firm, Jed Komisin and James Trefil of Troutman Pepper. I fear they will use Judge Rudofsky’s political and ideological bias to the advantage of their client, a debt collector that is notorious for using illegal or unethical litigation tactics. I fear they may force me into bankruptcy and ruin my outstanding credit. I fear that there is little justice to be had in this once great nation any longer.
Since no one will read the handwritten note before I douse it in water, wad it up and throw in the trash, I get a little more personal, too.
Next, I write my prayer to God. “I am now ready and humbly ask that you, God, remove these fears and resentments. I pray to know your will for me today, and to have the strength to carry it out.”
After the writing and symbolic release ritual, which could be burning the notes, but wetting them seems less dangerous, I sit on my yoga mat and meditate. I use the mantra “release”. Honestly, I suck at meditation. My mind always wanders back to the torment Judge Rudofsky and the Three Henchmen put me through and all the work I need to do to stop them. But, when I notice, I come back to the mantra. “Release.”
I’ve only used this technique for a week. My outlook is improving. I see that some of my fears are about losing the wonderful things I have in my life now. So, it makes sense to appreciate and enjoy those things now. And it helps me to look at the job God gave me as a gift rather than a burden. My all time most popular post was written the day the Commission on Judicial Performance made a “severe” public admonishment against Court Commissioner Alan Friedenthal, the liberal Democrat version of Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, based upon my complaint. I wouldn’t trade that victory for a million bucks. (It saved others from suffering the way my children and I did at the hand of the corrupt judge.)
I hope you gain as much from the practice as I have. If you want to share your experience privately, email bohemian_books@yahoo.com. Otherwise, feel free to comment below.
Judge Terry Doughty Upholds Freedom of Speech while Judge Lee Rudofsky Tears it Down
You get two free Docs of the Day today.
One is 155 pages of brilliance in defense of our free speech, in an order for an injunction by Louisiana Federal District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty. I admit I have only made it through three pages. But this is the reading that will keep me up past my bedtime tonight.
The other is an order by Arkansas Federal District Court Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. I scanned the text only entry that came in the mail to me. The court’s printer is misaligned, and the ends of words were truncated. It is short, and you will probably be able to fill in the blanks.
Judge Rudofsky’s order seems to me to be an attempt by the judge to chill my free speech.
I have a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Colorado State University that I earned before my 21st birthday. I have spent more than a decade writing about corrupt judges and attorneys. I am not an attorney, but I understand the subtleties of free speech. To borrow a metaphor from the judge, I know how to keep my pinky toe on the right side of the line.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective once told me he and his fellow law enforcement agents read my blog and they were none too pleased with what I had to say; but could not arrest me. My current litigation adversary reads my blog. My adversary has given several of my posts to Judge Rudofsky as exhibits.
You may have read some of my posts about Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC and its parent company, PRA Group, Inc. You know I think the company violated a court order when it called me hundreds of times to try to collect an alleged debt that was part of a portfolio of alleged debts that was known to have inaccuracies. I allege that the attorneys who represent PRA lied numerous times during litigation and that one business record produced by PRA is inconsistent with another and they are both inconsistent with my records and my memory.
You may have seen me drop the F-bomb on this blog once or twice. You probably saw me call the attorneys “sleazy snakes”. But, each and every document I file in court is quite professional and an exercise in civility.
The PRA attorneys chose to ignore the subtleties of freedom of speech. They made up a lie about me that I was suing their client to recoup money I lost playing online poker.
I play poker way too much on my phone, but it is for fake money, and I don’t pay for chips. Zynga and Poker Bros give free chips to suck players in, and I am able to turn the $10,000 or so gift into multi-millions. Eventually I bust out and start over again with my freebies.
I am hardly a degenerate, running from my bookie.
What stops attorneys from making up lies about plaintiffs? They have immunity against civil defamation claims for statements made in the course of legal proceedings. But there is this pesky little thing called perjury. And there is supposed to be a rule, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, that requires attorneys to certify claims and defenses they make in the documents they file are supported or can be supported by evidence.
I filed a motion against the attorneys at Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper for making up lies about my poker losses. I mentioned that I was writing a book about poker, and the false accusations by the attorneys may hurt my reputation as a solid poker player.
[Shameless plug: The book is published and available on Amazon and Kindle – Balls of Crystal and Steel: What it Takes to Play Poker Without Losing Your Assets, by Sean Lynn and Laura Lynn Hammett.]
Judge Rudofsky poo-poo’d my motion and wrote: “the record reveals that Ms. Hammett has engaged in conduct that comes perilously close to harassment of opposing counsel and abuse of the litigation process.”
Poppy-cock!
There is nothing harassing about writing the truth or a sincerely held opinion on a blog. PRA attorneys do not need to read the blog. They certainly don’t need to go tattling to the judge like little bitches. I haven’t suggested anyone break the law nor have I incited violence. There is nothing revealed in the record otherwise.
Man, why couldn’t I draw a judge once in a while like Judge Doughty?
Complaint About Abusive Defense Tactics by Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC Sent to the CFPB
If you filed a suit under the FDCPA against any of the PRA Group, Inc subsidiaries, and they bullied you into settlement, let the CFPB know about the debt buyer’s abusive practices.
