Petition for Rehearing — Kevin D. Loggins, Sr., Petitioner v. Rebecca L. Pilshaw, Judge, District Court of Kansas, Sedgwick County, et al.
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91-435
IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
FOR THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
KEVIN D. LOGGINS SR.
PETITIONER/MOVANT
VS.
REBECCA L. PILSHAW, et. al.,
DEFENDANTS/RESPONDENTS
MOTION FOR REHEARING PURSUANT TO RULE-44 IN COMPLIANCE WITH
RULE-22 [APPLICATION TO INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE]
\ ron. YD Lisp SC,
KEVIN D. LOGGIN SR.
KDOC NO. # 63088
HCF PO BOX 1568
HUTCHINSON, KS 67504
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. WHETHER A REHEARING IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE WHY
PETITIONERS CASE WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO AN INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE IN
COMPLAINCE WITH RULE-22, AND IF DENIAL OF SAID PROCEDURAL
BENEFITS AMOUNTS TO DENIAL OF PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS?
Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 U.S. at 87.........ccccccccscssscessseseceessseesssessscsesesessceuscaseceseserscsensesenssenseceneeee 1
Codd v. Velger, 429 U.S. at 632..........cscsscsscssssscsossenosssbblsaisiccnsiswebies savasanaieutetdenetiesecactsnuanssaves 1
Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U.S. 413, 424 (1915)... ..ceceesssccsseseeceereesessesscessesceeseess 1
Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S. 371, 375 (1971).....cccscsscsssssscsceecesessescsecescesceescuceessaseceusess 1
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Mahan v. Howell, 404 U.S. 1201, 1202... cccscsssssessessessessescessecsecsssasseceseessesecsuseeeseeseceeees 2
Organized Village of Kake v. Egan, 80 S.Ct. 33, 4 L.Ed 2d 34 (1959)... ccccsscescesceseseeeeeseeses 2
Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 423 U.S. 1327, 1330 (1975).....ccccscsssssssessecseeeeerecescesecsstsseeees 2
Ledbetter v. Baldwin, 479 U.S. 1309, 1310 (1986).......cccessscescsssseesesecsescesesesecsececsseseeseeseseees 2
Rostker v. Goldberg, 488 U.S. 1306, 1308 (1980)... cccescsssssesseesesssseeeesseceeeeecesseesenseeaseaees 2
The Act of Feb. 5, 1867, c. 28, § 1, 14 Stat. 385. eeeecssessenscesesesseeeceneessesseeesecseeeetencens 3
28 U.S.C. § 2254(8)....ccccccscrcccssssscesassssseessorvon ete dRsiili ds thieniiis tu cleastinsis obexsuniuaieeseaestineisuccauseisss 3
2B U.S.C. § 2241(a).......:ssssceescoscesoroncesbisgeisusine dsbspsdav seu csv sevequCecspUNCORNOSVSUSSS! «-peuesscescesacseancassonces 4
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Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471,481 (1972)....ccccccccsssesescseeeeseees i eisbevewecdcuiusecdoseuescescsciiestis
Landon v. Plasencia, 459 U.S. 21, 34, (1982)........:cccccsccessesssessceeecesccesessecssesseesseeeseescesecencesscens 4
SUP. Ct. R. 39. cscessessesssseesseessecsesscsessnaeeaeseessseeeeesseeseeseeeeeaeseeseeueaesesaceacaceneeeeseeaseaeeneaees 4,5
Mullane v. Central Honover Tr. Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950)........ccscscesscsessessessesetsscescesceseeeceecenees 5
Armstrong v. Manzo, 380 U.S. 545, 552 (1965)......cccccscsscssesscssesscssesscsscsecsecsecessecrareateeseasenses 6
In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 87 S.Ct. 1428 (1967)... cc eccccsesssssscssessesscsscssessssssecssecsesseesececuenaeeaee 7
Ik. WHETHER A REHEARING IS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS THE
CONFLICTING LAWS HANDED DOWN BY THIS SUPERIOR COURT IN HECK V.
