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    Colbern C. Stuart IIIEmail: [email protected] Pacific Highway Ste. 102San Diego, CA 92110Telephone: 858-504-0171Facsimile: 619-231-9143In Pro Se

    Dean Browning Webb (pro hac vice pending)Email: [email protected] Offices of Dean Browning Webb515 E 39th St.Vancouver, WA 98663-2240Telephone: 503-629-2176

    Attorney for Plaintiffs California Coalition for Families and Children, PBC, andLexevia, PC

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

    SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

    CALIFORNIA COALITION FORFAMILIES AND CHILDREN, et al.,

    Plaintiffs,

    v.

    SAN DIEGO COUNTY BARASSOCIATION, et al.,

    Defendants

    Case No. 13-cv-1944-CAB BLM)Judge: Hon. Cathy Ann Bencivengo

    PLAINITFFS OPPOSITION TO THESUPERIOR COURTS MOTION FORSANCTIONS

    Date: December 19, 2013Time: 3:30 p.m.Courtroom:4C

    ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTEDSUBJECT TO COURT APPROVAL

    Complaint Filed: August 20, 2013

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1

    II. DISCUSSION .......................................................................................................... 1

    A. Authority ............................................................................................................... 1

    B. The Rule 11 Motion is a Cut-N-Paste Version of Superior Court Defendants

    Motion to Dismiss, Failing to Address Relevant Analysis ......................................... 2

    C. By Posing the Rule 11 Motion on the Same Grounds as the Motion to Dismiss,

    The Superior Court Doubles Down on the Merits of the Motion to Dismiss ......... 3

    D. The Complaint Satisfies all Three Certifications ................................................. 4

    1. Evidentiary Foundation of Plaintiffs Claims (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(3) ................. 4

    2. Claims Are Presented to Remedy Injury and Effect Reform--Not to Harass,

    Delay, Increase Costs, or Other Improper Purpose (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(1)) ............. 5

    3. The Complaint Seeks No Change, but Enforcement of Federal Law

    (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(2) ................................................................................................ 7

    E. The Superior Court Lacks Standing to Assert Claims of Other Co-Defendants . 8

    F. Counts Relevant to the Superior Court: ............................................................... 8

    1. Distilling Relevant Counts ................................................................................ 8

    2. Analysis of Remaining Counts by Each Ground of Attack ............................ 10

    III. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................... 21

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    TABLE OF AUTHORITIESBaltimore & Carolina Line v. Redman, 295 U.S. 654, 656 (1935) ............................. 17

    Bd. of Cnty. Comm'rs of Bryan Cnty., Okl. v. Brown, 520 U.S. 397, 416, (1997) ...... 14

    City of Canton, Ohio v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 399 (1989).......................................... 14Gaiardo v. Ethyl Corp.,835 F2d 479 (3rd Cir. 1987) ........................................... 2, 3, 4

    Henry v. Cnty. of Shasta, 132 F.3d 512, 523 (9th Cir.1997) ....................................... 14

    Hunter v. Cnty. of Sacramento, 652 F.3d 1225, 1233 (9th Cir. 2011) ........................ 14

    Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370, 371 (1996) ........................... 17

    Mendocino Envtl. Ctr. v. Mendocino Cnty., 192 F.3d 1283, 1301-02 (9th Cir. 1999) 16

    Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)................... 14

    Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati, 475 U.S. 469, 478, (1986) ......................................... 14

    Tadros v. State Bar of Cal., United State Supreme Court, Case No. 12-1438 (cert.

    den. 571 U.S. __, (October 7, 2013) ........................................................................ 15

    Trevino v. Gates, 99 F.3d 911, 918 (9th Cir.1996) ...................................................... 14

    Ulrich v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco, 308 F.3d 968, 98485 (9th Cir.2002) ........ 14

    Villegas v. Gilroy Garlic Festival Ass'n, 541 F.3d 950, 964 (9th Cir.2008) ............... 14

    OTHER AUTHORITIESCommittee Notes on Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure146 FRD 401,

    590 (1993) .................................................................................................................. 2

    Sandra Equivocal Child Abuse (2013) ........................................................................ 15

    The Quest for Justice in California (2013) .................................................................. 16

    Whores of the Court (1997) ......................................................................................... 15

    RULESFed.R.C.P. 11 ................................................................................................. 1 et passim

    General Order 550 ........................................................................................................ 11

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    CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS

    U.S. Const., amend. VII ............................................................................................... 17

    U.S. Const., amend. XIV ............................................................................................. 17

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    Plaintiff opposes Defendant Superior Court, County of San Diegos1Motion For

    Sanctions (Rule 11 Motion) as follows:

    I. INTRODUCTIONThe Superior Courts Rule 11 Motion is off-target. The Motion is brought on

    virtually identical grounds as the judicial Co-Defendants Motion to Dismiss

    Complaint (Dkt#16) (MTD); a pleading-stage attack. The Rule 11 Motion simply

    parrots the MTDbarely addressing the relevant issues in a Rule 11 motion

    violations of the certifications required under Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(1), (2), and (3). In

    parroting the MTD, which is brought by all eleven judicial defendants, the Rule 11

    Motion asserts arguments which are not relevant to the sole moving party in this

    MotionThe Superior Court. This disconnect between the MTD and the Rule 11

    movants creates an irascible confusion of arguments, evidence, and claims. Should

    the Court venture to follow the untangling of the morass attempted hereinbelow, it

    may conclude that the Rule 11 Motion is even less meritorious than the MTD brought

    on precisely the same grounds. Such unfaithful hard ball litigation conduct is itself

    unfaithful, sanctionable behavior. If at all, sanctionable litigation behavior thus far

    has occurred solely among judicial defendants. See, Plaintiffs Mtn. Rule 11

    Sanctions (Dkt#39).

