While I wait for The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin to file his omnibus response to the defendants’ motions to dismiss his second amended complaint in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness, I thought if might be interesting to review the story of his vexatious federal lawsuit by reposting some of the highlights of the past year’s coverage. TDPK had two other lawsuits going in addition to the RICO Madness, the Kimberlin v. Walker, et al. nuisance lawsuit and the Kimberlin v. Kimberlinunmasked copyright trolling. I turns out that he forged documents related to service of process in all three suits.
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Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Originally Posted on 28 January, 2014
Another motion to dismiss has been filed in the Kimberlin v. The Universe, et al. RICO Madness. This motion is from Defendant Michelle Malkin and Non-Party Twitchy.
“Hold it,” I hear the Gentle Reader cry. “What do you mean ‘Non-Party Twitchy?'” I mean that Twitchy doesn’t consider itself to be a party to the suit, and that’s probably correct.
This goes back to one of the errors The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin made in his original complaint. He listed 20 defendants in the caption of the complaint and named 22 in the text. When this screwup was pointed out, he almost, but not quite, fixed it with his amended complaint that he filed with the court. In that version of the amended complaint, he added one of the two missing defendants to the caption, but he didn’t add Twitchy. That’s the amended complaint on file with the court—the one that counts. Twitchy is shown in the caption of the “amended complaint” TDPK sent me, but Twitchy is not a party to the suit as far as the court is concerned.
The Clerk of the Court issued 18 summonses to defendants in the suit, and they are shown as Docket Item 4 on PACER. Here’s the list of summonses issued:
1. James O’Keefe
2. The Franklin Center
3. National Bloggers Clug
4. Breitbart.com
5. Erick Erickson
6. Mercury Radio Arts
7. Patrick Frey
8. Michelle Malkin
9. Glen Beck
10. Ali Akbar
11. William Hoge
12. Robert Stacy McCain
13. Lee Stranahan
14. Aaron Walker
15. Simon & Schuster
16. The Blaze
17. Ace of Spades
18. RedState
No summonses were issued for Kimberlin Unmasked, Mandy Nagy, DB Capitol Strategies, or Twitchy.
According to the Malkin/Twitchy motion to dismiss, on 6 January, Mrs. Malkin received a copy of the amended complaint as it was filed with the court, but she did not receive a copy of her summons. That means that she has not been served in the lawsuit. No summons, no service. Thus, TDPK’s claim in his report on the status of service of process to the court is false.
The Malkin/Twitchy motion claims that TDPK attempted to serve Twitchy at about the same time as the defective service on Mrs. Malkin. The amended complaint sent to Twitchy is the same version TDPK sent me, and Twitchy was sent a summons.
“Hold it,” I hear the Gentle Reader cry again. “Didn’t you just say the Clerk never issued a summons for Twitchy?”
Why, yes, I did, and, no, the Clerk didn’t. It seems that the summons sent to Twitchy has this legend across the top:
That happens to be the PACER document tag for the summons issued to Aaron Walker.
Mr. Kimberlin appears to have simply inserted Twitchy’s name and address in place of those of Mr. Walker, the intended recipient of the summons actually issued by this Court.
Not only that, but he did an amazingly crude job of it. He didn’t even bother to match the typefaces used by the court to fill in the form.
Notice that the summons is addressed to “Twitchy c/o Salem Communications.” The sale of Twitchy to Salem Communications was announced on 10 December, and there was no public knowledge of the sale prior to that date. How did that address get put on a summons datestamped by the court on 12 November?
Finally, Mr. Kimberlin’s apparent falsification of court documents in an attempt to deceive Twitchy into thinking it was a defendant that this Court has summoned constitutes a fraud on this Court, and a violation of numerous court rules. Leaving aside whether it also constitutes mail fraud and/or any other criminal offense, this misconduct constitutes a separate, independent basis for dismissing the FAC [First Amended Complaint] under this Court’s inherent powers and/or Rule 41(b).
So it would seem that I’m not the only defendant in the RICO Madness who is having difficulty with service, nor am I the only one encountering bogus documents.
Michelle Malkin and Twitchy have also filed a request for a hearing on their motion to dismiss. Local Rule 105.6 allows the judge to rule on the motion without a hearing, but given all of the evidence that is piling up concerning defective service of process and questionable documents, he may schedule one.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE—TDPK seems to be having real difficulties with his paperwork. I’m reminded of the following exchange between Michael Palin and John Cleese:
Clerk: This is a dog license with the word “dog” crossed out and the word “cat” written in in crayon.
Mr. Praline: The man didn’t have the proper form.
UPDATE 2—Here’s the top part of the summons form as shown on PACER. Document 41 is the Malkin/Twitchy motion to dismiss. Document 4 is all the summonses issued by the Clerk of the Court. It’s amazing how crude the apparent forgery is.
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TDPK still hasn’t effected service of process on all of the defendants in the RICO Madness. He hasn’t been able to serve either of the individuals he claims are Kimberlin Unmasked in his copyright lawsuit. He has until 22 October to get persons served in the RICO Madness, but the time for service in the copyright case expired in July.
And Twitchy is now a party. And the show cause hearing came and went.
This court’s chickens will come home to roost.
One can only hope.
Honestly Earl, at this point in the game I’m almost astride the fence, but there’s still hope for the long rope theory.
Flip side is it’s appeal city for the defendants based on tons of reversible errors. And don’t forget Ken White is whipping the Popehat signal to a lather to get Kimberlin declared Vexatious at the Federal level.
Apparently the PR organ of the pedo party is screaming in a frothing unheard unseen rage as ties to social media are severed to one last gasp unseen breath…..
someone has said he’s dragging out pictures of his mom now, sign that he’s hit bottom again
Is it as bad as when he was speaking with a police officer on his own porch and he pissed down his leg?
nah, when he starts whining how all this “persecution” (aka holding his accountable for his own actions) is KILLING!!1!11! him, that is a sign he’s hit bottom, again.