For instance, it is extremely rare for the debt collector accused of violations of the FDCPA to be paid attorney fees, even if they win, but PRA threatened to ask for attorney fees from me if I did not settle for nothing.
Here is the complaint I sent. This is not legal advice. I am just letting you know you are not alone.
If you want confidentiality that the CFPB cannot give you, but you want to share your story so other FDCPA plaintiffs know what to expect, tell me about your experience at bohemian_books@yahoo.com and I will incorporate it into a blog post, removing identifying details. I am also glad to help edit complaints for spelling, punctuation and to make them easier to understand.
Here is mine:
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC violated most of the options listed on the complaint form at https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/ while trying to collect an alleged debt of $2,297.63 from 2010, but my main complaint is not one of the listed options. I know PRA has done similar things to many people, including Guadalupe Mejia, who was awarded $82 million in punitive damages by a jury in 2016. This issue should be addressed.
My main complaint is that after I filed a lawsuit under the FDCPA, invasion of privacy on seclusion and outrage, on March 10, 2021, PRA used litigation tactics that were unethical, illegal, deceitful and meant to inflict severe emotional distress.
PRA was represented by outside counsel, The Rose Law Firm in Arkansas and Troutman Pepper from Virginia (AKA Troutman Sanders).
On April 3, 2023, Troutman Pepper issued a blog post that said, in part: “According to the CFPB, entities cannot take unreasonable advantage of circumstances where people lack sufficient bargaining power to protect their interests.
“The policy statement describes such circumstances as when consumers do not elect to enter into a relationship with an entity,” and specifies debt collectors.
PRA used my lack of legal training, financial distress caused by the COVID related stock market crash, and my ill health, including diagnosed anxiety disorders and Hashimoto’s Disease, to bully me in court. PRA also capitalized on the opportunity of a judge who is notoriously anti-consumer and anti-CFPB, Judge Lee P. Rudofsky.
PRA threatened me with having to pay its “significant” attorney’s fees. A copy of the email is submitted. PRA filed a motion for the Clerk to tax $8,356.18 in costs to me. I am going to appeal the summary judgment, but thus far, PRA has ignored my request for them to stipulate to a stay of the cost motions until after the appeal.
PRA has never produced Old Account Level Documentation that shows what was purchased to incur the debt or the vendor who was paid by Capital One Bank. PRA has never produced a credit card agreement and specified it does not have the credit card agreement.
Before I filed suit, PRA sent its identity theft and fraud letter to me, with directions to answer the intrusive questions under penalty of perjury and notarized or witnessed. I refused because PRA did not tell me where the debt was incurred or what it was for. Even if I could deduce who committed the fraud, the statute of limitations to file criminal charges on the person had passed, and it would be extraordinarily difficult to collect evidence. The only purpose I saw in having me fill out the details, including my social security number, all previous addresses, and so on, was for PRA to use against me in trying to collect the debt. The letter was backdated.
After I filed suit, PRA sent three more backdated letters that said it “concluded its investigation” and closed my account and set the balance to zero. But the first letter informing me of this was addressed to “Laura Lyman” instead of “Laura Lynn” and had a different account number on it. I was fooled into thinking my account was closed. When I went to document the letter, I noticed the error. When I asked for a correction, PRA changed the wording. After my next request, they gave me another letter with the original wording and with my name and account number. Copies submitted.
Eight months after I filed suit, PRA produced a single account statement mailed to an address where I never received mail, that showed a balance of $1,916.05. They said Capital One gave it to them and got Capital One to submit an affidavit, but Capital One had told me many months earlier that it had no OALD at all. (Recorded)
PRA withheld and altered other documents. The company records filed under seal do not have each call made on PRA’s self-generated phone log documented on PRA’s notes. A representative told me the notes have an entry that I filed for bankruptcy, though I never filed for bankruptcy. That entry is not in the documents filed under seal.
PRA admits to calling a landline at my past residence in Arkansas hundreds of times. But, it claims it did not call my California cell phone for a seven year stretch with the first call they admit to being on November 18, 2020. I recorded that call, after setting up my computer. (There is a minute pause on PRA’s recording of the call.) The reason I spoke to PRA on a recorded line was because they had called me about a hundred times from August to November. About 85 of those calls I blocked and they went to voice mail.
PRA would not produce a third party record of its calls. I got my cell phone record and found fourteen calls that came from PRA, that don’t appear on PRA’s phone log, and each of the numbers those calls were placed from were disconnected. In fact, all the numbers PRA called me from were disconnected.
Judge Rudofsky, in his order granting summary judgment in PRA’s favor, truncated a sentence to distort my testimony, then PRA repeated the falsehood. Eventually the judge admitted the sentence was truncated, and then said the complete sentence had a different meaning than the meaning given by ChatGBT’s OpenAI and the opposite of what I meant.
PRA requested and Judge Rudofsky approved of making many of the business records under seal, against my heavy protest. It is difficult to write this complaint and complaints to other agencies with the confidentiality restrictions and the public cannot make an informed decision about who is telling the truth. That is why I am using the awkward way of saying what was not in the documents, instead of what was in the documents.
