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Woman Warrior Files Federal Suit on Child Support Issues Faces Loss of Her Children By Retaliating Family Court Judge

12/1/2016

Members of the Media Detained and Threatened While Nemick Hearing Set to Begin in Yet Another Contra Costa County Family Courtroom

Members of Jane and John Q know Tanya Nemick as a Woman Warrior, a key voice in speaking out against the unfair judges and lawyers who are attacking innocent parents in Santa Clara and Contra Costa Counties where support and custody matters are at hand.

Nemick, a competent and loving mother, has been systematically reduced to a court-described degenerate, despite operating perfectly well in society for over 40 years before she involuntarily faced family courts in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties.

Court files and records show that each time Nemick attempted to protest unfair practices or violations of due process in her support and custody matters, the family court judges circled the wagons in an effort to silence her. Such retaliation increased in intensity after Nemick filed a federal lawsuit that sought to expose attorney misconduct of Stacy Stevens, Santa Clara County's DCSS and Commissioners, as well as the Commission on Judicial Performance’s failure to assure proper administration of justice in support and custody matters.

Contra Costa and Santa Clara County Judges Protecting a Corrupt CJP ?

Just like CJP whistleblower and court refomer Joe Sweeney, Nemick has paid a heavy price for her tenacity and efforts to expose family court corruption. She has been subjected to frivilous domestic violence restraining orders (ostensibly for sending emails and text messages about her court case), and shortly after she filed her federal law suit, Judge Landau labeled Tanya as a Vexatious Litigant, making her custody and support battles even more impossible for an ADA designated pro per indigent mother.

On Wednesday, November 30, 2016, Contra Costa County Judge Leslie G. Landau continued the retaliatory conduct, as Jane and John Q members witnessed   first hand  that   bailiffs improperly handle a media request in Nemick's case, and repeatedly violate her ADA rights, as baliffs shook down members of the public who had come to observe the hearing, and participate in a Jane and John Q Court Watcher Training Program in support of Tanya.

Judge Leslie Landau's   Retaliation and Bias are a Violation of Law

In the case immediately preceding the Nemick hearing, Judge Landau demonstrated patience where two pro per litigants acted in a DV issue, and where it was not disputed the father had been arrested and was subject to a domestic violence restraining order. In that case the judge admonished the father and told him ," You are going to have to learn to be a father if you want to see your children."

The judge plainly told that father that he was going to have to learn to change diapers, feed his children on time and work on cooperative parenting with the mother. Judge Landau further told the parties she was not assigning a supervisor for that father's visitation time, and encouraged the parties to  agree on a supervisor, such as a friend or family member, to reduce the financial impact supervised visits would have on father's time with his children. Landau then extended the DV restraining order, giving only vague language on the exceptions of that order related to the father’s visitation, an admitted domestic abuser.

Before Nemick's case was called, Landau's bailiff and his supervising officer, D. Murdock #72906, spent considerable time "shaking down" a reporter and a publisher attempting to cover Nemick's hearing. Officer Murdock applied intimidation tactics in an effort to obtain and search both the reporter's and the publisher's cellphones. When Murdock's police intimidation tactics failed, he resorted to threats to subpoena the phone, in order to  view its photos and videos.

The publisher pointed out such would be a violation of the strong policy of the state and California's Shield Laws, under which the publisher affirmed her willingness and intent to protect the Jane and John Q sources and information contained on the phone.

When it became clear that members of the Jane and John Q were willing to go to jail to protect the rights and anonymity of their members, Officer Murdock released the publisher with an "admonishment" to not record in the courthouse. The police's harassing delay caused the publisher to miss the first portion of the Nemick hearing, obstructing  Jane and John Q members' right and ability to have full coverage of the critical hearing.

