FREEDOM SONG
1. Tool Kit Why and When to Go Indie, (1 hour, five minutes)
Victoria Johnson, Director CurrentConstitutionalApp. com
Former Legal Journalist United States Chamber of Commerce'sLegalNewsline.com
You can learn about the background and experience of attorney Victoria Johnson Hoggatt here, and read her legal reporting for the United States Chamber of Commerce on former Mississippi officials, lawyers, and Special Appointed Mississippi Attorney General Convictions in the LEGALNEWSLINE link above, or order her current Textbooks in Print.
2. Civil and Criminal Prosecution of Denial of Fundamental Freedoms
What is justice?
Not “Retribution” nor “Vengeance”, but Fundamental Fairness (30)
HISTORIAN PETER BLACK ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLICING FAIRLY,
COLD CASE PROSECUTION OF DEPRIVATION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS,
AND THE VALUE OF LEGAL CONSEQUENCES,
BOTH TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE VICTIMS
3. Tool Kit Civil Rico Primer Part I,
Substantive Liability Jeffrey Grell
How to Recognize and Plead a Civil RICO Claim. (60)
4. Tool Kit RICO Primer Part II, Civil Standing, Grell (60)
A PDF copy of Grell on RICO, currently $80 in paperback, is included
with each registration. (digital)
5. Tool Kit Appellate Considerations,
including When and Why Not to Appeal
Introduction of Brian Wolfman
Director, Georgetown Law's Appellate Immersion Clinic
The Basics of Appellate Litigation Practice (60)
6.1st Amendment Tool Kit Marty, the Good Samaritan (11.5)
Using Video as a Federal Exhibit to a Civil Complaint I
How to Flip a Defendant
7. 1st Amendment Tool Kit Miss Minnie
Using Video as a Federal Exhibit to a Civil Complaint II
Adding Obstructionist Opposing Counsel as Defendant
8. 1st Amendment Tool Kit Victoria Johnson Ole Pole (20)
Using Video as a Federal Exhibit III, against Municipalities
9. 1st Amendment Tool Kit
The interface of Prosecutorial Discretion and 1st Amendment (1 hour)
What can crime victims do if a prosecutor or judge destroys the record? (47)
If the FBI Agent is playing for the other side? Welcome 2 Texas! (12.5)
10. Mississippi from the Inside Out (2 hours)
Ethics of Filming Public Officials, Other Lawyers, Private Citizens, and Law Enforcement to utilize as evidence in civil and criminal prosecution or
"Interface of 1st and 14th Amendments"
CurrentConstitutionalApp. com film documentation for civil or criminal prosecution of three FBI Agents, Nathan Songer, Cal Seig, and Ken Kaiser, who was the former assistant director of the FBI, three prominent Mississippi judges, and a former Mississippi Attorney General
11. Introduction of Brian Wolfman
Director, Georgetown Law's Appellate Immersion Clinic
Fee Calculation/Reasonableness (9 minutes)
HOW TO GET PAID Litigation in the Public Interest
Fee-Shifting (60)
Court-awarded attorney’s fees, with emphasis on the EAJA
(Equal Access to Justice Act)
12. New for the current CLE
Allstate...Use of video documentation for civil and criminal prosecution
Allstate FIRST AMENDMENT QUESTION 2 Ethics Hours
Does the 1st Amendment’s guarantee of the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances mean that a federal district court may not punish, fine, and hold in contempt of court an attorney or civil litigant, for filing an amended criminal affidavit, with the FTC, the Mississippi Insurance Department, and to the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office for concerted criminal conduct that Allstate committed after initiation of this civil action, even if the alleged criminal conspirators include Allstate attorneys?
Does your answer turn on the fact that the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has appointed a criminal investigator?
Allstate videos
Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court
Kentucky Bar Activity No. 244616
Sponsor No. 8118
TOTAL CREDITS: 9.25
ETHICS CREDITS 2
Ethics credits are INCLUDED in the TOTAL number of credits.
Copyright 2000-2022. Victoria Johnson Hoggatt. All rights reserved.
Special thanks to photographer Philip Murcado/Little St. Simon Island for Mississippi from the Inside Out pictures, Dreamworks Trolls/Get Up Back Again, Frozen/ Let it Go!, Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake/ True Colors, Shakira/Try Everything, folks who wrote, filmed, and sang Roll it on Him, and Charlie Puth, One Call Away
About the video presentations/presenters...
Peter Black, Former Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
In the 1980s and 1990s, historian Peter Black worked for the United States Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations, as part of a team tracking and prosecuting suspected war criminals. Black retired from federal service and his position of Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial at the beginning of 2016.
