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January 9, 2010 San Francisco, CA.It's no secret that attorneys have become largely unaffordable to the average American. Not only are they unaffordable, but many recently polled believe attorneys provide substandard services. I can attest to the fact from my experiences that many attorneys provide poor services while charging far too much money. Attorneys, such as a few I've written about on this blog, will take their clients for a ride for the tune of thousands of dollars doing virtually nothing on their behalves. In some cases, attorneys are nothing more than criminals and blackmailers with a bar number. On the other hand, there are many outstanding attorneys but they're usually inaccessible to the average American's pocketbook.
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I've got significant evidence that the court system on the lower levels is really playing on people's stupidity to profit from them. That's right, they're pulling people's strings like their puppets so they can profit off of fabricated overblown disputes. When the legal system overblows and manipulates people's petty disputes, they profit from it. I've got significant evidence now to confirm many people in the system are simply playing people for fools with no intent to help, but merely to exploit any circumstances to generate money.
So you have this lawyer who has studied law and all kinds of case scenarios. They studied preconceived stories they learn in law school to address legal issues. However in the real world, they actually learn to become masters to manipulate situations to make legal issues that thereby generates money for themselves. They create legal issues out of thin air and thereby become God! I've seen it happen for a while now. I'm convinced these people in the legal field think they're so smart that they're playing people for fools. Deliberately. Calculatedly.
A man slips on a banana peel at a corporation. He sues the company for negligence as he had no way of avoiding the situation." Did it really happen that way? Or did the attorney mold it to fit the case law he studied?
This is what is happening in a bad economy; attorneys can shape reality to suit their case law. Regardless the room was well lit and the banana peel was dropped by the plaintiff, he blamed the corporation for his fall that broke his back. An attorney is called, observes the company is wealthy, and could care less the man really tossed the banana on the ground.
That's what's wrong with our legal system. Too many sleazy attorneys who exploit and deliberately over blow circumstances for financial gain.
Last night Cyber #1 was served something long overdue he should have received from, not only myself, but his many other victims. This "Motion for Petition for Injunction and Order to Show Cause; Restraining Order" was filed December, 31, 2009 and is now a public document. The exhibits makes it nearly 100 pages! This isn't just any restraining order either, it's the BIG KAHUNA, an injunction motion for this creep in denial to leave me the hell alone. I've been told my motion assures me of getting a restraining order granted by the Court overseeing the lawsuit.
What Edmond Wollmann Posted Sunday Night on RIP-OFF REPORT Edmond Wollmann wasted no time responding after learning through the court's ledger I had an injunction filed against him. He began his posting rage on January 2, 2010 on various sites, including Yelp, to damage my new businesses. They are real businesses! He's obviously a very jealous man.
I've worked very hard towards rebuilding my life after Mr. Wollmann and another cyber stalker ruined my plans to be a singer. I got an education in law with a paralegal certificate and have since been fully background checked by the State of California, FBI and Department of Justice.
So, this is an example of someone who thinks he's above the law, an anarchist Mr. Wollmann's anonymous posting activities.
Mr. Important thinks he overrules the FBI, DOJ, State of California Debra Bowen, that I'm not good enough a person and my business licenses are a fraud because he says so!?
This post will undoubtedly be used to win my lawsuit as the final nail to seal it all up. The Court will award me whatever reasonable amount I'm seeking now. I'm amending the Complaint to include Mr. Wollmann's latest attempt to ruin my new business, one that is worth and projected to be six figures over the next few years. An expert will be able to project my business earnings which were damaged by Mr. Wollmann's latest defamation.
NOT SO SUAVE Mr. Suave may think he's irresistible and charming to the opposite sex, but not in this case by a long shot. In my eyes he's an obnoxious public nuisance (2003), trespassing (1998) convicted criminal, and not anywhere near the caliber of men I've dated throughout my life. Men like Michael Lynberg, Harvard graduate, the late Michael Egan, professional lute player, Jeff Linsky, latin guitarist, and numerous other high quality men (many of whom names I can't remember LOL) of character.Sure, these weren't long term relationships, the longest being 1.5 years, but it shows the type of men I used to date in my 20's; well educated, classy talented and successful kind of men.
