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FAMILIES AND CHILDREN, et al.,
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY BAR
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CASES
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CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS
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Plaintiffs California Coalition for Families and Children, PBC and Colbern Stuart
hereby object to and move to strike the specific citations to new authority and
argument based thereon contained in certain Defendants Replies to Omnibus Motion
to Dismiss (Doc. Nos. 167-181). In the alternative, Plaintiffs request leave to
supplement their Opposition (Doc. No. 161) with this sur-reply limited to the specific
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AUTHORITY
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Plaintiffs offer only limited sur-reply to new matter, and by refraining from a more thorough
sur-reply do not concede points not herein addressed.
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DISCUSSION
5 responding for all Omnibus Defendants, asserts that tolling or estoppel are
6 unavailable under the California Supreme Court case of Lantzy v. Centex Homes, 31
7 Cal.4th 363, 370-371 (2003). Lantzy involved Californias ten year statute of repose
8 for suits for construction defect claims based upon latent defects to improvements to
9 real property, California Code of Civil Procedure 337.15, which provides:
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(a) No action may be brought to recover damages from any person, or the
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for any of the following:(1) Any latent deficiency in the design, specification,
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Thus the Legislature, faced with a developing body of common law on the
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construction defects, and to sue upon such defects if necessary, while still
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they wished to allow and those particular aspects of the prior case law they
wished to embrace. The implication arises that except as stated, and for
important policy reasons, the Legislature meant the generous 10year period
6 Lantzy at 377. [T]he purpose of section 337.15 is to protect contractors and other
7 professionals and tradespeople in the construction industry from perpetual exposure
8 to liability for their work. The statute reflects a legitimate concern that expanding
9 concepts of liability could imperil the construction industry unless a statute of
10 limitations was enacted. Such concerns legitimately include the prohibitive cost of
11 insurance against a perpetual and never ending risk. Id. at 374 (internal citations
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Plainly this is not a construction defect action. The absolute cut-off rationale
14 of a repose statute is distinct from the statute of limitations present here. Tolling
15 principles relevant to a state construction defect statute of repose are not relevant to
16 the federal racketeering or civil rights claims here.
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20 claim for the personal injuries [plaintiff] suffered which were caused by the acts and
21 omissions of the [petitioners] acting under color of law. Id. at 263. Plaintiff brought
22 the claim under the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments claiming only
23 personal injury. Plaintiff alleged New Mexicos residual four year statute of
24 limitations should apply. Defendants alleged New Mexicos shorter two year Tort
25 Claims Act statute of limitations period should apply. Id. The Court held that the
26 shorter two year statute was the most closely analogous statute under the
27 circumstances. Wilson was published in 1985, prior to the 1987 Agency Holding
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1 to borrow state law when the applicable state limitations period would have
2 frustrated the policy of the federal statute, concluding that in such a case no
3 limitations period governs the suit. Oppo., Doc. No. 161, 29:9-30:25.
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2. Csibi v. Fustos: DOYNE, INC. cites and analyzes under new authority,
5 Csibi v. Fustos, 670 F.2d 134, (9th Cir. 1982) at Doc. No. 168, 6:6:9-8:5. DOYNE,
6 INC. asserts that Csibi expands the Domestic Relations Exception to federal
7 diversity jurisdiction to exclude this Action. Csibi, like all other cases involving a
8 Domestic Relations Exception was a diversity action brought under 28 U.S.C.
9 1332 involving competing claims of two women, both of whom claimed to be heirs to
10 a decedents estate by virtue of their being his wife at the time of his death. The
11 district court found that the case turns on a determination of the marital status of [the
12 two wife/litigants and the decedent] and that because plaintiff/wifes prayer for
13 relief is a request for an annulment of defendant wifes marriage to the decedent, the
14 primary issue in the instant case concerns the status of husband and wife, and federal
15 courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction under the test announced in Buechold.
