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marc lampert: gold-weems puppet judge harry randow to run for open supreme court seat

sam hanna's rethug propaganda rag, the ouachita citizen, reports that louisiana supreme court associate justice, chet d. traylor, will retire on 31 may 2009.

so along comes marc lampert to let everyone know that ninth judicial district court judge harry randow "has pretty well made of his mind to take a run at this seat." mr. lampert "thinks."

in may 2005 judge randow was presiding over a lawsuit between the gold, weems, bruser, sues and rundell law firm and dr. tommie mack granger. that gold weems is an extremely shady law firm is to put it mildly.

something came out during the course of the suit that gold weems didnt want to come out and judge randow attempted to accommodate them by covering the whole thing up by closing the courtroom to the public and issuing a "protective" order barring local media from reporting about it

"judge" randow even went so far as to bar the local newspaper, the alexandria daily town talk, from discussing his order with their own attorneys. see court backs town talk in trial-secrecy case (this link is now dead but the article is from around 26 may 2005}.

six days later the 3rd circuit court of appeal vacates judge randow's scandalous protective order.

gold-weems puppet judge harry randow to run for third circuit appeals court justice

babs blog gives us the run down (see link) on the upcoming vacancy on the third circuit court of appeals which will be caused by the 06 june 2008 retirement of current justice glenn gremillion. ms. zimmerman reports that current ninth judicial district court judge harry randow is going to run.

a hearing in the gold v granger lawsuit was held at alexandria, rapides parish, louisiana in may 2005 and gold weems lap poodle ninth judicial district court judge harry randow tried to cover the whole thing up by closing the courtroom to the public and issuing an order barring local media from reporting about the complaints. see Court backs Town Talk in trial-secrecy case. "judge" randow even went so far as to bar a local newspaper the alexandria daily town talk from discussing his order with their own attorneys.

six days later the 3rd circuit court of appeal vacates "judge" randow's scandalous order:

now judge randow wants to be elected to the third circuit...we dont think so.

the nationalist movement gets paid

greg aymond and chet donnelly - two-bullies-of-a-kind

will judge harry randow lock-up the alexandria, la city council?

normally in louisiana a political subdivision is exempt from complying with any judgment rendered against it.

the ongoing case of richard j. heath v. city of alexandria, louisiana could be unique in that it involves louisiana public records law, political subdivisions and judgments against them and the political subdivision judgment exemption law.

looks like we are going to find out if the complete judgment that the third circuit court of appeal rendered against the city of alexandria, la. of which $2,500.00 of it, the city is so far refusing to pay: will stick.

the third circuit court of appeal wrote that an alexandrian named richard heath, properly filed a public records request to the city of alexandria, la. on 25 january 2008 and that the city did not provide him with the public records he sought; until well after 14 march 2008 -- 45+ days beyond the five day rule provided for in the public records law.

supposedly, the louisiana public records law are "enshrined" in the constitution, as is, the political subdivision judgment exemption law. because public records law judgments apply only to political subdivisions and we guess, that since the legislature provided for the awarding of judgments therein, then, the theory goes, in a public records law judgment the political subdivision judgment exemption law does not apply and the judgment is enforceable like any other judgment; including seizing a political subdivisions property and assets to satisfy it.

this would seem to make sense because why would the third circuit order an award that they must have known beforehand is -- due to constitutional and statutory limitations, unenforceable and likely to be scoffed at? additionally, they noted how la. r.s. 44:35(e)(1) provides for a civil penalty award of up to a $100.00 per day that the city was violating public records law.

judge randow wouldnt order a civil penalty and in their reversal to which the third circuit found three assignments of error on judge randow's part, they wouldnt either -- seeing how courteous the city of alexandria was in their treatment of mr. heath, wrote judge john d. saunders for the three judge's who decided the appeal which included judges michael g. sullivan and elizabeth a. pickett. which makes us wonder just how they define courteous, when, after all -- alexandria was suing mr. heath and as the third circuit pointed out was unlawfully denying him public records, including never complying with one portion of public records law.

mr. heath wanted public records which showed how the city attorney was authorized to file a lawsuit against him. the city attorney's balking, for all we know, was the result of his being caught without the legal documentation and was a ploy to buy him time to manufacture them.

if mr. heath had went the discovery route, like the city attorney wanted, this would have given the city time to get their documents and stories straight and no one would have ever been the wiser.

this theory may or may not be true but considering that this is louisiana, it was certainly worth the trial court and the appeals court time pondering it. both courts should have vigorously enforced the public records law and awarded mr. heath the maximum civil penalty -- not, as in the case of the third circuit, pay compliments to the city for treating mr. heath so well. that was lame.

oh yeah, alexandria never did provide mr. heath with a "a final written determination as to whether he had the right of access to the records," they were lawfully required to provide him with either.

