Up until only a few decades ago many state and federal judges practiced sua sponte judicial review when dealing with lawsuits filed by self-represented / pro se litigants. Consequently, many of those pro se lawsuits were quickly and justifiably deemed meritless and summarily dismissed sua sponte.

The previous practice of sua sponte judicial review of pro se lawsuits needs to be codified into law NOW to put an end to the time consuming, expensive blight of meritless lawsuits filed by harassing, abusive pro se litigants that are flooding our courts. There is simply no good reason for the courts to participate in the deliberate and obvious intentions of abusive pro se litigants to weaponize the courts for the sole purpose of harassment and damaging innocent people’s finances and reputations.

The foundational principle of the U.S. Constitution and of state constitutions is fair and equal treatment under the law for everyone. As with any civil right, the 1^st, 5^th and 14^th Amendments were never intended to empower abusive litigants to violate the actual civil rights of innocent people to life, liberty and property (14^th Amendment). The current judicial practice enabling and empowering pro se litigants to weaponize the court system by filing abusive, frivolous lawsuits against innocent victims is unconstitutional in that it gives pro se litigants unbridled power – for no just cause – to do significant undeserved and unjust damage to innocent parties’ finances (property) and reputations, thereby depriving innocent victims from having undisturbed lives free of harassment, constraints, and threats to their livelihood. Sua sponte judicial review of pro se litigants’ lawsuits is completely constitutional because such a process ensures that no innocent party incurs undue and unjustified defense and financial burdens. Sua sponte judicial review also ensures that the court process is respected. Requiring all pro se litigants’ lawsuits to undergo good sense sua sponte judicial review would weed out frivolous, meritless, harassing lawsuits filed by many if not most pro se litigants.

Oftentimes abusive pro se litigants are vindictive, mentally unstable individuals, and increasingly more abusive pro se litigants are religious fanatics, leaders of cults/coercive groups/new religious movements or their followers. These harassing, frivolous lawsuits filed by abusive pro se litigants are clogging the courts and preventing legitimate cases from getting timely hearings. 

Lawsuits cannot be ignored.  If defendants do not respond to a lawsuit by filing an Appearance, an Answer, a Motion for Dismissal, etc., then a default judgment will be entered against the defendant for whatever monetary amounts, injunctions, etc. that the plaintiff requested.  At that point the defendant is notified that a default judgment has been entered and the defendant has a certain amount of time to respond to the court, such as asking the court to set aside the default judgment.  If a defendant is not notified of either a lawsuit or a default judgment or never responds to either the initial lawsuit notification or to the default judgment notification then the plaintiff can use that default judgment to seize the defendant’s assets, freeze bank accounts, and garnish wages.

Requiring preliminary sua sponte judicial review of all pro se litigants’ lawsuits would be very similar to the process that prosecutors’ offices have to take in order to obtain arrest warrants. State or district attorneys’ offices must present compelling proof before a judge in order to obtain arrest warrants. Yet in civil court pro se litigants (and sometimes unethical attorneys) can quite literally file preposterous claims – for example claiming that the defendants are aliens from another galaxy planting electrodes in the pro se litigants’ brains, or claiming that Jesus or some other supernatural entity is commanding them to “expose the wicked deeds of darkness” that they claim innocent defendants are committing against them – and those lawsuits are accepted by the court with no questions asked. For too many of these outrageous, baseless cases the court sets up hearings after time-consuming, costly hearings spanning not mere months but oftentimes years. In many cases the judges put pressure on the defendants to “settle” with the abusive, harassing pro se litigant, thereby actually putting pressure on innocent parties to reward the abusive litigant’s behavior. Could you imagine a prosecutor’s office being able to obtain instantaneous arrest warrants simply by accusing an innocent person – without one shred of proof – of being “demon possessed” or of being an alien from another galaxy intent on taking control of earth, or any number of other bizarre, completely unsubstantiated claims? Judicial review already exists for the issuance of arrest warrants, and judges are required to practice judicial review toward pro se litigants who have pre-filing injunctions and restrictions against them due to their previous attempts to bring meritless, abusive lawsuits against innocent parties. The same standard for sua sponte judicial review – which used to be practiced by many good sense judges in previous decades – needs to be codified into law for all civil cases filed by pro se litigants.

