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A FEDERAL JUDGE USED HIS BIASNESS, RACIAL HATRED AND UNLAWFUL JUDICIAL AUTHORITY TO DISMISS A VALID FEDERAL COMPLAINT IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT.

WE ARE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT ERA NOW TECHNOLOGY HAS EVOLVED CAMERAS TO CAPTURE REAL TIME POLICE ABUSE, SOCIAL MEDIA TO DISPLAY INCONSISTENCIES, FALSEHOODS, X WHERE THE ACTUAL COURT DOCUMENTS CAN BE DISPLAYED TO UNEQUIVOCALLY SHOW THE WORLD, RACISM, CORRUPTION ETC.

THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE THE EXTENT CERTAIN HATEFUL WHITE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DO AS DEMOCRATS MAKING SURE NO BLACK, BROWN OR COLORED PERSON RECEIVE ANY JUSTICE OR EQUAL PROTECTION IN THEIR COURTS.

EVERY IRISH, POLISH ETHNIC PERSONS ALONG WITH MANY IN THE LGBT WENT ALONG WITH THE WRONG DOERS SO AS TO BE ACCEPTED HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY DENIED EVERY MOTION, COMPLAINT OR WAS ALLEGEDLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HAVING DOCUMENTS DELETED FROM DATABASES TO FRAME OR CRIMINALIZE INNOCENT BLACK OR BROWN MEN TO JUSTIFY THEIR NARRATIVE OF THAT ETHNIC GROUP.


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           IN THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

 

 

   

           

          

 Joe Louis Lawrence


                                                            Plaintiff

 

                

   VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, LLC               

    EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, L.L.C.                       

    Successor in interest to EQUIFAX CREDIT                        

    INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                                     

    EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.,                 

.   EXPERIAN INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                     

.   TRANS UNION L. L. C.,                                                         

 

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Hon Robert Blakey

 Magistrate Judge

 Hon Albert Berry, III 

 

Civil Action No.

25 cv- 12239

 

 

 

 

                                                    

                                NOTICE OF APPEAL

         REQUESTING RULE TO SHOW CAUSE AGAINST ALL PARTIES COMPLICIT IN DOMESTIC TERRORISM IN THE COURTS NO DEMOCRATIC JUDGE OR HOMOSEXUAL IN ILLINOIS WILL EVER RULE IN FAVOR OF THE PLAINTIFF AND ADMITTED THIS VIA SUMMARY JUDGMENT (July 14, 2025 Cook County Domestic Relations)  Posner: ABA Journal (September 11, 2017)  Most judges regard pro se litigants as 'kind of trash not worth the time' ( 7th Cir)

 

 To: See the Certificate of Service of Parties

 

 

                                                                     

     

Said case demonstrates within the parameter of the laws how the Illinois legal system is under siege, as stated in earlier affidavits, the Ku Klux Klan, pursuant to the act of 1871 Section 1 (42 U.S.C.) Remarks of Rep. Cobb) (“None but Democrats belong or can belong to these societies”)

 

 

 

                PLEASE BE ADVISED that on June 30, 2026, A Notice of  Appeal and Jurisdictional Statement has been filed before the Northern District of Illinois .  

 

Defendant is Appealing the June 24,  2026 court ruling against the manifest weight of the evidence unopposed by the Defendants.

 

                                                                            Respectfully Submitted

 

 

                                                                            Joe Louis Lawrence, Pro Se

                                                                                PO Box 4353

                                                                                Chicago, Illinois 60680  

                                                                                                   

    

              

                                                                           

Dated June 30, 2026

                                                      

 

 

           IN THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

 

 

   

           

          

 Joe Louis Lawrence


                                                            Plaintiff

 

                

   VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, LLC               

    EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, L.L.C.                       

    Successor in interest to EQUIFAX CREDIT                        

    INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                                     

    EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.,                 

.   EXPERIAN INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                     

.   TRANS UNION L. L. C.,                                                         

 

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Hon Robert Blakey

 Magistrate Judge

 Hon Albert Berry, III 

 

Civil Action No.

