Last court date one of the law firm attorneys did not feel compelled to stay in the court room. He went to See Judge Schulman (the undertaker of the court since the Administrator Judge doesn't have time). When we were called to the stand the other law firm announced this fact. Lol where is the bailiff (they are always talking to someone within the court and it ain't business). As a result we had to wait 45 minutes to get our next call date. When the lawyer returned he sat in the next row loudly talking about "she was censured three times and these judges are letting her go on". He announced that Judge Schulman was the only smart judge in the court and had said this case should be kicked out. Hmm Judges are not allowed to have conversations about cases with one party, no matter if they are in the case or not. That guy would never have known about that judge had I not included my correspondence regarding a Judge who just awarded a formal pleading to a lawyer that was lying. The lawyer stated that there was not enough information about the complaint to answer and yet the other law firm answered weeks before him. When I mentioned this fact, the other law firm did not answer. My question to Judge Schulman was the judge stated I want you to write a statement but, and a big but, he wrote an order for a formal pleading. He did not announce that you will need an attorney nor did he let me argue the motion. All the cites used were frivolous in the motion, they had no relevance. Judge Schulman basically wrote that all the cases were pedestrian so it didn't really matter. He stated in his reply letter that the same Judge had given me a trial court date. This is not only not true but it would have been fraudulent to do so. How could you have a trial date when the pleading had not been submitted or answered? Nope, the clerks office gave that trial bench date to me because I asked how do I get the other law firm into court so they can answer this request for formal pleading. Judge Schulman should have noted that his statement had jurisdictional problems with it. Yep the whole civil court is totally out of order.
As to the lawyer behind me I did hope that he wasn't talking about me because I have never been censured in the court and certainly I did not like hearing that another judge had pronounced my case frivolous after a year and a half of going through three judges.
Lol one of the law firms did not answer the motion to strike and the judge told him when we were away from the bench that he didn't have to because she wasn't granting it. Then she said she would give us a judgment in the mail that evening. She took 2 months and she wrote that I could submit another motion to strike (she wanted me to submit already filed attorney answers) and amendment to the pleading (she wanted me to submit the entire pleading, I only submitted the changed pages). Anyway that's 3 causes of action @ $25,000 each, last time I calculated that is $75,000, yet the judge kept saying over and over on the record that I would only get $25,000 to zero and maybe nothing, yep, he pretty much invalidated the record with that). The lawyers knew that all the facts had been omitted and they saw this judge doesn't like to read any of the records for the court. He just listens to the attorney and then bashes the pro se plaintiff.
I have been suffering from ocular migraine since the current landlord's bed bug fiasco and my trying to deal with two hooligan law firms for the civil case. That judge did not listen to either of us and sent us to mediation though that is not allowed for the dollar range. There the lawyers were allowed to spew out a litany of false statements and I was not allowed to answer them. I told the mediator what good is that. They did not have to hear an answer. You allowed them to answer me. These guys were harassing me before the deposition. Both firms admitted that the other firm was guilty. They did the same sort of mild harassment before we got into court and during the wait for the call my eyes started going blind again. I told the judge, the mediator and the attorneys that and they did not care. I told them I needed more time because I was having sonograms and other doctors visits that had not come to a conclusion yet. They said no. Finally they just broke me down and I just said yes, yes, yes because it was futile. The judge threatened me with the deposition right away. Trust me that was no threat, I welcome that. Its just the way he said it showed me he was not going to give me my fair due of interrogatories. Already these lawyers had submitted ordered discovery with the same denial of answer plugged into each request. I told them at the bench I am letting go of this case because of the bed bugs in my unit, because I am trying to get rid of stress that it is causing me alot of health problems.
The fact is time and time again this court has constantly been prejudiced against me.
The last judge Rose Samuels stated on the bench that I needed an attorney. She answered my question with I don't know, ask an attorney. I live on the poverty line and my case was not frivolous.
The two attorneys put me under alot of fraudulent paperwork and the case went out for 1.5 years. So when the judge asked how long I lived there, 2 years the answer, he said inhabitability would not sell. It did not matter that the entire time I tried to get the landlord/shareholder, the city, HUD and the court to do something. It wasn't a sell. He said if you did not move out it wasn't a sell. Basically what he said is that New York City enforces forced evictions. If you have a problem with excessive cigarette smoke, bed bugs, you must move out at your cost, credit damage and you will not be reimbursed. Its your fault for being poor. Rich people don't have to move out they just get a lawyer and the landlord does what they say or else. I've lived in New York City and paid taxes for 35 years and now what are you going to do next take me to the city borders and give me $35 like you do the homeless folks. Yep on my East 87th street homeless people sleep on the sidewalk right next to the Food Emporium every night. The city knows because a police car came to get rid of a body there. Its a disgrace to humanity. Its not once its every day throughout the year. If you report it just know the City will just dump them out on the border or maybe even worse. In the 70s I saw policemen kicking a homeless person in Grand Central. Yep NYC government is truly are the scourge of humanity. The mayor at that time is just like this mayor, takes credit for doing things for the poor, kicks them on the backside. I have never taken welfare, and ironically I pay 20% fed taxes on my minimal unemployment. You guys are a joke.
