Judge Lee P. Rudofsky Recused from Portfolio Recovery Associates Case
For once, I won’t bury the lead. Judge Rudofsky filed an order recusing himself from my case against Portfolio Recovery Associates!!!
My regular readers know there are not many exclamation points used on this blog. This is a three exclamation point day.
The order was filed two days ago and sent to me by email yesterday, but I’ve been busy and didn’t check my emails. So, with no further ado…
Thank you, Your Honor.
Chaos, Controversy and Court Corruption
Common people receive no relief from our courts.
The system is perfect. The people involved pervert and destroy.
Here are some of the names of court employees that have turned our court system into a piggy bank for attorneys and Big Business Billionaires.
Judge Susan Weaver, Arkansas State Court
Court Reporter Jana Perry, Arkansas State Court
Judge Lee P. Rudofsky, Federal District Court Eastern Arkansas
Judge Raymond W. Gruender, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Ralph R. Erikson, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge David R. Stras, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Todd W. Robinson, Federal District Court, Southern California
Judge Linda Lopez, Federal District Court, Southern California
Judge Janis L. Sammartino, Federal District Court, Southern California
Clerk “Jude” or “JPP” Federal District Court, Southern California
Big Business Billionaires in health insurance, hospitals and debt collection cannot be held accountable for their unethical, often illegal practices if common people cannot access our courts.
This post is conclusionary. But read through the years of documentation I discuss in the hundreds of other posts. Download FREE Docs of the Day. Consult with me; there is a synergy to sharing experience and information.
Solutions? Demand transparency in court proceedings. Shift the focus of law enforcement from victimless crimes to white collar crime, especially honest services fraud. File legitimate complaints with regulatory agencies. Then allow individuals to use the agency findings as evidence in private claims.
My petition for writ of certiorari to SCOTUS focuses attention on these solutions. Read Sup. Ct. 24-6113. Move the court for permission to file an amicus brief or offer to take over the pro se case on contingency.
Portfolio Recovery Associates Continues to Torment Consumer Years After Closing the Account
I filed a lawsuit, pro se, against Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC. The Big Business Billionaire debt collection company set the balance on the account to zero and closed the account, they say, “in light of the ongoing litigation.” Then they threw me a bone, an inadequate settlement offer, and expected me to run off with it.
That was almost four years ago. The case is at the United States Supreme Court on petition for writ of certiorari. (Sup. Ct. No. 24-6113)
It was not enough for PRA to win at the lower courts due to a Pro Big Business Billionaire – Anti-individual judge named Lee P. Rudofsky. The lawyers from Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper who represent the PRA Group, Inc. subsidiary came up with a ruse.
There may be a clerk at the Supreme Court of the United States involved. (I informed the clerk of this mistake weeks ago and it has not been corrected.) I filed a motion to file some documents that were sealed by Rudofsky and the Eighth Circuit initially sealed and then immediately unsealed at the Supreme Court. the motion was “Granted”. But it was docketed as filed two weeks before it was filed, when the petition was filed. And the documents were filed under seal the day after the motion was granted and not unsealed.
When I saw “Motion Granted” I posted the documents on this blog. The next day, after talking to a staff member at SCOTUS, I deleted the link from the blog page. But people who received the email copy of the post still had the link and the link still worked.
I’ve heard that just deleting something doesn’t ever really remove it from the internet. It was a mystery and I let PRA know that I didn’t know the magic trick that would make those emailed links quit working.
PRA filed an “emergency” motion on December 20th, 11 days after my post was emailed to them, and asked the court to take down this entire blog “until such time as PRA can be assured its confidential documents are no longer publicly accessible” along with about a year’s worth of my total income.
I worked through Christmas week researching and writing a response to try to save my blog from disappearing. Judge Rudofsky told me in a written docket entry order that he would not give me past December 27th.
Judge Rudofsky gave PRA’s team of attorneys 10 days to reply to my response.
The email you can download below was entered in the reply as an exhibit. It is from WordPress’ parent company and was sent on December 21st. It says, in part, “If the documents are still available, the fastest way to remove them would be for Ms. Hammett to contact wordpress support and they can assist her.”
Wow! PRA must have been really concerned about the confidentiality of the documents. NOT! They probably knew the four clicks I would need to make to break the links to the documents. They definitely knew who I could speak with to find out how it can be done. They knew that taking down my blog was like dropping a nuclear bomb to kill a gnat.
I’m going to file another complaint against PRA and its attorneys for intentional infliction of emotional distress. If the court orders my blog to be “taken down” then I will ask for $1,000,000 per year for all the years I was actively writing. That is about the same as PRA’s risk manager’s base salary.
I would have preferred to spend Christmas as planned, cherishing peaceful moments with my granddaughter and my husband, who is battling stage IV cancer. However, a 6- or 7-million-dollar jury verdict should make PRA think twice before retaliating against a victim of its abusive practices—someone brave enough to challenge a company that files 3,000 lawsuits a week against everyday people.
Portfolio Recovery Associates asks to “take down” this blog, instead of explaining how to remove individual documents.
Judge Lee P. Rudofsky granted a motion to seal anything and everything Big Business Billionaire Portfolio Recovery Associates wants to conceal. I asked the Supreme Court to unseal four documents that I filed for my writ of certiorari. SCOTUS wrote “Motion Granted”. So, I posted the documents.
The next day, someone on the Supreme Court staff returned a call to me. She said the justices only approved the part of my motion to file the sealed documents, not the part about unsealing. I asked for something in writing, which never was done, but I took down the documents to alleviate any strife.
