Knight v. Serpas, W.D. Wash. No. C02-1641C, appealed, 9th Cir. No 03-35016 Web Page
We WON Court of Appeals No. 58250-0!! Reported at 142 Wash. App. 291, 174 P. 3d 1198. Further details at the bottom of Writ of Prohibition Against Contempt Prosecution web page!
Some Practical Advice for Support Contemnors in the State of Washington.
A Way to Walk a Mile in a Noncustodial Parent's Moccasins.
Please check out the litigation listed toward the bottom of the web page Knight v. State Writ of Prohibition Against Contempt Prosecution where I was forced to file a Motion to Modify Commissioner's Decision citing Antipeonage Act because the State of Washington imposed a court order that is a direct violation of the Antipeonage Act, requiring me to maintain at least 30 hours of work per week or make 3 job contacts. Therefore, I display my Brief of Appellant because this is an issue of extreme public importance for which the public should be aware.
My latest Reply Brief of Appellant provides the answers to California's Moss v. Superior Court, the Ninth Circuit's Ballek, and Hawaii's new Child Support Enforcement Agency v. Doe, No. 24457, (Hawaii, December 27, 2005) 109 Hawaii 240, 125 P. 3d. 461, each an obscenity against the Rule of Law.
Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court is considered filed as of the date I mailed it, August 8, 2007, within 90 days of June 6, 2007. It is docketed as No. 07-184.
One analogy to illustrate the absurdity of the proposition that choice of employer avoids finding of involuntary servitude is with Washington's Death Penalty statute, RCW 10.95.180(1) grants the condemned a choice: lethal injection or hanging. No one seriously argues that merely because the condemned has a choice in his demise, there is no death penalty. However, California's Moss v. Superior Court, the Ninth Circuit's Ballek, and Hawaii's Doe uses this precise logic: if the peon has a choice of employer, there is no involuntary servitude!
Patently absurd, of course!
For their sponsorship of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Sucker's www.paykids.com his Paykids Foundation, boycott the listed sponsors, including Art Van Furniture, Meijer Stores, Michigan State Medical Society (warning, the MSMS website does not like to let you out when you click the back button), SBC Communications, and Michigan Health and Hospital Association and tell them why you are boycotting them! Go to the Michigan Enemies of Freedom Page and read letters by Stan Rains and Terry Lear for more information as to why, and read Domino's Pizza, Inc.'s letter to me in response to my concerns about PayKid's use of Domino's Pizza gift certificates as a prize in their loathsome Billboard contest, which was CANCELLED!!
Not to be outdone, we are announcing our own billboard contest!
C Level Enterprises is to be commended for their courage, unlike Borders, in distributing father Kevin Thompson's book, "Exposing the Corruption in the Massachusetts Family Courts" in the face of Judge Mary McCauley Manzi's court order prohibiting its distribution. More on this at the Massachusetts Enemies of Freedom webpage. FathersUnite.org has a link to this page.
Restraining order overturned on appeal. Book is now available at Lulu.
We now have the Antipeonage Act Website Forum, please click the "Enter my Forum" banner!
Here are some free places where you can find published opinions:
Ninth Circuit Opinions in pdf since 1995
Municipal Research and Services Center Search Page for Supreme Court of Washington and Court of Appeals for Washington published opinions.
Adobe website.
for those who need a reader for pdf files.
This is the Web Page upon which I list the internal links to the briefs and pleadings in the 42 U.S.C. §1983 and 42 U.S.C. §1994 lawsuit I filed after the Washington State Patrol forced me out of my car 16 miles east of Seattle and left me stranded at about midnight between a Sunday and a Monday in Issaquah.
Judge Coughenour brought out his Order to Show Cause why the case should not be dismissed on Younger abstention doctrine.
So I filed my Plaintiff's Response to Order to Show Cause
Subsequently, I filed the Plaintiff's Supplement to Response to Order to Show Cause and my Declaration informing the federal court of my VICTORY in King County Superior Court.
Judge Coughenour dismissed this case with an Order of Dismissal relying heavily upon the Order entered by Judge Lasnik in Knight v. City of Mercer Island, W.D. Wash. No. C02-879L. Both Orders are presented herein as Adobe Acrobat pdf files.
So I timely filed My Plaintiff's Motion to Amend Judgment, FRCP 59, or for New Trial, FRCP 59. I noted it for December 13, 2002. However, to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any response filed by the State Officer defendants (represented by the Attorney General's Office). Western District of Washington Local Civil Rule 7(b)(4) provides that the court may take that as an admission that the motion could not have been opposed in good faith.
But then, Judge Coughenour essentially said: "So what?" with his Order denying my motion to amend judgment or for new trial. Adobe Acrobat pdf file.
So its on to the Ninth Circuit. My Brief of Appellant.
The State Officers have filed their Brief of Appellees State Defendants: Title Page of State Brief. Tables and Argument, Adobe Acrobat pdf file. 480 kb. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 for free at www.adobe.com.
Therefore, I filed my Reply Brief of Appellant.
At first, the Court of Appeals tossed the case because its clerks claimed that I did not file the Brief of Appellant and Excerpts of Record. Therefore I filed a Motion to Recall the Mandate and a Declaration in Support of this Motion, attached to which is a photocopy of the Postal Service receipt to prove that I sent by first class Priority Mail a package weighing 13 pounds 15.2 ounces to the Zip Code 94119.
This appeal was restored as evidenced by the fast unpublished Memorandum decision filed on June 18, 2003. Adobe Acrobat pdf file.
Which necessitated my Petition for Rehearing with Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc and to Publish Opinion.
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