There is no way our courts’ current practice of empowering abusive pro se litigants to weaponize the court system by filing obviously meritless lawsuits against innocent people can even remotely qualify as constitutional. Victims of abusive, meritless pro se litigants are automatically presumed guilty and are usually forced by necessity to pay exorbitant amounts of money in attorney fees to defend themselves from false and defamatory lawsuit claims, oftentimes against pro se litigants who keep repeatedly filing their meritless lawsuits without restraint. Even when pre-filing injunctions that require judicial review of any subsequent lawsuits are finally imposed on abusive litigants there are either very little or no punitive consequences taken against them to provide real-world relief to their victims. The harsh reality of our present court system is that even when judges place monetary judgments against abusive litigants the victims can rarely collect on those judgments.

In efforts working alongside Tennessee legislators and obtaining facts for the publication of this website my husband and I discovered that a number of judges themselves want a judicial review law or other similar laws that will empower them to screen pro se lawsuits so as to quickly dismiss meritless, harassing pro se lawsuits before these pro se litigants can do damage to their intended victims (are these judges not aware that they already possess the power to issue sua sponte dismissals of meritless pro se lawsuits?).  We also discovered that a number of court clerks reported feeling threatened or at least very uneasy around many pro se litigants.  Court clerks stated that it was their belief or that they witnessed firsthand that judges and other court staff have also felt threatened and uneasy around many pro se litigants. These court clerks also stated that whereas judges in courtrooms have security staff at the ready, court clerks have to call security to come to their aid.  One court clerk stated that he has been asking the judges in the court where he works to practice judicial review of pro se litigants’ lawsuits so as to summarily dismiss many of these lawsuits because of how often these meritless, abusive and time-consuming lawsuits are filed without any legal basis or legitimate claims.  Court clerks also expressed their belief that court filing fees are badly outdated and need to be raised to reflect actual current court costs and the overall increase in the general public’s income levels.  Court clerks unanimously reported wholehearted support for proposed legislation calling for judicial review of lawsuits filed by pro se / self-represented litigants.  Other states’ court staff most likely share the same observations and support for judicial review laws as their colleagues have in Tennessee.

In 2019 my husband and I worked with our Tennessee legislators to encourage their support of the 2019 Tennessee Public Participation Act, which was signed into law by Governor Bill Lee and went into effect July 1, 2019.  This law is also referred to as an anti-SLAPP law (short for anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation).  This law provides judges the power to dismiss with prejudice very quickly in one single hearing any meritless lawsuit, whether filed by a pro se litigant or by a litigant with an attorney, that violates a defendant’s responsible free speech right or other Constitutionally protected rights.  This law also provides for a judge to award attorney fees and court costs against a plaintiff who tries to silence any person’s responsible free speech right or prevent the free exercise of any other Constitutionally protected right.  We are continuing to work with our Tennessee legislators to propose and enact more constitutional bills aimed at protecting victims.

In April, 2015 my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks filed pro se his third lawsuit against us in Connecticut, where my husband and I had not lived since September, 2013.  We had not published our website since March, 2013 so any claims my brother made were past the two-year statute of limitations for filing a lawsuit.  After multiple phone calls to attorneys who used the standard statements that they will not take cases involving a pro se plaintiff, we were finally able to find a young attorney named Brandon Marley who promised to fight our case aggressively.  As events unfolded we have every reason to believe that Attorney Marley equated our desperation with dollar signs.  Despite our insistence, Attorney Marley failed to cite Connecticut’s statute of limitations prohibiting my brother Ken Parks from filing pro se his baseless lawsuit against us, failed to cite that most of my brother Ken’s Complaint didn’t state a claim for which relief could be granted, and he failed to properly cite other precedent cases.  Consequently, although most of my brother Ken’s baseless pro se lawsuit was dismissed, one part remained undismissed.  