Lets see the vacancy rate at the time was 1% and I lived on the poverty line. I had to put in $1000 for window gates and locks because the first few weeks my apartment was being broken into and people were climbing the fire escape. Impossible to call police I did not have a cell phone at the time. They would not have caught them, it would have been too late. Witnesses plentiful, the neighbors concurred in everything I was saying. They said they had been asking for the break ins and smoking to cease for years. I have pictures of the broken into building doors and the knife marks on my door's edge.
When the landlord found out about the witnesses they went to them and told them they had to move or buy their apartment, knowing full well they would not be able to afford to do so.
The civil court served fraud and I noticed the same was going on with credit customers of banks. That the judges were fraternal with them.
Don't give the New York Civil Court your business, take it to a professional.
I am trying to deal with this bed bug landlord on my own, there is no way I will put it in a housing court judges hands. God he'll ask me why I stayed here for three months. Let's see if all your things now have bed bugs in them when you move you'll take them with you and what will you tell your next landlord about why you moved? And what will they do when they find out that their building now has bedbugs. You can bet they won't go after your last landlord.
Let's see this landlord did not clean this apartment (they later sent a clean sheet charging people for everything they did not clean, I totalled it up and its $475 what I cleaned & I cleaned rust off all the stove top and years of meat off the inside of the stove (I am a vegetarian and I don't even use that stove). I spent $900 to move on a $300 move because these landlord kept putting off my move in date on the last day. I have had to spend tons, putting my items in plastic containers (that's where they are now), a vacuum cleaner, extra cleaning items, an independent exterminator, washing clothes and losses of things that had to be thrown out and of course I lost my vision and my sofa bed is ruined. Boy isn't my time worth anything, it has cost me tons of time, pain and suffering. Ocular migraine, bit off my bottom, caused rashes and whelps, did not allow me to sleep for days and days. Constant washing of everything all the time.
Alas, what did the landlord write me after all the harassment notes, they wrote everyone that they had now conquered the bedbugs, claiming 3 exterminations. They wrote to tell them of any bugs continuing. So I did. They wrote me back there are no bugs they did exterminations. I wrote them back the evidence. So the partner shows up unannounced at my apartment and goes to my sofa bed and says where are they? I had just vacuumed but still that's not how bed bugs work. I showed him the floor where bugs were coming up. He says we already put diatemaceous earth in the walls. I say I have been here every day since you have put notice up that you were going to do that. No one knocked or came here. He says ok we'll do it again. Yet again 2 weeks now and nothing. I ask him what he will do about the people playing their band music from 1-3am in the morning, about all the cigarette and incense smoke coming into my apartment. About the toilet that hasn't worked since my move in May 2009. He looked at me in a way that I knew these guys were going to continue to do nothing. They were here in this apartment the first week of May 2009 (two of them) they saw what I was talking about and said they were writing it down and they were taking care of it. I said should I call to followup, no they would take care of it. Taking care of it for them is doing nothing.
I could not do anything, I had a civil court in progress. That is the advice take them to housing court and withhold rent. This landlord requires automatic withdrawal. Yes I can end that bank account but then these landlords will charge me fines for bounce and add $75 to the rent. They are a piece of work. Anyway I am going to the bank to ask them to drop the bank account and put the rent into escrow. I will write these landlords a letter and fax and mail it to them.
Let's see what they are going to do next.
I do not need this stress. What the doctor has found is that I am under alot of environmental stress. That is what I was trying to get more time for that case for. It would have been no point to do depositions because an amendment to pleading and motion to strike were in progress. The judge had stated that the motion to strike could not be submitted until the deposition was complete. She pretty much hammered up this case. It takes tremendous time to get health care, every doctor rejected me as a medicaid patient, hundreds. It took 6 months to get medicaid and then they shafted me on 6 months. They said it starts at the time I apply for it and nothing you can do about that.
What do I do just lie down on the road and let a track loader run me over? pft!
Can you imagine going into court with full fledged correspondence from this landlord, he admits there are bedbugs in this unit, a flyer reveals that they indeed have bedbugs in the building when I moved in and before. They ignore my please to please fill in the floor cracks, ceiling cracks and wall cracks before exterminating and to replace my sofa bed that is not encaseable. They frame me and tell me I am in breach of my lease because they can't open up their lock on the door I rent. They ignore me and persist with the framing.
Then they keep harassing me when I tell them there are still bugs in the apartment.
I really think this fraudulent court will try to spread this across time again and then say inhabitability but you lived there.
What a joke. Take them to an international tribune. Get rid of the current Mayor he put them in there. And what are we going to do about these ballots for judges that have no one running against them. Judge Schulman had no one running against him. When I voted I voted for the opposite judge and if they had noone running I did not vote for them. I pushed the blank button.
If you look at this city its full of violations everywhere. Cranes operating illegally, streets blocked off and pedestrians put in hazardous conditions because there is no other path to take to do their business.
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