Jane and John Q's Court Watchers Observe Bias and Judical Retaliation

As Nemick's hearing began, Jane and John Q court watchers noted it was more than clear that Judge Landau engaged in prejudgment and bias toward Nemick, which was tempered with very carefully calculated judical langague and conduct. It was obvious the judge and had decided before the hearing that she would grant the father an extension of the Domestic Violence Restraining Order against Tanya, using the wide discretion and immunity she is afforded to do so.

While Landau had patiently guided the two pro per litigants immediately before the Nemick hearing, Landau exhibited a different tone and demeanor when dealing with Nemick, where attorney Stacy Stevens acted as a highly paid legal shield for the father.

Landau’s bias toward Nemick was plainly evidenced as she immediately referred to Nemick's vexatious litigant designation when Nemick attempted to address the impact a DV order had had on her employment prospects and ability to see her children. Landau seemed unconcerned that Nemick, now on welfare and unemployment, was required to pay $50-$75 per hour in supervised visits each hour she wanted to see her kids.

Should the State Permit Judges the Authority to Impose a "Pay to Play" Philosphy in Child Custody Cases?

In the case prior to Nemick's hearing, Landau had sua sponte (on her own without a request from anyone), and without a support or custody order before her, ordered the father to pay $525 of the mother's rent and all of her cell phone bill, and ordered that father would be allowed to use unpaid supervision to see his children, despite having formal police records that show clear and undisputed domestic violence.

Nemick will have to pay $500 to a supervisor for each visit, including to see her own son on his birthday later this month.

Unsettling Use of Domestic Violence and Vexatious Litigant Statue in Family Law Cases

Landau's conduct is not isolated. A few months earlier CJP Whistleblower and Court Reform Activist Joe Sweeney was jailed by Contra Costa Judge Mills for posting text messages to a family law blog, despite those text messages being in the public domain.

The pattern of judges misusing DV orders and civil contempt applied to innocent parents who associate with groups critical of family courts is an alarming trend that can no longer be dismissed as “judicial mistakes." At the same time family court judges appear to be "framing" innocent parents, these same judges appear willing to give a free pass to parents with highly paid lawyers and parental history of alcohol, drug use and physical violence, even when indicted by county Grand Juries.

Jane and John Q members are reporting that judges are all too willing to criminalize parents for emails, or for tossing a piece of paper at a spouse's lawyer, while embroiled in the emotional issues of child support and custody matters, yet unwilling to address conduct of parents who are known to have committed physical assault and abuse, when those parents have money and legal representation. This judical condcut appears to be supported by a by toothless county proceutors in counties like Santa Clara and Contra Costa that exhibit a  well documented history of failing to properly address support and property divisions in child support cases, where the poorer parent appears to suffer from lack of legal parity and poverty shaming, is a matter that is long overdue for federal intervention, and it shouldn’t require innocent parents like Tanya Nemick to do the job the federal government is obligated to do.

Equally alarming is the extreme abuse of discretion, judicial incompetence, administrative failures and flagrant violations of due process related to support, abetted by toothless county proceutors in counties like Santa Clara and Contra Costa that exhibit a  well documented history of failing to properly address support and property divisions in child support cases, where the poorer parent appears to suffer from lack of legal parity and poverty shaming , is a matter that is long overdue for federal intervention, and it shouldn’t require innocent parents like Tanya Nemick to do the job the federal government is obligated to do.

Do Californians Really Want Good Parents like Tanya Nemick Kept from Their Children While Known Celebrity Domestic Abusers are Allowed to go Scott Free?