“It's important for all of us, I think, as ordinary -- if that is a meaningful word -- as ordinary citizens of a society that there be at least the potential if we do something like what was done during the Second World War, regardless of the circumstances in which the individual found himself -- whether he was compelled to do it or whether he did it out of his own -- as a volunteer -- that there be some possibility of legal consequence for that, no matter how many years go by, in terms of that type of crime. I feel in the recent news reports of the proceedings against the Chilean, former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, that this, though there are legal problems at every stage, there are serious legal problems, the idea that our world, as a world society now, is no longer prepared to sweep responsibility for crimes in an official position, where an official abuses the law and causes death and suffering to people in his care, or her care, in the future, that there shouldn't be some, somewhere down the line, the possibility of legal consequence for that.”
-Excerpt from Transcript, 2000, describing the importance of legal consequences
Dr. Black hopes to be well enough to make a live presentation at the next Freedom Song CLE.
Jeff is the author of Grell on RICO.
Jeff developed Grell on RICO for use in teaching his class at the University of Minnesota. The book draws on Jeff’s experience as an attorney prosecuting and defending civil RICO claims since 1990.
Jeff has a widely recognized understanding and appreciation of the RICO Act, and his insights regarding the RICO Act have been frequently sought out by business persons, attorneys, journalists, professors, teachers, students, and members of the general public.
The following comments appeared in the student reviews for Mr. Grell’s RICO class at the University of Minnesota: “Excellent. Very passionate teaching.” “Empowering.” “I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in RICO, and I don’t think you could find anyone more qualified to teach it.”
Victoria Johnson Hoggatt, Director of the Current Constitutional Applications Project, is a First and Fourteenth Amendment public interest lawyer and legal journalist who has covered prominent criminal trials for LegalNewsLine.com, the online law journal of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including both trials of Multi-state Master Tobacco Settlement’s mastermind, Dickie Scruggs, (The Insider), America’s richest lawyer, who was also a former Special Appointed Mississippi Attorney General, and both trials of a former classmate, Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter, portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the 1996 film, Ghosts of Mississippi.She also provided legal commentary on the trials of the former Mississippi State Auditor, and two other (besides Mr. Scruggs) former Special Appointed Mississippi Attorney Generals were also sent to prison.
LegalNewsLine is an Internet-based newswire dedicated to 24/7 coverage of state supreme courts and state attorneys general.
She was thrown/drug into the practice of public interest law while she and her husband were serving as a state and federal witnesses, in order to aid the apprehension, extradition, prosecution, and incarceration of an America’s Most Wanted serial sex offender, Angola Prison Guard, Andrew Allbritton, wanted for Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution for Aggravated Incest of Allbritton's then eight year old granddaughter, and Third Offense DUI.
With the vicious and threatening "If-you-tell-you're-gonna-pay" armed and dangerous sex offender still at large, the minor child assault survivor attempted suicide at age fourteen, six years after the assault, when she learned that the District Attorney, FBI Agents, and the local sheriff were playing for the other side. Counselors called the suicide attempt, "A cry for help".
While teaching American Government 2305 in Texas, Victoria Johnson utilized student and citizen participation for investigation, and both professional and amateur cameramen, to document/film thugs-in-white-shirts, who were then acting in concert to intimidate witnesses, including the sexual assault survivor and her family.
The sex offender’s co-conspirators included prominent FBI Agents Ken Kaiser, who would later be appointed Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, and FBI Agent Dan Wehr, of ChinaGate and Ruby Ridge.
Though painful personally, the experience was professionally productive, teaching attorney Victoria Johnson Hoggatt when and how to tape and publish dissembling state and federal law enforcement, which in turn led to utilizing freedom of speech and press to expose threatening and bullying witnesses, insurance adjusters, and lawyers, as well as criminal "If-you-tell-you're-gonna-pay" judges and prosecutors who remove, conceal, and destroy official court records. The Constitution permits the courts to impose discipline for judicial misconduct that brings the judicial system into disgrace.
She has reached friendly settlements for plaintiffs with city governments, health care facilities, public utilities, banking institutions, insurance companies, and major corporations, including Shell Oil Corporation, BancorpSouth, CNA Insurance, Wells Fargo, Transportation Insurance Corporation, Traveler’s Insurance Company, Renasant Bank, Regions Bank, Mitchell Mc Nutt law firm, one of Mississippi’s most highly respected law firms, and in multiple Civil RICO and 42 USC 1983 civil actions against North Mississippi Medical Center, the largest rural health care system in the United States.
Always a teacher, she is a former Girl Scout leader and foreign language tutor for the MSU Athletic Department, who has taught in public schools and community college, American Government 2305, American History, Spanish I and II, as well as teaching as a home-school mom of five kids, three of whom are lawyers.
She began her legal career in 1978, working for the Mississippi State Legislature's Reapportionment Committee, interviewing/documenting what happy campers Mississippi's elected Black public officials were.
Brian Wolfman, the Director of the Appellate Immersion Clinic at Georgetown Law.