Mr. Creep needs to leave me alone and knock off holding me hostage to his power trip that started in 2007. I am by no means a hated person, but he is! This man has been writing as if he knows me as a complete stranger because he's got what I and other victims believe to be MALIGNANT NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. You do one slight thing to reject these kind of people and they will make you out to appear to be a hated person to everyone.
A PROMISING SINGING CAREER RUINED This deranged Cyber #1 did a lot of damage to my former emerging singing career. YouTube also blocked visit counts of my videos that were barred from a larger viewership. My videos have been frozen for view counts nearly a year now. I was discriminated against and severely stigmatized for this man's defamatory blog postings. Of course, my singing career didn't have a chance with my name utterly ruined with this guy's posting activities.
It's really sad what these mentally ill men will do to keep women in bondage. If I were a black women, I could scream racism for sure and run to the media. Because I'm white, I'm supposed to take this all as if it's normal.
This mentally deranged man's visits to my SongChannels.com site averaged 24 a month from particular revolving addresses in San Diego and La Mesa.
Since the beginning of time, certain men have believed themselves to be above the law. Usually these kind of people are mentally ill and delusional whose masquerade eventually unravels. Bernie Madoff is just one example. These type of people push the envelope to the point of igniting revolutions and uprisings of the masses.
Here's what self-ascribed operatives of a corrupt government do. They write propaganda anonymously on blogs about their victim. They then report that person to the FBI and file for restraining orders with their local community judge. In their minds, the FBI and judge will read what they wrote about their victim.
Imagine if you were a target of such vindictive individuals? That they would set up an anonymous blog(s) on you full of all kinds of misrepresentations and lies and then report you to the FBI and their local judge ex parte? Someone should write a screenplay about this kind of thing. It should be called "Cyberstalked". People have no idea how destructive to one's life this kind of stuff is.
The bottom line is this. These men need to come to terms that they can't get away with not taking a look in the mirror at themselves and behavior any longer. They're not above the law! They need to stop blaming others for their insecurity problems and go visit their local therapist.
Yahoo, it's 2010!! I've got my health, money, my independence and everything I need to last me the next couple of years, including tons of dehydrated Neapolitan Ice Cream!
Since 2009 I've been a free woman, without an oppressive job or boss. I've worked desk jobs since way back in 1979, but now I meet new people daily and each day presents something new to learn. If I wanted, I could take a cruise go to Europe and do whatever I want if I so choose. I've got my passport ready.
When complete strangers on the Internet try to commit injustices against me, I now have the legal skills to put up resistance in a big way. At some point those who try to mess with me are going to realize it's not worth it, that it's a sign of mental illness to want to argue over petty issues that cost them thousands of dollars and numerous hours of their time to deal with.
When a complete stranger walks into his local community judge to lie without my being present to defend myself, my response will be another lawsuit. There is no law preventing people from filing lawsuits! People usually think that can't happen because it's too risky, but the courts only rarely award the prevailing party attorney's and legal costs if it's a non-contract case.
So the moral of the story is maybe go visit a local doctor to deal with your problems instead of taking it out on complete strangers. I have a copyright and another tort lawsuit waiting in the wings for the next foolish move. A mentally healthy person would sign the reasonable settlement agreement and put an end to it all.
Judges like settlement agreements like the one I presented. It simply won't bode well for the other party to not accept its very simple terms.
Two mentally questionable, delusional vindictive strangers began writing nasty blogs about me in 2007 as if they knew me at one time, or as if they were even former boyfriends or disgruntled coworkers. As a result, two lawsuits have been filed and both blogs are gone. Depositions were conducted, subpoenas were issued, court hearings were and continue to be conducted.
Google recently provided the IP records for the blogs.
Cyber #2 at deposition: "Did you create the blog? A: no comment"
People reading this blog who are considering any further mischief should really consider I have gathered a tremendous template of legal documents to work with in a lawsuit should I ever run into this problem again. A few are very sophisticated legal instruments that deal specifically with cyber stalker, defamation issues.