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Csibi, like Beuchold, is inapposite here for the same reasons detailed in the
17 Opposition: No plaintiff here asserts diversity jurisdiction, but federal question and
18 pendant jurisdiction. See Oppo., Doc. No. 161, 151:5-152:15. DOYNE INC.S
19 references to state pendant claims against him for fraud, extortion, bribery, unfair
20 competition, are federal law claims properly and exclusively present under 28 U.S.C.
21 1331, and all state law business torts are properly present under pendant jurisdiction
22 under 28 U.S.C. 1332. No plaintiff here asserts remedies under state domestic
23 relations law, and no issue to be resolved in this case will depend upon resolution of a
24 domestic relations issue relevant in Stuart v. Stuart, which involved only child
25 custody and spousal support. See Oppo., Doc. No. 161, 151:5-152:15.
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27 asserting that STUART seeks relief from an order of a domestic court. This is
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1 form restraining orders are criminal protective orders, one set of which is adapted for
2 use in Family Court. See, FAC 417(b), 438, 462, 464 (These DVILS ORDERS
3 are themselves illegal and unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. The several
4 DVILS ORDERS are founded on a form prepared and made mandatory by
5 Defendant Judicial Council; form CR-160, 964-966; Cal. Pen. Code 136.2,
6 1203.097(a), 273.5(i), 646.9(k); forms CR-160 (entitled Criminal Restraining Order,
7 Judicial Council Form 160) (Ex. 35). STUART is presently deprived of liberty
8 under the criminal version of order until about May, 2015. Plaintiffs seek
9 prospective relief declaring the criminal and domestic versions of the order forms and
10 statutes authorizing them unconstitutional. This relief is in the form of an attack on
11 the validity of a statute under the Constitution of the United Statesnot an attack on
12 a specific issued Order of a domestic court. To the extent DOYNE INC. asserts
13 Csibi for the proposition that United States Courts somehow lack original jurisdiction
14 to determine validity of state laws in conflict with superior federal law, the
15 proposition has been error for over a century. 28 U.S.C. 1343 provides:
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(a) The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action
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deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom
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22 See also, Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167, 169 (1961) overruled on other grounds by
23 Monell v. Dep't of Soc. Servs. of City of New York, 436 U.S. 658 (1978).
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3. New Enterprise Attack: DOYNE, INC. asserts a new attack that The
25 amended complaint does not set forth any common purpose in which the defendants
26 are engaged-to the contrary, participants in the family law system often fulfill
27 adversarial roles. Likewise, the amended complaint fails to set forth an ongoing
28 organization. Doc. No. 168, 10:2-6. DOYNE, INC. did not assert this attack in his
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1 joinder. The FAC does set forth both common purpose and ongoing organization
2 relating to DOYNE, INC. and DOYNE. See discussion at Oppo. 161, 99:1-101:20.
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To the extent that DOYNE, INC. asserts that the Family Law System is not an
4 enterprise, but merely cars on a freeway or shoppers in a store (Doc. No. 168,
5 10:10-11), he is entitled to make that case upon presence of a trier of fact. U.S.
6 Const., Amend. VII. That attorneys within the Family Law System occasionally have
7 interests adverse to one another does not erode their common purpose in
8 conducting the enterprise. See, e.g., Boyle v. United States, 556 U.S. 938, 948 (2009)
9 (decisions may be made on an ad hoc basis and by any number of methodsby
10 majority vote, consensus, a show of strength, etc.). Upkeep of this appearance of
11 adversity is in fact one of the schemes to defraud. See Poser Advocacy, False
12 Flag schemes. FAC 948, 957, 961, 985, 984-986, 988-990, 996, Racketeering
13 Count 2 (Honest Services Fraud) 1034-1036. Quintessential racketeers such as
14 such as the mafia and drug lords are not known for their internal tranquility, and even
15 the best-behaved criminals might have occasion to disagree on means of splitting up
16 the loot. Present defendants shed less blood, but are no less guilty in their coordinated
17 direction of racketeering through fraud and extortion schemes toward one of their
18 common purposes: enriching their practices. FAC 756.