25 cv- 12239

 

 

 

                                   

 

                                                  Jurisdictional Statement

 

Order entered: June 24, 2026,  

Notice of Appeal filed: June 24, 2026

 

The District Court Dismissed Plaintiffs case because he did not comply with the courts unlawful directive of participating in the unlawful Status Conferences after the January 6, 2026 order entered ex parte, and (2) the Court’s subsequent denial of disqualification and vacatur, January 27, 2026 citing “PLAINTIFF FAILED TO NOTICE THEM FOR PRESENTMENT AND BECAUSE THEY LACK MERIT”

That on December 2, 2025, This Honorable Court issued an Order, “Extends the deadline for the parties joint status report to 12/29/2025”  and Ordered the Plaintiff, “The Court previously Ordered Plaintiff to file a status report concerning service on Verizon by 12/ 3/ 25, and hereby extends that deadline to 12/19/25. “If Plaintiff declines to participate in the preparation and filing of a joint status report, the Court will dismiss the case for failure to comply with a court order and failure to prosecute”. 

Plaintiff never received any Court Order prior to December 2, 2025 and no Clerk in the Northern District of Illinois were able to locate such an order.

Plaintiff filed his Status Report on Service of Verizon Communications, Inc. Dec 10, 2025 and his Initial Joint Status Report Dec 12, 2025 in response to the Courts Directive without any hesitation demonstrating respect and a moral compass to the rules of FRCP and this court.

Defendant’s failed to comply with the District Judges order of Dec 29, 2025, Plaintiff filed his Summary Judgment (Jan. 5, 2026) unabated by three competent Power House Fortune 500 Law firms.

District Judge Entered an Order Jan. 9, 2026, Denied Plaintiff’s Default, filed Jan 7, 2026, Plaintiff never received the following “Minute entry before the Honorable John Robert Blakey: The Court denies Plaintiff’s motion for default judgment57 and request for default59 and strikes the 1/7/26 notice of motion date ( which in any event fails to comply with this Court’s standing orders). Defendants have responded to the complaint, and Plaintiff’s requests lack merit. The parties’ 1/28/26 status report deadline stands”.  

The District Judge resents the Plaintiff  and it is egregiously reflected in his rulings

  The judge favors the defendants and is holding the Plaintiff at a higher standard within the laws than licensed attorneys.

  The judge abandoned neutrality.

  The judicial process is unfair to the Plaintiff.

 Email Transmission sent Tuesday Jan 20, 2026 at 9:48am to all attorneys and Cook County Democratic Judges still trying to “FIX” a Paternity Case Former States Attorney Richard J. Daley Dismissed September 17, 1987.

 

  • Statutes: Democratic Judges violating United States Supreme Court Rulings Enforcing “Jim Crow Laws”, Violations of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, “Trespassing upon the Laws” “No Jurisdiction on case, Order being Void a “Nullity” Obstruction of Justice ” Committing Fraud, Engaging in Treason Like Offenses, Judges Committing Perjury, Judges aiding and abetting in a Criminal Conspiracy, Judge committing Unequal Protection of the Laws Violations, Judge acting outside of the Immunity provisions of his Oath, as “Private Citizens” outlawed by the United States Supreme Court  as they used their robes and jurisdiction to aid and assist Terrorist Democratic Judges and Public Officials in covering-up Criminal Civil Rights Violations, Disparate Unequal Protection of the Laws, Racial Hate Crimes, Slander and Defamation of Character, Civil Rights Violations, Civil Rights Act of 1983, Racial Terrorism Conspiracy, Public, Political, Fraternal Corruption Conspiracies by Democrats, and other Un-Constitutional Lawless Violations, Violation of Canon Ethics : A judge shall uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary. Canon 2: A judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge's activities. Canon 3: A judge shall perform the duties of judicial office impartially and diligently,  Ex Parte Grant of Substantive Relief, Improper Relief Granted to a Party in Default, No showing of excusable neglect under Rule 6(b)(1)(B) was made Granting relief to a defaulted party without vacating default and without a Rule 6(b) showing constitutes reversible procedural error. Black, 22 F.3d at 1407; Pretzel, 28 F.3d at 45. Granting time extensions to a defaulted party without vacating default constitutes procedural advocacy, not neutral adjudication. Black v. Lane, 22 F.3d 1395, 1407 (7th Cir. 1994)
    Defaulted parties are not entitled to merits-based relief absent proper procedure. Pretzel & Stouffer v. Imperial Adjusters, 28 F.3d 42, 45 (7th Cir. 1994)
    Extensions after deadline require excusable neglect
  • Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(a)
  • Fed. R. Civ. P. 7(b)
  • Canon 3(A)(4), Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges

