THIS IS FEBRUARY BLACK HISTORY MONTH WHERE SO MANY BLACK AMERICANS, AFRICAN AMERICANS
COLORED OR NEGROES ARE RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR PIONEERING CONTRIBUTIONS IN AMERICA
NOT ONE ATTORNEY HAS EVER ATTEMPTED TO IMPEACH THE VERACITY OF ANY DOCUMENTS FILED IN FEDERAL COURT OR IN ANY ILLINOIS CIRCUIT COURT SO A FEDERAL JUDGE IS ALIGHNING HIMSELF WITH THE ATTORNEYS AND HAS NOW BECOME A "PRIVATE CITIZEN" ACTING IN HIS OWN VOLITIA DE FACTO ATTORNEY--NOW DO ANYBODY SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS JUDGE OR WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS COURT?
11 ATTORNEYS + A JUDGE AGAINST 1 HETEROSEXUAL BROWN SKINNED MAN AS EACH ATTORNEY FROM 4 PROMINENT LAW FIRMS ARE ABLE TO EAT AND PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILIES OFF OF THE RACISM, CORRUPTION AND INJUSTICES PERPETRATED AND AUTHORED BY THE FEDERAL JUDGE.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
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 January 2, 2026, A Notice of Appeal and Jurisdictional Statement has been filed before the Northern District of Illinois .
Defendant is Appealing the January 6, and 27, 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 February 2, 2026
IN THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
U.S. BANK N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR SECURITIZED TRUST MASTR ASSET BACKED SECURITIES TRUST 2006-NC3; UBS REAL ESTATE SECURITIES INC.; MORTGAGE ASSET SECURITIZATION TRANSACTIONS, INC.; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AKA “MERS”
Plaintiff
MONZELLA Y. JOHNSON
Defendant.
______________________
Hon April Perry
Magistrate Judge
Civil Action No. 24 cv- 12195
Jurisdictional Statement
Order entered: January 6, 2026, and Jan 27, 2026
Notice of Appeal filed: February 2, 2026
The Court Plaintiff–Appellant respectfully moves this Court for a stay and injunction pending appeal of (1) 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”
Hereto attached, 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.
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.
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 Jaan 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- 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.
E- “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
F- “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.”
G- 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.
H- 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.
News about Mayor Lightfoot Calling Racism A Public Health Crisis June 17, 2021
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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 (1898–1987) 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 them—under threat of violence—to complain, protest, or advance.
Finally, protests or challenges to Jim Crow often proved futile, given law enforcement’s 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 Americans—including the innocent—suffered 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
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.”
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I Joe Louis Lawrence certify that on February. 2, 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
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
Attorneys for Defendant Equifax Information Services, LLC
/s/ Stephen D. Lozier
Stephen D. Lozier
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP
111 S. Wacker Dr, Suite 4100
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Telephone: (312) 759-3203
stephen.lozier@troutman.com
Attorneys for Defendant Experian Information Solutions, Inc
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, LTD 233 S Wacker Dr. Suite 5500 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Matthew D. Kelly mkelly@msm.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 Feb. 2, 2026 A Notice of Appeal and Jurisdictional Statement has been filed in the Northern District of Illinois Federal Court.
Respectfully submitted,
Joe Louis Lawrence