HUMPHERY, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) AND ELLIOTT V. LESSEE OF PEIRSOL, 26 U.S. 328
(1828), FOR THE MATTER IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ALL AMERICAN
CITIZENS AND THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS TO REDRESS AN ONGOING INJURY, AS
WELL AS SEEK COMPENSATION FOR VIOLATION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES
PURSUANT TO) 42 U.S.C. § 1983? oo cccssesstsetessseacesseeessenteesseeetssseentacsucaceasereeeeaeenees 7,8
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Ascroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 735 (2011 )sesseascnesvensssessvenceneasunmersvancenscavaravbianenseatwicasiekekssds 8
Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014)... cscsssssessessecsesssssecsreesseeeseesesecseeseesessaseseeseeenaees 8
Reichle v. Howards, 566 U.S. 658, 664 (2012).........ccscsssecseccssecessceeesesseeeeeeseeeenseeeesaeeceeenees 8
Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 640 (1987).........ccccscesscesseeseessesseesceeseeseeeseeessesseeesseeeeees 8
Malley v. Briggs, 475 U.S. 335, 341 (1986)... eceescscsesseeseesseceesesscesesaeceeeeseaseceseeeeeseeases 8
Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol, 26 U.S. 328 (1828)..........ccsssssssssssesecessensceeensecaeeasesseerseeenseeeneenes 9
Vallely v. Northern Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 254 U.S. 348 (1920)......cccssscsssessesseesseesesens 9
Old Wayne Mut. I. Assoc. v. McDonough, 204 U.S. 8, 27 S.Ct. 236 (1907).......ccscessseeseeees 9
Williamson v. Berry, 12 L.Ed. 1170, 1189 (1850)... eeccesessesseeeecessesseesseesseesseessseeeaes 9
Rose v. Himely, 2 L.Ed. 608, 617 (1808)..........cccssesssccssesscessecsscsseesssesesacessecsssesesesecenseeseeeeeee 9
Ex parte Royall, 117 U.S. 241 (1886).......... ssssussescssssssscessanvesuacceacisccewscsasizavsssseante raguensesesevaes 10
Randall v. Brigham, 74 U.S. 523 (1869)... ccesssccssseseseeeseeeeceseaeeeeeeessesssaeeseeceeseesseeeneeseens 10
H. Rep. No. 1656, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 5, reprinted in 1976 U.S. Code Cong. & Admin. News
6121, 6125...........<dsnanjseaatamarasnaasvasaseuususctusuiatavesassauaseuvigaumusienssueqeuasscequen tamsesianvaiagieaseapmeaneans 10
Roster v. Marshall, (United States use Rogers v. Conklin) I Wall, (U.S.) 644, 17 L.Ed
TNA eeessescencesececscescesseseeesessseesesseeecaseaeassavscsaceacessesessoneseseseessseaeeseesaenseseesesaceeeeaseneeeeaeeserens 11
Pullman v. Allen, 466 U.S. 522, 541-42 (1984)... ecccccsseseesssesesceessassecsesseeseeeeeeeeeeeneeees 11
Black's Law Dictionary, 1148 (4th ed. rev. 1968) (Ministerial).............:cscsesssseestesseeseeseees 12
28 U.S.C. § 753(D).. cece eseeeseeeseeecenseeteaeeeeeeecententens veceeeeeeaseneeeeeaceseeaceseaseeseeetersnceueesensecanesees 12
McLallen v. Henderson, 492 F.2d 1298, 1299 (CA8 1974).........00. sssseastssaeesseesessnecasssneanasaes 12
Waterman v. State, 35 Misc. 2d 954, 957 (1962).........cssssssesseesseseeeseeeees seesteaeeseesessteseeaeenens 12
Eldridge v. Deets, 4 Kan. App. 2d 241, 243, 45 P. 948 (1896)........cccesccsscssscsseeseesseesseeees 12
In re Terrill, 52 Kan. 29, 31 (1893)... ceeccscecceeceesssceecseesecssesecseeeeeeeeesseecsecaeseessneaeseeesenesanees 12
15A Am.Jur.2d, Clerk of Courts, sec. 21, p. 155... cesessssseseesseeeseesecscsseeescssessaesseeesereeases 12
Imbler v. Patctman, 424 U.S. at 423.............«ccnmsmasiasnieastssias taaattean eaussesavenss ben ceTaleuaaiseiatevelvie 12
Westfall v. Erwin, 484 U.S. 292, 297-298 (1988)........cccssssssscccsssssescseesesseeeessesssesseeeeseessneeaes 12
18 U.S.C. § 15126 C)1).........0...:02+0000 onsmaatesnnernaaainennensaauntenneaesenetnetina ia SKS eaebstne suena eeccleteind 12
K.S.A. § 22-2302(2)... cc eeccesescesecetseseceeeeeeessceeeceaeesseseessssesseeseessceseeseecsassneacesaesaeeeeeesseseasesseees 12
Kan. Sup. Ct. R. 108(2)(b)(D); (G)(1)(D)... cece ececccseseeseeseseseessaeseesessecaueaceeseassaeeneceesanearenes 12
Kelina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118, 123, 131 (1997). ccccneensxaacconnasnasenaanexsonanonsneiaonunsnanauanainesn 13
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Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957)... cecccscsssssssssseesessesseeseeseeesseessceseeseesseeseeceneseesaceaseneeeaee 13
Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 8.0... ceesessecseseeesenseacsaesceseesaeseaeseesesaseasarsuseassaesassaeaeeecesecasaceneseteesenees 13
Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519 (1972)...............-sssisstesszsisussastetsnssesvesbsscasiiates itaissccanselcawessavsia 13
Kenner v. Comm 'r, 387 F.2d at 690..0.......cccccscccsssssecsccsseccececsecsesecesseeessesceceseeesessceessesesesseeneanes 13
Elliott v. Peirsol, supra id. at 340-341 0... .ccccssssessceseesceeneeeseeseeeeeeaceenseseseeseseceeencenserseeness 13,15
United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196, 220.00... eccccccccscccssssssssessccsstescsssseesssssscesteetsssascesseeesesees 14
O'Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 503 (1974). -wsssscsasssonscdseanxecsasensveasoasectawsvesbacesccusboonninnisaneas 14
Black's Law Dictionary 55 (Sth ed. 1979)... ccesssssssssssecsscsseeseecssesesesseesesessecsseeeessaeeasessesenees 14
Rule 12(f), Fed. R. Civ. P. wee cccssseseseseeeseeeeassenceatssceacssnessessseseeesaeesseeseeesseseseeseseseessessessasenes 14
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Minalga v. Fid. Invs. Instit. Oper. Co. 2002 U.S. Dist. Lexis 22038, **3-4........ccscssseteseees 14
Murphy v. White, 691 F.2d 350, 353 (7th Cir. 1982)... eessesssssesssesseeceeseasseeaseseseeeeuenseaeees 14
Renalds v. SRG, 119 F. Supp. 2d 800, 802 *( N.D-II]. 2002)... eeeccsseseesececenteeesseetseeaseeeeaeees 14
Main v. Thiboutot, 100 S.Ct. 2502 (1980)..........csssssssesscssesseessessecssesseeessecsesssscseecsecseseeeeneessees 15
Basso v. Utah Power & Light Co., 495 F.2d 906, 910.........ccessccsssesssceesseecscecseeesseeeseeseesenseees 15
Joyce V. U.S., 474 F.2d 215 occ ccssessseecssesersscnsessceessceeeseesesessceeeeneaesassataceaseacateeeseeetseseneeees 15
Omer v. Shalala, 30 F.3d 1307 (10th Cir. 1994)........ vstsuntstutustieieee becesceeeceeeeeeees 15
Bender v. Williamsport Area Sch. Dist., 475 U.S. 534, 546 (1986).........cccccssssssssseseesesseeseeees 15
Old Wayne Mut. L. Assoc. v. McDonough, 204 U.S. 8, 27 S.Ct. 236 (1907).......:cscssseseeeseees 15
Fed. R. of Civ. P. Rule 38(b)........cccccssecssssessscesscesscessccsecessesssceseecsseecessesseeeseseceasesseesseesenaeeesecs 15
Fed. R. of Civ. P. Rule 12(0)(6).... ssscssnesvenessonneascecuscsnusatainecensibsiitewenienk scewsikenes vhsibtstkanekteliesesnaiaike 15
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Appendix-(A) (Petition to Individual Justice [Justice Sonia Sotomayor])
Appendix-(B) (Clerks refusal to file Motion for Extension of time in Case No. 116,716-A)
Appendix-(C) (Extraordinary Circumstances warranting Extension of time)
Appendix-(D) (Inquiry into Petitioner Application Pursuant to Rule 22)
Appendix-(E) (Clerks letter returning Petition for Writ of Cert., on multiple occasion on false
narrative) .