Here's a few document templates I have now:
Motion to Compel Response to Subpoena DECUS TECUM (includes Memorandum of Points & Authorities, Declarations)(this legal instrument really works in getting major corporations to respond with records. Google immediately coughed up partial records after I forwarded them the draft)
Ex Parte Motion to Transfer Instant Case to . . . . . ." (for when they try to file a case in the wrong venue from where you filed the lawsuit)
Motion for Petition for Injunction.. . .. (w/Memo of P&As")
This is only a small few of what I have and will have.I'll soon have other documents to counter another's vain attempt to squirm out of the lawsuit. I'll have a full arsenal of legal documents to use again should I require them.
The person on the other end, not being an attorney or legal professional, will be forced to pay out as little as $20,000 to defend their case. I also have fairly good skills at conducting my own depositions, asking the right questions and submitting interrogatores.
So, I guess the message here is don't mess with me because I'll come after you with a case you'll have to spend thousands of dollars to defend yourself from.
I was at the gym on the treadmill yesterday and happened to see Dr. Phil's son Jay McGraw present his new book Life Strategies for Dealing with Bullies. I began to think about the prevalent theme I've encountered with problem people has been their bullying me. Bullies started for me way back in grade school and, to make matters far worse, my mother was a huge bully.
Here's an example. Let's say a bully gives you a hard time a very long time in school. You finally stand up to them and they end up running crying to the teacher! They make it so any resistance you offer is destined to get you in trouble one way or another. That's the level of mentality I'm referring to. They don't see their behavior as a problem, as in their mind everyone loves or should love them, and it's all nothing but a game to them.
The game extreme bullies often play with me is always trying to make it look like I'm victimizing them in some way for standing up to them. I noted Cyber #1 tries to make it look like everyone on the Internet's victimizing him all the time. I have evidence he put up an extremely vicious anonymous blog on me claiming I'm a forger, criminal under investigation and all sorts of crazy false stuff. This, while he's hiding behind this "victim" image he fabricates on a USENET astrology forum. He's playing the role of a victim as if everyone's stalking, impostering and is out to get him due to his great importance.
Bullies are prevalent in our society at all levels, especially in government. They lie, cheat and most always manipulate reality to suit the outcome. The bottom line is they don't care what you think or how you feel, while attempting to dominate your life on any level available to them. The worse bullies are sociopaths and/or pscyhopaths unwilling to acknowledge the bottom line is you don't like them and don't want them in your life. They make your rejection of them a huge issue they must win to show it's you, not them, who has a problem.
My 50th Birthday will be spent pleading before a Small Claims Court Judge over a greedy attorney's attempt to steal my money.
I'm going to take this opportunity to complain here about a greedy attorney, M. Pamela Lauser in Martinez, California, who has attempted to steal a lot of money from me for non-representation. I paid a $2,500 retainer for representation at two hearings, one in Walnut Creek and the other in Concord. (I had one case transferred to Concord originally from Walnut Creek.) I'm writing this after having asked for a partial refund only to receive a rude letter from Ms. Lauser full of lies and misrepresentations to justify her stealing my money. This case was initially about someone from Vancouver Washington sending a note to Cyber #2 letting him know he had his name change legal document and was going to take appropriate action for their on-going dispute. I was summoned to court over their dispute for the convenience of Cyber #2 who could not do so for someone out of state. Here is the basis for the nature of the dispute I was summoned to a Court out of my jurisdiction for:
This lazy in pro per (self represented) individual scribbled some note submitting it to his small community judge about something post marked from Vancouver Washington he accused me of sending. He had no police reports, no evidence whatsoever to justify his claims I harassed him. I have never contacted this man nor emailed him but once in 2006! Since he couldn't file it against that man due to out of state jurisdiction, he chose to make me a scape goat costing me $2,500 in attorneys fees among many other fees.