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21 authority to them,2 Heck v. Humphrey 512 U.S. 477, 484 (1994). Doc. No. 170, 2:322 17. JUDICIAL DEFENDANTS assert that the FAC must plead termination of the
23 prior criminal proceeding in favor of the accused. Doc. No. 170, 2:12. This is false
24 for two reasons. First, the FAC does plead termination of the People v. Stuart matter
25 in favor of STUART. Doc. No. 90, 416. The favorable termination issue relevant
26 to CITY ATTORNEY DEFENDANTS is analyzed at Oppo. Doc. No. 161, 120:4-22
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CITY ATTORNEY DEFENDANTS did cite and analyze under Heck at Doc. No. 151, 7:2128 8:21; Plaintiffs Opposed CITY ATTORNEY DEFENDANTS analysis at Doc. No. 161, 120:4-22.
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To be sure, the majority opinion in Heck can be read to suggest that this
or not any confinement continued when the 1983 action was filed. Heck v.
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present such facts, the majority acknowledged the possibility that even a
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released prisoner might not be permitted to bring a 1983 action implying the
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In the manner of Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475 (1973), I read the
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general 1983 statute in light of the specific federal habeas statute, which
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exhaust state remedies, 2254(b). Heck v. Humphry, 512 U.S., at 497. I agreed
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that the statutory scheme must be read as precluding such attacks, id., at 498,
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and 1983. Ibid. I also thought we were bound to recognize the apparent
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meaning of the habeas statute. The subsequent case of Edwards v. Balisok, 520
U.S. 641 (1997), was, like Heck itself, a suit by a prisoner and so for present
purposes left the law where it was after Heck. Now, as then, we are forced to
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anomaly: a given claim for relief from unconstitutional injury would be placed
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beyond the scope of 1983 if brought by a convict free of custody (as, in this
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because Heck bars him from relief under 1983 is that Heck has no such
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effect. After a prisoner's release from custody, the habeas statute and its
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1 is perfectly clear . . . that he may bring an action under 42 U.S.C. 1983.). Other
2 Circuits also follow. Cohen v. Longshore, 621 F.3d 1311, 1317 (10th Cir. 2010)
3 (holding plaintiff released from custody had no habeus remedy and thus Heck
4 inapplicable). Wilson v. Johnson, 535 F.3d 262, 268 (4th Cir. 2008) (holding that the
5 sweeping breadth, high purposes, and unique[ness] of 1983 would be
6 compromised if it were not applied to plaintiffs lacking habeas relief (quoting
7 Wilson v. Garcia, 471 U.S. 261, 272 (1985))), appeal denied, 353 F. Appx 837 (4th
8 Cir. 2009), cert. denied, 131 S. Ct. 71 (2010); Powers v. Hamilton Cnty. Pub.
9 Defender Commn, 501 F.3d 592 (6th Cir. 2007) (holding that because the plaintiff
10 was challenging the procedures that incarcerated him, and not his actual
11 incarceration, the Heck favorable-termination requirement did not apply), cert.
12 denied, 129 S. Ct. 44 (2008); Harden v. Pataki, 320 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2003)
13 (holding that Heck does not bar a plaintiff seeking relief under 1983 for violations
14 of his extradition rights as a prisoner); Huang ex rel. Yu v. Johnson, 251 F.3d 65 (2d
15 Cir. 2001) (holding that a plaintiff lacking a habeas remedy may attack the duration
16 of his incarceration by seeking 1983 relief); Carr v. OLeary, 167 F.3d 1124, 1127
17 (7th Cir. 1999) (holding that [t]he dictum in Spencer v. Kemna casts sufficient doubt
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25 under new authority of See also Awabdy v. City of Adelanto, 368 F.3d 1062, 1068
26 (9th Cir. 2004) for the same favorable termination proposition. Awabdy actually
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indicate his innocence. Heck, 512 U.S. at 484-85, 114 S.Ct. 2364; Lackner v.