7 Comments

Mary Jane

12/1/2016 11:52:46 am

This corruption and retaliation against innocent decent parents who speak up has to stop. My letter about my case sent to support the audit of the board of judicial review is below...This is only a small part of the terrorism that was perpetrated against me. I have 2 bogus restraining orders on me now......
Christopher.craig@asm.ca.gov

Christopher, per our conversation earlier today am emailing you a broad glimpse of my case. Please glance over and consider the next two pages as a sobering prelude to the following pages in my trying to describe briefly what the Board of Judicial Review, by not investigating a rogue judge with a personal agenda of harming me, allowed to go on and get out of control. Judge David Gunn’s abuse of power and utilizing the color of the law to hide a personal agenda of abuse, retaliation, perjury and fraud was a nightmare beyond belief. I believe what I was criminally subjected to and survived so far, seen in it’s entirety with all the documents and evidence I have, is a powerful case against the board for not investigating my valid serious complaints over a judge exhibiting “outrageous” behavior who with full knowledge, of the danger and my situation, did not care that he was encouraging and inciting the intent to murder me. I am not afraid of transparency, those responsible are afraid to the point I cannot safely walk into court present my evidence, be granted due process, be heard and the law followed. Lawyers have repeatedly run the other direction seeing the evidence of a judges perjury. . My case is so corrupt now and my credibility so destroyed by this perjury, false allegations, libel and slander by court officials with so many other people and entities now involved and affected because the Board of Judicial Review did not stop a rogue, corrupt judge. Corruption does spread like a cancer. Let my case help you stop it and demand that the Board of Judicial Review do what they are paid to do.

Consider, you married a divorced person but because a judge committed perjury, fabricated legal documents not based on any facts, evidence or reality you did not know that person was homicidal, very disturbed, unstable and paranoid schizophrenic. Reading those documents not based on any reality, you were kept in the dark that it was a severe domestic violence divorce case in which the former spouse fled the state to avoid being murdered. You were conned into a relationship with this person because you believed that “if a judge writes it it must be true”. You do not know that a judge willfully ignored the evidence because he was biased due to his own personal agenda against that spouse. You do not know that his former spouse refused to sign those documents because they were fraudulent and not based on any facts or evidence. You are not made aware that there was no explanation or legal backing for any of the judges false statements because it was impossible to produce evidence to back those statements. Or are you made aware that the judge slid them by unsigned by her, fraudulently declared her divorced and willfully put her at even more risk of homicide, blocked her appeal driving her to flee yet another state for her safety and go into hiding. These facts have been withheld from you so all you see is what the judge wrote and go blindly and naively into a relationship with this delusional, coercive and very dangerous person who is now using and setting you up, like his children, as a pawn to serve his psychotic delusional mind set..

Consider you are a relative, former neighbor or friend of the couple. You are naive about the wife trying to escape an increasingly pathological dangerous domestic violence situation. You are being conned by the man, who is still intent on murdering her believing his projections of his own insanity onto her, because the homicidal abuser shows you documents fabricated by a judge that have no basis in reality. Seeing and believing those, you naively believe a deadly and disturbed man and enable him in manipulating and pressuring his own children into “pretending nothing is going on”,keeping them in danger and helping him in alienating the “escaped being murdered” protective parent who is very aware and has undisputable proof of how dangerous and disturbed their father really is which you never see because you believe the judge over her. You begin to believe she is the disturbed one, because you cannot believe a judge would allow and collude in something so criminal or the man, who very like Scott Peterson who cold bloodedly murdered his wife and child, was not what he seemed to be.

Consider you are a traumatized young adult child who’s mother flees your home saying your father is acting insane, stalking, terrorizing, gaslighting, raping and is threatening to kill her. Your disturbed father had already started his coercive control and abuse of you because he needed to use and mani

12/1/2016 11:59:47 am

Since my last comment did not print my whole letter I am adding what was cut off by word limit...
manipulate you to hide his paranoid schizophrenic intent to murder your mother while she was living there. His delusional coercive control escalates after your mother escapes, the judge and the court do not stop your father with each destructive, illegal and terrifying act he does even though they have been given Supreme Court ruled “not to be ignored” forensic profiles on how dangerous and unstable he is from two sources.. You don’t understand why and fall farther into his cult like delusions and crazy making tactics..Deep down like your mother, you are afraid of him but still love him and still want to be in denial while she, in order to save her life, cannot afford the luxury of denial anymore.