Ms. Lauser failed to represent at either of the hearings, didn't perform any litigation, nor did she or her assistants fill out any forms on my behalf, except a substitute attorney form over someone who didn't represent me. I submitted all the paper work and pleadings to the Court. One day I will upload the pleadings with redacted names but I'm not quite ready to disclose the information yet.
I had asked for a partial refund for non-representation and Ms. Lauser responded she wrote off $4,000 in her attorney fees for simply reading through my pleadings and evidentiary materials! Before my full disclosure of this matter, I'd like to point out what went wrong to allow this mishap to occur so others might learn from my errors:
ATTORNEY CHOOSING TIP: Prior to choosing an attorney, don't just assume because they have a State Bar Number that gives them a stamp of approval for ethics or that they are automatically good attorneys. It simply means they are good at passing law exams and nothing more. Neither should their having no complaints against them posted on the California Bar Association's site be any reliable confirmation of their being good attorneys.
ERROR NUMBER ONE: During her initial consultation, Ms. Lauser told me there were prejudiced postings about her on the Internet due to her being a kick ass take no prisoners attorney who stood up for her clients. As a result of her claim, I didn't bother to check the complaints. I do not generally take what's been written on the Internet about someone as genuine in this day and age after having suffered at the hands of cyberstalkers myself. However, had I read what appear to be genuine complaints on LawyerRatingz.com, I would have reconsidered retaining her services.
Ms. Lauser has no range in court. She rubs the Judge the wrong way and ends up getting scolded which is painful to watch. As a result she lost a crucial and costly case for her client that should have been a slam dunk. I can only assume that she went in assuming she would win and thus didn't prepare. The other lawyer ended up walking all over her. It's basically the lawyers who win or lose a case for you. Just ask O.J.
I have read all of the comments on this site even the ones that were written by her staff to counter the honest ones....take it from someone who knows her intimately, if she likes you she will be tenacious but there has to be something in it for her ..... she trained with albert turnbaugh who is a major billing machine .... pam charges as much as gloria alred neither are worth that rate .... well pam isn't worth that billing rate .... judges do not like like her because she is pushy ..... be all things to all people pam and leave your ego at the door, the far door.... ego (edging God out) .... lastly her paralegal is a wiccan (pagan) and pam is a christian? .... that in and of itself is enough to hire elsewhere, hypocrisy before God means bad fruit for the client .... this the truth ... can a tree bring forth good and bad fruit and be good, no way ....
I would NOT recommend having Ms. Lauser represent you in a court of law. Her lack of experience mainly works against her!
Highly recommend to NOT use this lawyer. It cost me $400.00 for 1 hearing, she was schooled by the judge and court clerk how to fill out an after hearing judgement, used the wrong date on the form and put down the wrong name for my soon to be ex-wife. I have left a message everyday this week for her and she got back to me today and told me it is a little error and I should appreciate the work she has done and just look over these small facts. I think it might be time to go back to law school for her.
This poor woman does not understand the legal system and can cause a client great grief. She attempts to compensate for her lack of skills with a obnoxious loud performance in court. It doesn't go over well with the Judge. Do yourself a huge favor by not putting your legal problems in her hands.
She took a lot of time to understand the case, but brought witnesses to testify at a case managemet conference!!! The judge would not allow the testimony. She seems to not understand the legal process.
In over her head. Her case was dismissed because it was filed in the wrong court. She was scolded by the Judge. That's not good at all.
She is new and does not know what she is doing. Judges cannot stand her
ERROR NUMBER TWO: I assumed Ms. Lauser was a seasoned attorney since she was a partner at her own law firm, had a nice office and several employees. She had also mentioned wanting to be a judge one day. This was an "illusion" since I later learned Ms. Lauser as a 50+ woman had only been an attorney since 2006 making her very inexperienced.
Here's another attorney tip:Law schools don't teach attorneys how to deal with the real world in their practices, only how to pass law exams. Most good attorneys are trained and seasoned at major law firms who learn from seasoned veterans. Ms. Lauser appears to have went from law school directly to her own law practice thus missing early apprenticeship from veterans. What Ms. Lauser charges and expects for non-representation/non-production is indicative of her being delusional about her status as a three year attorney.