 

Judge Blakey received Notice and Knowledge of Democratic Cook County Judges engaging in a Criminal Enterprise in Cook County Dec 10, 2025, Status Report on Service of Verizon Communications, Inc Ref as Ex A .Motion for Entry of Default for Failure to Appear, Failure to Plead, and for Setting of Prove-Up Hearing et al. ($50 Million Dollars), 2.) Re Notice Motion to Recuse the Entire Cook County Judiciary and Appoint a Special Prosecutor et al., 3) Re Notice Motion to Expedite Defendants Affected from Judicial Malfeasance & Violations of the Illinois Code of Judicial Conduct et al.

 

That on Jan 2, 2026 Plaintiff Re Noticed Motion to Disqualify Judge Rosa Marie Silva & Patrick Powers for “Cause” Particularizing in specific details how certain Democratic Judges egregiously desecrate the laws, hereto attached as the Irish Judge Patrick Powers allegedly used Hispanic Judge Rosa Silva signature stamp to deny and keep the Plaintiff from appearing before her.

 

That on June 23, 2026, Plaintiff filed Motion to Stay, Vacate, and Declare Null any Attempt to Suspend Respondent's Driver's License, Re Notice Motion to Enter Default Nunc Pro Tunc et al., Re Noticed Default Motion $50 Million Dollars et al., Re Notice Motion for Entry of Default for Failure to Appear, Failure to Plead, and for Setting of Prove-up et al. in the Domestic Relations Division on a 41 year old case not his child and never ordered to pay any child support.

A-    Cook County Courts still a Criminal Enterprise had Cook County Clerks to obstruct justice making sure the Motion never entered the database and receive a judge or court date leaving the entire case in limbo violating all Civil Rights Statutes.

 

    Plaintiff is appealing to the  Court of Appeals, for a Reversal Sanctions and Remand with instructions notifying Federal authorities based on the foregoing stated above:

 

   Defendant is appealing to the  Court of Appeals, because Irish, Polish or Homosexual or DEI judges in the Democratic party have systematically ignored, the fact Plaintiff are  victims of an “Organized Criminal Conspiracy” perpetrated by racist or hateful judges acting as “Private Citizens” controlling the Criminal Enterprise in all of the courts controlled by Democrats, in that Judge Blakey of Irish ethnicity entered a number of “FRAUDULENT” court orders against the Plaintiff to protect his kind of people involved and continue his fraternal racial hatred, obstruct and corroborate his role as an alleged “White Supremacist”  

 

Judge Blakey  closed his eyes to all of the criminal acts of Democratic Judges violating Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act against the Plaintiff as he became the “Defacto” attorney for Verizon Communications, Inc condoning all Terrorist Treason offenses accompanied by an affidavit unimpeached by every attorney supporting the Plaintiff by continuously violating his Civil Rights when the case was legally over when Verizon unlawfully with venomous Contempt for the laws of the court e filed a motion to the Court Jan 2, 2026 knowing the building was closed for the holidays and other Defendant’s never responded to the Dec. 29, 2025 Court Order; whereby, Plaintiff filed his Summary Judgment Jan 5, 2026 and the Court ignored all of his valid filings prolonging this matter frivolously as all attorneys are being compensated off of egregious injustices of this court.  

 

“Grounds warranting a motion to reconsider include (1) an intervening change in the controlling law, (2) new evidence previously unavailable, and (3) the need to correct clear error or prevent manifest injustice.” Id. (citing Brumark Case 1:07-cv-00644-WDM-KLM Document 158 Filed 08/25/2009 USDC Colorado Page 2 of 6 1 Although the Tenth Circuit does not allow citation to unpublished opinions for precedential value, unpublished opinions may be cited for persuasive value. 10th Cir. R. 32.1. 3 Corp. v. Samson Resources Corp., 57 F.3d 941, 948 (10th Cir. 1995)).