soft on political and governmental corruption judges -- like these four, essentially do the political subdivisions bidding by selectively ignoring and half-assed enforcing public records law.

attorneys are less likely to take on a public records law case -- especially for someone who cant afford to outright hire an attorney to see the case through the end, when they know the deck is already stacked against them.

so now the city of alexandria, is on record saying that they will not comply with the judgment;

mr. heath has filed a motion that the city council be found in constructive contempt of court [la code of civil procedure 224 a (2)]; requiring all seven of them to appear and show cause why they should not be jailed until the judgment is paid.

we hope that judge randow grants mr. heath's motion. we think that the judge should go even further and lock-up the entire city hall until it can be investigated and the citizens of alexandria can finally find out what -- in their name is going on there. this is a perfect opportunity to identify and destroy the organized crime gangs that control alexandria.

unfortunately, judge randow's prior rulings in this suit as well as some others, suggests that he is a corruption cover-up artist and not really a judge looking for truth or justice.

click here to view four page scrib doc:
richard j. heath motion for contempt of court

town talk hypocrisy

heres a nice little article appearing in what cenla blogger lamar white, jr., calls the clown talk that illustrates previous posts of ours exactly see cleco is being shafted. while we give kudos to judge donald johnson and rapides parish assistant district attorney monique metoyer for doing the right thing in coming forward to disclose their previous relationship we have to wonder why the paper is choosing to report this even posting and printing large photos of both johnson and metoyer?

in the cleco and city of alexandria lawsuits the town talk never mentioned in any way whatsoever the previous professional relationship between attorney charlie weems who was representing the city. weems moved the suit from state court to the federal court room of his old law partner judge dee drell. this would seem like a pretty important piece of information to include in their story but from the town talk not a word not one jot or tittle about that. instead they choose to run with this:

Judge's former social tie to prosecutor stirs concern
By Jim Leggett
jleggett@thetowntalk.com
(318) 487-6346

Ninth Judicial District Judge Donald Johnson dated Assistant District Attorney Monique Metoyer for more than a year about seven years ago. Now, that previous relationship is causing problems since he started handling criminal cases.

Johnson entered an order into the file after recusing himself from the triple first-degree murder case against Arthur Frazier in which Metoyer serves as prosecutor.

State law states there must be a hearing on the recusal. That was done Monday before Harry Randow, Johnson's fellow 9th Judicial District Court judge. Randow said he would issue written reasons for his ruling in "a day or two."
At the brief hearing Monday, Johnson said his motion "most definitely" is precautionary and that his prior relationship with Metoyer would "definitely not" affect his sitting on a case in which Metoyer was a prosecutor. "She is very professional," and "I will be professional," Johnson said.

Metoyer testified that she dated Johnson from "the latter part of December 1997 through 1998." The relationship ended in early 1999, she said.

She also has requested in writing that she not be placed in cases which he oversees.

Metoyer has been an assistant district attorney since Jan. 19, 1992. Johnson, who was an assistant district attorney, was elected judge in October 1992 and was re-elected to full six-year terms in 1996 and 2002.

Frazier is accused of shooting his estranged wife, Paula, and her two children, Jasshawn Williams, 13, and Shelby Williams, 12, at a house at 23rd and Noble streets. Two of Paula Frazier's nieces, 10 and 12, were wounded.

Originally published April 4, 2006

latest fraud suit against gold law firm and clients

click here to download ten page .pdf [3.1 mb]

3rd circuit reverses judge harry randow in bizarre defamation suit involving city of pineville, la. police department

click here to download ninety-eight page .pdf [2.38 mb]
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third circuit court of appeal reverses judge harry randow in heath v city of alexandria, la.

ladb finally files charges against ogden middleton

THE COURTHOUSE CROWD EXPOSED

STAGGERING 54 PAGE COMPLAINT REVEALS LAWYER EXCESSES!


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rod noles: judge harry randow to hear roy v alexandria city council suit

.mp3 here

local realtor and developer rod noles on his weekly 'cenla economic update' report responding to a caller this morning said that ninth judicial district judge harry randow will hear mayor roy's suit against the alexandria city council and that the provosty firm is the mayor's lawyer(s).

highest quality streaming full interview .mp3 here from cenla broadcasting.
more later...

judge harry randow recuses in thompson vs sadler & provosty and in thompson vs thompson