Lit
L WHETHER A REHEARING IS NECESSARY TO DETERMINE WHY
PETITIONERS CASE WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO AN INDIVIDUAL JUSTICE IN
COMPLIANCE WITH RULE-22, AND IF DENIAL OF SAID PROCEDURAL
BENEFITS AMOUNTS TO DENIAL OF PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS?
Standard of Review: "It is enough to invoke the procedural safeguards of the Fourteenth
Amendment that a significant property interest is at stake, whatever the ultimate outcome of a
hearing...." Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 U.S.. at 87; see Codd vy. Velger. 429 U.S.. at 632
(STEVENS, J., dissenting); Coe vy. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U.S. 413, 424 (1915).
Because the right to procedural due process is "absolute" in the sense that it does not depend
upon the merits of a claimant's substantive assertions, and because of the importance to
organized society that procedural due process be observed, see Boddie v. Connecticut, 401 U.S.
371, 375 (1971); Anti-Fascist Committee v. McGrath, 341 U.S., at 171-172 (Frankfurter, J.,
concurring).
USCS Supreme Ct R 22
Rule 22. Applications to Individual Justices
1. An application addressed to an individual Justice shall be filed with the Clerk, who will
transmit it promptly to the Justice concerned if an individual Justice has authority to grant
the sought relief.
2. The original and two copies of any application addressed to an individual Justice shall be
prepared as required by Rule 33.2, and shall be accompanied by proof of service as required by
Rule 29.
3. An application shall be addressed to the Justice allotted to the Circuit from which the case
arises. An application arising from the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces shall
be addressed to the Chief Justice. When the Circuit Justice is unavailable for any reason, the
application addressed to that Justice will be distributed to the Justice then available who is next
junior to the Circuit Justice; the turn of the Chief Justice follows that of the most junior Justice.
4. A Justice denying an application will note the denial thereon. Thereafter, unless action thereon
is restricted by law to the Circuit Justice or is untimely under Rule 30.2, the party making an
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application, except in the case of an application for an extension of time, may renew it to
any other Justice, subject to the provisions of this Rule. Except when the denial is without
prejudice, a renewed application is not favored. Renewed application is made by a letter to the
Clerk. designating the Justice to whom the application is to be directed, and accompanied by 10
copies of the original application and proof of service as required by Rule 29.
5. A Justice to whom an application for a stay or for bail is submitted may refer it to the Court for
determination.
6. The Clerk will advise all parties concerned, by appropriately speedy means, of the disposition
made of an application.
"As a threshold consideration, Justices of this Court have consistently required that there be a
reasonable probability that four members of the Court will consider the issue sufficiently
meritorious to grant certiorari or to note probable jurisdiction. See Mahan v. Howell, 404 U.S.
1201, 1202; Organized Village of Kake v. Egan, 80 S. Ct. 33, 4 L. Ed. 2d 34 (1959). Of equal
importance in cases presented on direct appeal -- where we lack the discretionary power to refuse
to decide the merits -- is the related question whether five Justices are likely to conclude that the
case was erroneously decided below.
Several factors control a single Justice's consideration of an application for writ of —
injunction pursuant to this Court's Rule 44. If there is a "significant possibility" that the Court
would note probable jurisdiction of an appeal of the underlying suit and reverse, and if there is a
likelihood that irreparable injury will result if relief is not granted, the Justice may issue an
injunction. See Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 423 U.S. 1327, 1330 (1975) (BLACKMUN, J.,
in chambers). See also, e. g., Ledbetter v. Baldwin, 479 U.S. 1309, 1310 (1986) (Powell, J., in
chambers); Rostker v. Goldberg, 448 U.S. 1306, 1308 (1980) (BRENNAN, J., in chambers).
Applying these principles to the facts before me, I grant the application.
In the case at bar the clerk of the court Mr. Scott and courts case analyis Ms. Nesbitt,
denied petitioner the Statutory benefits of petition to a single justice in compliance with Sup. Ct.