A-    That Plaintiff and other innocent Litigants of color cases  have appeared before JUDGES ALLEGEDLY DESCRIBED AS MEMBERS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, NAZI FRATERNAL ORDER OR WHITE NATIONALIST MEMBERS OR DEI HOMOSEXUALS who have systematically denied all of their claims as outlined in the aforementioned  history of cases.

 

B-    That former States Attorney Kim Foxx, That Plaintiff Filed a Summary Judgment Dec. 4, 2023 before Judge Iris Y. Chivira she and her alleged racist Lesbian Judges fraternity members and Judge Forti, Maritza Martinez who mistook Respondent for one of the Inferior Spineless black or Brown men who would let anyone walk on them or violate their Civil Rights because many had no self-respect for themselves and wanted to be accepted.

 

C-    That on Feb 9, 2024 Respondent Filed a Default for $50 Million Dollars Maritza Martinez “Fraudulent” assumed jurisdiction on the matter to Disqualify Judge Chivira as he was provided a Court Order absent the Presiding Judges signature, she never vacated any of her court orders but African American Supervisor Clerk Connie on the 8th floor made the Respondent pay to Vacate said order knowing he was a Pauperis, but Judge Martinez never vacated any of her court orders and Judge Forti took over and tried using his position to try and Bully and intimidate Respondent or anyone who stood up against his tyranny and racist injustices in his court.

 

D-     That Plaintiff filed a Motion for Summary Judgment Pursuant to Illinois (735 ILCS 5/2-1005) & Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Corroborating the Veracity Cook County Judges do Not Honor Due Process or Civil Rights Equal Protection to its Citizens Pro Se or with Attorneys in  any of the Court’s w/Affidavit on July 14, 2025.

 

E-     Respondent has appeared before Maritza Martinez who never had jurisdiction to appear on the case no more than any Assistant States Attorneys but understates Attorney Kim Foxx, and alleged Police Officer Francoise Hightower, Chief Judge Timothy Calvin Evans and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Gov Pritzker who received Notice and knowledge of the Summary Judgment and Default never DENIED or OBJECTED to any of the FACTUAL pleadings.

 

F-       “the fact Negroes in the Democratic Party have no authority over Racist Anglo- Saxons” Pages 7-8 of the Affidavit, Summary Judgment have been admitted to via Local Rule 56.1 

 

G-    “Any judge who does not comply with his oath to the Constitution of the United States wars against that Constitution and engages in acts in violation of the Supreme Law of the Land. The judge is engaged in acts of treason. Having taken at least two, if not three oaths of office to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, any judge who has acted in violation of the Constitution is engaged in an act or acts of treason. If a judge does not fully comply with the Constitution, then his orders are void, In re Sawyer, 124 U.S. 200 (1888) he/she is without jurisdiction , and he/she has engaged in an act or acts of treason.”         

 

H-    That Fed Rule Civ P. 8 and 9 require plaintiffs to particularize their allegations of "fraud on the court" in as short, plain, and direct a way as is reasonable. Plaintiff complied with said rule but the court was a law unto himself.

 

I-        Posner: ABA Journal (September 11, 2017)  Most judges regard pro se litigants as 'kind of trash not worth the time' Posner, 78, told the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin last week that he decided to retire because of conflicts with his colleagues over the treatment of pro se litigants, who represent themselves. In a new interview with the New York Times, Posner elaborated on his concerns about the treatment of such litigants.

A-   “The basic thing is that most judges regard these people as kind of trash not worth the time of a federal judge,” Posner said.

In the 7th Circuit, staff lawyers review appeals from pro se litigants, and their recommendations are generally rubber-stamped by judges, he noted.

