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Hopefully enough people will eventually get tired of the corruption to make changes. I'm not holding my breath that that will happen before it's too late.
It seems the "Backroom" keeps getting bigger and more crowded every day, so that more will be seated there than are seated in the courtroom.
My prayers are with you all.
Posted Nov 3 2006 9:21AM CET
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Donna Smith
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Taffy,
We here in Texas appreciate your coverage of the backroom dealings going on and will keep you all in our thoughts and prayers in this one-sided fight. We too are experiencing similar actions 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 gives 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/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 TX ACLU earlier in this case when it went before the TX 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. It's not a good time to buy one in this environment with the CAI/lawyer lobby power grabs going on state by state...
Posted Oct 28 2006 6:22PM CEST
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