R. 22. The Court Clerk accepted petitioner $300.00 filing fee along with an application to submit
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the case to a single justice Justice Sonia Sotomayor in compliance with Rule-22. The Clerk
submitted the case to the whole of the court. See Appendix-(A).
To accept payment and ignore petitioners stated wishes to submit the case to a single
Justice is denial of procedural due process. Petitioner has a right to pursue redress from the
government pursuant to whatever statutory vehicle that is available, and to accept petitioner
property [money] and ignore the intent of the petitioner/applicant is to not only deny petitioner of
procedural due process, but deprivation of ones property [money] without due process.
The clerk of the court via Lisa Nesbitt, also deprived petitioner of this vehicle in a related
case, Case No. 21-435. Ms. Nesbitt has on multiple occasion rejected the Supreme Court Rules
[Statutes]. As stated above she and the clerk of the court accepted payment of the filing fee to file
a Writ of Habeas Corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in compliance with Rule-22
[APPLICATION TO A SINGLE JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR], and ignored said
intent. Congress in 1867 enacted the following provision.
The Act of Feb. 5, 1867, c. 28, § 1, 14 Stat. 385, provided that
"the several courts of the United States . . . within their respective jurisdictions, in addition to the
authority already conferred by law, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases
where any person may be restrained of his or her liberty in violation of the constitution, or of any
treaty or law of the United States... ."
Federal habeas review for those in state custody is now authorized by 28 U. S. C. § 2254 (a):
"The Supreme Court, a Justice thereof, a circuit judge, or a district court shall entertain an
application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the
judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the
Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States." (Emphasis added).
Petitioner sought relief pursuant to application to an individual justice [Justice Sonia
Sotomayor] (10th Circuit). The Clerk of the Court submitted the petition to the whole of the
court at his/her own volition, undermining petitioners well stated intent to pursue relief pursuant
to Rule-22 and in compliance with 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a) which provides,
"(a) Writs of habeas corpus may be granted by the Supreme Court, any justice thereof,
the district courts and any circuit judge within their respective jurisdictions. The order of a circuit
judge shall be entered in the records of the district court of the district wherein the restraint
complained of is had."
To deny me this avenue is to deny petitioner procedural due process to redress the
government pursuant to Art. I § 9[2] "Cl 2. Habeas corpus. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas
Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety
may require it." This amounts to providing a congress legislated statute and rule to pursue relief,
and upon payment to file said Application/petition for redress, file the pleadings in a different
capacity then applied for. “[D]ue process is flexible,” we have stressed repeatedly, and it “calls
for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands.” Morrissey v. Brewer, 408
U.S. 471, 481, 92 S. Ct. 2593, 33 L. Ed. 2d 484 (1972); see also Landon y. Plasencia, 459 U.S.
21, 34, 103 S. Ct. 321, 74 L. Ed. 2d 21 (1982).
In another related filing by petitioner, Case No. 21-5933 , the Clerk of the
Court via Lisa Nesbitt, interferred with the filing of the case requiring petitioner to have to send
said Petition for Writ of Cert., 3-times costing approximately $60.00 for postage. Ms. Nesbitt
returned the petition the first time alleging that petitioner needed to file a Affidavit and
Declaration in order to proceed. Petitioner resent the petition and attached the rule governoring
the issue which provides:
Rule 39. Proceedings In Forma Pauperis
"1. A party seeking to proceed in forma pauperis shall file a motion for leave to do so, together
with the party’s notarized affidavit or declaration (in compliance with 28 U.S.C. § 1746) in the
form prescribed by the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Form 4. The motion shall state
whether leave to proceed in forma pauperis was sought in any other court and, if so, whether
leave was granted. If the court below appointed counsel for an indigent party, no affidavit or
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declaration is required, but the motion shall cite the provision of law under which counsel
was appointed, or a copy of the order of appointment shall be appended to the motion."
Petitioner motion to proceed in forma pauperis had the order of appointment of counsel
attached thereto. The Clerk again returned the petition claiming that said appointment was not in
that case in particular. Petitioner returned the petition again along with the copy of the record on
appeal, confirming that said appointment order is the appointment in the case at bar. Appx-(E).
In another related case, Petition from Kansas Supreme Court Denial of Petition for review
of Appellate Case No. 116,716-A the Clerk of the Court via Lisa Nesbitt refused to docket
petitioners Writ of Cert. Petitioner sought an extension of time to file the Petition for Writ of
Cert., with in the time allotted to file for said extension. The Clerk of the Court denied siad
request as Rule 30(4). Computation and Extension of Time provides the Clerk may in the first
instance. However, when petitioner the aggrieved party sought to request an extension to a
individual justice as the rule provides, the clerk of the court via Lisa Nesbitt refused to submit the
motion to the justice. See Appendix-( 8 ).
The rule provides:
"4, A motion to extend the time to file any document or paper other than those specified
in paragraph 3 of this Rule may be presented in the form of a letter to the Clerk setting out
specific reasons why an extension of time is justified. The letter shall be served on all other —
parties as required by Rule 29, The motion may be acted on by the Clerk in the first instance,
and any party aggrieved by the Clerk’s action may request that the motion be submitted to
a Justice or to the Court. The Clerk will report action under this paragraph to the Court as
instructed. (Amended effective May 1, 2003; further amended effective February 16, 2010;
amended effective July 1, 2013; amended effective November 13, 2017.)"
