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HOMES AT RISK WITH THE CAI LAWYER POWER GRABS
Texas legal system manipulates cases, strip homeowners defense and evidence to help HOA lawyers take our homes
October 28, 2006
By
Chris Calvin, Ph.D.
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| Missouri City, Texas - Chris Calvin's article "HOMES AT RISK WITH THE CAI LAWYER POWER GRABS" was written in response to: Rolling the Legal Dice - Welcome to the Backroom! - October 21, 2006 - By Taffy Rice
HOMES AT RISK WITH THE CAI LAWYER POWER GRABS
We here in Texas appreciate your coverage of the backroom dealings Taffy going on and will keep you all in our thoughts and prayers in this one-sided fight against homeowner associations, developers and their affiliates..
We too are experiencing similar court backroom dealings and just went through summary judgement whereby the judge knocked out all of our counter-claims except one which will force us to move.
It's as if our evidence was invisible. He allowed their defamation and tortious interference SLAPP-suit to move forward thus stripping us of the meat of our counter-claim and defense. Our only hope now is a jury and following appeals.
We are in the upper-middle class, but this has taken almost everything just to get to this point.
This company executives give contributions to our chief county judge and other commissioners, (not to mention city officials and local representative in our county) who control the courts budget and they have several large planned communities and retail projects going (along with contracts with the county too), certainly a stacked deck against first time homebuyers and novice litigators.
I have witnessed perjury go unchallenged and motions and orders that didn't match court transcripts in our situation. We will continue to fight the good fight and make public all injustices.
SLAPP-suits are illegal in 24 states, but not our beloved Texas. Our state and its courts are controlled by land (developers) and energy, as most of the U.S. knows.
Our chances are small and growing smaller as each dollar is drained in our defense. We know we will lose our home eventually in this as well as everything else, but I can't bring myself to sign a mega-developers (Johnson Development Co. of Houston, developers of Silverlake, Sienna Plantation, Fall Creek, Riverstone, Woodforest, etc.) gag order placing me or my family and associates under their control to run us ragged back and forth before one of their judges for as long as they like anytime we speak up.
We will keep looking for justice and pray for help!
I don't know how someone with less money could have made it into 2 years of this type of litigation. Many close lawyer friends say this is litigation for the rich, but this is an assault on every American's right to speak up on land use and their community.
Their attorneys even tried to silence the Texas ACLU earlier in this case when it went before the Texas Supremes for another defendant (of course they didn't get that, but the court did turn the case back to the original county court.)
Americans need to get angry and demand an accountable court system that serves all, not just the rich multi-million dollar corporations and their affiliated HOA pseudo-governments.
Good luck Taffy and all new, small homeowners and property owners! Our homes are at risk in our own country.
It's not a good time to buy one in this environment with the CAI lawyer lobby power grabs going on state by state...
See related case of CAI lawyers in action at: Another Missouri City Neighborhood Plagued by HOA Foreclosure Attorneys (Vote No On TUPCA)
Chris Calvin
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