Last Night a Blog Post Saved My Life

kay sieverding
Jul 17, 2008 10:02 AM CST

I believe that my ability to blog has potentially saved my life and my husband’s and son’s.  We were subject to witness retaliation and witness intimidation as described in U.S.C. Title 18 sections 1512 and 1513. I was put in jail for 5 months without even being accused of disrupting a hearing or any sort of crime.This was done at the request of Faegre & Benson for the stated reason of stopping us from finding a different judge besides Edward Nottingham, who dismissed our claims without a jury trial and without the defense even filing for summary judgment.  Judge N’s stated reason was that our complain was “proliix, disorganized, and legally twisted.” That does not comply with Rule 52a. Also, without a counterclaim or a rule 11 c. 6 order, we were ordered to pay some law firms $102,000. Faegre & Benson and the other law firms filed in Dane County WI that they were defendants in our lawsuit in front of Judge Nottingham, although only 2 of the 6 were and none of them filed a counterclaim.  Faegre didn’t even file a rule 11 motion.  I think the law firms and the foreign insurance companies they represent thought they were going to get away with witness retaliation and also secure case law to stop U.S. Citizens from representing themselves and that it would never become public.  Faegre was representing Mutual Insurance Limited of Bermuda and I suspect there is some sort of agreement with the purchasers of Mutual’s defamation insurance to cover up news related to claims against other publishers insured by Mutual.  (I don’t know for sure because they have apparently be able to keep the policies secret despite rule 26a) So blogging has been a way for me to publish what happened.  I think it is actually possible that the blogging saved our lives because a.) I could have been murdered in jail b.) Financial stress kills and c.) Given the nasty nasty things my defendants have done to me, it is possible that they would have hired a hit man.  Apparently hit men are actually pretty inexpensive. But since I have no other enemies, if I was killed I think people would know to look to my defendants and therefore they would be more reluctant to hire a hit man.

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J.D.
Jul 17, 2008 1:49 PM CST

Seriously. I think THIS blog might save my life by alerting me to stay away from Kay…

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Hadley V. Baxendale
Jul 18, 2008 4:59 AM CST

You better put on a tin-foil beanie so they can’t read your thoughts, too.

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Chris
Jul 18, 2008 6:25 AM CST

Great point, HVB.

As a law student who hopes to practice wills/trusts/estate law, I find Gerry Beyer’s blog ( http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof)  helpful almost every day. It’s fantastic.

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kay sieverding
Jul 18, 2008 11:11 AM CST

to # 6

So when privilege is waived it is totally waived, not partially waived right?

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