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musical chairs at the ninth judicial district court

heres a tt story concerning the recent realignment of the rapides parish 9th judicial district court. jim leggett would have us believe (see link) its working marveously, although, we cant see how its working very well at all. in fact, local attorney mike small has already successfully fought it in one of his cases when he proved that the judges didnt even follow their own rules in the "realignment." we cant figure out how the whole scheme is even legal. it reeks of judge shopping and the extended necessity of lawyer shopping as depending on which judge your case is automatically being heard by, you will have to go through one of their favored local lawyers. (side note: like how the gold law firm controls the federal bench in alexandria) also it would seem to take away all appearance of judicial impartiality - a judge only hearing certain cases would more than likely already have his or her mind made up and thats not right. everyone is entitled to a fair and impartial hearing. several of the judges intentions and ethics are already questionable - we are talking about judges randow, metoyer and koch.

anyway, it would seem that the only fair way to assign cases to this collection would be through a lottery. all judges hear all types of cases and as your case is filed its randomly assigned to whatever judge. this lottery should be a closely guarded secret by the clerk of court to ensure that a lawyer couldnt hedge his chances by waiting till a specific day or time to file his suit to be automatically assigned to his most favored judge. rapides parish so transparent gotta love it.

u s dist court judge f a little jr retires

this is united states district court judge f a "pappy" little jr.


he is retiring from the federal bench to become chief judge of the coushatta tribe of indians who so happen to own a casino.

judge little was appointed in 1984 by president ronald reagan.

prior to being appointed to the federal bench judge little was the president of the gold weems law firm.

the louisiana secretary of state website at one time listed the incorporators of the gold weems law firm as f a little jr and c s weems iii.

the gold law firm sued a former client dr tommy mack granger for non payment of attorney fees and in order to avoid a jury trial reduced the amount of their demand.

meanwhile, numerous former clients of the gold weems law firm filed complaints to the louisiana attorney disciplinary board alledging among other things by the gold weems law firm and attorney j ogden middleton ii (a former lawyer at gold weems) for overbilling and fraud of epic proportions. as of this date the louisiana attorney disciplinary board has taken no action on the complaints.

a hearing in the gold v granger lawsuit was held at alexandria, rapides parish, louisiana in may 2005 and gold weems lap poodle ninth judicial district court judge harry randow tried to cover the whole thing up by closing the courtroom to the public and issuing an order barring local media from reporting about the complaints. see Court backs Town Talk in trial-secrecy case. "judge" randow even went so far as to bar a local newspaper the alexandria daily town talk from discussing his order with their own attorneys.

six days later the 3rd circuit court of appeal vacates "judge" randow's scandalous order.


now, the gold weems firm is being sued and the plaintiff's are seeking to make the suit a class action suit due to what they alledge is gold weems pattern of fraud and abuse involving overbilling and fraud of epic proportions.

this is what the national legal and policy center - legal services accountability project in their 15 july 1997 issue no.58 reported judge little 1995 reaction was to another law firms attempt to overbill their clients::

Judge Scolds Legal Services Lawyers for Padding Bill

In 1995, a federal judge strongly condemned two lawyers with Kisatchie Legal Services for grossly inflating their attorneys' fees for work done on a minor disability claims case. After winning a decision awarding their client Social Security benefits, Kisatchie attorneys Gladney and Coco submitted a request for attorneys’ fees totaling $8805: $4230 for Gladney and $4575 for Coco. The requested fees gave great offense.

Warning that lawyers should not “tell lies to a judge,” U.S. District Court Judge F.A. Little lambasted Coco and Gladney for padding their legal bill with duplicative or virtually non-existent work. In particular, Judge Little why wondered why the lawyers needed a full half hour to read five and seven line documents or four hours to review briefs of only a dozen lines.

Little was also struck by the fact that one lawyer said he spent 24 minutes on a simple motion while the other said he spent four hours on the same task days earlier. Angered by their "lack of professionalism,” Little reduced the fee award by more than half to $3000. Little also said he would consider "the imposition of sanctions” for legal services unethical behavior.

See Green v. Shalala, 888 F. Supp. 62, US Dist. Ct., 1995

middleton victims website chronicles ladb inaction

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this suit was filed in february 2006. we believe that its in response to the suit judge swent threw out that the town talk story below is talking about - the 11 page suit is available for view in.pdf format from the town talks website by clicking here. added 912pm cst friday 31 march 2006
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we have to note that the gold weems law firm controls the federal throne here in alexandria maybe that has something to do with the louisiana attorney disciplinary boards inaction? ya think?
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state supremes to 9th judicial district court judge harry randow: you "manifestly erred; abused ... discretion"

this is a hell of a lawsuit. never mind the attorney fees, the court costs alone are well over $13,000.

it's a lawsuit against roy o. martin and others over pollution. we would post all the district court pleadings but its been ongoing since at least 2005; apparently it started out in ascension parish and was transferred to rapides. so sorting through all that might be beyond our engineering capabilities.

judge harry randow certified it as a class action but the state supremes, rather harshly, said no.

looks like we can no longer call him a gold weems puppet.