Posner wanted to give the pro se litigants a better shake by reviewing all of the staff attorney memos before they went to the panel of judges. Posner had approval from the director of the staff attorney program. “But the judges, my colleagues, all 11 of them, turned it down and refused to give me any significant role. I was very frustrated by that,” Posner said. Posner has written about the pro se issue in an upcoming book, and its publication “would be particularly awkward” if he remained on the court because it “implicitly or explicitly” criticizes the other judges, he said.

 

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                 1.) PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY AND RECUSE THE DISTRICT JUDGE PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) AND (b)(1) DUE TO A PRIMA FACIE SHOWING OF BIAS & PREDJUDICE AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF

 

2.) PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO VACATE THE JANUARY 6, 2026, VOID ORDER/AND ANY OTHER ORDER ENTERED IN VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS

 

3.) PLAINTIFF’S NOTICE OF DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS

 

TAKE A LOOK AT EX A OF THE MOTION TO DISQUALIFY ET AL. #58 NOTICE OF MOTION BY JOE LOUIS LAWRENCE FOR PRESENTMENT OF MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT57 BEFORE HONORABLE JOHN ROBERT BLAKEY ON 1/7/2026 AT 11:00AM is egregiously wrong! Clerk with the initials BI

 

The Default was filed Jan. 7, 2026, and properly Noticed for Jan 14, at 11:00am, a copy of that filed document is attached with the Motion to Vacate et al.

 

Plaintiff never received any other court orders after Jan 6, 2026, the same day Defendant Matthew D. Kelley filed their defective documents.

 

Plaintiff is dealing with the same type of systemic racism in Cook County Courts as certain judges acting as Defacto attorneys, Assistant States Attorneys racist and corrupt framing me on an incest paternity case involving a police officer case been dismissed since September 17, 1987, by Richard J. Daley and reopened without my knowledge 88 D 079012 found me in default May 18, 1988 never ordering child support, but the Irish and Polish ethnic judges and all homosexuals went along with all wrongs and injustices seeking arrearages on a case not only not my child but never ordered to pay anything  and certain licensed attorneys in Federal Court are in violation of RPC 3.3 engaging in diabolical racial acts as everyone involved, who see these wrongs and are remaining quiet turning a blind eye to these terrorists acts, are now complicit in all acts of tyranny and racism due to racial hatred of any and all Colored Persons speaking up and fighting against Racial Apartheid in the Courts, likened to the Ku Klux Klan or Nazi fraternal order controlling the judiciary using the courts to unlawfully extort money from the Plaintiff on a closed case.

 

"Lynchings are not used with ropes in Chicago it is done judicially with gross misapplications of the laws, gaslighting or blatant injustices"

 

Every attorney appearing in any court where the Plaintiff is concerned is making good money off their clients, but he is living in indigency below poverty for standing up to tyranny and racial terrorism in the courts because his skin color or sexuality as a Heterosexual Man who does not fit the narrative of their fraternal order.

Ethics

            All Illinois lawyers must be familiar with the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, and trail lawyers must be particularly familiar with the rules that apply specially to them.

 

            RPC 3.3, entitled “Conduct Before a Tribunal,” sets forth the standards to be followed by the trial lawyer during “battle.” Section (a) of that rule states:

(a)  In appearing in a professional capacity before a tribunal, a lawyer shall not

 

That under 18 U.S.C. 242 and 42 U.S.C. 1985 (3) (b). A judge does not have the discretion on whether or not to follow Supreme Ct. Rules, but a duty to follow. People v. Gersh, 135 Ill. 2d 384 (1990).

 

          

A-    That  the court  became  a law unto  themselves  denied  said  motion  and became “Private Citizens” not having any jurisdiction over the Defendant making all Orders a “Nullity”.

 

             B-  To show fraud upon the court, the complaining party must establish that the alleged misconduct affected the integrity of the judicial process, either because the court itself was defrauded or because the misconduct was perpetrated by officers of the court. Alexander v. Robertson, 882, F. 2d 421,424 (9th Cir. 1989);

 

C-    A void judgment does not create any binding obligation. Kalb v. Feuerstein (1940) 308 US 433, 60 S Ct 343, 84 L, Ed 370.