    II. DISCUSSIONA.AuthorityDefendants assert Rule 11 violations of three certifications relating to the

    Complaint, that:

    it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause

    1The Superior Court for San Diego County insists that it is erroneously sued in thatname; Plaintiff insists the name is correct. Because the official title of the Court isa key element relied on by one Court of Appeals decision in relieving the LosAngeles Superior Court of liability on Eleventh Amendment grounds, thiscontroversy is legally significant. For simplicity of reference and without concedingthe issue of official title, this defendant shall be referred to herein as The SuperiorCourt.

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    unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation (FRCP 11(b)(1));

    the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing

    law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing

    law or for establishing new law (FRCP 11(b)(2)); and

    the factual allegations have evidentiary support or, if specifically so

    identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for

    further investigation or discovery (FRCP 11(b)(3)).

    The Superior Courts Motion for Sanctions (Dkt#23-1) (Rule 11 Motion) 2:5-7.

    Seeking Rule 11 sanctions concurrent with a motion in order to leverage the

    motion is prohibitedindeed itself sanctionablelitigation conduct. Gaiardo v.

    Ethyl Corp.,835 F2d 479 (3rd Cir. 1987). Sanctions are inappropriate where there

    exists legitimate controversy. Committee Notes on Amendments to Federal Rules of

    Civil Procedure146 FRD 401, 590 (1993). Simply adding a request for sanctions

    without addressing the Rule 11 certification issues is itself sanctionable conduct:

    The use of Rule 11 ... has become part of the so-called hardball litigation

    techniques espoused by some firms and their clients. Those practitioners are

    cautioned that they invite retribution from courts which are far from enchanted with

    such abusive conduct. Gaiardo, supra at 485.

    B.The Rule 11 Motion is a Cut-N-Paste Version of Superior CourtDefendants Motion to Dismiss, Failing to Address Relevant Analysis

    The Superior Courts Rule 11 Motion undertakes no substantial analysis of the

    three Rule 11 certification violations it asserts(1) improper purpose, (2) frivolous

    arguments under existing or extensions of law, or (3) lack of evidentiary support.

    Rule 11 Motion 2:5-7. The Rule 11 Motion is little more than a parroting of the

    arguments in the judicial defendants Motion to Dismiss Complaint (Dkt# 16)

    (MTD). The MTD is a Rule 12(b)(6) Motion directed attacking preliminary

    pleading stage matters. As properly drawn (which the MTD is unfortunately not), it

    cannot address controverted evidentiary matters. As such, ground 3, above

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    evidentiary supportmay not be raised in either the MTD or Rule 11 Motion. All

    such arguments in the Rule 11 Motion may therefore be immediately disposed of.

    The remaining attacks of (1) harassment purpose and (2) frivolity suffer similar

    disabilities. The Rule 11 Motion parrotspro haec verbathepleadingarguments of

    the MTD, then welds a one-liner bald claim that thosepleading arguments also

    establish a basis for Rule 11 sanctions. Compare MTD Dkt#16-1 Rule 11 Motion

    Dkt#23-1. In simply welding a Rule 11 one liner to each of the Rule 12 attacks,

    Defendants commit exactlythe hard ball leverage tactic admonished by Gaiardoas

    independently sanctionable. See details per Rule 11 Ground hereinbelow.

    Similarly regarding the frivolity grounds of Rule 11(b)(2), merely attacking or

    even prevailing on the merits of the underlying claim is not sufficient proof of

    frivolity. Where an issue is debatable, even if the moving party ultimately

    prevails on the issue, Rule 11 sanctions are inappropriate. More must be shown to

    prevail on a sanctions Motion, yet The Superior Courts cut-n-paste tactic provides

    no more reasoning for frivolity than the grounds it asserts in an attempt to prevail

    on the merits. Welding the term is frivolous to the analysis does not cure this

    defect. As such, the entire Rule 11 Motion directed to Rule 11(b)(2) is infirm as

    directed to a standard of proof for the Motion to Dismiss (failure to state a claim as a

    matter of law) rather than Rule 11s frivolity.

    C.By Posing the Rule 11 Motion on the Same Grounds as the Motion toDismiss, The Superior Court Doubles Down on the Merits of the

    Motion to Dismiss

    Because The Superior Court has brought its Rule 11 attack on the very same

    grounds on which it brings the MTD, it effectively doubles down on the Motion to

    Dismiss. In this case, Plaintiff has opposed the MTD with a Motion to Strike

    (Dkt#19) and Opposition (Dkt#21) asserting the MTD is meritless and attempting

    improper procedure. Where a moving party brings a Rule 11 motion on the same

    grounds as an affirmative motion, yet fails on the underlying affirmative motion, it

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    cannot be heard to claim that its Rule 11 Motion was filed in good faithlosing the

    underlying motion is at leastprima facia evidence that a concurrently-filed Rule 11

    Motion on the same grounds is impermissible hard ball attempt to leverage a

    debatable (or in this case meritless) motion. Gaiardo, supra. Thus, should the

    Court deny the MTD, counter-sanctions to the Rule 11 Motion for impermissibly

    bringing the Rule 11 on debatable (indeed meritless) grounds are warranted. By

    aggressively posing a quick-trigger Rule 11 Motion on top of a meritless Motion to

    Dismiss, Defendants have stacked their chips quite high.

    D.The Complaint Satisfies All Three CertificationsThough Defendant fails to articulate discernable argument toward the relevant

    Rule 11 certification issues, Plaintiff offers the following should the Court wish to

    visit these issues.