It didn’t work, because I didn’t understand “hosting”. A person could not go to my site and find the document, but if they had a link from before the document was removed from the post, they could pull the document up from my “media library”.
What was happening was that while I removed the link from my blog post, the file itself was still hosted on my WordPress site and accessible to anyone who has the direct URL. Removing the link from the post doesn’t delete or restrict access to the file—it simply removes the clickable path to it from the blog page.
To prevent anyone from accessing the document via the URL, the issue had to be addressed at the hosting level. How is it done? Here’s one way:
Delete the File
- Log into your WordPress admin dashboard.
- Go to the Media Library (usually found under “Media” in the menu).
- Locate the file and delete it.
- This will make the URL invalid, so anyone clicking on it will receive a “404 Not Found” error.
Here is an easier question to answer. Why didn’t the goliath debt buying company’s IT department or the IT people at Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper tell me the four clicks needed to make their super-secret documents disappear? Because they wanted to destroy 15 years of work I have done exposing court corruption and building my audience. They were not acting too concerned about mitigating damages to their confidentiality.
Judge Rudofsky Gives Pro Se 5 Days for ‘Emergency’ Response, Billion-Dollar Firm Gets 10 to Reply
People who read a law blog might be slow at math. At least it seems Judge Lee P. Rudofsky is, so here it is simplified:
Portfolio Recovery Associates filed an “emergency” order asking to “take down” this blog on December 20, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.
Purportedly I filed documents that were ordered under seal and PRA did not get a copy of my motion to SCOTUS asking to file the documents under seal and then unseal them. PRA in fact received the service copy of the motion on October 28, 2024, according to USPS tracking. The motion was granted in full, in writing on December 9, 2024. On December 10th, someone on the SCOTUS staff called me and said the motion I filed was granted only in part, but to date, there is no writing to memorialize that. I deleted the documents anyhow, because I don’t love chaos as much as PRA does.
It took PRA 11 days to file the “emergency” motion. December 20th was the Friday before Christmas week.
PRA served me by email at 2:44 p.m. Judge Rudofsky denied me access to electronic filing, one of my complaints to the Supreme Court. So, I did not certify and was not required to check my emails daily for notifications. I did not see the motion until Sunday afternoon.
At 3:21 p.m. PRA served me a copy of the text entry order Judge Rudofsky wrote on December 20th, at 2:55 p.m. He ordered me to respond by December 27th. He specified that there would be no extension granted. Because Rudofsky denied me electronic filing privileges, I would need to have four printed copies delivered to the courthouse, a 30-minute drive from my home with perfect road conditions, by 5 p.m. That was seven days if I happened to check my emails on the afternoon of a holiday week.
On Monday, December 23rd, at 10:57 a.m. I sent an email to the Judge’s clerk. I explained that while I was typing the email, a process server came to deliver the motion. I asked for an order granting an extension to Monday, December 30th.
There was no response from the court before December 26th. Since I worked through Christmas, I had a response almost ready by then. The response from the clerk said, “‘Judge says you can have until December 30, 2024. This extension is solely a matter of discretion and not based on any examination of the accuracy of your extension request.'” That was in quotation marks. There was no docket number or indication that this was a signed order. Because the judge has lied before, I did not trust this hearsay, unsigned, unfiled, unserved instruction. (No copy of the permission followed by snail-mail, as is customary. In fact, the court did not send a follow-up paper copy of the December 20th order, either. [UPDATE January 6, 2024: The December 20th order was sent by snail-mail postmarked December 23, 2024. It did not appear on USPS Informed Delivery, which I can prove with screenshots of daily activity. I am just now opening the mail that came after December 22nd that did not seem emergent based on the picture on Informed Delivery, including Christmas cards sent by friends.)
I filed my response at about 3:00 on December 27, 2024. I try to leave my house early, in case of a flat tire, accident, whatever. There were few cars on the road and the street in front of the courthouse had no other parked cars. It felt like the three clerks and four or five guards were there just waiting for me.
Then on January 2, 2025, six days after I filed, and three days after the date the clerk said a judge said I could file the “emergency” motion, Judge Rudofsky wrote a text entry only order on the docket. He told PRA to have its team of attorneys from Rose Law Firm and Troutman Pepper to reply by January 6, 2025.
Are you following the math? The reply was due 10 days after the response to the “emergency” motion was filed.
The “officers of the court” are allowed to file electronically, while sitting at home in their underwear.
Judge Rudofsky effectively gave the billion-dollar company twice as long to reply to the so-called emergency than he gave me to respond.
If Judge Rudofsky, who is not a Christian, had other plans Christmas week that would interfere with making a quick decision…like he made when PRA filed the motion… then why was it so important that I research and write my response during Christmas week?
Answer: He has to keep the Big Business Billionaires happy.
And the Big Business Billionaires are only happy when they can oppress and enslave the commoners.
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.
Here are the dire emergency documents PRA filed:
I’ll miss y’all.
SCOTUS clerk confuses the case. Wrong date. Wrong title.
Now Judge Rudofsky might order this blog deleted in its entirety. All 15 years worth.
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.
Go, Steve Lehto, Go! Exposing the idiocy of our judges.
It seems like most of us commoners are losing or lost our faith in the legal system.
Hey, please send Mr. Lehto my posts about the Portfolio Recovery Associates case that is at the Supreme Court. He might get a kick out of how “textualist” Lee Rudofsky truncated a sentence to completely change the meaning and then based his decision to deny a jury trial on that miscomprehension.
A Higher Law 