Public court records bear out the fact that after two and a half years of unethical delay tactics over our protests, Attorney Marley failed to obey the court’s scheduling order date for filing a Summary Judgment near the end of 2017.  We contacted a number of other attorneys who confirmed this was a very serious issue and they advised us to contact the senior attorney where Attorney Marley worked.  We contacted the senior attorney in the firm and asked him to “light a fire” under Attorney Marley to just do his job.  Instead, after reviewing our case, the senior attorney took over our case, had to refile motions that Attorney Marley had done poorly, and filed a hard-hitting Summary Judgment and Motion for Non-Suit against my brother Ken Parks.  Due to motions filed by the senior attorney the court also ordered my brother Ken to produce tax records, medical records and other documents that my brother claimed he had, but he failed to obey that order.  My brother Ken Parks, filing as Pastor Kenneth Parks, then filed pro se his fourth lawsuit against us in Washington County, Tennessee in 2018 while virtually the same lawsuit was still pending in New London, Connecticut court and while he was refusing to comply with the Connecticut court’s orders.  Very shortly after the senior attorney filed the Summary Judgment and Motion for Non-Suit, my brother Ken Parks apparently recognized that a judgment was impending against him and withdrew his Connecticut lawsuit with prejudice, even though he had filed virtually the same lawsuit against us in Tennessee.  My brother Ken Parks also filed a rambling screed against the New London, Connecticut judges and the senior attorney, claiming he was exposing their “wicked deeds of darkness.”  Whereas Attorney Brandon Marley had taken two and a half years to do virtually nothing for us to end my brother’s baseless, defamatory, libelous lawsuit (which was beyond the statute of limitations), the senior attorney shut down my brother Ken lawsuit in about three months.  As of early January, 2018, Attorney Brandon Marley was no longer employed at the senior attorney’s law firm (apparently fired?).  Attorney Brandon Marley’s very poor handling of our case – as demonstrated in his own public court filings in our case – is public record.  The senior attorney gave us some monetary compensation for Attorney Brandon Marley’s poor handling of our case.

We reported irrefutable proof of Attorney Brandon Marley’s violations of various codes of professional conduct to Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee (again, court records are public records).  In his response Attorney Marley contradicted himself, bragging about his experience and accomplishments, yet then claimed that because he was only a junior attorney any mistakes he made were all the senior attorney’s fault.  Interestingly, Attorney Marley admitted that there was an “acrimonious departure” from the senior attorney’s law firm.  Yet Attorney Gregory Benoit, who heads Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee’s review panel for New London County, used a wrong address to mail to us one of the Committee’s notices, and Attorney Benoit ignored the documentation and facts we presented (if he and the review panel even read our complaint) and he ignored what appear to be at least partial self-incriminating statements made by Attorney Marley.  Attorney Benoit made glaring factual errors (such as dates and other factual details found in the public record) in his short explanation dismissing our complaint against Attorney Brandon Marley.  Legal malpractice attorneys we spoke with confirmed to us that Attorney Marley did indeed violate the professional codes of conduct and should have been disciplined.  Those attorneys also told us that they believe that Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee falls short too many times in failing to discipline offending attorneys, especially young attorneys, who clearly violate the professional codes of conduct.  We found one case that highlights how questionably the Statewide Grievance Committee operates, yet without any consequences for that, at best, questionable behavior:  Read about it here.

Based upon probate court records, what my husband and I and others have eye-witnessed, and letters I have in my possession, it is reasonable to conclude that my three other older brothers have also supported and assisted my brother Ken Parks in his defamation, stalking, and threatening campaign against me, our mother, and others. For a few years in the early 2000s some of my brothers expressed to me and our mother disagreement and disapproval of our brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks’ defamation and stalking, but that was apparently a ruse they employed against me and our mother to try to gain our trust. My four older brothers’ violation of trust has been my life-long eye-witnessed personal experience. I have also witnessed all of my life that all four of my older brothers have expressed contempt for “religious” people and I believe that their stated active support of our brother Ken “Parks demonstrates that they appear to find it amusing at how readily he can dupe “stupid Christians” into believing all of his religious jargon.