    1.Evidentiary Foundation of Plaintiffs Claims (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(3)Plaintiff STUART has conducted extensive investigation and research into

    each of the factual and legal allegations of the Complaint over a period of many

    years. The allegations of the Complaint are not created by a lawyer interpreting a

    clients experiencetherefore giving rise to the typical Rule 11 duty to investigate

    factual foundations of the clients claims. Here, the pro se Plaintiff is the client and

    witness. Almost all of the facts in the Complaint are given on personal and

    professional knowledge and experience. This experience includes seventeen years

    practicing law in the States of California, Nevada, and Arizona since 1995, 96, and

    97, respectively, and federal districts therein. Plaintiffs experience includes

    litigation, trial, mediation, and arbitration of dozens of matters for a variety of clients,

    including federal civil rights, commercial fraud, legal malpractice, and similar state-

    court matters. Though Plaintiff is not a divorce lawyer, he is familiar with California

    state practice and procedure generally applicable in all California Superior Courts

    through seventeen years of litigation experience.

    Through his personal experience with his own dissolution litigation and in

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    assisting dozens of similarly-situated parents enduring modern family court

    malfeasance, fraud, and abuse, he has become an informed observer of family court

    practices at several levels. He founded Plaintiff California Coalition for Families and

    Children to address those common concerns and provide a vehicle for domestic

    dispute industry reform, education, and engagement toward those ends. Stuart Decl.

    This experience, activism, scholarship, research, and personal observation is

    described at 71-75, 77-99, 100-101, 110, 113-123.

    This case is unusual in that fewfactsin this case will be in legitimate dispute

    Plaintiff accuses widely-known, and increasingly widely despised, practices of public

    institutions and private industry cohorts. Except perhaps for an answer to the

    question why has such illegal conduct been tolerated for so long? few legitimate

    factual issues will arise.

    2. Claims Are Presented to Remedy Injury and Effect Reform--Not to Harass, Delay,Increase Costs, or Other Improper Purpose (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(1))

    The claims of the Complaint are presented not to harass, cause unnecessary

    delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation but to remedy independent

    injury caused during the course of Plaintiffs reform efforts, and to cure the systemic

    affliction which Defendants have proven incapable or unwilling to cure for

    themselves. CCFC and the parent community it supports have undertaken extensive

    efforts prefacing the filing of this lawsuit to effect reform by other meansbut such

    efforts have been unsuccessful, and at times met with violentresistance by present

    Defendants and their cohorts. See, Compl. 124-136; August 20, 2013 Press

    Release, Stuart Decl. Ex. A. The injury precipitating the STUART ASSAULT and

    this lawsuit was orchestrated by Defendantsprecisely to frustrate Plaintiffs efforts

    while engaged in such reform. Litigation is not a preferred choice, but as with many

    civil rights struggles in our nations historyfederal courts are a uniquely

    appropriate and often the last recourse to defending the interests of an afflicted

    minority. Given Defendants tactics of abusing color of law police power to silence

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    Plaintiffs efforts, remedy for injuries thereby caused are appropriate and uniquely

    available in this forum.

    The Superior Court claims that the inclusion of home addresses of certain

    Defendants in the Complaint had no ostensible purpose other than harassment.

    Rule 11 Motion 7:12-14. This is a misstatement of fact and law. Averment of where

    an individual defendant "resides" or "may be found is an entirely ordinary and

    requiredmeans to establish jurisdiction and venue within a federal district. 28 U.S.C.

    1391(b). In compliance with this requirement, the Complaint avers the residence

    address of Defendants Schall, Trentacosta, and Wohlfeil as they were readily

    available from phone books, online records, online skip-trace searches, or other

    public resources. No private records were disclosed. The practice of averring

    residence or location of individual defendants to establish jurisdiction and venue is

    not prohibited by any rule, order, or lawit is requiredby such. Plaintiffs

    compliance with law and unremarkable practice in doing so in this action is

    permissible, entirely ordinary, and has obvious appropriate purpose other than

    harassment.

    The Superior Court also incorrectly alleges that Plaintiffs refused to take any

    steps to correct their violation. This assertion is a stunning and demonstrable

    falsehood. The Courts files reflect that as a courtesyto defendants bellicose

    demands that Plaintiff remove all addresses from the Internet and Court files,

    Plaintiffs promptly undertook steps to redact home addresses from the Complaint,

    removed the unreacted Complaint from its publically-accessible web servers,

    coordinated the removal of the same from third party servers, and re-filed a redacted

    version of the Complaint with this Court. Redacted Complaint, Dkt#8; Plaintiffs Ex

    Parte Motion for Temporary Harassment Restraining Order, Dkt#4.

    The remaining allegations of harassment motive in the Rule 11 Motion (Rule 11

    at 7:17-8:10) do not support The Superior Courts claim that the Complaint was filed

    to harass. The number of times the Complaint had been viewed on the Internet, that

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    the Complaint also included home addresses of other Defendants which have not

    objected and are not represented by The Superior Court or its counsel, and this

    Courts courteous, yet not required, sealing of the original and redacted Complaints

    to which no plaintiff objectsare not consistent with an intent to harassthey are

    the ordinary and expected behavior of civil rights plaintiffs publicizing their efforts to

    a nationwide community of similarly-situated domestic dispute industry professionals

    and victim-litigants closely watching this case as an augur of the future of reform.

    Further, Plaintiff maintains that Defendants post-filing take-down demands

    coerced by threats of San Diego County Sheriffs Department Detectives acting

    without warrant or probable causeto remove the Complaint from public locations

    are legally indefensible, and themselves constitute further illegal deprivation of

    Plaintiffs rights of free speech and access to courts which will be redressed in due

    course. Notwithstanding Plaintiffs claim that such take down activity was illegal

    and indeed reprehensible state censorship, Plaintiff undertook substantial efforts to

    accommodate Defendants less-than-courteous demands. See Ex Parte Motion for

    Emergency Harassment Restraining Order, Dkt#4.

