The incompetence of judges
I promise you if you follow this stack, and read through the documents, you’ll see how hard it is to get disability accommodations in federal court, and how judges discriminate without a second thought. This is me, calling the judge out on the bullshit.
So, I’m a Plaintiff in a federal court case, suing UPS for interfering with my aiding and encouraging of one of their employees, who was exercising ADA rights under Title I.
In the original complaint filed with the court, I let the court know that I would need disability accommodations. (ADA isn’t applicable in federal court, but the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is, and also the Guide to Judiciary Policy on accommodations.
They have to accommodate disabilities when they have knowledge of the need. I expressed the need.
Subsequently, I conspicuously put in another document that I still needed accommodations, and that I wanted the protocol for asking for them.
(I have no clue whether the process is administrative or legal. There is no rule in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure addressing this.)
§255.40 Procedures of the Guide to Judiciary Policy says this:
(a) Each court is required to identify a specific office or individual(s) to serve as access coordinator from whom participants in court proceedings may request auxiliary aids or services.
I have no clue who this person is, because I’ve asked twice, and haven’t been told.
§255.40 in the Guide to Judiciary Policy also says this:
(b) Courts may, but are not required to, establish specific procedures through which requests for auxiliary aid services are to be submitted, such as requiring that they be submitted to the access coordinator in writing or that they be submitted in advance of the court proceeding involved. (This is what is called “protocol”, which I asked for in writing.
Notice “may, but are not required to”…
Federal courts have no set expectations for accommodating people. That’s fucked.
So, anyway, there was a scheduling conference on September 15, 2025. I wasn’t there because I wasn’t accommodated, and wasn’t even responded to by the court.
The Judge, Diane, J. Humetewa tells my co-Plaintiff (the employee) that she’s not happy I’m not present. When he told me this, it pissed me off.
She’s unhappy I’m not there, and I don’t have equal access. Who’s harmed more in this situation? Hmmmm?
She goes on to say that she’s issuing an order to show cause to me so that I can explain why I wasn’t there.
So, I pre-emptively write up a cause statement, and I don’t hold back. I did this, and mailed in on the 16th of September. Follow the timeline here, because it’s important.
Here it is. You’re going to want to read this… Carefully. I tell it like it is.
On the 17th of September, the Judge issues the Show Cause Order. She even ADMITS that I asked for accommodations in the original complaint, and AGAIN MISSES that I asked for them a SECOND time in a subsequent responsive memorandum. She’s definitely not paying attention.
And she implies, that I, who has disclosed communication disabilituy, didn’t communicate properly with the court for accommodations. WTAF?!?!?!
This judge is no friend of disability rights.
Here’s her order:
She’s discriminated, abused discretion, and shown deliberate indifference to the rights of the disabled, and I don’t have any trust in her ability to fairly and impartially adjudicate the matter, or to be honorable.
As of today, Pacer still hadn’t uploaded my Cause statement, but that’s because I mailed it first class, and it probably will arrive tomorrow, at which time she will see that I already called her on her bullshit, and did so before she issued the Order to Show Cause.
Fuck discrimination, and fuck incompetent judges.
It’s getting to the good part… to be continued.
P.D., Jay V. Shore
The Judges are truly ignorant Cincinnati is the worst.