Posted on 10/25/2008 8:18:39 PM PDT by RatsDawg
Judge Surrick “Received” the Decision He Issued
In the “never-ending” drama that is known as the 2008 Presidential election, there is an appearance that the decision issued yesterday by the Honorable Judge R. Barclay Surrick in the matter of Berg v. Obama might have been SENT to the judge just a short time BEFORE he released the decision.
A fax copy of the decision from Judge Surrick was faxed to Mr. Berg from the Judge’s Chambers, pages 1-36, beginning at 18:09 October 24, 2008, and that is clearly notated by the receiving fax, starting at page 01/36. Page 36/36 is marked 18:16 October 24, 2008. What is interesting is not at the TOP of the fax pages; it is at the bottom. From Judge Surrick's ruling
From Judge Surrick
At the bottom of each page is a notation from another FAX machine, indicating the date, page number and time. Unlike the pages faxed from Judge Surrick’s fax at 18:09, the “name” of the fax sender is blank, presumably so the sender’s identity could not be seen, and obviously with the sender unaware that the date and time would be stamped on it. The fax began from this mystery fax at 04:55P on October 24, 2008, and ended at 05:11P.
From all appearances, the clerk at Judge Surrick’s office merely took the fax off the machine, the Judge signed it, and it was faxed to Mr. Berg and the other attorneys involved in the case.
Why would a decision from the office of Judge Surrick have “fax date & time” stamp at the BOTTOM of its pages when it is faxed to the Plaintiff and Defendants? And why almost simultaneously were all of the docket links disabled on the case in PACER ( I checked other cases, and they weren’t disabled)?
Is it possible that a former law clerk of Judge Surrick, Christoper B. Seaman, might have wrote the decision? Now an attorney, Mr. Seaman is an attorney at the firm of Sidley, Austin in Chicago. Ironically, this is the same firm that employed Michelle Robinson Obama and Bernardine Dorn (wife of William Ayers), and where Barack Obama met Michelle.
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If I had to surmise from the manner in which things have evolved in this election process, I would link it to the Obama campaign and lawyers in Chicago. The time in Chicago is an hour behind Pennsylvania, and taking into account the slight few minutes that two fax machines may be off in their time settings, it could be concluded that at 4:55p CT, a law firm in Chicago began faxing the memorandum of the Judge’s decision to the JUDGE, and then his office began faxing it out immediately.
I am in the process of reviewing the memorandum, but one item that immediately caught my attention in a brief glance was this comment in the footnotes:
Moreover, the Court In Bullock did not limit or in any way invalidate votes that had already been cast; nor did it void the results of the elections that had taken place. Se Ed. at 136- 37, 149 (affirming that court’s permanent injunction of the filing fee law). By contrast, Plaintiff would have us derail the democratic process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people voted and who underwent excessive vetting during what was one of the most hotIy contested presidential primary in living memory. Pg 11
Points to Ponder:
(1) Why was the PACER system “links” in the Berg v. Obama docket disabled just MOMENTS before the decision was faxed out? Is it possible that the Judge had actually issued a DIFFERENT ruling, and was FORCED to issue the one that was sent to him?
It is a VERY BIG NO-NO if the docket clerks do not scan the docs into CM/ECF. It may take a day or two but they will get in. They must be in the case management system or else!
That truncated docket I posted was obtained just this morning. ZERO of the documents (and you can see the docket goes back to August 21) are available online.
Obviously, the documents are "in the case management system," seeing as how their identification and description are available online.
I'm very curious to know if this case is an anomaly in that regard, first in Judge Surrick's courtroom. I suppose I could pick a few cases at random and check.
The good judge probably doesn’t do his own typing. I could see a scenario where his clerk or secretary types in the final edits at another location and faxes it to him, and he signs and refaxes the final decision.
That said, I could see the words being his, but buy into all sorts of corrupt, politically motivated judicial behavior. I just don’t see this as proof. Anywya, someone should be able to check the other FAX number.
That’s really weird because an Ohio paper was reporting that Judge Surrick had ruled in favor of Berg and that Obama’s name had to be taken off the ballot, in yesterday’s Xenia Gazette and has been removed. The article about the report is at the following address. Funny, when I just went onto the link below it came up with a flag saying that my IP address was blocked. Be quick and jump on to see it before THAT disappears too: http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/is-this-for-real-judge-orders-obama-to-be-removed-from-ballots/
US District Court Judge Honorable R. Barry Surrick has ruled that Barack Hussein Obama was not a “natural born” or “naturalized” citizen and is ineligible to run for and/or serve as President of the United States.
Judge Surrick then ordered the Democratic National Committee to cease all campaign activity on behalf of their candidate for President. He further ordered Obama be removed from all election ballots.
That’s really weird because an Ohio paper was reporting that Judge Surrick had ruled in favor of Berg and that Obama’s name had to be taken off the ballot, in yesterday’s Xenia Gazette and has been removed. The article about the report is at the following address. Funny, when I just went onto the link below it came up with a flag saying that my IP address was blocked. Be quick and jump on to see it before THAT disappears too: http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/is-this-for-real-judge-orders-obama-to-be-removed-from-ballots/
US District Court Judge Honorable R. Barry Surrick has ruled that Barack Hussein Obama was not a “natural born” or “naturalized” citizen and is ineligible to run for and/or serve as President of the United States.
Judge Surrick then ordered the Democratic National Committee to cease all campaign activity on behalf of their candidate for President. He further ordered Obama be removed from all election ballots.
BUMP!!!
bkmk
Reporters are not the more intelligent part of the population. Probably below average, on the whole. One of them took the proposed order by Berg as having been endorsed by the judge. But anybody whose been around litigation knows that the parties routinely offer proposed orders for the judge to sign, so by going through the papers one could just as easily find a proposed order by the Obama side.
Someone needs to FOIA, PIR the Fax logs, Phone records, emails, etc...
Interesting.
BTTT
And why almost simultaneously were all of the docket links disabled on the case in PACER
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What is PACER?
What is a docket link?
Why is this important?
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