    Defendant has not shown a motive of intent to harass sufficient to establish a

    violation of certification under Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(1), and as such its Motion may be

    Denied.

    3. The Complaint Seeks No Change, but Enforcement of Law (Fed.R.C.P. 11(b)(2))The Complaint certainly asserts that a change in family law as practicedis in

    immediate orderbut only to conform that practice with existing and longstanding

    principles of state and federal lawscommercial, health and welfare, and

    constitutional standards which are flagrantly disregarded by institutionalized

    Domestic Dispute Industry public and private interests. To the extent that State laws

    and practice are inconsistent with federal law, the Complaint properly and in good

    faith prays for declaratory and prospective relief to conform or invalidate those

    inconsistent laws and practices. Should Plaintiffs seeking enforcement of the

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    fundamental liberties of some of our most vulnerable citizens be viewed as

    harassment or bad faith by present defendants, the proper judgment day for that

    proposition may and should await the presence of a trier of fact rather than be quelled

    by improper use of Rule 11 hardball. See, e.g., Plaintiff, and millions of parents and

    children nationwide, eagerly await that day.

    The Superior Courts specific arguments regarding the merits of specific

    Counts of the Complaint (Rule 11 Motion III.A.1-11) are addressed below.

    E.The Superior Court Lacks Standing to Assert Claims of Other Co-Defendants

    The Superior Courts Rule 11 Motion is brought only by the Superior Court,

    yet the motion asserts objections as if all eleven judicial defendants and Mr. RODDY

    are joined. Because judicial Defendants are represented by common counsel and

    maintain substantial common interests, a joint Motion to Dismiss simplified pleading.

    However, by carving out only The Superior Court to assert the present Rule 11

    Motion, The Superior Court creates a disconnect between the two motions.

    This disconnectapparently unanticipated by The Superior Courtcauses

    substantial structural infirmities. For that reason alone, the Court may save itself and

    all parties unnecessary frustration in parsing issues relevant to The Superior Court by

    discarding the entire Rule 11 Motion at this point as incomprehensible.

    Should the Court desire to endure an unwinding of The Superior Court from

    the irrelevant Co-Defendant grounds for the motion, further analysis is attempted as

    follows:

    F. Counts Relevant to the Superior Court:An attempt will be made to distill the Counts relevant to the Superior Court,

    and analysis will proceed thereon.

    1.Distilling Relevant CountsThe Superior Court is a named Defendant only in Counts 3, 6, 12-15, 18, and 21,

    RICO Claims for Relief 2-10, and Prospective Relief Count 2. By contrast, the Rule

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    11 Motion attacks all Counts. It is necessary therefore to first dispose of any Rule 11

    arguments or grounds related to Counts 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-11, 16, 17, 19, and 20, RICO

    Claim for Relief 1 and Prospective Relief Count 1.

    The remaining relevant Counts for purposes of the Rule 11 Motion are as

    follows:

    Count 6municipal liability; Counts 12-15 (1985(2), (3)(a), (b), (c)obstruction of justice based on the

    facts of the STUART ASSAULT/CHILLING;

    Count 18 CULPABLE breach of duty relating to municipal liability inCount 6), (supervision of DOYNE, INC.);

    Count 3CULPABLE breach of dutya blanket allegation adding a levelof intentCULPABILE (defined in detail in the complaint) to each of the

    other underlying Counts. CULPABLE intent establishes a foundation for

    additional claims, remedies, and grounds for reliefsuch as a substantive due

    process violation for the underling conduct, extreme and outrageous conduct

    enhanced and punitive damages, criminal liability for federal civil rights and

    predicate crimes under Title 18, United States Code. Pled as a single blanket

    count applicable to other Counts, it provides notice of an intent to pursue both

    ordinary or unreasonable intent necessary for one version of a claim (i.e.,

    negligence, deliberate indifference, without probable cause) from an

    enhanced version of the claim (intentional interference, emotional distress,

    inducement to breach, etc.). Like intent generally, CULPABLE intent need not

    be pled with particularity, and does not impact the underlying facts of the

    underlying Count, and may thus be pled generally, and efficiently, in a single

    Count;

    Count 21False Advertising; RICO Claim for Relief 2Honest Services Fraud; RICO Claim for Relief 3, 4-10Witness Tampering and Retaliation;

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    Prospective relief count 2Declaratory Judgment; Superior Court is also alleged to be an operative in Rico Enterprises 1, 2, 3, and

    4.

    2.Analysis of Remaining Counts by Each Ground of AttackStripping non-moving Defendants and irrelevant Counts from the 11 Grounds

    asserted for the Rule 11 Motion impacts each Rule 11 Ground to a different degree

    some fatally, others not at all. A suggested distilled analysiswhich is The Superior

    Courts burden herefollows (quotations are lifted directly from Rule 11 Motion 2:8-

    26):

    Ground 1: CCFC and Lexevia's attempt to proceed in propria persona in

    violation of the laws of the states in which they were organized and the Local

    Civil Rules:

    This attack is identical to the Superior Court Defendants MTD IV.A.1

    (Dkt#16-1), and is opposed in Plaintiffs Motion to Strike (Dkt#19) II.B.5,

    incorporated herein by reference. In short, CCFC and Lexevia are represented by Mr.

    Webb, who is not yet admittedpro hac vicein this District. STUART is proceeding

    to retain local counsel for both entities in compliance with Local Rule 83.3(c)(4) to

    sponsor Mr. Webb. STUART appearspro se. (Declaration of Colbern Stuart in

    support hereof). Defendants cite no authority supporting the claim that a party in

    process of obtaining local counsel to sponsor apro hac viceadmission as grounds for

    dismissal, and as such the same is an impermissible hard ball tactical use of Rule

    11 sanctions.