After I filed a motion for partial summary judgment on the single issue of misrepresentation of the amount of a debt, PRA lied, saying it “waived” my debt “in light of the litigation”, even though it did not issue a 1099-C to me in the two years since.
PRA hired an “expert witness” who is a hired gun. He made a diagnosis that contradicted the diagnosis of my medical providers. The Psychiatrist they hired was not licensed in Arkansas, and the Arkansas medical board told me (recorded) that out-of-state doctors can review records, but not diagnose. The report is filed under seal and I am only allowed to share it with law enforcement and the various medical boards and committees on professional conduct. But I am willing to share my version of what happened during the horrific Defense Medical Exam with the CFPB in confidentiality.
PRA posted my credit report, marked “CONFIDENTIAL”, and another document that had my full unredacted social security number and birthdate on PACER. When I complained, they said it was an accident.
There is so much detail that I will give the case number and my blog address, where I write about the case and other instances of corruption in courts. I will then make bullet points of specific misconduct on my request for a fair resolution.
Federal District Court Eastern District of Arkansas 4:21-cv-00189-LPR.
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC should file a notice in our case, explaining to the court each lie, deceptive statement and falsification of documentation they or their client made during the proceedings. This should include:
1. That letters to me were backdated, though there is deposition testimony from PRA in another case where they say their letters are dated on the day they are mailed.
2. All OALD. The number showing in hyperlinks on the records under seal is not zero or one.
3. PRA should admit that the number of calls logged on its self-generated phone log is not the same as the number of calls recorded in collection notes.
4. In particular, that a call I received on February 18, 2021 from PRA, which was recorded by PRA, does not show on either the phone log nor the collection notes. PRA hung up on me when I told them to hang-on for me to turn on my recorder, and I recorded the next call.
5. PRA should tell the court its policy about issuing 1099-Cs which is in policy manuals CFPB has obtained through its investigations of PRA that led to the 2015 consent agreement and 2023 consent order.
6. PRA should admit that I emailed them plentiful evidence that their lies about me having significant gambling losses from online, and therefore illegal poker playing, are false. They also submitted many of my blog posts as exhibits. They should submit the post that says I published my book subtitled “What it Takes to Play Poker Without Losing Your Assets.”
This is not an exhaustive list. PRA should stipulate to reversing the judgment and going to a jury trial. For any other impeachment evidence I produce, which the jury agrees proved a lie, PRA should agree to pay $100,000 per item above what the jury awards.
The wording of the closing letters taken with the extortionist settlement offer that allows PRA to pursue “future” debts gives me a reasonable inference that PRA plans to attempt to collect a further alleged debt. PRA should agree to a no contact order for the remainder of my life. My credit has no reportable derogatory comments. Any other alleged debt PRA claims is outside the statute of limitations for legal collection. I do not want to be forced to endure PRA’s abusive collection activity ever again. PRA should mark any further accounts that allegedly belong to me as “do not contact”.
Doc of the Day: Attachments
Doc of the Day: What We Really Want to Say to Debt Collection Attorneys (And Other Sleazy Liars)
My new work bestie is a dog named Noods. She feels the same way as me about annoying phone calls.
I filed a lawsuit under the FDCPA, just to get a company called Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC to stop calling me. They are a debt buyer and collector that are notorious for collecting on non-existent debts. They buy electronic data files with millions or hundreds of millions of lines of error filled portfolios.
It was getting monotonous signing off on emails to PRA’s attorneys at Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper, regards, regards, regards. “Respectfully” was not an option. So, I asked Noods for ideas.
Let’s get authentic.
Aren’t you sick of listening to lawyers, and sometimes judges, who drone on stringing together meaningless words – or as Judge Rudofsky, giving words new meaning?
Here is something refreshing. A judge who says what she is thinking.
Judge Colleen McMahon.
Sending her gratitude and respect.
Check out the fun Reels by Noodles the Pooch Here.
Judge Rudofsky Multiplies Litigation by Tacit (and not so tacit) Approval of Fraud on the Court
Portfolio Recovery Associates committed fraud, misrepresentation and misconduct while defending itself against private allegations of violating the FDCPA and state law. Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, after being informed about the allegations against the debt buyer, dismissed the case on summary judgment anyhow.
The CFPB was able to obtain a $25 million settlement against PRA for similar claims in a public suit filed in March 2023.
There was an $83 million verdict returned in a private case against PRA in 2016, based upon the same kind of fraud, misrepresentation and misconduct.
The Doc of the Day is the motion I filed requesting more time for discovery or sanctions for Portfolio Recovery’s destruction of evidence. Also included is Judge Rudofsky’s response.
It was within Judge Lee P. Rudofsky’s discretion to allow for more time to let the defendant correct its spoliation of evidence. He refused. Therefore the case shall be challenged pursuant to FRCP Rule 60 and then, if Judge Rudofsky does not correct his errors, by appeal.
If you are a plaintiff’s attorney who handles FDCPA claims against any of the PRA Group, Inc. subsidiaries, please contact me to discuss representation. bohemian_books@yahoo.com.
A Higher Law 