The judge is allowing your forensically profiled deadly and disturbed father to continue to terrorize your mother in the most horrific way in court while the judge is also doing his own style of terrorism while intimidating and coddling her attorneys to back off and commit malpractice. Your father uses that, saying “no lawyer wants to represent your mom” she is crazy. Your mother is now being “mobbed” and “Gang stalked” like Medwar wrote about that being a severe federal crime. You are as naive as your mother use to be about the criminal acts a judge can get away with committing, so you are more easily manipulated by your father into believing his and the judges lies and you become coerced, set up and intimidated into becoming a part of the “mob” harming your own mother to save yourself. You have to bury the horrific guilt and shame over your counterintuitive part in harming her as you are pulled further into a shared psychotic disorder by your father and his “projections” because the judge committed perjury, fraud and worse towards your severely abused mother.

Your mother is traumatized, in shock, scared to death and she has told you your father is refusing to take himself off as beneficiary of a $100,000 life insurance policy on her, she is terrified with him plotting and planning to murder her for the money like he was when she was at home and the judge with full knowledge of her terror is letting that go on. You do not understand why the insurance company will not stop him without a court order and why the judge would refuse to give her that court order, would declare her divorced while letting your dangerous father remain as beneficiary after all the destruction, terrorism, perjury and fraud upon the court he has committed so far. You do not believe your mother when she tells you that Primerica Life then allowed your father, because of the judge ignoring the obvious, to go in take off the domestic violence red flag and put in a password so she could not find out what he increased the policy to.

You do not understand why the judge allowed your father to illegally quit paying the mortgage on the home that is in your mother’s name and refused to get out per the first judges orders before Judge Gunn inserted himself and allowed him to make it unsafe for her to ever go back there. Allowed him to destroy her prior good credit, try to extort her, slander, libel, he cut off her health insurance, car insurance and phone, is stealing property and investments that are rightfully hers along with continuous covert stalking , torturing, threatening and terrorizing her and you, her own children to stay away from her to isolate his prey while she suffers the worst torture of maternal and grandparental deprivation which is your father’s intention when he told her he would destroy everything she loved if she escaped.. You do not know your father is forging yours, hers and others signatures, putting you on bogus corporations to hide assets and using your name to manipulate others and terrorize your mother. Your mother knows, is trying to protect you from that and the judge is ignoring the evidence.

You know your mom is living in a protected address program now and you cannot acknowledge that. You do respond one time to her because you are now terrified of what your father has gotten you into and ask her “if dad goes to jail how will that change anything” because he has set you up to take the fall if he goes down, then you take it out on her because you are so trapped, intimidated, dissociative and exhibiting “splitting” pathology. Your father”s corruptive crazy making influence has you split off from your true self. You are afraid to be around your mom now, you might get killed too by your father so you dissociate, start abusing her in a domestic violence by proxy scenario, a decent mother you loved, to stay safe from your father hurting you and your own family which he has threatened your mom with doing. Your delusional dangerous father keeps waving that fabricated, perjurous document by the j

12/1/2016 12:04:37 pm

my ongoing comments to expose a judge from the perpective of all the other people, including my children, who are severely harmed by a corrupt judge need to be heard so will continue my last comment.... Your delusional dangerous father keeps waving that fabricated, perjurous document by the judge and says “see, the judge said this and this and this, believe him, believe me. No one will help your mother now and no one will help you either” and he takes you further down into severe dangerous parental alienation of the mother you once loved.

That is the prelude and my children are so damaged now I may never recover my former God given bond as their mother or see them or my grandchildren alive or ever again if action is not taken to bring to light the criminal, outrageous, malicious and very illegal actions by this judge and other court officials and employees who covered for him knowingly or unknowingly.