    Ground 2: Lexevia's pursuit of claims without the capacity to do so as a

    suspended corporation

    This attack is identical to the Superior Court Defendants MTD IV.A.2, and is

    opposed in Plaintiffs Motion to Strike (Dkt#19) at II.B.5, incorporated by

    reference. In short, Defendants confound capacity and standing under state and

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    federal law. Lexevia is presently suspended for failure to file a Statement of

    Information with the Secretary of State. The Statement of Information has been filed

    curing the suspension. Stuart expects revival to good standing to occur within 90

    days (Declaration of Colbern Stuart in support hereof, Ex. B). Because capacity

    does not impact standing, Lexevias lack of capacity does not deprive it of standing.

    As The Superior Courts argument grossly confounds the issues of capacity and

    standing under both state and federal law, its Rule 11 Motion double down on the

    same issue is an impermissible hard ball litigation tactic.

    Ground 3: Plaintiffs' inclusion of the residential addresses of defendant

    judicial officers in the Complaint

    The Superior Count has no standing to bring this claim as it is only relevant to

    certain non-moving individual Defendants whose addresses were identified in the

    Complaint. The argument is also refuted by Plaintiffs Ex Parte Motion for

    Harassment Temporary Restraining Order (Dkt#4) incorporated herein by reference.

    Should the Court wish to entertain this Ground even absent The Superior Courts

    standing, Plaintiff submits that this Courts General Order 550 does not apply to this

    civil case despite its close affinity to a criminal action. General Order 550 provides:

    h. Privacy

    Unless otherwise ordered by the court, parties must refrain from including, or

    must partially redact where inclusion is necessary, the following personal identifiers

    from all pleadings and documents filed with the court, including exhibits thereto:

    5. Home address. In criminal cases, if a home address must be included only the

    city and state should be listed.

    Though Racketeering and the predicate crimes on which it is based are chargeable

    federal felonies, and Plaintiffs have asserted 34 indictable federal offenses in the

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    Complaint against certain Defendants, this action is not a criminal case (General

    Order 550) in any ordinary sense of that term. Though Plaintiff may and does seek

    punitive damages, and statutorily trebled enhanced damages, costs, and fees, it

    cannot seek criminal sanctions.

    Ground 4: Plaintiffs' filing of a frivolous, 1,300-page complaint:

    This attack is identical to the Bucket of Mud attack in Superior Court

    Defendants MTD IV.B and is opposed in Plaintiffs Opposition II.B, C, and

    Motion to Strike (Dkt#19), II.E.2 incorporated herein by reference. In short, the

    Complaint is admittedly complex, as it must be to plead to the extraordinary relief of

    federal intervention in what is averred to be widespread institutionalized legal

    consumer fraud involving Domestic Dispute Industry courts, attorneys, psychologists,

    social workers, and bureaucrats nationwide. To the extent the Complaint is not a

    model of clarity, Plaintiff apologizes to the Court and counsel should they take

    exception to the Complaints form of pleading. The Compliant is draftedas

    appropriateto give notice and with the expectation that substantial discovery will

    be appropriate in fleshing out the notice provided in the Complaint. Defendants

    insistence for more detail while simultaneously complaining of the Complaints

    length and inclusion of supporting exhibits itself suggests unfaithful litigation

    harassment and delay. If such is deemed appropriate, Plaintiff has proffered a present

    ability, though no desire, to expand on the Complaint at length in an amended

    pleading.

    Ground 5: The Superior Courts Claim to Eleventh Amendment Immunity

    This attack is identical to the Superior Court Defendants MTD IV.C.

    Plaintiff provides analysis in the Opposition to the Motion To Dismiss II.A.2.C as

    well as in the Opposition to the Commission Defendants Motion to Dismiss on

    Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds, filed concurrently with this Opposition.

    The legal analysis of both is germane hereto, and incorporated herein by reference.

    In short, the Superior Court may not aspire to State level sovereign immunity

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    on the present record. No Defendant in this action is named as the State of California

    or an employee or agent thereof, Plaintiff disputes that any beneath State-level

    Defendant is entitled to be elevated to State level status, and certainly no Defendant

    has or may make such a showing of fact at this, the Rule 12(b)(6) stage. As such, the

    Eleventh Amendment immunity attack fails as to all Defendants on the present

    record, and the hard ball tactic of seeking to double down with Rule 11 sanctions

    is itself sanctionable.

    Ground 6: Plaintiffs' filing of claims against judicial officers and Mr. Roddy

    in the face of judicial and quasi-judicial immunity:

    The Superior Court has no standing to assert claims of judicial officers and Mr.

    Roddy to quasi-judicial immunity. The Superior Courts cut-n-paste attack on this

    Ground is an inexcusable miss. The argument is also refuted at MTD Oppo.

    II.A.2.b, incorporated herein by reference. This misfire can be nothing other than

    wildly misguided hard ball tactics subject to sanctions.

    Ground 7: Plaintiffs' presentation of civil rights claims relating to the so-called

    Stuart Assault at the family law seminar that ostensibly lack evidentiary and legal

    support and are barred by the statute of limitations:

    This Rule 11 attack is substantially corrupted by the standing disconnect

    between The Superior Court and its judicial Co-Defendants. The Superior Court is

    not named in each of the Civil Rights claims attacked in this Groundonly Count 6

    (municipal liability), Counts 12-15 (1985(2), (3)(a), (b), (c) (obstruction of

    justice/CHILLING), Count 18 (relating to supervision and municipal liability in

    Count 6), and Count 3 (culpable breach of dutya Count adding an allegation of

    CULPABLE intent (defined in detail in the complaint) to each of Counts above).