 

 

That certain judges in the Federal Circuit read evidence of Cook County judges violating the RICO ACT, the 7th Cir. Held that the Cook County Courts were a Criminal enterprise. U.S. v. Murphy, 768 F. 2d 1518, 1531 where precedent was enacted by Judges Frank H. Easterbrook, Richard D. Cudahy and former Chief judge Luther Merritt Swygert;

 

  

                                                                               Respectfully Submitted

 

 

Civil Rights Act of 1866- first section, enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of the laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinances, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding, Act of April 9, 1866, Ch. 31, 1, 14 Stat. 27, 42 U.S.C.A. 1981 (a).

 In the 20th century, the Supreme Court began to overturn Jim Crow laws on constitutional grounds. In Buchanan v. Warley 245 US 60 (1917), the court held that a Kentucky law could not require residential segregation. The Supreme Court in 1946, in Irene Morgan v. Virginia ruled segregation in interstate transportation to be unconstitutional, in an application of the commerce clause of the Constitution. It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 US 483 that the court held that separate facilities were inherently unequal in the area of public schools, effectively overturning Plessy v. Ferguson, and outlawing Jim Crow in other areas of society as well. This landmark case consisted of complaints filed in the states of Delaware (Gebhart v. Belton); South Carolina (Briggs v. Elliott); Virginia (Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County); and Washington, D.C. (Spottswode Bolling v. C. Melvin Sharpe). These decisions, along with other cases such as McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Board of Regents 339 US 637 (1950), NAACP v. Alabama 357 US 449 (1958), and Boynton v. Virginia 364 US 454 (1960), slowly dismantled the state-sponsored segregation imposed by Jim Crow laws.

   As the color line itself solidified at the turn of the nineteenth century, Jim Crow imposed on black people clear tactical disadvantages: restricted economic possibilities, narrow educational opportunities, inadequate housing options, high rates of death and disablement, persistent unemployment, and unrelenting poverty. Inasmuch as Jim Crow represented the race problem described by Gunnar Myrdal (18981987) in his 1944 treatise The American Dilemma, it was Jim Crow that created the race quandary; whites constructed the obstacles African Americans confronted, while also blaming them for their conditions, denying them access to the resources of problem solving, and daring themunder threat of violenceto complain, protest, or advance.

 

   Finally, protests or challenges to Jim Crow often proved futile, given law enforcements complicity in the structure. From emancipation to the turn of the century, the Ku Klux Klan operated as a paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party in the South. The Klan, nightriders, red shirts, and other white terrorists intimidated African Americans with personal attacks, school burnings, and lynchings. African Americans rarely served as policemen, sheriffs, or deputies before the late 1940s. During the 1950s and 1960s, the connections between municipal and state governments, law enforcement, and racial violence were well known by officials and citizens alike. White officers were known to harass black people, disrupt black neighborhoods, and assault black women. Arrested for inflated charges, denied satisfactory counsel, and serving harsh sentences, African Americans were further disadvantaged in the courtroom. Rarely did they receive good counsel, nor could they serve on juries. When black lawyers could appear in the courtroom to argue cases, white judges and juries rarely listened. All-white juries decided against black defendants, even in the most obvious cases of innocence, but rarely convicted white defendants, despite evidence of guilt. African Americansincluding the innocentsuffered the harsher punishments of extended jail time, forced farm labor, and peonage. Even women could be placed on the chain gangs working the roads and tracks across the South.

 

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Wednesday April 26, 2006, Page 1, Illinois Political Machines help breed corruption, Associated Press writer Deanna Bellandi states, “Illinois is apparently a Petri dish for corruption. It is a real breeding ground”.         

 

That Chicago is the most Corrupt City in America, Huffington Post, Internet Newspaper, February 23, 2012; University of Illinois Professor Dick Simpson, “The two worst crime zones in Illinois are the governor’s mansion….and the City Council Chambers in Chicago.” Simpson a former Chicago Alderman told the AP “no other State can match us.”   