The Clerk never submitted the motion to the individual justice holding that since the
court had extended the time to file a writ of cert., to 150 day instead of 90 days, there would be
no more extension granted. The Statute and Rule provides said extension can be granted upon
extraordinary circumstances. The extraordinary circumstances in this case was, 1.) that the
KDOC facility petitioner is housed at in Hutchinson, Kansas was placed on lock down for
approximately 2-month, thus restricting access to legal library; 2.) That upon coming off lock
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down, and law library appointment being resumed on a extremely narrow basis (2-days a week),
for approximately another month the Lexis Nexis Legal Research program that the facility
provides for inmates was down and unaccessible. See Appendix-( C ).
The Clerk of the Court via Lisa Nesbitt refused to docket the case or submit the Motion
foe Extension of time to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, despite statutory dictates requiring her to do so
without discretion. Petitioner cites all these hinderance in petitioning this Superior Court
Jurisdiction to vindicate plaintiffs federally protected Constitutional Rights as a pattern, that has
again led to denial of procedural due process of law.
The Statutory dictates and Court Rule of Procedures provides that a Petitioner may
petition the Court for A Writ of Cert., Writ of Habeas Corpus or a Motion for Extension of
time to a single Justice pursuant to Rule-22, on Three occasions the clerk of the court via Lisa
Nesbitt denied petitioner this statutory vehicle for redress and submitted the case as the clerk of
the court saw fit.
"The theme that "due process of law signifies a right to be heard in one's defence,"
Hovey v. Elliott, supra, at 417, has continually recurred in the years since Baldwin, Windsor,
and Hovey. Although "many controversies have raged about the cryptic and abstract words of the
Due Process Clause," as Mr. Justice Jackson wrote for the Court in Mullane v. Central
Hanover Tr. Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950), "there can be no doubt that at a minimum they require
that deprivation of life, liberty or property by adjudication be preceded by notice and opportunity
for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case." Id., at 313.
"\What the Constitution does require is "an opportunity . . . granted at a meaningful time
and in a meaningful manner," Armstrong v. Manzo, 380 U.S. 545, 552 (1965) (emphasis
added), "for [a] hearing appropriate to the nature of the case," Mullane v. Central Hanover Tr.
Co., supra, at 313. The formality and procedural requisites for the hearing can vary, depending
upon the importance of the interests involved and the nature of the subsequent proceedings.
It is without question the clerk of the court via Lisa Nesbitt, interferred with petitioners
filings and denied procedural due process to seeking relief before the court pursuant to Rule-22.
The statute does not provide the Clerk nor a case analysis discretion to override a petitioners
stated intent regarding his filings/petition, especially after receive the petitioners money ($300.00
Filing Fee). This is no clerical mistake, the Clerk via Lisa Nesbitt intentionally and deliberately
ignored petitioners stated intent. See Appendix-( D ) which confirms that petitioner inquired why
said Application pursuant to Rule-22 has not been complied with. The rule is unambiguous and
provides, "1. An application addressed to an individual Justice shall be filed with the Clerk,
who will transmit it promptly to the Justice concerned if an individual Justice has
authority to grant the sought relief."
Failure to follow procedural denies the mechanism which is put into place by the
congress or court to protect the function of law. This Superior Court in In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1,
87S. Ct. 1428, 18 L. Ed. 2d 527 (1967).
"Failure to observe the fundamental requirements of due process has resulted in instances,
which might have been avoided, of unfairness to individuals and inadequate or inaccurate
findings of fact and unfortunate prescriptions of remedy. Due process of law is the primary and
indispensable foundation of individual freedom. It is the basic and essential term in the social
compact which defines the rights of the individual and delimits the powers which the state may
exercise. As Mr. Justice Frankfurter has said: "The history of American freedom is, in no small
measure, the history of procedure. But in addition, the procedural rules which have been
fashioned from the generality of due process are our best instruments for the distillation and
evaluation of essential facts from the conflicting welter of data that life and our adversary
methods present. It is these instruments of due process which enhance the possibility that truth
will emerge from the confrontation of opposing versions and conflicting data. "Procedure is to
law what 'scientific method' is to science."
Wherefore, the Court should order a rehearing to determine why petitioners expressed
intent to seek the relief pursuant to Rule-22 was not complied with, and find procedural due
process was denied, and order the case remanded for review before the individual justice as law
provides petitioner can.
WHETHER A REHEARING IS NECESSARY TO ADDRESS THE
CONFLICTING LAWS HANDED DOWN BY THIS SUPERIOR COURT IN Heck vy.
Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) AND Elliott vy. Lessee of Peirsol, 26 U.S. 328 (1828), FOR
THE MATTER IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ALL AMERICAN CITIZEN AND
THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS TO REDRESS AN ONGOING INJURY, AS WELL AS SEEK
COMPENSATION FOR VIOLATION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C.
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§ 1983?
Standard of review: "Where, as here, the Court of Appeals erred on both the merits of the
constitutional claim and the question of qualified immunity, “we have discretion to correct its
errors at each step." Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 735, 131 S. Ct. 2074, 179 L. Ed. 2d
1149 (2011); see, e.g., Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 572 U.S. 765, 134 S. Ct. 2012, 188
L. Ed. 2d 1056 (2014).
Under our precedents, officers are entitled to qualified immunity under §1983 unless (1)
they violated a federal statutory or constitutional right, and (2) the unlawfulness of their conduct
was “clearly established at the time.” Reichle vy. Howards, 566 U.S. 658, 664, 132 S. Ct. 2088,
182 L. Ed. 2d 985 (2012). “Clearly established” means that, at the time of the officer’s conduct,
the law was “‘sufficiently clear’ that every ‘reasonable official would understand that what he is
doing’” is unlawful. al-Kidd, supra, at 741, 131 S. Ct. 2074, 179 L. Ed. 2d 1149 (quoting
Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 640, 107 S. Ct. 3034, 97 L. Ed. 2d 523 (1987)). In other
words, existing law must have placed the constitutionality of the officer’s conduct “beyond
debate.” al-Kidd, supra, at 741, 131 S. Ct. 2074, 179 L. Ed. 2d 1149. "This demanding standard
protects “all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.” Malley v.