My mother told me that my brothers resented her when she was pregnant with me and I know from my own lifetime of experiences that my older brothers have expressed in words and actions that they have hated me since I was born (probably since before I was born). Over time my brothers would periodically give the impression that they had finally “grown up” but their words and actions giving that initial impression were always demonstrated to be deceptive ploys to gain my trust and my mother’s trust. In later decades both my mother and I refused to have them interfere in our lives after too many episodes of violated trust. I personally witnessed that all my brothers showed violence and disrespect in varying degrees against our parents. My mother related to me several times that they acted that way since their early childhood, even before I was born. Their malevolence toward and disrespect of family and others has worsened from what I have witnessed in their pre-teen years up to the present.

Below is an excerpt of a letter my brother Ken Parks wrote to our mother and to me in early 1980. In the following letter he refers to the condemnation he pronounced against me and accuses me of being under the influence of Satan due to the common seasonal cold I had.

My mother’s final Will cut out all four of my brothers from any inheritance or decisions regarding her estate.  She made this decision after decades of trying fruitlessly to help my brothers and reason with them to stop their abusive, destructive behaviors.  After decades of lies, treachery, financial damage, verbal and physical abuse, vandalism, online defamation and threats against her and others, she made her final wishes regarding my brothers known in her Last Will and Testament.  My mother made me her sole inheritor and executrix for all decisions regarding her estate and final wishes.  My husband and a couple who had been her very good neighbors were made consecutive co-executors in the event of my death or incapacitation.  My mother passed away in 2012 and, in accordance with my mother’s wishes, none of my disrespectful, malevolent brothers were notified of her death due to my mother’s valid concerns that my brothers would disrupt her funeral and harass those attending her funeral.

Since late 2017, my brother Ken Parks, has claimed in his lawsuit filings, without any basis in reality, that my mother’s attorney and I forged her Will.  In late 2018 and again in late 2019 my brother Ken Parks and my other three brothers attempted, and failed, to gain custody of my mother’s remains, outrageously claiming to the probate judge that I, my mother’s attorney, and the witness to my mother’s Will “forged” her signature and her entire Will.  Prior to the first probate court hearing, my brother Ken Parks tried to file yet another police complaint against me in Groton, Connecticut, claiming that I committed the crime of forging my mother’s signature and Will (see record of 2018 police report).  My brother Ken Parks has tried several times to file false charges against us in Colchester and Groton, Connecticut, and he has threatened to file baseless criminal charges against us in Georgia and Tennessee.

My brother Ken Parks further defamed me during the Groton, CT probate hearing in late 2018 by claiming that I “threatened” the cemetery director of the cemetery where my parents’ gravesite is located. I have never threatened the cemetery director or anyone else in my life.  My brother then elaborated on his lie by outrageously (and, of course, falsely) claiming in the 2019 Groton, CT probate hearing that there was a protective order issued against me by the cemetery director.  My husband and I can only assume that he is publishing that same lie in private online posts and other communications to his cult followers and his “friends” in order to deceive them into giving him sympathy, inciting them to harass us on his behalf, and most likely persuading them to give him financial support.

One way or another, my brothers found out about my mother’s death about a year after she died.  In May, 2013 they immediately began to harass cemetery directory Jim Davis of Elm Grove Cemetery to intimidate him into telling them where our parents were buried.  Not one of my brothers even knew where our parents were buried, which by itself I believe speaks volumes about how estranged they were from both my father and mother.  Elm Grove Cemetery director Jim Davis assured me repeatedly that he would not give my brothers that information and that he would pursue police action against them if they kept harassing or threatening him.

In late spring, 2013 cemetery director Jim Davis gave us permission to mount a security camera at my parents’ gravesite due to persistent harassment from my brothers and concerns that my husband and I had and that the cemetery director Davis told us he also had that my brothers would commit vandalism in the cemetery.  Cemetery director Davis gave us permission to mount the security camera aimed at my parents’ gravesite.  Cemetery director Davis also told us he mounted a security camera at his residence located on the Elm Grove Cemetery grounds and he told me it was solely because of the alarm caused by my brothers.  At one point the cemetery director issued the following letter to my brothers (since I only had my brother Ken Parks’ current address, his letters to my other three brothers were returned as undeliverable):

