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Ok this one is a huge subject. You have 14th amendment right to be heard. Thats for preservation on appeal and the supremacy clause forbids judicial discretion. Judicial discretion is only legal if it doesn’t violate federal/constitutional law. You guys gotta start suing these yahoos in Federal Court. Keep it focused on your denied Constitutional rights. If there is fraud, you are allowed enough heft to make your case, there’s case law around that from the US Supreme Court. They can only take from you what you don’t know you’re allowed. If they don’t give you an opportunity to be heard, I would file a FRS Rule 60 Relief From Judgement. You claim a Judge is biased if they do not allow you your rights. Most states have revised statutes that are the same as the Federal FRS statutes or they follow the Federal statutes. You can gently nudge a Judge by saying things like “another court may find differently the facts of this case”. That is not a threat but you’re letting them know you’re not going to let it go.

The more I read, the more I think we need to write appeals as a group. The $300 fee is well worth it and it puts these arbiters of illegal activity on notice. Activist Judges are on their way out. It blows me away the courts are actually debating illegals getting due process and hard working legal citizens have to beg to be heard. Sounds like a rally cry to me!

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Preach!!

You laid it out better than most lawyers ever would.

You’re absolutely right — they bank on people not knowing their constitutional rights and being too overwhelmed (or broke) to fight back properly.

Federal Court is where a lot of these battles need to be taken, but they scare people off by making it sound impossible. It’s not.

I love the idea of working together on appeals too — strength in numbers.

And you’re dead on: the fact that hardworking citizens have to beg for basic due process while other cases get fast-tracked should be a massive rallying cry.

Appreciate you dropping all this here — we need more of it.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Very good additions.

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annamarie fortier's avatar

My son is a victim of this demonic court! He doesn’t have children…. The police sent him there for help….. he was diagnosed with cancer and the judge took him out of house without cause!!!! This is what the lawyers told us but they never did a thing about it!!!! Reason: they all violated my son’s civil rights and ada rights…. A few months in the corrupt judge retires….. sound suspect?!?! Look her up Lori currier woods…. Complaints up the ting yang about her ….. results NOTHING….. off to retirement…..

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

I’m so sorry your family went through that — it’s absolutely heartbreaking, and you’re right to call it out.

These courts are supposed to help people in crisis, but instead they chew them up and spit them out, all while everyone "inside the system" covers for each other.

And yeah... judges like Lori Currier Woods retiring with a pile of complaints and no accountability? Total scam.

They just quietly walk away while families are left picking up the pieces.

You’re not crazy for seeing it — it is corrupt. And you’re definitely not alone.

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annamarie fortier's avatar

We are still going through it. They put his case on for October 2025. My son went to this court for help August 13, 2022. I truly believe they are hoping my son doesn’t make it.

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annamarie fortier's avatar

My son was in a domestic partnership with his girlfriend and it was a relationship from hell so that is why he went for help …. He was diagnosed with leukemia and the gf was being cruel.. 1 week after my son was court ordered to leave she moved her new boyfriend in!!! We have her mother on video throwing his chemo medication in the trash!!! The gf fraudulently dissolved the domestic partnership…. Illegally removed him from the healthcare plan… we brought it to the attention of the court and they did NOTHING !

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

That is absolutely awful. Stuff like this should be exposed.

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annamarie fortier's avatar

Please help expose it!!!!! all of what I’m telling you has been documented by doctors in Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan, New York. They are aware of the medication being thrown in the garbage. They have documented proof of how it affected his blood count. and her stupid mother says to us just call the insurance company and get a new batch of pills. I said it doesn’t work like that in this country with the insurance you would think somebody would pick this case up and splash it all over the news so this never happens to anyone again. The last lawyer that we had has left the law firm the law firm that is handling. This is a joke. All they care about are the reviews!!!! money of course

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annamarie fortier's avatar

Let me mention she’s a corrections officer for New York City 🤔

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annamarie fortier's avatar

I also want you to know that the judge said she wanted motions filed about the domestic partnership being dissolved fraudulently, and her taking him off the healthcare illegally which our lawyer did and then the next time we were in court, they don’t even acknowledge it. This judge doesn’t have a clue to what’s going on. My son‘s attorney told me report this judge to the judicial committee in Manhattan not White Plains cause they won’t do anything as I already know but report her in Manhattan we did and guess what her lawyer and our lawyer had a private meeting without either party present and then it was on she’s after my son Since she got reported, but she will not recluse herself what can be done please somebody rise up and help.?!?!?

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