Judge Donald L. Graham
Justice Turned On Its Head!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
RE: FYI: DC Case No. 99-14027-CV-Graham/Lynch
Dear Mr. Graham:
As you well know, I have nothing but the utmost disrespect and disdain for you personally. I recently spent 41 days in jail because you framed me. See http://mmason.freeshell.org/framed.htm#quick . I believe this is a criminal act on your part. I can tell you that I am more determined than ever to see that you are impeached and led off in handcuffs like I was for your criminal behavior. I don’t care how long it takes or what I have to go through, but I won’t stop trying to hold you accountable under the law. Do you understand? Do you understand? If you type http://mmason.freeshell.org/openletter/ you will see a directory with all the letters I am sending out in my new letter writing campaign. This letter is located at http://mmason.freeshell.org/openletter/Graham08282008.rtf and as an open letter and a post to my blog at: https://mcneilmason.wordpress.com.
As I examine an officially filed court document, Docket No. 934, http://mmason.freeshell.org/DE-934/de934.pdf , it is not quite clear to me what the purpose of our little chat was on January 14, 2005. It appears that you are trying to circumvent the appellate review you know is coming. This document has no signature, nor is signed by any judge, consequently it is not clear to me what this document purports to be. This is not a legal document. Given that it is not signed by any judge, or anybody else for that matter, I can only assume that it is only someone’s personal opinion. The law requires injunctions or changes to injunctions to be put in writing. “[I]f the district judge neither puts pen to paper nor identifies an authoritative document, nothing of legal significance has happened–for oral statements are not judgments and under Rule 65(d) have no legal effect, and until the judge enters something meeting the general description of an injunction or other judgment, the matter remains pending in the district court.” Hispanics United v. Village of Addison IL, 248 F.3d 617, 620-21 (7th Cir., 2001). “Oral statements are not injunctions. A judge who proclaims “I enjoin you” and does not follow up with an injunction has done nothing.” When a judge does not record an injunction or declaratory judgment on a separate document, the defendant is under no judicial compulsion. …[a]n opinion or statement in court “is not itself an order to act or desist; it is a statement of reasons supporting the judgment. The command comes in the separate document entered under Fed.R.Civ.P. 58, which alone is enforceable. There must be a separate document, with a self-contained statement of what the court directs to be done.” Bates v. Johnson, 901 F.2d 1424, 1427-28 (C.A.7 (Ill.), 1990).
As you well know, you issued a “pre-filing injunction” sua sponte on September 20, 2001. I’ve done a great deal of research on sua sponte issued pre-filing injunctions and have found that every U.S. Court of Appeal, including the Eleventh Circuit, and other jurisdictions that I have run across have rejected sua sponte issued pre-filing injunctions. See http://mmason.freeshell.org/SuaSponte.htm . These courts, including the Eleventh Circuit, have stated unequivocally that sua sponte issued pre-filing injunctions are violative of due process. Any order that violates due process is void.
If the purpose of our little chat on or about January 14, 2005 was to modify the sua sponte injunction of September 20, 2001. The law does not allow you to sua sponte modify a sua sponte issued filing injunction. I will require due process and something in writing stating how the sua sponte issued pre-filing injunction was modified. See Riccard v. Prudential Ins. Co., 307 F.3d 1277, 1296 (11th Cir. 2002) (holding that injunctions “may not be expanded beyond the meaning of its terms absent notice and an opportunity to be heard.”). In Weaver v. Sch. Bd., 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 8128 (unpublished) (11th Cir. 2006), the Court held that a litigant was entitled to “notice and an opportunity to be heard” before a restriction was imposed on the litigant’s ability to challenge an injunction. Otherwise, I assume that the sua sponte issued pre-filing injunction has not been modified and you will receive requests accordingly. Moreover, with respect to the case being “closed” and Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P.: “Even after a judgment has become final and even after an appeal has been lost, Civil Rule 60(b) gives losing parties additional, narrow grounds for vacating the judgment.” GenCorp, Inc. v. Olin Corporation, 477 F.3d 368;2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 3102 (6th Cir., 2007).
You have proven to me that you are not constrained by the rule of law. You have a long history of lawlessness and misconduct that includes, but is not limited to, the following:
• You have lied and intentionally misrepresented the law.
• You usurped legal authority by allowing a Magistrate to issue an injunction which is prohibited under 28 U.S.C. 636(b)(1)(a) and ordering me not to communicate with my government, Highlands County Board of County Communications.
• You refused to rule on a motion for a preliminary injunction that had been pending for more than 17 months.
• You allowed scores of other important motions to simply linger without addressing them.
• You have abused the criminal contempt procedure by taking a void sua sponte issued pre-filing injunction and making it the basis of criminal contempt information.
• You have used the criminal contempt process to force the withdrawal of a lawsuit.
• You have awarded a massive $200,000 in attorney’s fees to Highlands County against an indigent me, not on the quality of the underlying lawsuit, but based upon your mere speculation about my motive.
• You have repeatedly improperly denied me access to the courts by arbitrarily denying in forma pauperis, “IFP”, petitions.
• You have falsely completed a Civil Justice Reform Act Report, “CJRA” in order to conceal the fact the fact that you had a motion for a preliminary injunction pending for more than 17 months.
Support for these allegations are fully set forth at: http://mmason.freeshell.org/CoreAllegations.htm and at https://mcneilmason.wordpress.com and
numerous other places. Mr. Graham, I am incapable of simply accepting this kind of lawlessness and behavior and moving on. In a word, I simply will not move on under any set of circumstances.
Mr. Graham you have enjoyed a pyrrhic victory at the cost of your reputation and that of your colleagues. It is kind of selfish of you to put your colleagues in the position that you have placed them in. You have subjected your colleagues at the Eleventh Circuit to ridicule by forcing them to make lawless and dishonest decisions in order to conceal your lawless behavior and hubris. I mock them at: https://mcneilmason.wordpress.com and layout their entire repertoire of tricks and dishonesty at: http://mmason.freeshell.org/methods.htm . I have defined you with your record. Anytime somebody wants to know something about you, they Google or Yahoo your name and it leads to one of my many websites and pages.
Mr. Graham, it would be in your best interests and those of your colleagues if you comport yourself to the rule of law. What have you gained by all of your lawless behavior? You have damaged your own reputation and are in the process of destroying other judges’ reputation as well. It says something about your character to put other judges in the position you have placed them.
Ultimately, I am seeking public scrutiny of your record. When that goal is reached, and I won’t quit my efforts until that time, the public outcry for disciplinary action against you and your enablers will be overwhelming. In the interest of the Federal Judiciary and your friends, you should consider resigning and firing Judge Lynch.
Marcellus Mason
Unpublished Junk Law of the Eleventh Circuit, US Court of Appeals 