LaCroix, 25 Cal.3d 747 (1979); Jaffe v. Stone, 18 Cal.2d 146 (1941). Similar to
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the prosecutor and there are allegations that the prior proceedings were
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is not precluded from maintaining his action unless the defendants can
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establish that the charges were withdrawn on the basis of a compromise among
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1 the FAC also asserts standing by virtue of STUART and California Coalition
2 members, affiliates, and those similarly situated, i.e., Families3 for past and ongoing
3 victimization by the fraud, extortion, deprivation, and violence perpetrated by
4 JUDICIAL DEFENDANTS as part of the Family Law System. So long as Families
5 are forced to seek resolution of domestic dispute matters within domestic relations
6 courts and at unequal jeopardy for prosecution in state criminal courts, they are
7 presently and in the future at outrageous unequal jeopardy for deprivation of
8 fundamental rights and equal protection of the laws by JUDICIAL DEFENDANTS
9 and their municipal level colleagues statewide as key conductors of the various SAD
10 acting in enterprise and conspiracy Plaintiffs are presently and will be subject to such
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D. LAWYER DEFENDANTS (Doc. No. 173)
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For present purposes, ones Family shall include those relationships defined under California
law as . . . an adult or a minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant, or
person with whom [one] has had a child or is having or has had a dating or ENGAGEMENT
relationship. For purposes of this subdivision, "cohabitant" means two unrelated adult persons living
together for a substantial period of time, resulting in some permanency of relationship. Factors that
may determine whether persons are cohabiting include, but are not limited to, (1) sexual relations
between the parties while sharing the same living quarters, (2) sharing of income or expenses, (3)
joint use or ownership of property, (4) whether the parties hold themselves out as husband and wife,
(5) the continuity of the relationship, and (6) the length of the relationship. Cal. Fam. C. 6211,
Pen. C. 13700. Family includes grand-relations. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000). See
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1 the plaintiff must state specific facts to support the existence of the claimed
2 conspiracy. Olsen v. Idaho State Bd. of Medicine, 363 F.3d 916, 929 (9th Cir. 2004)
3 (quoting Burns v. County of King, 883 F.2d 819, 821 (9th Cir.1989)) (discussing
4 conspiracy claim under 1985). Doc. No. 174, 5:5-17. They also assert new
5 authority for the same analysis through Davis v. Powell, 901 F.Supp.2d 1196, 1217
6 (S.D. Cal. 2012) (citing Olsen, 363 F.3d at 929; Burns, 883 F.2d at 821; Harris v.
7 Roderick, 126 F.3d 1189, 119596 (9th Cir.1997)); and Oglesby v. McEwen, 2013
8 WL 4517839 (S.D. Cal. Aug. 22, 2013). Doc. No. 174, 5:25-28.
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20 Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 664, (2009); Oppo. 161, 10:3-13:2. To assert an attack on
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5 167, 6, fn. 6 offer: the period of time plaintiff alleges he was incarcerated or
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8 described at at FAC 453: STUART was imprisoned by GORE, who knew or
9 should have known of the malicious and retaliatory nature of the prosecution until
10 release on May 15, 2013. Such constitutes a false imprisonment for approximately
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14 453). The FAC identified STUARTS confinement under suspended sentence and
15 illegal criminal restraining orders from May 9, 2011 until April 10, 2012, for 288
16 days. FAC 461-466. The total period of physical confinement (imposed or
17 suspended sentence) of STUART offered in the FAC was 810 days. Id. STIART
18 remains under deprivation of liberty by orders imposed by GROCH, C.
19 GOLDSMITH, and COUNTY by two protective orders, one expiring in about May,
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Defendants had full notice and opportunity to present argument and authority
on these issues in their Omnibus and Joinders. Plaintiffs object and move to strike all
authority and argument cited above as improperly noticed. In the event the Court will
consider such late authority and argument over Plaintiffs objection and motion to
strike, Plaintiffs hereby request leave to supplement the Opposition (Doc. No. 161)
with the authority and rebuttal provided herein.
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4 The undersigned hereby certifies that all counsel of record who are deemed to have
5 consented to electronic service are being served with a copy of this document via the
6 court's CM-ECF system per Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5(b )(2)(E). Any other
7 counsel of record will be served by facsimile transmission and/or first class mail this
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