Institute for Legal Reform survey: Lawsuit Climate in Louisiana,2nd Worst in the Nation

New Orleans is the location of the following juridic systems: the Louisiana 4th Circuit Appeal Court; the 'supreme court' for the State of Louisiana; the Eastern District Federal Court (criminal, bankruptcy, and civil cases); the Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which encompasses Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana); and a division of the U.S. Department of Justice (the DOJ). Mr. Jim Letten oversees the Eastern Louisiana DOJ region (but a Texas judge wrote about Letten's deceptive involvement beyond Letten's territory); and Letten's office is wholly responsible for masking horrific Civil Rights injustices by New Orleans federal judges, and likely other federal judges throughout Louisiana. Also, scores of civil cases that become filed in the New Orleans Parish Civil District State Court become unlawfully / unstatutorily "removed" to Federal Court judges for manifest purposes of denial of justice. (*SEE: http://www.lawgrace.org/.)
New Orleans' dishonest Clerk of Court, Dale N. Atkins (who is an avid ally of the convicted former congressman William Jefferson, Mose, and Betty Jefferson clan), works to ensure people's cases become railroaded into federal court even those cases are neither federal question subject matter, nor diversity --specifically, those illegally "removed" cases should never be ruled on by any federal judge, when the controversy is tort law subject matter. Further revealing why justice is unlikely to be obtained in New Orleans' court systems --as well as grossly unfortunate, is the fact that an incredible amount of pleadings and documents turn up missing from case files at Orleans Parish Civil District Court, for which Court Clerk, Atkins oversees. (Just peruse the enormous amount of appellate rulings which say something like: "nothing in the records to support appellant's argument", and it will be obvious how and why irretrievable pleadings and documents result in protracted litigation and unfair loss of justice!)*Also, see:  http://www.lawgrace.org/2006/08/19/dangerous-clerk-of-court-dale-atkins-killing-us-softly/

Likewise, is the fact of falsified Sheriff "service returns" (La.Code Civ.P. art. 1292). For years, deputies at Orleans Parish Civil Court Sheriff Paul Valteau's office have been falsifying "sheriff's returns" which have facilitated things such as fraudulent auctions of moveable and immoveable properties, fraudulent Family Court as well as Probate proceedings, unjust default judgments, and various rulings against people who have never been lawfully served with notice of judicial proceedings filed against them, prior to judgments being rendered in favor of opposing parties! In fact, some judgments have been rendered in New Orleans courts despite the actual fact that those lawsuits were intentionally filed in the names of plaintiffs which did not exist, or had no real party interest.

Emphatically, the facts and evidence show that New Orleans (and surrounding area) violence, theft, poverty, disintegrated households, unemployment, under-education are all linked to JUDICIAL CORRUPTION.  Most definitely, to begin addressing Louisiana's deplorable legal conditions, the Clerk of Court and Sheriff Valteau should not escape serious investigation! However, since such actions facilitate the bigger picture of elitism, cronyism, perks and pork barrel, it is not likely for the people who are feeding at the public trough to rock their own (Titanic) boat.

Also see: ". . . doctored information (prior to Letten's forwarding those so-called findings to Washington) prevented disgraced federal Judge Thomas Porteous from a similar fate as judges, sheriffs, and others entangled in "Gretna Court" wrongdoings who went to jail and lost their jobs in that scandal. (Porteous' impeachment hearing is currently before the U.S. Congress.) However, the shielded New Orleans court system is far more corrupt than Gretna; even New Orleans Court of Clerk, DALE ATKINS, admitted in a federal affidavit that she steers newly-filed lawsuits to the judge of her choice, rather than randomly allot cases as civil procedure requires. . .."  http://newsblaze.com/story/20100306185232lawg.nb/topstory.html

Barbara Ann Jackson (Katrina-displaced from New Orleans)
Law & Grace, Inc

*Feel free to publish / distribute / quote my statement;
ABUNDANT substantianting PROOF is found on my www.lawgrace.org website.