A future civil rights litigant against the Delaware County filed a Notice of Claim against the county to preserve her state-lawsuit rights - a lawsuit for the common law causes of action for battery, assault, unlawful imprisonment etc. (a civil rights action does not require a Notice of Claim or preliminary depositions).
She was callled to the Municipal Law 50-h deposition, handled by the Frank Miller Law Firm associate.
She arrived pro se, without counsel.
She arrived with a newborn in tow and her mother as a witness.
It was hot outside.
It was cool inside the building, with air conditioning funded by us, Delaware County taxpayers.
The County's litigation attorney at the 50-h deposition are also funded by us, Delaware County taxpayers.
A 50-h deposition, a deposition that is preliminary to a public court proceeding, is also a public proceeding.
At 50-h depositions, Delaware County allows a lot of its own personnel to be present who are not directly involved in litigation, but come there to be present as witnesses and support group.
That is what the pro se litigant did - brought her mother as a support group.
The associate abused the situation that the litigant was pro se and without an attorney who could protect her rights and rudely asked the mother of the litigant to leave the deposition because it is a private proceeding.
Then, the associate of Frank Miller's Law firm proceeded to ask her questions - for 5 hours.
Several questions, according to the litigant, was - when exactly did I represent her, and was it after suspension of my law license (of course, the associate knew it wasn't because representation was concerning court proceedings in which Delaware County was participating and thus had access, and knew my representation ended a year before my suspension).
I thought it would be interesting for Delaware County taxpayers to know that Delaware County is spending money on the "valuable time" of their litigation attorneys to ask irrelevant questions, simply to follow the grudges of Delaware County officials.
Even if they know the answer to the question - in the negative.
Eve though the question was irrelevant.
At least it shows how deep the grudge is and how connected actions of the Delaware County against my friends are to me.
The series of questions about me was practically an admission that Delaware County illegally persecutes my friends.
I will publish the transcript of the deposition when it becomes available.
Stay tuned.
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