I received a call from cemetery director Jim Davis in July, 2013 in which he informed me that one of my brothers had entered the cemetery grounds, tried to attack him in front of his child, and threatened to sue him unless he told him where our mother’s gravesite is located.  I asked him if he called the police and he said he had but he was uncertain about filing a police report.  I asked him why he would call me to tell me what one of my brothers did to him in front of his child if he wasn’t going to pursue charges against my brother since I couldn’t do anything to stop my brothers.  I told him that especially because he lived on the Elm Grove Cemetery grounds he needed to file a police report for arrest against that brother or he would experience more problems from my brothers against him, his family and against the cemetery.  He promised me he would file a police report, but when I called the police about what the cemetery director told me in his phone call to me the police informed me cemetery director Jim Davis had not requested to file a police report against my brother, so they called him for his account of what happened.

The following police report demonstrates that one of my other brothers harassed cemetery Jim Davis director and that initially a no trespass order was issued against that brother.  This brother also has a long history of filing meritless, abusive pro se lawsuits (threat of lawsuit is mentioned in the police report below), including having filed a pro se lawsuit against our mother in retaliation for the justifiable protective order she got against him just prior to his release from a New Hampshire prison.  In the following police report, this brother deceitfully gave to the police my deceased mother’s former address as his current address (the same house address that in 2013 my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks had apparently vandalized and where he had been ordered in early 2014 to stop trespassing and harassing the new owners of my mother’s former house and my mother’s former neighbors).

Immediately after being threatened with lawsuit by one of my brothers cemetery director Davis breached his contractual duties to the written rules and regulations of Elm Grove Cemetery Association to keep the cemetery safe from trespassers and anyone unwanted in the cemetery, and he breached his verbal promise to me based on the cemetery association’s written rules and regulations by informing one of my brothers where our parents’ gravesite was located and allowing them entrance into the cemetery.  Cemetery director Jim Davis “caved in” to my brother(s)’ threats of lawsuit and told one of my brothers, who had the no-trespassing order issued against him, where our parents’ gravesite is.  Consequently years of predictable harassment by my brothers ensued.  Since that time, my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, his wife Joni Parks and his other brothers have repeatedly shown disrespect to me, to our parents’ gravesite, and to cemetery director Davis where my parents are buried.

Cemetery director Jim Davis requested several times throughout the following years that I keep him informed of any time I believed my brothers would be in Connecticut or be at our parents’ gravesite, and I followed through on his request.  He verbally told both my husband and me over many years’ time that he did not want any of my brothers in Elm Grove Cemetery, in contradiction to what the 2013 police report stated.  The police verbally told me that cemetery director Davis kept giving them conflicting accounts of what he wanted, telling them at times he did not want my brothers trespassing in the cemetery and then telling them he “changed his mind.”  The captain of the police department told me this was frustrating for the police officers.  The impression my husband and I received consistently from cemetery director Jim Davis was that he was fearful that my brothers singly or together would file one of their pro se lawsuits against him.

During my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks’ Connecticut 2015 pro se lawsuit against us he traveled from Georgia to Connecticut for hearings, and while he was in Connecticut for hearings he went to the Elm Grove Cemetery.  The cemetery security camera shows that he removed respectful items I had placed at my parents’ gravesite when I visited Connecticut prior to the hearings (I never attended hearings due to safety concerns).  My brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks also placed disrespectful objects at both my parents’ stone monument and at my mother’s VA marker.  I continued to make cemetery director Davis and the police aware of these problems.  I was told the police left messages with my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks telling him to stop disrespecting my parents’ gravesite.  I also informed cemetery director Davis when the security camera photos showed strange men loitering around my parents’ gravesite, such as around Mother’s Day and one month after my mother’s May 2^nd birthday at all hours of the day and night.  In one set of photos a man is seen throughout much of the afternoon repeatedly urinating on a tree right near where my mother is buried.  Cemetery director Davis told us he also suspected my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks of inciting these men to loiter around my parents’ gravesite night and day, and he told us he consequently gave my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks a phone call strongly warning him against inciting people to loiter around my parents’ gravesite or anywhere else in Elm Grove Cemetery.  The loitering incidents stopped after cemetery director Davis told us he called my brother.

