The Dydzak Racketeering Complaint against “Team George”

hey lobstahsmaht, fill us in on the facts please! I know all of us would appreciate some insight on the issue.

Lobstahsmat post the attorneys work number here so we all can call and wish him a hearty welcome home!

thank you wearyant for defending my honor 🙂 although Delilah took the words right outta my mouth!
I agree with Michael that cutting back on committies is to close ranks, what a great way to eject those that are not true believers or that live in far flung small courts. .I am so tired of these people pussy footing around when everyone else is suffering. Makes me want to puke more than those guy on unionman’s video. PS unionman that gal on the first video….sounds like she was gettin down and havin a dog sing along. Mine liked it!
Rock out Wendy.

I say get rid of the committee that keeps nominating AOC Directors for administrative awards and naming rooms after them. Oh wait! All of the Directors have received that award! Oh well what the heck, tell everyone you cut that committee too. Looks good for the the window dressing! and making sure the committees report to the council? how about some cafe curtians in red checks please?

Dydzak’s RICO lawsuit filed in DC was transferred back to the Central District Court in Los Angeles on September 26, 2012.

For all of us concerned about the trial courts the story is all too familiar. Entire branch courthouses being closed, trial departments being shut down, radically reduced hours of service to the public, layoffs of court reporters and commissioners along with staff at all levels. These drastic actions are being implemented in part due to fiscal irresponsibility on the part of the Judicial Council and AOC “insiders” who decided that we should spend millions on CCMS. Now the insiders are wasting hundreds of millions on new courthouse construction. Woodhull is right. In 2012-2013 240 million of courthouse construction money was sent to the trial courts with over 67 million allocated for capital courthouse construction costs. In 2013-2014 this ratio changes significantly with only 50 million being allocated to the trial courts and an incredible 160 million allocated to capital construction costs. So while the trial courts are being systematically dismantled the insiders at 455 Golden Gate want to build monuments to their insular rule. Does any of this make any sense? Why in the world are we building courthouses when we are closing down the ones we have, laying off our hardworking employees and reducing public access to the courts.? Sometimes I think when I see such major public policy blunders that I have woken up after a long sleep only to find myself in the in the backwards world. The waste of money on buildings that may have little staff left to work in them needs to stop and the 160 million in question should be reallocated to the trial courts so we can salvage our branch again.

Oh, and this makes so much sense too.

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On The Money: California Spending Mandatory “Court Reporter Fees” On Other Things
September 26, 2012 10:31 PM
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Struggling courts across California are laying off court reporters, unable to afford them, a CBS13 investigation has found.

One reason may be that the state Judicial Branch is spending millions that was intended to fund those reporters.

Those filing for civil court in California are required to pay a “court reporter fee” — part of the larger Uniform Civil Filing Fee collected across the state — but $6.5 million dollars last year went to other expenses, including basic costs like janitors.

“If it weren’t for the janitor then the court might not have stayed open in the first place,” said Zlatko Theodorovic, who oversees finances for the Judicial Council of California — the agency that runs and appropriates funding in courts across the state.

It’s perfectly legal according to government code, he said. The Judicial Council is allowed to take from the court reporter fund to make up for other budget shortages.

Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) called the reappropriating of these funds unacceptable.

“If you are paying for something, you expect to get a service,” she said.

Placer County court reporter Pam Katros knows the problems all too well, she said.

She learned this month her job may be eliminated, as the county plans to privatize its court reporters for civil cases.

“It’s crazy, what’s happening,” she said.

CBS13 has learned layoffs are happening across the state from courts in San Francisco and San Diego to San Joaquin, Alameda, Ventura and Los Angeles counties — which have all laid off court reporters in the last year.

But litigants are still required to pay the court reporter fee in those courts — and if they want a record of what happens, they’ll have to hire their own reporter at their own expense.

Katros believes it could result in a two-tied system — those who can afford access to transcripts and those who cannot, she said.

“It’s not fair, and people are going to be hurt by this,” she said.

The Judicial Branch blames Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget — which cut Judicial Branch funding 15 percent this year.

“We wouldn’t have these problems if we didn’t have the money crunch,” Theodorovic said, adding that the agency only took about 20 percent of the total money generated by court reporter fees.

Because court reporter fees are mandatory, however, Ma believes court reporters should be the last thing to go — ensuring access to justice, she said.

“People should care whether their proceeding is going to be recorded or not recorded,” Ma said.

“It’s embarrassing to me,” Katros said. “To think that we’ve gotten to where we are.”

The Judicial Council told CBS13 it plans to continue taking some of that court reporter money to cover other budget cuts and will continue to charge those court reporter fees.

Welcome back Woodhull and thanks for raising this issue. The AOC budget projections for their court construction program are staggering. Almost 200 million in 2014-2015 ! That after spending over 160 million the previous fiscal year. The figures for debt service on these buildings is equally astounding with projections of up to over 221 million being paid a year for that. I really don’t understand how any of this works. Court employees in all 58 courts are losing their jobs. The economic ruin to each individually is staggering. The trial courts are shrinking in every way , cutting back on every aspect of service to the public. Those in the “tower” like the Chief and Justice Hull apparently are in denial about all this as they plow ahead with wasting hundreds of millions on a bunch of buildings. As Lando points out one has to wonder who exactly will be left to work in any of these overpriced monuments. One thing is for sure, no one at the crystal palace will ever act to reform this mess. We need the legislature to intervene and pass legislation now to redirect these courthouse construction funds to the trial courts. 160 million back to the trial courts will go along way to repairing the damage the Judicial Council and AOC has inflicted up to this point..

Sorry Mr. Dydzak but a signed Order by a federal judge to transfer a case to a venue that it deems proper is not an assumption, it is a fact! Just like the Order deeming you to be a vexatious litigant that was filed the day before the DC judge sent your lawsuit back to the Central District for approval that if granted would require $5,000 per defendant per the vexatious litigant Order! Yikes!