He was previously a Professor of the Practice of Law and Co-Director of Stanford Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Before that, from 2009 to 2014, Professor Wolfman served as Director of the Civil Rights section of Georgetown Law's Institute for Public Representation, a student clinic that handles complex trial court and appellate litigation focused on civil rights and other public-interest litigation.
While at Georgetown, Brian also taught the standard doctrinal course on Federal Courts and the Federal System and a course on appellate courts. Before Georgetown, he spent nearly 20 years at the national public interest law firm Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving the last five years as the Group's Director.
Earlier in his career, Brian conducted trial and appellate litigation as a staff lawyer at a rural poverty law program in Arkansas. Professor Wolfman has handled a broad range of litigation, including cases involving health and safety regulation, class action governance, court-access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, law, and government transparency.
What you will learn
Author Jeff Grell will address Substantive Liability under Section 1962 of the RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS Act, so that the general practitioner who has never brought a civil RICO claim will have the beginning of understanding civil RICO, and how it can be used in your practice.
The written course materials for Professor Grell's second presentation addresses civil liability under 1964(c), so that the heretofore uninitiated lawyer will know if RICO applies to a particular set of facts, and if so, how to begin to proceed with a RICO civil claim.
Attorney Victoria Johnson Hoggatt’s parts will all contain actual film utilized in her practice of law, most based federal civil 42 USC 1983, Civil Rights, and Civil RICO claims, and also a video of Charlie Merkel, the attorney who represented attorney Alwyn Luckey, when he sued America's richest lawyer, Dickie Scruggs.
The Freedom Song written course materials are the actual case filings/court records, which are both publicly available on PACER, and available without cost to attorneys who have registered for the Freedom Song CLE course.
The state and federal civil complaints, briefs, and responses in each case, available on PACER are very citation dense with all the usual 42 USC 1983 and Civil RICO claims, immunities, defenses, privileges, and exceptions extensively cited.
Public Utilities "Ole Pole", Schrock v. City of Shannon
Major Corporations, “Marty the Good Samaritan” Freeman v. Shell Oil
Health Care “Miss Minnie” Minnie Shelley, et al v. North Mississippi Medical Center, et al
Note: a District Attorney, one of the FBI Agents, and a Circuit Clerk featured in CurrentConstitutionalApp.com, have been indicted since, on unrelated charges. Folks are nothing, if not consistent ;)
Dr. Peter Black's pre-recorded video presentation interview at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, validates the value of Constitutional protections to America. Dr. Black provides background on the law enforcement and legal profession in Germany prior to the Nazis coming to power, and speaks on "Prosecution of Nazi Offenders in the United States".
The purpose of the lecture is to give the individual judge, attorney, and prosecutor a scenario about where things went wrong in Germany, and to help us become more sensitive to opportunities for individual heroism.
"The very things that make [law enforcement officers] job difficult, are the very things that protect all of us. In a sense, that's where their individual heroism comes in."
"Not so much in gunning down criminals, or arresting a criminal, but [law officers] having to get up and go out and have and use the discretion to protect the constitutional freedoms of everyone in society, not just the majority, not just a single minority, but everyone."
" Any modern democratic society that is prepared to give way on some of its constitutional protection of individual rights in 'emergency' situation, or even when a real emergency exists... that presents a cause for concern."
"I would be concerned about any violation of constitutional rights, i.e. freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, due process. These are all issues that make America a safe place to live".
Brian Wolfman, Director of Georgetown Law's Total Immersion Appellate Clinic, presents two Tool Kits, one Tool Kit on "How to Get Paid", as appeals are prohibitively expensive, by vehicles such as the Equal Access to Justice Act, and another Tool Kit on Appellate Considerations.
“Fee Shifting” considers statutory provisions that determine who will pay the attorney for bringing litigation necessary to halt the intentional deprivation of right by public officials, for example, or in environmental civil actions, with special consideration of the Equal Access to Justice Act.
“Appellate Considerations” speaks to what judges look for on appeal, and an overview of the when, why, and how of the appellate process, including the Why Not To Appeal, ofttimes.
$499.00 for the entire Freedom Song Course, or by the hour, pay online here.
There is no risk, because like Mississippi College School of Law, you can watch each CLE segment without/before paying for it.
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Copyright Notice: The video of Charlie Merkel commenting on Wilson v. Scruggs and State v. Scruggs is subject to Copyright, a non-exclusive license was granted LegalNewsLine.com.
Other video exhibits are copyrighted, and have been utilized as exhibits to civil and criminal complaints, but have not lost copyright status for that reason.
Much of the copyrighted video/audio has also been available on the Tia-thisisamerica.com, or CurrentConstitutionalApp. com websites for years, to aid in the apprehension/conviction of Most Wanted fugitive sex offender Andrew J. Allbritton, Jr., and to facilitate presentation/documentation of criminal deprivation of rights under color of official right by state and federal actors to prosecutors.
All video and audio components contained herein are subject to copyright. Bay Israel Chitrikar Keller Iglesias. 2000-2022. All right reserved.