Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Filing 352

NOTICE by John B. Thompson (Thompson, John)

Thompson v. The Florida Bar

Doc. 352

IN THE UNITED STATES ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN RE: JOHN B. THOMPSON, Petitioner, v. THE FLORIDA BAR, DAVA J. TUNIS, FRANK ANGONES, AND JOHN HARKNESS, Respondents. PETITIONER'S EMERGENCY MOTION TO STAY STATE DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS IN LIGHT OF NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED RE LOWER COURT'S ERRONEOUS RULING YESTERDAY DISMISSING FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS AND DECLARATORY JUDGMENT ACTION COMES NOW petitioner, John B. Thompson, (Thompson) an attorney on his own behalf, and files this emergency motion to stay The Florida Bar's "disciplinary" trial scheduled to commence this Monday, November 26, 2007, stating: First of all, petitioner apologizes for faxing this emergency motion to the court without prior permission, but doing so is necessary this early morning: By a remarkable "coincidence," the trial court below dismissed Thompson's civil rights and declaratory judgment action mere minutes before this appellate court dismissed Thompson's petition. The Eleventh Circuit's delightful clerk, Ms. Deborah Hall, had assured Thompson that the Eleventh Circuit would never give a heads-up to a trial court as to how it was going to rule, yet here we have Judge Jordan, who had the civil rights case for months, dismissing it with apparent knowledge, it seems, of what the Eleventh Circuit was going to do. Of course, both courts did what they did one business day before the Thanksgiving holiday, which makes the filing of this emergency motion by facsimile transmission necessary.

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The timing of all of this by both courts, which is clearly a "coincidence" could not have been more exquisitely useful to The Florida Bar. If U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan had in fact not been told by the Eleventh Circuit what it was going to do, thereby otherwise risking looking foolish by dismissing an action from which he might have been disqualified, then Judge Jordan has a clairvoyance capability that urges the undersigned to ask him what the post-game point differential will be in the next Patriots-Dolphins grid iron tilt. But this is the same judge who falsely claimed that Thompson had harmed "children" by presenting it evidence of The Bar's selective prosecution. Be that as it may, Judge Jordan has committed a) so many factual errors in his November 20 Order dismissing the case below and b) made so many misstatements of the applicable law, and demonstrably so as to both he facts and the law, that Thompson yesterday filed a Notice of Appeal of that Order. Just one example: Judge Jordan suggests in his Order that he did not have the Forensic Psychological Report of Dr. Oren Wunderman which proves the bad faith of The Bar in demanding that Thompson plead guilty and then be assessed for mental illness. The Report is right there in the court file. Thus, Thompson moves this court, on an emergency basis, for a stay of the November 26 trial of Thompson which will, of course, as it is designed to do, cause irreparable harm to Thompson. Thompson seeks a stay of that trial pending his appeal of Judge Jordan's erroneous order. The Bar will not in the least be prejudiced by the entry of such an order staying the trial, as The Bar has managed, by its 40-month-long harassment of Thompson, to utterly destroy his practice of law, so Thompson is not in a position to harm "the public,"

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none of whom, by the way, has ever complained about Thompson's ethics. Indeed, the only people who have complained are two corrupt judges and two companies that criminally distribute pornography to children. See attached Exhibit A.

WHEREFORE, Thompson moves this court for the emergency stay of the state "disciplinary" trial scheduled to commence this coming Monday before Referee Dava Tunis, who denied Thompson hearings on all constitutional issues and denied Thompson all meaningful discovery in the disciplinary case, even to the point of refusing to issue subpoenas. Jesus had a similar "trial" before Pilate. I HEREBY certify that this pleading has been served by mail and fax this November 21, 2007, upon The Bar's, Harkness', and Angones' counsel, Barry Richard, Greenberg Traurig, 101 E. College Ave., Tallahassee FL 32301, Tunis' counsel, Chuck Fahlbusch, Attorney General's Office, 110 SE 6th St., Floor 10, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301, and to Judge Jordan at 301 North Miami Avenue, Eighth Floor, Miami, Florida 33128.

JOHN B. THOMPSON, Petitioner Attorney, Florida Bar #231665 1172 South Dixie Hwy., Suite 111 Coral Gables, Florida 33146 Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

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