ERROR NUMBER THREE: I neglected to check on the nature of Ms. Lauser's education, which was at relatively low level university and law school for her field.
ERROR NUMBER FOUR: I believed Ms. Lauser was bound by the terms of her retainer agreement. Ms. Lauser did not follow her own retainer agreement to notify me of any major expenses, such as her claim of spending $4,000 worth of her time reading through my submitted litigation materials and evidentiary information. In her not following the terms of her retainer agreement, I have to take Ms. Lauser to Small Claims Court to prove she violated its terms.
ERROR NUMBER FIVE: Ms. Lauser initially introduced herself as someone who a particular judge hated and initially declined to take my case. I did not follow through to check other's on-line comments that it wasn't an issue with just one judge but others as well. After the case was transferred to a new jurisdiction, Ms. Lauser accepted the case and a month later failed to appear leaving me to represent myself with two witnesses, one who had flown out all the way from Vancouver Washington.
Here's the problem. Ms. Lauser's short notice of her forthcoming non-appearance gave me no real choice but to represent myself. Because she wanted to charge me, Ms. Lauser had an associate attorney call me with 24 hours notice prior to the hearing. This was unacceptable as I did not feel comfortable, nor did I believe the attorney was competent or knowledgeable to represent me after I spoke with him on the phone. I only agreed for him to attend the hearing in case there were any technical law issues and as moral support.
One Hearing - Non Legal Representation
The associate attorney showed up one hour prior to the hearing and sat for 1.5 hours awaiting other cases to finish, then spent another hour standing next to me in court with my witnesses, but he did not represent me or present my case! I agreed to pay him for his time, but later learned Ms. Lauser still wanted $300/per hour. He didn't have the answers to some of my questions, including a particular statute I requested that governed my case. As he sat for 1.5 hours, the associate attorney didn't bother to call the home office to provide me with the language in the statute.
When this associate attorney spoke at the hearing to the judge to claim Ms. Lauser had an emergency and couldn't attend, he introduced me as a self-represented person. When the judge said something to him, his response was "that's news to me" about a particular statute governing another issue. For the rest of the hearing this associate just stood silent before the judge the entire time as nothing more than silent moral support. Ms. Lauser's law firm wants $300 an hour for that?
Maxed Out Retainer After One Non-Represented Hearing
After this associate attorney hinted my retainer had been maxed out prior to the second hearing, I terminated Ms. Lauser's law firm's representation. Ms. Lauser hadn't even bothered to arrange for a meeting to discuss my case. I had only a 20 minute initial consultation with her and a few minutes with her on the phone of her arranging for me to pay her and sign her agreement.
In my Small Claims Court case, I agreed to pay this attorney $200/hour (6 hours), as well as to read through my case even though he didn't represent me. I agreed to pay for the copying and case management costs, etc. I believe I was very generous in offering to pay $1,500 for non-representation, non-production to this law firm at one hearing. This wasn't enough for Ms. Lauser, she wanted to keep my entire retainer.
After I terminated her law firm, Ms. Lauser had the audacity to send me a rude letter claiming she was kind in waiving $4,000 in her fees. She didn't even bother to formerly apologize for overbooking her schedule causing me the emotional trauma of being without representation.
My 50th Birthday To Be Spent in Small Claims Court Pleading My Case Against Attorney Pamela Lauser Before a Judge
A Small Claims Court case has been filed in Concord against Ms. Lauser I have to appear to plead before a judge on my birthday in February.
So you might wonder, what is this all really about? To reiterate, my being chosen as a scapegoat for Cyber #2's mental problems and dispute with an out of state person. He admitted at a deposition to be on medication, to having memory issues due to being a diabetic who was once in a coma. He was obviously just looking for anyone to blame for the problems he believes he's had on the Internet.
The restraining order was issued against Cyber #2 in Concord, California after pure hell of what Ms. Lauser put me through to only steal my money. This is an example of how greedy attorneys work with a corrupt court system to make money for the local legal community over extremely petty non-case First Amendment Rights issues.