I followed all cemetery director Davis’ instructions and requests to keep him notified of whenever I knew or suspected that my brothers would be in Elm Grove Cemetery.  Cemetery director Davis also initiated calls to me to inform me of continued unwanted contact from my brothers.  But after years of my brothers’ harassment and their apparent threats of lawsuit against cemetery director Davis, he repeatedly failed to carry through on his assurances to me to keep them out of Elm Grove Cemetery and by doing so cemetery director Davis continued to breach his contractual duties to safeguard the cemetery according to Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s written rules and regulations regarding refusing anyone at their discretion from entering the cemetery, and by failing to keep his promises and assurances to me to keep my brothers out of the cemetery.

In the fall of 2018 my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks was outed by people on Facebook for running a ministry “scam” (he is on at least Facebook and Spreely).  He immediately posted on his public Facebook pages his false accusations against my husband and me claiming that we had contacted Facebook and spread lies about him on Facebook, resulting in his “ministries” donations page being shut down by Facebook.  Again, we’re not on Facebook and we did not contact Facebook – but we are very grateful to other people taking seriously the deceitful and predatory actions of my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks and for reporting his suspected fraud to Facebook (are they also being stalked, harassed, defamed, threatened with police action or pro se lawsuits, or actually had lawsuits filed against them pro se by my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks?).  Immediately after this happened – and just prior to the Washington County, TN judge ruling to dismiss my brother’s fourth pro se lawsuit against us and issuing a judgment and injunction against him – I got a call from cemetery director Jim Davis telling me that he “had to” remove the security camera, claiming that three different people complained about it.  I reminded him that as recently as May, 2017 he and the police had told my husband and me that they wanted the security camera to stay mounted because of ongoing problems with my brothers.  I reminded cemetery director Davis that both he and the police told me they believed the security camera offered good security in light of the long and persistent history of my brothers’ disturbing behavior and valid concerns of my brothers possibly committing vandalism against my parents’ gravesite.  I told cemetery director Davis that a lot of cemeteries have security cameras, especially in historic cemeteries such as Elm Grove Cemetery where my parents are buried.  I expressed my concerns that taking down the camera was setting him and us up for escalated problems from my brothers.  I also told cemetery director Davis that the timing was suspicious so I pressed him on this.  I asked him if the three people he told me complained about the camera were related to each other.   He admitted that they were not.  I asked him if the three people had loved ones who had recently died.  He told me that the loved ones of all of the supposed three people had died some time before, even years before.  Cemetery director Davis then told me that one of the people had picnics on their son’s gravesite.  I told him that since 2013 my husband and I never saw any evidence of that on our security camera footage.  I then commented that I found it very odd that all three people, all independent of each other, all of a sudden complained about a security camera that had been mounted there since 2013.

I asked cemetery director Jim Davis a few times in this phone call that he had initiated if my brother Ken Parks had called him or if any of my brothers had called him.  He claimed they hadn’t.  I updated him on the current court proceedings against my brother in Tennessee (as he had asked me to do if there were any police or court actions against any of my brothers), and I told him that since the ruling was going to hit Ken hard that my husband and I anticipated that any one of them or all of them might go on a rampage in the cemetery.  I told him that the injunction would order Ken to no longer be able file his pro se lawsuits so that not only we would be protected but everyone would be protected from his abusive lawsuits.  I suggested, as I had in previous years, that he contact the cemetery association’s attorney and look into protective orders against my brothers.  He again insisted he shared my concerns about my brother’s actions and he told me he would finally speak to the cemetery association’s attorney and that he would call me back to update me on what the attorney advised.

I waited, and I waited for cemetery director Jim Davis to call me back as he had promised he would do.  I finally got a call from him, and he told me I should be getting something in the mail from the attorney.  I waited again.

After that call it became apparent that cemetery director Jim Davis outright lied to me not only when he told me that my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, or any of my three other brothers, had not contacted him, and it was also apparent that there were no three other people who all independently of each other complained at the same time about the security camera.  As events developed, it seems quite obvious that my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, and possibly my other brothers, contacted cemetery director Davis and apparently somehow “convinced” him to take down the security camera he had given us permission to mount at my parents’ gravesite since 2013.  I believe my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, and possibly my other brothers, threatened more adamantly to file pro se lawsuits against cemetery director Davis and may have also alarmed him by making defamatory and false statements about my husband and me, such as referring to us yet again as “wanted criminals,” “domestic terrorists,” and claiming falsely to have “won!” all the lawsuits against us.

