I am so pissed off. It appears the mom got her little payout; hence, why my part of the case is being dismissed. When the board or whoever decides to approve the settlement, the judge will end the case and then you know what will happen. I will be tarred and feathered like Joe Paterno over nothing, and I can do absolutely nothing about it.
I filed a complaint with the State Bar of Nevada:
I want to file a complaint against three lawyers who have been counsel in a case which has either been settled out of court or is about to be settled out of court. The case is _____ filed in U.S. District Court. I was representing myself in this matter, and the lawyers involved in this case on both sides, Thomas P. Beko (Bar number 2653) for the plaintiffs, and Debra O. Waggoner (Bar number 5808) and C. Robert Cox (Bar number 1780) for WCSD, were always diligent in sending me any and all information pertaining to this case. That is, until recently.
Waggoner and Cox on November 9, 2011, filed a "stipulation for extension of time to complete discovery and related deadlines" with the court. In this stipulation was noted a mediation meeting of November 21, 2011, to resolve or try to resolve the issues. Since I was named in this case, which generated a lot of unwanted publicity, I had every right and expectation to have received this document in the mail. My being pro se should have NO bearing on this. However, Waggoner and Cox NEVER sent this document in the mail. The ONLY way I found out about ANY mediation hearing was a chance lookup on the U.S. Courts website, which of course charges a fee to look at the documents. I found this document only last night, a full month AFTER this document was filed with the court and some two weeks after the mediation was supposedly held.
With regard to Beko, he contacted me by mail in a letter dated November 21, 2011, which happened to be the day of the scheduled mediation. Here is what he wrote:
As this litigation has progressed, we have determined that we are willing to dismiss you from this lawsuit. Please contact me at your earliest possible convenience, so that we can discuss this matter further.
Not one word was mentioned about any mediation hearing or why he was willing to dismiss the case. I wrote back to him.
Then a letter from Beko dated December 6, 2011, states this:
In follow up to our exchanged correspondence, enclosed herewith please find a proposed Stipulation for Dismissal and Order. Please sign this stipulation and return it to me in the enclosed self-addressed and stamped envelope. Upon my receipt of the stipulation, I will obtain the other needed signatures and file it with the court. Upon receipt of an order confirming the dismissal, I will send a copy to your for your records.
That was it. I signed the document and mailed it back to Beko, but now I wonder if I should have mailed it back at all given the fact nothing was disclosed. Again there was NO mention of any mediation hearing or settlement of the matter or why I was to be dismissed. The ONLY assumption I can make is the case was settled out of court, yet I have had NO information from either party. I feel like information was kept from me for no reason at all. I know that if I had hired a lawyer, this would not have happened. I almost feel like both sides were being sneaky about it rather than simply negligent, thinking I would never find out.
Lawyers not only need to communicate with their clients, they also need to communicate with others involved in a case. Concealing information or failing to notify other parties is NOT ethical, in my book.
They have no argument at all why they failed to notify me of any hearing, settlement, or failing to mail a document. They had always done it in the past.
If you need copies of the documents, I can mail them to you.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Mom will get her money and move to either Klamath Falls or Eureka and drop a load of cash on a house. To hell with how she did it.
Fuck them. Fuck them ALL.
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