**Thank you for taking into account the above before proceeding to the rest. It matters.

My case in Riverside county RID233625 and then Orange County 14D007211 is a prime example of the horror of criminal retaliation and out of control, destruction, torture and terrorism that happens when the Board of Judicial Review does not investigate blatant perjury, fraud and threats by a judge with a personal agenda that has nothing to do with following the law, This judge committing “willful blindness”, with full knowledge of the survivors terror, ignored blatant delusional and terrifying homicidal intent towards a severe Domestic Violence Survivor by a forensically profiled dangerous, paranoid schizophrenic and capable of murder spouse whom she filed for divorce and fled the state to save her life. It is a miracle I am still alive and sane. My young adult children are now saddled with the horrible burden of enabling a dangerous mentally ill father who will destroy them if they have anything to do with their own mother and my hands were tied in protecting them or myself. I and they are expendable now as the court will protect a judge and his cronies also involved now ensuring I will never see justice.

Due to the Board of Judicial Review violating their duty to investigate a rogue and very corrupt judge in Riverside County, my case spiraled so out of control with so much damage done to me that now an investigation would encompass 6 judges, a commissioner, two counties, 3 court reporters that I know of for certain who altered transcripts, court clerks who sent threatening letters and coddled, intimidated attorneys who committed malpractice to protect the judge's interest and their own backs instead of their clients. I have so much documented evidence of this nightmare beyond comprehension. Below is only a small portion of the insane destruction of my whole life and my young adult children may never recover.

Why do you think a criminal court judge, former DA who previously incarcerated a Domestic Violence victim and then was forced to apologize to her, a judge who was quoted in the Riverside Law Magazine, May 2010 "the only experience I have in family law is that I got a divorce", why would this judge insert himself into a severe high conflict divorce case, that had already started with another judge. Willfully and with full knowledge ignore the plight of a woman who fled the state for her safety after threats of being murdered, ignore all evidence and documents, commit perjury, fraud, encourage, incite and then collude in a forensically profiled “unstable agressive, paranoid schizophrenic, dangerous” spouses blatant continued intent to murder her for profit?

Why would this Judge violate all judicial codes of ethics and conduct, fabricate legal documents ( perjury) not based on any facts or evidence, have transcripts altered, go back to the criminal court bench and have a series of other judges and a commissioner help beat her up. Why would this judge intimidate and coddle every attorney she hired to back off and commit malpractice?

Why would this judge ignore professional forensic profiles on this woman's husband that stated how dangerous, paranoid schizophrenic and capable of murder he was? Why would a judge knowing a woman was terrified ignore her begging to have her husband psychologically tested at UCLA where his mother was tested, knowing his sister had tried to kill her husband and daughter and was committed, stating in transcripts that, unlike other judges, "he did not have the authority to order psychological testing?

Why would a judge knowing this allow and encourage a dangerous man to continue to hold himself as beneficiary of a red flagged DV $100,000 life insurance policy on her life refusing to give her the court order to get him off? This judge knowing the woman was terrified, under horrific duress, forced to fly in repeatedly hiding in hotel rooms. That this judge had allowed this very disturbed man to destroy her home ignoring previous cou

12/1/2016 12:09:59 pm

continued from previous comment.......
a red flagged DV $100,000 life insurance policy on her life refusing to give her the court order to get him off? This judge knowing the woman was terrified, under horrific duress, forced to fly in repeatedly hiding in hotel rooms. That this judge had allowed this very disturbed man to destroy her home ignoring previous court orders to move out, destroy her credit, quit paying her health and car insurance, that he was terrorizing and blatantly using their children to help harm and isolate her, his prey, yet this judge with full knowledge sadistically kept this woman watching her back terrified for her life and the lives of her young adult children.