 

Turner 24 F. Cas. 337 (No. 14247) C.C.D. Md. 1867) the “equal benefit” clause is cited in what would appear to be the earliest reported case enforcing the section. The plaintiff was an emancipated slave who was indentured as an apprentice to her former master. Although both whites and blacks could be indentured as an apprentice, under the law of Maryland, indentured blacks were not accorded the same educational benefits as whites and, unlike whites, were subject to being transferred to any other person in the same county. Circuit Judge Chase granted a writ of habeas corpus upon finding that the purported apprenticeship was in fact involuntary servitude and a denial under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 of the “full and equal benefit of all laws.

 

1.)  “Any judge who does not comply with his oath to the Constitution of the United States wars against that Constitution and engages in acts in violation of the Supreme Law of the Land. The judge is engaged in acts of treason. Having taken at least two, if not three oaths of office to support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the State of Illinois, any judge who has acted in violation of the Constitution is engaged in an act or acts of treason. If a judge does not fully comply with the Constitution, then his orders are void, In re Sawyer, 124 U.S. 200 (1888) he/she is without jurisdiction , and he/she has engaged in an act or acts of treason.”          

 

2.)   A judge’s disrespect for the rules of court demonstrates disrespect for the law. Judges are disciplined under Canon 2A for violating court rules and procedures. Judge ignored mandated witness order in attempt to accommodate witnesses’ schedules; Citing Canon 2A the court noted, “[a] court’s indifference to clearly stated rules breeds disrespect for and discontent with our justice system. Government cannot demand respect of the laws by its citizens when its tribunals ignore those very same laws”)

 

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 94 S. Ct. 1683, 1687 (1974) stated that "when a state officer acts under a state law in a manner violative of the Federal Constitution, he "comes into conflict with the superior authority of that Constitution, and he is in that case stripped of his official or representative character and is subjected in his person to the consequences of his individual conduct. The State has no power to impart to him any immunity from responsibility to the supreme authority of the United States." [Emphasis supplied in original].

 

Under Federal law which is applicable to all states, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that if a court is "without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void; and form no bar to a recovery sought, even prior to a reversal in opposition to them. They constitute no justification; and all persons concerned in executing such judgments or sentences, are considered, in law, as trespassers." Elliot v. Piersol, 1 Pet. 328, 340, 26 U.S. 328, 340 (1828)

 

 

I affirm the above as being true.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                 Respectfully Submitted

 

                                                                                

                                                                               Joe Louis Lawrence, Pro Se

                                                                               Joelouis565@yahoo.com

                                                                                 312 965-6455

                                                                                 PO Box 4353

                                                                               Chicago, Ill. 60680   

 

                                                                         

Wherefore the Foregoing Reasons, Appellant Prays for the following relief:

 

1.)   Appellant requests that another Honorable Court of Appeals, Judicial Circuit accept Jurisdiction of this matter and Invoke authority Instanter and reassign this matter accordingly and or due to the unprecedented Terrorist Civil Rights said attorneys and judges are complicit in, Order a Rule to Show Cause for Remands and Indictments on all parties associated in said Treason Offenses;

 

2.)    Impose Sanctions/Remands against and all parties for Contempt of the United States Constitution for their crimes against the Plaintiff/Government 

 

 

Finally, this Affidavit is best closed by a jurist who has stated”; Citing Canon 2A the court noted, “[a] court’s indifference to clearly stated rules breeds disrespect for and discontent with our justice system. Government cannot demand respect of the laws by its citizens when its tribunals ignore those very same laws”)

 

Federal Court FEDERAL JUDGE GETTLEMAN: stated, March 10, 2009, where he found Superintendent of police Jody Weiss in Contempt of Court and Ordered the City to Pay $100,000.00, “No one is above the Law”, he cited a 1928 decision by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, that said, “If the Government becomes the law breaker, it breeds Contempt for the Law, It invites everyman to become a law unto himself. It invites Anarchy.”           

 

   The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Wednesday April 26, 2006, Page 1, Illinois Political Machines help breed corruption, Associated Press writer Deanna Bellandi states, “Illinois is apparently a Petri dish for corruption. It is a real breeding ground”.         

 

   That Chicago is the most Corrupt City in America, Huffington Post, Internet Newspaper, February 23, 2012; University of Illinois Professor Dick Simpson, “The two worst crime zones in Illinois are the governor’s mansion….and the City Council Chambers in Chicago.” Simpson a former Chicago Alderman told the AP “no other State can match us.”   