    Because the Rule 11 Motion focusses primarily on Defendants and Counts other than

    those relevant to The Superior Court, this section of the Rule 11 Motion is

    irretrievably corrupted. An analysis of what can be distilled relating only to The

    Superior Court is attempted as follows:

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    The basis for The Superior Courts liability for all relevant Counts is the

    independent acts or failures to act by a municipalitydescribed in the caselaw as

    policy, custom, or habitactivity with an intent to deprive or acting/failing to act

    in deliberate indifference to deprivationsetting in motion events causing

    deprivation. Bd. of Cnty. Comm'rs of Bryan Cnty., Okl. v. Brown, 520 U.S. 397, 416,

    (1997) (Souter, J, concurring). Municipal liability arises from the line of cases

    beginning withMonell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658

    (1978) and continuing through City of Canton, Ohio v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378, 399

    (1989); Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati, 475 U.S. 469, 478, (1986); Trevino v. Gates,

    99 F.3d 911, 918 (9th Cir.1996); Villegas v. Gilroy Garlic Festival Ass'n, 541 F.3d

    950, 964 (9th Cir.2008); Ulrich v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco, 308 F.3d 968, 984

    85 (9th Cir.2002); Webb v. Sloan, 330 F.3d 1158, 1164 (9th Cir.2003);Henry v. Cnty.

    of Shasta, 132 F.3d 512, 523 (9th Cir.1997);Hunter v. Cnty. of Sacramento, 652 F.3d

    1225, 1233 (9th Cir. 2011).

    The foundation of The Superior Courts municipal and oversight liability is set

    forth in the averments beginning with Compl. 9, 10, and those describing its

    operations of policy and custom for oversight of other operations, including the

    private commercial psychology enterprise (the Domestic Dispute Industry Forensic

    Investigator Criminal Enterprise, or DDI-FICE; Compl. 284 et passim) and the

    in-house Family Law Facilitators Offices (the Domestic Dispute Industry

    Intervention Advocate Criminal Enterprise or DDI-IACE; Compl.281 et

    passim):

    9. Defendant Superior Court San Diego County (SCSDC) is municipal

    entity chartered under and doing business in the County of San Diego. In

    conjunction with the County, SCSDC operates facilities and judicial services at

    nine San Diego County courthouses; creates and implements judicial policies,

    customs, and practices administered by judicial officers, administrators, and

    staff; and provides professional legal services and advice to the citizens of San

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    Diego County, including services related to the practice of family law

    divorce and paternity, custody and visitation, child support, domestic violence,

    restraining orders, self-help services, frequently asked questions, form

    selection and advice, and public information regarding court fees, rules,

    locations, calendars, and proceedings.

    10. SCSDC is part of a network of county courts governed by a 27-

    member Judicial Council led by Ms. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice,

    California Supreme Court. The Judicial Council is the policy-making body of

    the California Courts and is responsible for ensuring the consistent,

    independent, impartial and accessible administration of justice. The

    Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is the support staff of the Judicial

    Council.

    These allegations also relate to The Superior Courts operation of the private

    commercial psychology enterprise (DDI-FICE) and in-house domestic dispute

    advocacy programs (DDI-IACE) described at Complaint 281-285. The Schemes

    and Artifices to Defraud utilized by the DDI-FICE are disclosed at Compl.308-335.

    Dr. Hagens publication Whores of the Court, Compl. Ex. 37,Equivocal Child Abuse,

    Ex. 38, and the Petition for Certiorari in Tadros v. State Bar of Cal., United States

    Supreme Court, Case No. 12-1438 (cert. den. 571 U.S. __, October 7, 2013); Compl.

    Ex. 2, are also relevant to these allegations, and incorporated herein by reference.

    As distilled, Ground 7remains to attack only allegations of (i) conspiracy

    (Rule 11 MTN 11:12-20), (ii) class-based discrimination (Rule 11 MTN 11:20-22),

    (iii) Definition of 1985(1) office, trust, position of confidence under the U.S. (Rule 11

    MTN 13:22-23), and (iv) statute of limitations (Rule 11 MTN 14:1-11) involving The

    Superior Court municipal and oversight operations described above. Remaining Co-

    Defendants did not join the Motion and thus those lines of argument in the Rule 11

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    Motion may be ignored, and their assertion considered impermissible hard ball and

    unfaithful litigation conduct.

    (i) Conspiracy: (Rule 11 MTN 11:12-20): Conspiracy allegations are

    analyzed in MTD Opposition Section II.E.1, and M&C Sections III.C.2(f), III.C.3,

    incorporated herein by reference. A conspiracy is an agreement to commit a crime.

    Mendocino Envtl. Ctr. v. Mendocino Cnty., 192 F.3d 1283, 1301-02 (9th Cir. 1999).

    The conspiracy allegations of the Complaint need no creative mind to understand. A

    simple walk through defendants own downstairs administrative operationsthe

    Family Law Facilitator Offices (DDI-IACE) which counsels and facilitates illegal

    DVILS ORDERS, paperwork, and enforcement (Compl. Ex. 1 and Exs. A, B

    thereto); an illegal psychology enterprise (DDI-FICE) populated by fraudulent

    forensic psychologists; to the legal communities which they participate inthe San

    Diego County Bar Association and its Family Law Subsection (Compl. 4, 275,

    Ex. 2) and the Family Law Community it serves (Compl. 71-73, 275-280, 320);

    to the federally-funded quasi-public technical support and leadership corporations

    it collaborates with on family law policy and operations levelsthe San Diego

    Family Justice Center and National Family Justice Center Alliance (Compl. 262,

    318, RICO Enterprises 2, 3, 4; Compl. Ex. 1); and to its leadership operations of Co-

    Defendants Judicial Council and Administrative Office of the Courts (Compl. 10,

    13-16; Quest for Justice, infra.). An insightful public account of the history,

    evolution, and independent control and operation of these entities is recently available

    from former California Supreme Court Chief Justice and Chairperson of Defendants

    AOC and Judicial Counsel Ronald M. George, entitled Chief: The Quest for Justice in

    California(2013).2 Chief Justice George explicitly details how these defendants have

    established themselves to be free from the micromanagement of legislators, who

    dont understand how to administer justice.Id. at 453-454. For theater fans, A

    2Supportive details describing the operation of these entities in collaboration with

    their enterprise co-defendants is located at pp. 303-318, 380-81, Chapter 14, pp. 448-

    459, 622-624, 660-665, 752-785.

