From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Dec 7, 2014 12:11 AM
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See below and thanks for Dr. Sam Sugar for doing this.

I wonder if estate planning documents work too.

Dear friends

http://journal-neo.org/2014/11/29/assisted-suicide-a-slippery-slope-to-eugenics/

raises a whole lot of hair raising questions.  As we have all seen from this blog, elders have a (financial) value to many guardians and court connected personnel.  At first, they are targeted with false financial surveys at hospitals, nursing homes, senior centers, “visiting nurses”–any forum to find a target and you will often find a nursing home, hospital, probate court connected attorney or GAL behind it, plus the litany of “professional” leeches and parasites.  (Anti) social workers that bills but never show up (LVL case), case (mis) managers that do the same, fake reports of “agitation” of a ward requiring supervised visitation at $100+ an hour from a $10/hour employee that is glued to a cell phone the entire time, tweeting, emailing or whatever.

But when the money runs out, watch out.  That means the ultimate demise or assisted involuntary suicide for the elder.  The nursing homes and…

In re Lorraine Phillips.

Words cannot describe. While I go to court to beg for a few more dollars for Mom and a 24/7 caretaker son who are living below the poverty level (yes, the judge even looked it up right on her desk) Atty David Martin and his client are arguing that these two should not get another dime.

Estate bank account–$143k.  Income is now $25k per month, with $15k per month in expenses for a valuable piece of property in downtown Chicago.

Today the son told the court he qualified for food stamps.  Then we all asked him to decrease his monthly allotment from social security (he is under age 65) to get social security for him and his mother.

Judge wouldn’t budge one dime.  The GAL said he agreed an increase was in order, but he didn’t know how much an upcoming balloon payment on the loan…

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Dec 1, 2014 8:37 PM
To: “JoAnne M. Denison” , Sylvia Rudek
Cc: “wsj.lts@wsj.com” , William Scott <04wmscott@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Motion for Rehearing? Notice of Appeal?

http://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/Articles/2014/12/01/Judge-Reassigned-12-1-14.aspx

This interesting article describes how on Judge, Judge Chevres, has jailed 44 courtroom members of the public in a relatively short time—far outnumbering her peers.  8 men were jailed on “direct contempt” for having pants worn too low!

We all know that Gloria Sykes was handcuffed when court connected attorneys wanted to grab her money and got Judge Stuart to do it–direct criminal contempt, when far better measures could be used first (fines, seizure of other property such as her car, cell phone, whatever) but it absolutely abhorred to arrest and hold a member of the public–not a litigant in the case, to chain them to a table in the ante room of the judge.  It is even far worse to have your deputies then threaten to gather up your pets and have them euthanized at the City Pound!  Such news was shocking to me, and I wondered how…

First, from the ACLU group of Linked In, we have this “can a Facebook public post be a criminal threat” –

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/supreme-court-case-tests-the-limits-of-free-speech-on-facebook-and-other-social-media/2014/11/23/9e54dbd8-6f67-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

which is to be reviewed shortly by the US supreme court.

The quote clearly does not fall under “First Amendment” rights, or does it?

What did the guy say to his soon to be ex?

“Fold up your PFA [protection-from-abuse order] and put it in your pocket

Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?”

What was his excuse?  RAP music.  He likes RAP music and was emulating his heroes.

And more from the washshington post on highway robberies by police officers.  The upshot?  Use a debit card.  Do NOT carry or accept cash for payments.  Do NOT keep anything of value in your car.  All sorts of cell phones, laptops, cash and other valuables have been taken by police by simply writing down on reports “drug trafficking…

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One thing I would have to challenge everyone is, can anyone anywhere find another blog a lawyer writes and operates on corruption?  Nope.  I have never seen one.  I have seen others try with issues regarding “unethical” lawyers, etc. But the articles often get the rules of ethics wrong and the law wrong.  What good are those?

I submit it is important for lawyers to have and run blogs about what is correct and ethical under the law, so the public is better informed.