Shortly after cemetery director Davis called me the second time after he had removed the security camera, our friend who was monitoring the camera for us and mailing us the camera card, picked up our camera with the camera card from cemetery director Davis.  During the first phone call cemetery director Davis made to me to inform me he had taken down the camera I told him the name of our friend who would pick up the camera and camera card from him.  I also explained that this friend lived in another area of Connecticut that was not near the cemetery so due to his work schedule it would be about a week or so before he could pick up the camera and camera card.  After our friend picked up the camera and camera card from  cemetery director Davis our friend also checked over my parents’ gravesite for any evidence of vandalism or more disrespectful items left there by any of my brothers.  What he found was $2.16 left at my parents’ stone monument.  Our friend’s address begins with 216.

During this time in 2018 my husband and I knew Ken had traveled from Georgia to Connecticut for court hearings against him and his wife Joni Parks due to their vexatious litigation and conspiracy actions against us in the 2015 meritless, abusive pro se lawsuit he filed against us that was dismissed with prejudice.  When we received in the mail the camera and camera card our friend sent to us we witnessed that the security camera photos showed my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, his wife Joni Parks, and my oldest brother “visiting” Elm Grove Cemetery.  We also noticed the $2.16 placed at my parents’ gravesite in apparent reference to my brother Ken knowing the name and address of our friend who monitored our security camera.  We reasonably believe that cemetery director Jim Davis has been either intimidated or bamboozled (or both) by my brother(s)’ lies about my husband and me, and we also reasonably conclude that cemetery director Davis likely told my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks the name of our friend and possibly where he lived.   We cannot fathom any other way that my brother Ken could have gotten our friend’s name and known at least the name of the town where our friend lives and/or do an online search and find the street address of our friend unless cemetery director Jim Davis had given Ken the name and most likely the address of our friend.

I continued to wait for Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney to mail me a letter.  I finally left a voice mail message with cemetery director Davis to inform him of what we had witnessed with the $2.16 left at my parents’ gravesite, and I also informed him that I had not received anything from the attorney and to please return my call with an update.

Immediately after I left the voice mail message with cemetery director Davis I received a call from Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney.  He told me he had already sent me a letter, but that it had been returned undeliverable.  I asked him what address he used to mail the letter.  The cemetery association’s attorney told me he mailed the letter to our old P.O. Box in Connecticut where we hadn’t lived since September, 2013.  I told the attorney that I had previously told cemetery director Jim Davis that my husband and I had been living in Tennessee since 2013, and that there was no excuse for cemetery director Davis to have given Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney our old out-of-date Connecticut mailing address.

I gave the cemetery association’s attorney our Tennessee address and thereafter I finally received the letter.  Although the outside of the envelope was addressed to me in particular, the enclosed letter was not addressed to me or to my brothers or to anyone in particular. The unaddressed letter from cemetery director Jim Davis informed the recipient that he no longer wanted the recipient to contact him.  I then called the Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney about this bizarre, unprovoked letter, and told him this was the very opposite of what cemetery director Davis had told me verbally in the last two phone calls that he initiated with me a few months before.  I then cleared up the many lies told about me and my husband, citing documentation, that apparently originated from my brother Ken Parks, apparently originated from my other brothers, and apparently originated from cemetery director Jim Davis.  In two separate phone calls I made to the cemetery association’s attorney he apologized profusely for all the problems related to cemetery director Davis’ actions.  I told him I would appreciate getting those apologies in writing from both him and from the cemetery director.  Those written apologies were never received.