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    feature-length documentary entitled DivorceCorp (www.divorcecorp.com) to be

    released nationwide on January 10, 2014 graphically describes the Domestic Dispute

    Industry Criminal Enterprise detailed in the Complaint. The Divorce Industry, it

    seems, is enjoying a new day in the sun.3

    Defendants no doubt will assert that the accused operations, though highly

    coordinated, are not illegal. Plaintiff will be prepared to present that case to a trier of

    fact at the appropriate time. For purposes of the Complaint, however, the above

    allegations of coordinated action to accomplish an allegedly illegal purpose satisfy

    any relevant pleading standard for pleading conspiracy.

    (ii) Class-based Discrimination (Rule 11 MTN 11:20-22): Class-based

    discrimination is analyzed in MTD Opposition section II.E.2, incorporated herein. In

    short, the Complaint describes four EQUAL PROTECTION CLASSES which are

    defined by existing precedent, state law, and de facto practice and effect. Compl.

    193-200 and references therein.

    (iii) 1985(1), (2) office, trust, position of confidence under the U.S. (Rule 11

    MTN 13:22-23): STUARTs status under the United States is averred at Compl.

    102-106 and analyzed in MTD Opposition section II.D, incorporated herein. In

    short, Plaintiff has alleged facts describing his practice as an officer of six federal

    Districts, The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, law practice in Commerce

    and Trade, Intellectual Property, and Health and Welfare litigation under federal law,

    civil rights activism, published Constitutional and federal law scholarship, and related

    engagementsincluding those that found this actionsufficient to give Defendants

    notice of a claim under 42 U.S.C. 1985(1) and (2). Defendants will no doubt

    3"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

    Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient

    policeman."Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 67, (1976);L. Tarango Trucking v. Cnty.

    of Contra Costa, 202 F.R.D. 614, 620 (N.D. Cal. 2001); Fair Political Practices

    Com. v. Suitt, 90 Cal. App. 3d 125, 132, 153 Cal. Rptr. 311, 316 (Cal. Ct. App. 1979);

    Original publication: L. Brandeis, Other People's Moneyat 62 (National Home

    Library Foundation ed. 1933)

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    contest that assertion, yet their doing so at the Rule 12 stage is inappropriate, and

    certainly insubstantial basis as a double down hardball litigation tactic under Rule

    11. See, e.g.,U.S. Const., amend VII, XIV;Baltimore & Carolina Line v. Redman,

    295 U.S. 654, 656 (1935);Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370, 371

    (1996).

    (iv) Statute of Limitations (Rule 11 MTN 14:1-11): Statute of Limitations

    issues for civil rights allegations are fully analyzed in Opposition section II.G,

    incorporated herein. Plaintiff has requested leave to amend to aver facts addressing

    this attack.

    Ground 8:Plaintiffs' pursuit of civil rights claims concerning Stuart's

    dissolution proceeding that are also untimely and barred by theRooker-

    Feldmandoctrine:

    The Superior Court has standing only with respect to Count 18; CULPABLE

    Breach of Duty causing deprivations of rights under the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th

    Amendments to the United States Constitution relating to the supervision of

    Defendants DOYNE, INC. Compl. 216-252. The bankruptcy of theRooker-

    Feldmandoctrine is explained at Opposition II.H and incorporated herein. Because

    liability of The Superior Court follows aMonellanalysis, it is not premised on any

    judicial act. Rooker-Feldmanis therefore further unavailable to this Defendant.

    Statute of limitations attacks are discussed above. This section represents an

    impermissible double down hardball litigation tactic.

    Ground 9: Plaintiffs' frivolous assertion of a false advertising claim, given the

    Superior Court Defendants do not advertise or sell services and are not

    commercial competitors of anyone:

    The Superior Courts amenity to suit as a State under the Lanham Act, direct

    misrepresentations to legal consumers, and collaboration with Co-Defendants in the

    same are addressed at MTD Opposition II.I, incorporated herein. This section

    represents an impermissible double down hardball litigation tactic.

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    Ground 10: the filing of Plaintiffs' factually and legally unsupportable RICO

    claims:

    Analysis of the RICO counts is set forth in detail in the MTD Oppo. II.J and the

    M&C sections cited therein, incorporated herein by reference. This Ground is wildly

    off-base, evidencing impermissible hard ball litigation tactics.

    Ground 11: Plaintiffs' Pursuit Of Claims For Prospective Relief Without

    Standing:

    Analysis of the Article III Standing issue is set forth at the MTD Oppo. II.K

    and detailed in the M&C sections referenced therein, incorporated herein by

    reference. Plaintiff has averred sufficient standing to satisfy relevant pleading

    standards.

    In the event the Court wishes to consider The Superior Courts assertions

    absent standing of Defendants not present in the Rule 11 Motion, Plaintiff

    incorporates by reference the additional analysis relevant to those Defendants as set

    forth in the sections of the MTD Oppo., Mtn. to Strike, and M&C sections referenced

    therein.

    G.An Award of Sanctions In This Case Would be An Affront to JusticeAny award of sanctions must evaluate a sanctioned partys ability to pay.