Why would this judge, (after I sent a complaint to the board of Judical Review who investigated nothing just like the article "Rogues in Robes" in the Orange coast magazine said they would do nothing), have a fax clerk send this woman who is being stalked and still threatened by a dangerous man, a letter from the court in a blank envelope with no government return address with "FATAL ERROR" written in red concerning a fax # claiming that a fax number, that had been good all along, was now wrong when it wasn't and with 4 ways to contact me that was now "FATAL". That was a direct criminal threat on my life by the court that added to the terror I was already living under. I live in hiding now, not just because of my husband's threats on my life. When does a fax number become a “Fatal error”. Never. Board of Judicial Review ignored that criminal threat, too along with the blatant perjury by a judge that destroyed my credibility and drove my children deeper into the pull of the delusional reality of a severely disturbed, crazy making and dangerous father who’s intent was to cause the death of their mother.

Why did this judge fabricate a Statement of Decision, toss aside a motion to reconsider all of the perjury he committed on that document, and file a subsequent judgment based on that statement of decision that was so far from any reality of my case and further destroy my credibility. Keeping me in danger, Judge Gunn did not notify me or my attorney of a hearing, and slid it by unserved and unsigned by me (I would never sign a fraudulent document and he knew it). Declare me divorced with my deadly husband still beneficiary upon my death. My dangerous and severely disturbed spouse used these fraudulent documents to con his next victim into a relationship with him. God help her. Judge David Gunn, not only endangered my life, his perjury and total misrepresentation of my case put many others in danger.

My children and grandchildren being the most important to me. Judge Gunn by his criminal acts against their mother saddled my children with the burden of dealing with a severely disturbed father, (with the rare and horrific genetic issues of Huntington’s disease and paranoid schizophrenia in his family line) on their own. Their mother fighting to have this horror investigated so a doorway for them to find their way out might open as it is not safe for them to do that without that. All they have seen is their mother destroyed and slandered in court when she spoke up and stood up and threatened and severely harmed by their father for standing up and speaking out.

Why was my appeal accepted as filed on time and after paying for and waiting 5 months for transcripts, into the response portion I get a letter that it was not filed on time and thrown out? Why was this whole fraudulent mess then, against my valid objections, thrown into the Orange County Court system so they could rule based on fraudulent documents. This is not even half of what was done to me at the hands of corrupt Riverside Court Officials. What was Judge David Gunn paid or favors given to him for him to do this to me and my children. I have a good idea why this judge used my disturbed spouse as a patsy to harm me seriously and I hope to God it is not true, is not tied to the eminent domain case, RIC456132, I prevailed in over my store in Riverside county (newspaper article) and that the thug tactics I endured with that was not carried over into my divorce case as pay back. It became too outrageous and criminal to not tie the two together. It would be just too sick if Judge Gunn was only taking his divorce out on me and that level of bias was in play, but then like he is quoted as saying “the only thing he knows about family law is that he got a divorce”. To bad I was not given that information about him when he inserted himself into my case as that does not bode well in getting an impartial judge.

Sincerely,

Mary Jane Pederson
Costa Mesa, California

disgusted

12/2/2016 10:27:24 am

SAME! except Probate. Contra Costa County MOB consciousness murderous child abusing women hating thugs.

12/2/2016 11:45:02 am

USAA THUGS in cahoots w/Haithcock bros n co. Judge JH Sugiyama, LYING, Racketeering attys: Kathryn Korn, Rick Collari, Terence Doyle, Carolyn Cain, Aaron Feldman and the mobster-in-conflict, fake gal "mediator"/facilitated no-meet-er, court-anointed/appointed/aporoved/exhaulted LIAR, Ronald K Mullin(Robert Bolt/Stan Pedder Lawyer Referral's set up as pro tems, and NO ONE BATS AN EYE.

Warriormom

10/10/2020 02:17:53 pm

I have been & still am being retaliated on by judge Leslie Landau. I may have been anitially a tired & emotional mom. This judge is TOTALLY unprofessional & MUCH more emotional in court. Plus she assumes to ignore thus seeming to have trouble hearing & understanding. Too angry & mean to be a lawful judge. I will DEFINITELY eventually get to people who are able to/ powerful enough to help my struggle with this judge. She has a BAAAAD track record in how she handles people AND their cases.

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