Birther appeals consolidated
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has consolidated separate appeals filed by attorney Gary Kreep on behalf of Markham Robinson and Wiley Drake; and Orly Taitz on behalf of Pamela Barnett, Alan Keyes, et al. The February 12, 2010, order says:
The court sua sponte consolidates appeal nos. 09-56827 and 10-55084. Appeal nos. 09-56827 and 10-55084 are consolidated. The briefing schedule for the consolidated appeals is as follows: the opening briefs and excerpts of record are due June 28, 2010; the consolidated answering brief is due July 28, 2010; and the optional reply briefs are due within 14 days after service of the answering brief. All parties on a side are encouraged to join in a single brief to the greatest extent practicable.
Somehow the repeated refusal of the courts to allow Kreep and Taitz to separate their cases reminds me of the classic 1958 movie, The Defiant Ones.
Did you know? The name of Tatiz’s dental practice is “Appealing Dentistry.”
Same old, same old
In my recent article, Talking points, I was musing on how same arguments recirculate and get the same answers on forums and web sites like this. The same principle applies to the Obama lawsuits. Orly Taitz has brought five federal lawsuits, one in California, one in Texas, two in Georgia, finally one in the District of Columbia. They all bring basically the same allegations against President Obama, although the scope of the allegations seems to grow.
All of the cases that have been decided so far suffered from the identical flaw. Orly Taitz and her various defendants do not have a case that a federal court has jurisdiction to hear. The government’s response to each similar case case was itself similar. In the final case yet to be decided, Taitz files another variation on the same theme and the government’s motion to dismiss filed last Friday (February 26, 2010) was all so familiar.
In prior cases, the defendants’ complaint was generalized and not particular to them and so the court could not hear it. In this most recent case, Taitz v. Obama in DC, Orly alleges personal harm: mainly the risk of her losing her license to practice law, death threats and sabotage or her car. In this case, the case fails on the second requirement for a federal lawsuit: there has to be a direct connection between the plaintiff’s actions and the harm. Orly cannot show that she is in danger of disbarment (or any of the other allegations) because of Obama’s citizenship. She has been sanctioned and faces disbarment for filing frivolous lawsuits. Perhaps in her mind Obama is to blame for all of her troubles, but this is just in her mind.
Expect a speedy dismissal of this lawsuit too.
[Note: other Taitz lawsuit losses are being appealed.]
Attorney Taitz appeals for UN protection
According to an article yesterday in the Washington Independent, Birther attorney Orly Taitz has appealed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for protection.
A letter from her attorney, Jonathan Levy, says:
Taitz has “been the victim of death threats, vandalism, false complaints, and a suspected assassination attempt” in the course of her efforts to expose Obama as a fraud, adding that “her reports to law enforcement and the judiciary have been ignored.”
Obama’s Social Security number
Social Security Card
Crusading birther litigant Orly Taitz, DDS, Esq. has adopted the President’s Social Security number(s) as one of her major themes. This was repeated just last week in a filing with the DC federal court, as reported here at Obama Conspiracy Theories. So what’s her beef?
Taitz claims fraud on the part of Obama for (1) using multiple Social Security numbers, and (2) using the Social Security number of someone else.
39 Social Security numbers
In her most recent filing Taitz wrote:
I submitted an affidavit from a licensed investigator Neil Sankey, showing that according to most reputable National databases Lexis Nexis and Choice Point Barack Obama used as many as 39 different social security numbers, none of which were issued in the state of Hawaii, where he resided. (Submitted as an exhibit with the complaint)
I have looked at various filings available from the courts, and I have not personally seen the list of 39 Social Security numbers. What I have seen is various lists of names similar to Obama, mostly living at Obama’s former Chicago address and all having the same Social Security number. From where I sit, I have no documentation available to me that Taitz’s claim is true, and if it is, I would question the accuracy of these databases, which are essentially credit reporting databases aggregated from various sources usually without any verification. We do not know what matching criteria were used to say that these were our president Barack Obama. It all seems rather far fetched. (more…)
Taitz requests preliminary injunction
Orly Taitz has provided the text of her recent filing with the DC federal court. This is not on the court web site yet (perhaps due to the holiday), so I am putting the text here for your information. The court requires that Social Security Numbers be removed from these public filings, a provision violated by Taitz. I have redacted them from this copy.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HONORABLE ROYCE LAMBERTH
PRESIDING
Civil Action: 10-151 RCL
Dr. ORLY TAITZ, ESQ, PRO SE Plaintiff,
v
Barack Hussein Obama, Defendant
APPLICATION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED
Notice of Application For Preliminary Injunction pursuant to LCvR 65.1 (c), LCvR 65.1 (d)
Plaintiff is seeking a Preliminary Injunction to recuse the US attorney’s office from representing the defendant.
Plaintiff is seeking a Preliminary injunction- Injunctive relief to obtain the vital records of the defendant prior to the February 26 deadline for document and response submission of the response by the Plaintiff to the CA Bar.
Plaintiff is seeking a preliminary injunction hearing within 20 days, as prescribed by LCvR 65.1 (d) to be scheduled by the court prior to March 1st. (more…)
Last one standing
“I am the last attorney standing with an ongoing court case to unseal Obama’s records and remove him from office for fraud”
That’s what Orly Taitz said in an email to Obama Conspiracy Theories, notifying us of a new WorldNetDaily article today about Orly Taitz and her lawsuit in DC federal court. (I find the use of the word “standing” particularly ironic.) Ever ready to give birtherism a boost, WND writer Bob Unruh, wrote a flattering account of the case and its sole plaintiff.
What is interesting about this article is this:
“Plaintiff is seeking a preliminary injunction … to obtain the vital records of the defendant prior to the February 26 deadline for document and response submission of the response by the plaintiff to the [California] bar,” she wrote. “Plaintiff is seeking a preliminary injunction within 20 days, as prescribed by LCvR 65.1 (d) to be scheduled by the court prior to March 1.”
While I was not able to verify that this is an actual filing with the court, it is the first reference I have seen that shows action has been taken by the California bar against Taitz. Will her troubles with the California Bar finally give her an individual stake in Obama’s eligibility? She seems to think so.
I do not see that Obama’s election had a direct causal connection with Taitz’s sanctions nor her other troubles. And in any case, her conduct was sanctionable, no matter where Obama was born.
Orly Taitz talks about the Tea Party movement
From the Tea Party convention in Nashville, TN.