    Christian v. Mattel, Inc. (9th Cir. 2002) 286 F3d 1118, 1125, fn. 4. Rule 11 sanctions

    should not be used to chill creative advocacy, or legitimate causes asserted in good

    faith. See, e.g., Chase v. Auerbach, 1994 WL 590588, *2 (E.D.Pa. Oct. 26, 1994)

    (rejecting the imposition of Rule 11 sanctions on a litigant for advancing a novel legal

    theory in attempting to move an action to federal court to consolidate case with another

    pending case); Committee Notes on Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    146 FRD 401, 587 (1993) (explaining that replacing the 1983 version of the rules

    standard of good faith with the 1993 term nonfrivilous was not intended to raise

    the bar on creative advocacy brought in good faith which might be chilled by a

    higher standard).

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    Though Plaintiffs vigorously deny that sanctions against Plaintiff are

    appropriate and assert precisely the opposite request for relief, any sanction award

    against plaintiffs in this case would be unjust. Plaintiffs are a public benefit

    corporation and their members and advocates which, in the course of attempts to

    facilitate the reform of voracious criminal enterprises, have fallen victims to the

    illegal tactics of those very enterprises. Stuart Decl. . It would be difficult to

    exaggerate the devastating impact of Defendants illegal activities on the resources

    available to Plaintiffs to continue their reform efforts, including this litigation. CCFC

    is not a commercial operationit has no revenue other than donations and the

    generous goodwill of many dedicated volunteers. It is a community of victims of

    these very defendants heinousacts of fraud and abuse, who have formed to recover

    their losses, but more importantly to prevent that same harm from befalling others

    unaware of the maze of horrors that awaits them once they step behind Defendants

    doors. Stuart Decl. X.

    The Complaint details Plaintiffs efforts in seeking attention and assistance to

    remedy and reform an industry few deny to be a notorious dystopia, yet almost none

    have the knowledge, concern, or courage required to attend. Government agencies,

    politicians, and the commercial and pro bono legal community have universally

    respond yes, its a mess, but we dont know how to fix it. Present Defendants have

    responded with offers to absorb even more resources in wastefully returning to the

    lawless maze of family court, or more often responded not at all. Stuart Decl.

    As the intended benefactors of that dystopiaparents and childrenwhove

    instead of benefiting from that system have fallen victim to it, we have valuable input

    of what is wrong and how to fix it. Yet Plaintiffs wealth of experience, knowledge,

    and suggestions is not equaled by a wealth of material resources to implement them.

    Like most family court litigants, CCFC members left family courts with little more

    than harrowing nightmares and a very bitter taste in their mouths which, though

    highly motivating, are accompanied by a debilitating fear of further legal reprisal or

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    financial victimization by the very defendants present here. By anticompetitive

    meansincluding the violentmeans deployed against Plaintiffs detailed in the

    ComplaintDefendants have effectively monopolized or blockaded all venues for

    effecting reform through state-level machinerycourts, judges, lawyers, bureaucrats,

    and psychologists collaborate to police a poisonous toll-based maze they themselves

    built which outrageously extracts wealth from unsuspecting families by artifice, trick,

    and deceit. Stuart Decl.

    That wealth and power, initially earned by the honest hands and brows of

    parents working to provide for their children, has by trick and device been converted

    into the hands of some of San Diegos strongest law firms, hired to defend the

    schemes that pay their billsand today returns to a new scene to use impermissible

    hardball Rule 11 litigation tactics pick those pockets yet again, by means of new

    rules in a new courthouse. Plaintiff prays for a new awakening to a new, healthier

    day for plaintiffs and defendantsalike. If we desire respect for the law, then we

    must first make the law respectable. L. Brandeis, Other People's Money(National

    Home Library Foundation ed. 1933).

    Any award of sanctions against Plaintiffs in this case would only further the

    perpetration of what will be proven to be a shameful and fraudulent abuse of

    knowledge of public processes and institutions, public police power, and tainted

    wealth by those operating under a public license, oath, and duty to protect those in

    their care. Sanctions would be an affront not only to a meager pocketbook, but to the

    courage, dignity, and public spirit of parents and children nationwide, who having no

    recourse to defenders such as those they face, have barely the means to defend

    themselves. A sanction against these Plaintiffs in this action would be a sanction

    against equal justice itself.

    III. CONCLUSIONThe Superior Courts Rule 11 Motion is almost entirely unwarranted by existing

    law, structurally incomprehensible, and wildly off-target. It impermissibly seeks

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    relief for Co-Defendants not present in the Motion, argues their case but not its own,

    pleads to the wrong legal standards and only summarily acknowledges the correct

    ones, and is infected with the same meritless arguments of the MTD and

    inadmissible, impertinent, and scandalous evidence that work is based upon. The

    Rule 11 Motion is itself an inappropriate litigation hard ball double down tactic by

    those intimately familiar with such schemes and tools of prevailing in high-stakes

    litigation games, making sanctions againstThe Superior Court for its unfaithful

    litigation conduct in the present Motion appropriate. The Superior Court has chosen

    the stakes of the table it sits at. It should not be permitted to walk away from the

    accounting.

    Respectfully Submitted:

    DATED: December 5, 2013 By: /s/

    Colbern C. Stuart, III, President,

    California Coalition for Families and

    Children, PBC

    in Pro Se

    Colbern C. Stuart, III

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    CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

    The undersigned hereby certifies that all counsel of record who are deemed to have

    consented to electronic service are being served with a copy of this document via the

    court's CM-ECF system per Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5(b )(2)(E). Any other

    counsel of record will be served by facsimile transmission and/or first class mail this

    5th day of December, 2013.

    By: /s/

    Colbern C. Stuart, III, President,

    California Coalition for Families and

    Children, PBC

    in Pro Se

    Colbern C. Stuart, III