                                         

 

           IN THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

 

 

   

           

          

 Joe Louis Lawrence


                                                            Plaintiff

 

                

   VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, LLC               

    EQUIFAX INFORMATION SERVICES, L.L.C.                       

    Successor in interest to EQUIFAX CREDIT                        

    INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                                     

    EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.,                 

.   EXPERIAN INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.,                     

.   TRANS UNION L. L. C.,                                                         

 

                                                          Defendants.

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Hon Robert Blakey

 Magistrate Judge

 Hon Albert Berry, III 

 

Civil Action No.

25 cv- 12239

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                  

 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

 

  I Joe Louis Lawrence certify that on June.30, 2026 I have caused proper service to be had on the Plaintiff and noted parties in the Certificate of Service via electronic/email  delivery.

 

To   

   Camille R. Nicodemus, Esq. (IL #2452849)

   Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C.

   10333 North Meridian Street, Suite 200

   Indianapolis, IN 46290

   Telephone:  (317) 497-5600, Ext. 601

   Fax:  (317) 899-9348

   E-Mail:  cnicodemus@qslwm.com

   Hope Blankenberger  

  Counsel for Defendant Trans Union LLC

 

 

 

POLSINELLI PC

By: /s/ Rodney L. Lewis         
Rodney L. Lewis
Kevin M. Hogan

Matthew Carlins
Polsinelli PC
150 North Riverside Plaza, Suite 3000
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Tel. (312) 819-1900
Fax (312) 819-1910
rodneylewis@polsinelli.com
kmhogan@polsinelli.com

mcarlins@polsinelli.com

Attorneys for Defendant Equifax Information Services, LLC

 

 Nicole E. Stoelton

 Venable LLP

227 W. Monroe St., Suite 1900

Chicago, Il. 60606

Phone (312) 820-3437

Fax (312) 820-2401

NEStoelton@venable.com

Attorneys for Defendant Experian Information Solutions, Inc, and Experian Information Services, Inc.

 

 Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD        233 S Wacker Dr. Suite 5500                            Chicago, Illinois 60606                                       Matthew D. Kelly mkelly@smsm.com

                                                                              Attorneys for Verizon Communications, Inc.

 

 

 

 

Chief Judge Charles Beach                  U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutras

  ocj.chief@cookcountyil.gov                  219 S. Dearborn, Street 5th floor                              

 

Dir.  FBI,                                                      Hon Mayor Brandon                         

Special Agent in Charge (FBI)                     City Hall 7th floor                                  

                                                                       Chicago, IL. 60601                          

 2111 West Roosevelt Road

Chicago, Il 60608                                 

 

Cook County Clerk, Mariyana Spyropoulos

CCCWebsite@cookcountycourt.com

 

 

                      Attorney General                                    Cook County States Attorney

             Kwame Raoul alexandrina.shrove@ilag.gov       Eilene O’Neil Burke

                   555 West Monroe Suite 1300                    statesattorney@cookcountyil.gov        

                 Chicago, Ill. 60601

 

 

 

PLEASE BE ADVISED that on June 30, 2026 A Notice of Appeal and Jurisdictional Statement has been filed in the Northern District of Illinois Federal Court.

 

 

                                                                               Respectfully submitted,

 

                                                                           

 

                                                                                  Joe Louis Lawrence               

IN THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS

EASTERN DIVISION

 

       

 

 

 

                                                                                                                  

                                                  AFFIDAVIT

I  Joe Louis Lawrence, files herewith his affidavit as required by Title 28, United States Code:

 

I Joe Louis Lawrence, Pro Se being duly sworn on oath states that, I have caused the aforementioned Notice of Appeal and Jurisdictional Statement, to the noted Defendants via Electronic/email delivery, the undersigned certifies that the statements set forth in this instrument are true and correct, except as to matters therein stated to be on information and belief and as to such matters, the undersigned certifies as aforesaid that he verily believes the same to be true.

 

Respectfully Submitted                                                          

                                                                       

 

Joe Louis Lawrence