My family used to live in Steamboat Springs CO. We got involved in a boundary dispute with the president of the city council. To gain an advantage, he had the local judge rule that I molested his wife although she said there was no offensive touching, I hadn't been following her, and she could hardly remember interacting with me except one day when I said "just because your husband is the president of the city council doesn't give you a right to break the law". We ended up with over $400,000 in economic damages plus personal and punitive damages. My neighbor even threatened to shoot someone who wanted to buy part of our land.
I decided I could sue them "pro se" since I was a good library researcher. The insurance company lawyers used prejudice against pro ses to extort me and also probably blackmailed the strip club judge Edward Nottingham. They claimed to have an injunction against pro se litigation but skipped Rule 65 completely.
It turns out that Underwriters at Lloyds London and Mutual Insurance Limited of Bermuda insured the parties that I sued. They didn't file the required broker's reports or the C.R.S. 10-3-1004 Defense of Action by Unauthorized Insurer. Somehow, mid case they apparently arranged for my case, D of Colorado 02-1950, to be transferred to Judge Edward Nottingham. Case assignment was discussed with Lloyds London and there was a fax on the subject, according to their bills. Judge Nottingham has recently been in the press for spending big $ at strip clubs and a prostitution ring. I think the insurance companies blackmailed Judge Nottingham.
Judge Nottingham would not hear our summary judgment motions, after the defense asked him not to. He dismissed our case without a statement of reasons as required by rule 52a and he ordered us to pay the defense counsel $102,000 without finding any fraud on our part. There were no rule 11 6 orders.
I filed for relief from judgment in Washington D.C., where we had jurisdiction because that's where Jerome Schaefer, the president of Mutual Insurance of Bermuda, managed the defense strategy. To win, he had his lawyer Christopher Beall ask Judge Nottingham to put me in jail. I was not accused of disrupting a hearing or an offense. There was not government or independent prosecutor. Beall said: "this is civil not criminal contempt. They do not have a right to counsel. They do not have the right to a jury trial. They do not have the right to a full and complete evidentiary hearing.”
Judge Nottingham said "The Court has asked her whether she will voluntarily dismiss these lawsuits, and she has said that she would not. Accordingly, upon finding that Kay Sieverding is in contempt of court, the Court will remand her to the custody of the United States Marshal for the District of Colorado to be incarcerated until she purges herself of the contempt of court by agreeing to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuits".
I stuck it out for 4 months until Beall and Nottingham threatened to jail my husband also if I wouldn't sign the papers they demanded. That would have left our children homeless.
Meanwhile the Steamboat Pilot, insured by Mutual Insurance, continued to print that I was charged with a crime, without acknowledging that the charges were dismissed, the d.a. wouldn't say what the probable cause was, and the d.a.'s husband was a real estate developer with business helped by my neighbor. When I posted on the articles about me they deleted my posts. They said they can publish whatever they want about me and I can't stop them. We filed for mandamus in the Supreme Court and the defense counsel waived response but they hope the S.C. won't read what we filed. See http://www.rightscase.com/
I think these insurance companies are a RICO.