Briggs, 475 U. S. 335, 341, 106 S. Ct. 1092, 89 L. Ed. 2d 271 (1986).
To be clearly established, a legal principle must have a sufficiently clear foundation in
then-existing precedent. The rule must be “settled law,” Hunter v. Bryant, 502 U.S. 224, 228,
112 S. Ct. 534, 116 L. Ed. 2d 589 (1991) (per curiam), which means it is dictated by “controlling
authority” or “a robust ‘consensus of cases of persuasive authority,’” al-Kidd, supra, at 741-742,
131 S. Ct. 2074, 179 L. Ed. 2d 1149 (quoting Wilson v. Layne, 526 U.S. 603, 617, 119 S. Ct.
1692, 143 L. Ed. 2d 818 (1999)).
The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in Topeka, Kansas dismissed
petitioners claims with prejudice holding that the defendants are immune to the suits raised and
that Heck v. Humphery Bar, forcloses said relief until petitioner receives a favorable ruling.
Petitioner from the intial filings and in petitioner sworn affidavit in support thereof, argued the
exceptions to the Heck Bar, and argued that since the trial judge acted without jurisdiction and in
contravention thereto, said judgment is void and is unable to bar the relief sought against the
defendants because law deems all defendants in the case trespasser of the law. See Doc.-( 1 ),
Exhibit-—(A). 8
The well-settled law in this case holds:
"Where a Court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in
the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is
regarded as binding in every other Court. But, if it act without authority, its judgments and orders
are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar toa
recovery sought, even prior to a reversal, in opposition to them. They constitute no
justification; and all persons concerned in executing such judgments or sentences, are
considered, in law, as trespassers. This distinction runs through all the cases on the subject;
and it proves, that the jurisdiction of any Court exercising authority [*341] over a subject,
may be inquired into in every Court, when the proceedings of the former are relied on and
brought before the latter by the party claiming the benefit of such proceedings”. Elliott v.
Lessee of Peirsol, 26 U.S. 328, 7 L. Ed. 164 (1828). (Emphasis added).
HECK BAR EXCEPTIONS
This Superior Court has consistently held:
The Law is well-settled that a void order pr judgment is void even before reversal.
Vallely v. Northern Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 254 U.S. 348, 41 S.ct. 116 (1920) ("Courts are
constituted by authoprity and cannot go beyond that power delegated to them. If the act beyond
that authority, and certainly in contravention of it, their judgments and orders are.
regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply VOID, AND THIS EVEN PRIOR TO
REVERSAL." [Emphasis added]); Old Wayne Mut. I. Assoc. vy. Mc Donough, 204 U.S. 8, 27
S.Ct. 236 (1907), Williamson v. Berry, 8 How. 495, 540, 12 L.Ed. 1170, 1189 (1850): Rose vy.
Himely, 4 Cranch 241, 269, 2 L.Ed. 608, 617 (1808).
It is bipartisanly held that a judgment that is either defective in its person or subjectmatter jurisdiction, or which is in contradiction to Due Process of Law, is void, and that is prior
to reversal. In the case at bar neither the district court or court of appeals addressed the voidness
of the judgments of conviction which the law provides: "that the jurisdiction of any Court
exercising authority over a subject, may be inquired into in every Court, when the
proceedings of the former are relied on and brought before the latter by the party claiming
the benefit of such proceedings". Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol, supra Id. at 341.
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Thus, the mandate in Humphery v. Hecks, supra, is inapplicable in the case at bar, and the
exceptions to said rule is met for a judgment which is void can never become final. When as in
the case at bar, the record reflects that jurisdiction was lacking and said judgment was entered in
contradiction to due process of law, the legal principles and standard of review required the
lower courts inquirer into the proceedings as raised and argued by petitioner in both Doc.-(1 )
and on appeal. See Appellant brief, pg's-("’ 1-15 ).
IMMUNITY DEFENSE EXCEPTION
Likewise the immunity defense asserted by the lower courts on behalf of the defendants
that chose not to answer the complaint or brief the case on appeal is not applicable in the case at
bar. This Superior Court has consistently held:
A suit which only seeks to prevent or restrain a trespass upon property or person by one
who happens to be a state officer, but is proceeding in violation of the Constitution of the United
States, is not a suit against a State within the meaning of the Eleventh Amendment, but a suit
against the trespasser or wrongdoer." Ex parte Royall, 117 U.S. 241, 6 S. Ct. 734, 29 L. Ed. 868
(1886). In Randall v Brigham, 74 U.S. 523 (1869) this Superior Court held:
"Tn an action against a judge of any court, whether of record or otherwise, for any act
done by him or by his command, the question in every case to be determined is, was the act done
a judicial act, done within his jurisdiction? If it was not, he can claim no immunity or.
exemption by virtue of his office from liability as a trespasser; ‘for if he has acted without
jurisdiction, he has ceased to be a judge’."
