Court Opinion

ID: 9377516
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-03-08 00:04:32.840188+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:14.688783
License: Public Domain

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                                                                                                         CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT
                                                                                                              STATE OF MONTANA

                                                                                                         Case Number: OP 22-0713

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          ra.t3 Lk N o42 U.S. Code § 1981 - Equal
rights under the law
   •   U.S. Code
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(a)STATEMENT OF EQUAL RIGHTS
All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same
right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be
parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and
proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white
citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes,
licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
(brMAKE AND ENFORCE CONTRACTS" DEFINED
For purposes of this section, the term "make and enforce contracts" includes
the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and
the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the
contractual relationship.
(C)PROTECTION AGAINST IMPAIRMENT
The rights protected by this section are protected against impairment by
nongovernmental discrimination and impairment under color of State law.
(R.S. §1977; Pub. L. 102-166, title I, §101, Nov. 21, 1991, 105 Stat.
1071.)

42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action
for deprivation of rights
   •   U.S. Code          .6.1...MrnIITEretrirEpTarri,   SOSVAVO=IIITM.Vat=2337"
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   Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation,
custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia,
subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other
person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights,
privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be
liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper
proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial
officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity,
injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was
violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this
section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of
Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.

42 U.S. Code § 1985 - Conspiracy
to interfere with civil rights
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(1)PREVENTING OFFICER FROM PERFORMING DUTIES
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent, by
force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any
office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from
discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by like means any officer of the
United States to leave any State, district, or place, where his duties as an
officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or
property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or
while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as
to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official
duties;
(2)OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE; INTIMIDATING PARTY, WITNESS, OR JUROR
If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to deter, by force,
intimidation, or threat, any party or witness in any court of the United States
from attending such court, or from testifying to any matter pending therein,
freely, fully, and truthfully, or to injure such party or witness in his person or
property on account of his having so attended or testified, or to influence the
verdict, presentment, or indictment of any grand or petit juror in any such
court, or to injure such juror in his person or property on account of any
verdict, presentment, or indictment lawfully assented to by him, or of his
being or having been such juror; or if two or more persons conspire for the
purpose of impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner,
the due course of justice in any State or Territory, with intent to deny to any
citizen the equal protection of the laws, or to injure him or his property for
lawfully enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or class
of persons, to the equal protection of the laws;
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Frank D Mascarena was born In Billings, Montana. He had a special relationship with his father, Leo Mascarena, a former
                                                                                                                            U.S. Marine. Leo and Frank spent lots of
time fishing. Leo had Frank involved in sports like baseball, boxing, and wresting, but, most Important, Leo
                                                                                                               showed Frank how to pray to the living God. This has
inspired Frank to spread the rnessage of God's love.

Frank has a large Chicano family in Billings and he also has a large Native Amerlcan family from his mother's side of the
                                                                                                                            famlly on the Crow Indian reservation of
Montana.

In addition to writing, Frank loves sharing with others about his relationship with God, and he also loves inventing board games,

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Montana Code Annotated 2021
TITLE 26. EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 10. MONTANA RULES OF EVIDENCE
Article IV. Relevancy and Its Limits

Habit; Routine Practice
   Rule 406. Habit; routine practice.
   (a) Habit and routine practice defined. A habit is a person's regular response to a repeated
specific situation. A routine practice is a regular course of conduct of a group of persons or an
organization.
   (b) Admissibility. Evidence of habit or of routine practice, whether corroborated or not, and
regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that conduct on a particular occasion
was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.
   (c) Method of proof. Habit or routine practice may be proved by testimony in the form of an opinion
or by specific instances of conduct sufficient in number to warrant a finding that the habit existed or
that the practice was routine.
   History:   Ad. Sup. Ct. Ord. 12729, Dec. 29, 1976, eff. July 1, 1977.

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the misconduct of the above judge are:
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NAME:         -1 --1212-Y Anti-FICA                     NAME:            gEN:PtinNA LAN     (Li)
ADDRESS:        P. 0 .8os< 35-030                       ADDRESS:          eo Ben< 393 3 e>
                   60-147A)G.SiMir 5-21-41-2                             ad-IP \t3-            5-.7(
PHONE NO: 400-25C2- 2.-S5st                 PHONE NO: /71D(e. -2.5-6,- as51.
(Names of additional witnesses may be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)

         I (have         / have not           ) contacted the judge in regard to my complaint.

        I will furnish additional information to your Commission if requested. If the complaint is
investigated, I will cooperate with your Commission and furnish the evidence I may have and I
will testify at any hearing on this complaint.

         My full name, address and telephone number is:

NAME:                             PVILk ikte_Ext\K
ADDRESS:             3(00 G      -A( ) \ R‘
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                            1.61>6. -1 ¡WC 5 -1
PHONE #:              2-166- cti3 —73oo

         DATED this        (r)         day of '1),31
                                                  ,_.(ix:a.+14-6.17                 , 2021 •

                           SI4ATURE

         SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this                          4    day of    h ece„,fie, 20 22.

                                      MARIA S. HYVONEN
                                    NOTARY PUBLIC for the        97:7_,,,s.L. „J.
                                        State of Montana         Notary Public for t e State of 7.72,-,-1„it--77
                                 Residing at Anaconda, Montane
                                    My Commission Expires        Residing at 6?"-,
                                         April 22, 2024          My Commission expires              ;22, 6.2 Li

RETURN TO:
                           SHELLY SMITH, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
                           JUDICIAL STANDARDS COMMISSION
                           PO BOX 203005
                           301 S. PARK, SUITE 328
                           HELENA, MT 59620-3005
08/25/2015
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