Voila! After much strenuous prodding and pulling of Google's legal department, I finally got the partial results from my subpoena request for its malicious anonymous blog poster I've referred to throughout this blog as Cyber #1. It's about the now defunct blog at cheryl-merrill.blogspot.com. The person was writing extremely malicious material posting hundreds of articles and copyrighted infringement photos of me since 2007 accusing me of being everything under the sun.
The IP address Google provided is within 350 miles of the defendant's home and smack dab off the main highway artery in between the defendant's other home in Los Lunas, New Mexico. This isn't exactly a smoking gun, so I had to really sit down with Google Earth to figure out what really happened. The evidence shows the major artery highway that hooks up with La Mesa, CA, is one of two and the most logical highway path to get to Los Lunas, New Mexico, the other home of the defendant. On that day I'm alleging Cyber #1 took the most logical route while stopping in Tuscon Arizona for a possible overnight stay or perhaps lunch. There he planned to create his vicious blog, hoping the IP address wouldn't implicate him should any lawsuit be filed.
So, I guess I should show the map of Cyber #1's little trip in which he stopped on the way to start his vicious anonymous blog:
The latest defamatory post I show was in June, 2009 prior to the lawsuit that was filed. I'm also asking Google to provide that IP information as well through a Motion to Compel because they've given me some excuse.
This evidence, when combined with accumulative and other corroborating evidence, is strongly convincing. The defamatory postings in February, March, April and June 2009 fall well within the Statute of Limitations about my having allegedly forged documents as a public official among other things.
I wish this person would just sign my Settlement Agreement and agree to pay his own legal costs. I'm not asking for a cent (but if it gets as far as to trial I certainly will)! I would gladly then convert my blog to a new format. All I want is for this person to leave me alone and not post anything more under my name. He insists he's innocent and that I should pay his legal costs, something a court would never grant for a non-contract case.
For now, I'm celebrating because it is convincing evidence that falls within the Statute of Limitations of postings in 2009 since I have evidence of recent defamation in June. The slam dunk is straight up ahead set to come from the new subpoena I served on America Online on December 23, 2009. That subpoena asks for the sub accounts of the defendant's admitted main account in 2007. This will be the slam dunk case sealer for sure if my hunch is right sub accounts were used from the main account in 2007.
All you have to do is show a jury or judge that the guy lied several times under oath and that he omitted relevant facts. Certain conduct can be analyzed such as "if someone was impostering you, why wouldn't you want to know the identity of such person who caused this lawsuit to be filed against you? Instead you, such and such.
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Zip Cars are now located across the country in many major cities. Zip allows you to do small errands around town for as low as $8.00/hr and have hybrid electric cars available if you're green. Their service agreement only requires a $50/year fee and use of hourly rates all year with no minimum requirements.
Aside from not worrying about gas and insurance costs, the convenience of using Zip Cars is they provide an assigned scan card to access the vehicles for immediate use. You can be in one of their cars within 30 minutes of needing to go somewhere! I have several Zip Car stations available in my area so there's no problem accessing transportation. Zip's on-line system enables you to reserve a car of your choice instantaneously. My experience is there is no problem booking a car on the weekday within 30 minutes of requiring one.
I've used Zip Cars several times now and have only needed to fuel up once due to a low tank. Zip car provides a gas card to use.
Cars used to be a problem for me, not any more thanks to Zip Car.
January 9, 2010 San Francisco, CA. It's no secret that attorneys have become largely unaffordable to the average American. Not only are they unaffordable, but many recently polled believe attorneys provide substandard services. I can attest to the fact from my experiences that many attorneys provide poor services while charging far too much money. Attorneys, such as a few I've written about on this blog, will take their clients for a ride for the tune of thousands of dollars doing virtually nothing on their behalves. In some cases, attorneys are nothing more than criminals and blackmailers with a bar number. On the other hand, there are many outstanding attorneys but they're usually inaccessible to the average American's pocketbook. 