Likewise the U.S. Congress has held:
"Congress was quite explicit about its goals of eliminating sovereign immunity as an
obstacle in securing judicial review of the federal official conduct. Reasoning that 'courts can
make useful contribution to the administration of Government by reviewing the legality of
administrative conduct which adversely affects private persons,’ H. Rep. No. 1656, 94th Cong.,
2d Sess. 5, reprinted in 1976 U.S. Code Cong. & Admin. News 6121, 6125, Congress noted
that "greate strides" toward making government accountable to citizens had already been made in
the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Tucker Act, and that the amendment to § 702 was designed
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to 'strengthen this accountability by withdrawing the defense of sovereign immunity in actions
seeking relief other than money damages, such as an injunction, declaratory judgment or writ of
mandamus." Id. at 6124.
"The officers of the law, in the execution of process, are obliged to know the
requirements of law, and if they mistaken them, whether through ignorance or design, and
anyone is harmed by their error, THE MUST RESPOND IN DAMAGES." Rosters v.
Marshall, (United States use Rogers v. Conklin) I Wall, (US) 644, 17 L.Ed. 714. (Emphasis
added).
In the case at bar its approximately 38 defendants and the relief sought varies in regards
to each defendants. See ("Relief sought" in plaintiffs Civil Complaint), Doc-( 1). Thus, the
district courts blanket defense for all defendants claiming Heck Bar and 11th Amendment
Immunity can not and does not comply with the laws governing 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil
complaints. The finding that defendants Judges, City Counsel, and Assistant District Attorneys,
being absolutely immune in their official capacities in 42 U.S.C. 1983 actions, may be generally
true, however, there are exceptions when their actions do not provide immunity from monetary
damages or equitable relief.
Their conduct is alawys reachable for injunctive and declaratory relief. Under the Federal
Courts Improvement Act of 1996, judicial officers are only immune from injunctive relief if
declaratory relief is unavailable when sued in their official capdcities. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983;
Pullman vy. Allen, 466 U.S. 522, 541-42. 80 L.Ed. 2d 565, 104 S.ct. 1970 (1984) (absolute
immunity does not bar equitable relief against state court judges.)
The fact that each of these defendants are subjected to different damages the lower courts
finding that the same legal principle applies is error. Likewise, concerning clerks and court
reporters, no immunity existed.
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Court Reporters and Clerks duties are ministerial. In principles of law it is described as
"MINISTERIAL. That which is done under the authority of a supervisor; opposed to judicial;
that which involves obedience to instructions, but demands no special discretion, judgment or
skill." Black's Law Dictionary 1148 (4th ed. rev. 1968).
Court reporters are charged by statute with producing a "verbatim" transcript of each
session of the court, for inclusion in the official record, 28 U.S.C. § 753(b). "The function
performed by court reporters is not in this category. "As noted above, court reporters are required
by statute to "record verbatim" court proceedings in their entirety. 28 U.S.C. § 753(b). They are
afforded no discretion in the carrying out of this duty; they are to record, as accurately as
possible, what transpires in court. See McLallen v. Henderson, 492 F.2d 1298, 1299 (CA8
1974) (court reporters not absolutely immune "because their duties are ministerial, not
discretionary, in nature"); Waterman v. State, 35 Misc. 2d 954, 957, 232 N.Y.S.2d 22, 26 (Ct.
Cl. 1962), aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 19 A.D.2d 264, 241 N.Y.S.2d 314 (4th Dept., App. Div.
1963) (same).
Likewise, the clerk of the court is a ministerial officer, Eldridge v. Deets, 4 Kan.App. 2d
241, 243, 45 P.948 (1896), and without statutory authority and cannot exercise judicial functions.
In re Terrill, 52 Kan. 29, 31, 34 P. 457, 39 Am.St. Rep. 327 (1893). Also see 15A Am.Jur.2d,
Clerk of Courts, sec. 21, p. 155.
When judicial immunity is extended to officials other than judges, it is because their
judgments are "functionally comparable" to those of judges -- that is, because they, too, "exercise
a discretionary judgment" as a part of their function. Imbler y. Pachtman, 424 U.S. at 423. n.20.
Cf. Westfall v. Erwin, 484 U.S. 292, 297-298, 98 L. Ed. 2d 619, 108 S. Ct. 580 (1988).
In the case at bar, the Court Reporters and Clerk of the court altered, concealed and
withdrew Transcript record evidence from the record on appeal and petition's for habeas corpus
in both state and federal cases. Thus committing a criminal act of obstruction of justice. See 18
U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1). The acts of producing documents pursuant to K.S.A. § 22-2302(2) to
defendant's at their request once the are filed like the clerk is all but an administrative act. If
officials removed the documents from the record in violation of Kansas Supreme Court Rule
108(2)(b)(1); (G)(1)(b), those actions were outside the scope of the advocator duties and clearly
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ministerial and unlawful. Those acts would be known to be unlawful, and thus no qualified
immunity exist. See Kelina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118, 123, 131 (1997).
This Superior court has held:
"Analyzing the complaints in light of these precedents, we see that petitioners allege facts
that demostrate the are seeking to impose individual and personal liability on the named
defendants for what they claim -- but have not yet established by proof -- was a deprivation of
federal rights by these defendants under color of state law. Whatever the plaintiff's may or
may not be able to establish as to the merits of their allegations, their claims, as stated in
the complaints, given favorable reading required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures
are not barred by Eleventh Amendment. Consequently, the district court erred in
dismissing the complaints for lack of jurisdiction." (Quoting Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. Id.
at 238.) (Emphasis added).