My husband and I believe this rude, unprovoked, and unprofessional behavior by cemetery director Jim Davis and Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney – and cemetery director Davis’ breach of contract as stated in the copy of the no-trespass letter he sent to my brother(s) and as stated on Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s own website regarding violators of cemetery rules, such as my brothers have demonstrated to be – seems to have been deliberately provoked by my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks and possibly by my other brothers.  It seems very likely that cemetery director Davis was intimidated by one or more of my brothers’ threats to file baseless pro se lawsuits against him and consequently he “caved in” to their demands.  There is simply no excuse for cemetery director Jim Davis’ behavior and his breach of contract.  I described my situation to other cemetery directors in various states, without mentioning the name of the cemetery director nor the name or location of the cemetery where my parents are buried.  Every single cemetery director I spoke to told me they believed the cemetery director of the cemetery where my parents are buried has acted in an unprofessional and unethical manner and has indeed breached his contractual duties.  Every cemetery director I spoke to also told me they have experience getting their no-trespassing wishes enforced by the police and the courts, and that they therefore would not tolerate any trespass from my brothers and they would seek prosecution of my brothers for trespassing.  Some of the cemetery directors I spoke to told us they also rely upon security cameras placed in their cemeteries so as to discourage trespassing and vandalism, and ensure safety and respect for those buried in the cemetery and for those who tend to the gravesites of their loved ones.

As a result of what I and others reasonably believe is cemetery director Jim Davis’ unethical and unprofessional behavior, our Connecticut attorney and I contacted him and Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney in writing four separate times — from December, 2018 to May, 2019 — requesting that cemetery director Davis provide me with certified proof of my ownership of my parents’ gravesite, assurances that I would be notified of any further attempts by my brothers to try to lay claim to owning or having any control over my parents’ gravesite, and a written apology for cemetery director Davis’ unprofessional and unjustified behavior (again, Elm Grove Cemetery Association’s attorney apologized verbally to me multiple times in two separate December, 2018 phone calls).  Finally, after the fourth attempt (the second attempt by our attorney) at trying to get cooperation from cemetery director Davis and the cemetery association’s attorney, we received from cemetery director Davis the documentation we lawfully requested.   Although cemetery director Jim Davis did not apologize for his behavior he did finally send documentation of records dated in 2012 (the year of my mother’s death) stating that my brothers and their descendants have no legal claim to our parents’ gravesite.

This whole incident with cemetery director Jim Davis illustrates the extent of damage and intimidation that stalkers who habitually file abusive, meritless pro se lawsuits, especially those stalkers and abusive litigants with religious cult motivations, can inflict upon their victims.

Yet another outrageous lie that my brother Ken “Pastor Max” repeats in his court filings is that he claims that because I own my parents’ gravesite in Connecticut that such ownership places me in Connecticut court jurisdiction.  In reality and by law, my ownership of a relative’s gravesite in Connecticut (or anywhere else) does not place me in that state’s court jurisdiction since I do not reside at my parents’ gravesite, nor do I derive any financial gain or benefit from my ownership of my parents’ gravesite.

DON’T EVER PETITION THE COURT FOR A PROTECTIVE ORDER UNLESS YOU HAVE AN ATTORNEY WHO HAS SOLID EXPERIENCE GETTING PROTECTIVE ORDERS AGAINST ABUSERS / STALKERS AND WITH A SOLID GUARANTEE THAT YOU AS AN INNOCENT VICTIM WON’T GET SLAMMED BY A JUDGE WITH AN UNMERITED PROTECTIVE ORDER AGAINST YOU.

There are plenty of legal commentaries on the abuse of protective orders and how many innocent victims have had completely baseless and unjustifiable protective orders issued against them. For example:

The Use and Abuse of Domestic Restraining Orders

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-worst-thing-a-woman-c_b_837636

Commentaries written by attorneys urge a complete overhaul of the present unconstitutional protective order process, arguing that innocent victims are often never notified of a filing for a protective order against them, that innocent victims are presumed guilty and no matter what evidence to the contrary of the claims against them innocent victims will still get unjustly slammed with a protective order against them, and that the actual victims who get protective orders against their stalkers or abusers can rarely get those protective orders enforced.

Again, to repeat, we have very valid concerns for anyone in the general public against whom my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks may lie under oath to obtain unwarranted protective orders against innocent people. Anyone who is being harassed, stalked, defamed, sued, or threatened by my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks has our permission to use, in whole or in part, the contents and documentation found or referred to by case number in this website for purposes of defending their innocence in any police action and/or court action involving my brother Ken “Pastor Max” Parks.