This Superior Court in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 2 L.Ed. 2d 80, 78 S.Ct. 99 (1957),
said in the rule means:
"The Federal Rules of Civil Procedures do not require a claimant to set in detail the
facts upon which he basis his claim. To the contrary, all the Rules require is 'a short and plain
statement of the claim’ that will give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiff's claim is and
the grounds upon which it rest." Id., at 47. "As the Court unanimously held in Haines y. Kerner,
404 U.S. 519 (1972), "as pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded’, must be held to ‘less
strigent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers' and can only be dismissed for failure
to state a claim if it appears "beyond doubt that the plaintiff can proven no set of facts nh support
of his claim which would entitle him to relief." Id., at 520-521, (Quoting Conley v. Gibson. 355
U.S. 41, 45-46 (1975)."
There are exceptions to the Favorable Ruling Doctrine as required to establish the Heck
Bar, 1.) The prior judgment relied upon is Void; and 2.) The Judgment is not final. Plaintiff
raised both of these exception before the district court and court of appeals and neither looked to
the living record tyo determine if plaintiff established said exception. A Judgment that is
procured through fraud can never be final, Kenner vy. Comm'r, 387 F.2d at 690 and a void
judgment from its exception cannot bar recovery sought, even prior to reversal. Elliott v. Peirsol,
Supra Id. 341-341.
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"No man in this Country", this court has said, "is so high that he is above the law. 'No
officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity’. All the officers of the
Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of law, and are bound to obey it."
United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196, 220. ‘Judges are required to obey the law.’ See O'Shea v.
Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 503 (1974) ("we have never held that the duties of judicial officers
requires or contemplates the immunization of otherwise criminal deprivations of
constitutional rights.")
CONCLUSION
Although a denial of a Petition for Writ of Cert., usually does not mean a ruling on the
merits of the case, the denial in the the case at bar will result in a fundamental miscarriage of
justice, and denial of petitioners right to seek damages against the trespassers. For the district
court dismissed plaintiffs civil complaint with prejudice, and asserted a defense on behalf of all
defendants that NEITHER raised in defense of the complaint. These affirmative defenses, both
the 'Heck Bar' and 'Eleventh Amendment Immunity Defense’ are affirmative defenses, that must
be plead. "An affirmative defense is one that not only denies the plaintiffs claims, but adds new
matter which, assuming the complaint to be true, states a defense to it. Black's Law Dict. 55 (Sth
ed.. 1979). Parties raising affirmative defenses must provide enough statement of the defense or
it will be stricken under Rule 12(f), Fed. R. Civ. P. as insufficient if it is impossible for the
defendant to prove a set of facts in support of the ... defense that would defeat the complaint.
Affirmative defenses are pleadings, and therefore are subjected to all pleading requirements of
Fed. R. of Civ. P.
The district court on behalf of these defendants claimed they have absolute immunity by
nature of their official positions. This mere averment of title does not meet Rule 8, Fed. R. Civ.
P. pleading requirements of "a short plain statement of defense and how the affirmative defense
is applicable to them. See Minalga v. Fid. Invs. Instit. Oper. Co. 2002 U.S. Dist. Lexis 22038,
**3-4: Murphy v. White, 691 F.2d 350, 353 (7th Cir. 1982); Renalds v. SRG, 119 F.Supp. 2d
800, 802 * N.D.Ill. 2002).
Petitioner reiterates that "NOT ONE' of the defendants raised these defenses or even
responded to the complaint. Judge Danial Crabtree asserted the defense and deemed that said
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asserted defense ended the inquiry into plaintiffs claims, despite the defense raising new matters.
As the provides, plaintiff sought to challenge the jurisdiction of the judgment relied upon for said
defense. (Elliott v. Peirsol, Supra Id. at 341) ("This distinction runs through all the cases on the
subject: and it proves, that the jurisdiction of any Court exercising authority [*341] overa
subject, may be inquired into in every Court, when the proceedings of the former are relied
on and brought before the latter by the party claiming the benefit of such proceedings.").
(Emphasis added).
In the case at bar the district court [whom asserted the defense], simply ignored the
challenge to its findings which the law provides must be answered. "The law provides that once
State or Federal Jurisdiction has been challenged, it must be proven" Main vy. Thiboutot, 100
S.Ct. 2502 (1980). "Jurisdiction can be challenged at anytime,' and Jurisdiction, once challenged,
cannot be assumed and must be decided." Basso v. Utah Power & Light Co., 495 F.2d 906,
910. "There is no discretion to ignore the lack of Jurisdiction." Joyce v. U.S., 474 F.2d 215.
When as here, the rule provides for relief from a void judgment is applicable, relief is not a
discretionary matter, but mandatory." Orner v. Shalala, 30 F.3d 1307 (10th Cir. 1994). The law
implicitly holds said question must be answered from the living record. Bender v. Williamsport,
Area School Dist., 475 U.S. 534, 546 (1986). It is claer and well established law that a void
order can be challenged in any court. Old Wayne Mut. L. Assoc. v. McDonough, 204 U.S. 8,
27 8.Ct. 236 (1907).
The benefits of this law has been withheld from petitioner, and when as in the case at bar,
the district court judge asserts the defense for the defendants, bringing the prior judgment into
question, and relying upon said judgment as a defense, the right to challenge the jurisdiction of
that judgment became a relevant factor that needed answered. Once challenged it MUST BE
ANSWERED. Because if the living record reveals that said judgment is void for want of
jurisdiction (personal or subject-matter), was procured through fraud or being in contradiction
with due process of law, both the Heck Bar and 11th Amendment Immunity defense exception
have been met. The Court must reverse and remand for further proceedings to answer the
question of jurisdiction or find the case should move forward to trial pursuant to Rule 38(b), as
dismissal pursuant to Rule-12(b)(6) are inapplicable and nonmeritorious and must be stricken
under Rule-12(f),. as insufficient as a matter of law. Resdeetfurly ,
—evso Laggand Sp.
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