Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina, State of et al

Filing 38

ORDER directing Clerk not to authorize service and advising plaintiff to notify Clerk in writing of any change of address. Plaintiff's motion to unseal 14 is granted. Plaintiff's motion to unseal 33 is denied as duplicative. Signed by Magistrate Judge Shiva V Hodges on 11/14/2012. (abuc)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Marie Assa’ad-Faltas, MD, MPH, for herself and qui
tam and Ex Rel the Government of the Arab Republic
of Eygpt (Egypt), and as founder and first member of
Doctors Against Drunk Drivers (“DADD”); Orthodox
Christians Against Executions (“OCAE”); Sojourners
Against Xenophobia (“SAX”); Immigrants Against
Dishonest Judges (“IADJ”); Pacifists Against Random
Killings (PARK) and Sensible People Against
Mindless Incarcerations (“SPAMI”),
Plaintiff,
vs.
State of South Carolina (SC); Nimrata R. Haley as
SC’s Governor, Alan Wilson, as SC’s Attorney
General; Glenn McConnel, as SC’s Lieutenant
Governor; John Courson, as President pro tempore of
SC’s Senate; SC’s General Assembly; SCs Judicial
Merit Selection Commission (JMSC); Jean Toal, as
administrative head of all SC’s state courts; Daniel
Shearouse, as Clerk of SC’s Supreme Court; Tanya
Gee and V. Claire Allen, as Clerk and Deputy Clerk of
SC’s Court of Appeals; Mark Keel, as Chief of SC’s
State Law Enforcement Division (SLED); LeRoy
Smith, as Head of SC’s Department of Public Safety;
Leon Lott, as Sheriff of Richland County SC, and
Warden of the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center
(ASGDC); Gafford Thomas Cooper, Jr., as SC’s Fifth
Judicial Circuit’s Administrative Judge for General
Sessions; Daniel Johnson, as SC’s Fifth Judicial
Circuit’s Solicitor; Gary Watts, as Coroner for
Richland County, SC; Jeanette McBride as Richland
County’s Clerk of Court; Leslie Coggiola, as SC’s
Disciplinary Counsel; Roslynn Frierson, as Director of
SC’s Office of Court Administration; William Nettles,
as U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina
(D.S.C.); Steven Benjamin, as Mayor and all members

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of the City of Columbia (“the City”) Council; Steve
Gantt, manager for the City; Dana Turner, falsely
bearing a title of Chief Administrative Judge of the
City’s Municipal Court (CMC); Randy Scott, falsely
bearing a title of the City’s Chief of Police; Marion
Hanna, falsely bearing the title of CMC judge; Ken
Gaines, Robert G. Cooper, Dana M. Thye, and David
A. Fernandez, supposed attorneys for the City; and all
of their subordinates who intend to injure Plaintiff; all
solely officially and solely for injunctive and qui tam
recovery,

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Defendants.
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This is a qui tam action, filed by a pro se litigant. Under Local Civil Rule 73.02(B)(2)
(D.S.C.), pretrial proceedings in this action have been referred to the assigned United States
Magistrate Judge. The case was filed under seal, as required by 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(2). The
pleadings were served upon the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina on
August 8, 2012, and upon the Attorney General of the United States on August 15, 2012.
[Entry #21, #28]. The sixty-day period for the United States to intervene expired on
October 15, 2012.
Plaintiff has filed two motions to unseal this case. [Entry #14, #33]. Plaintiff’s July
2, 2012 motion also seeks appointment of a judge or three-judge panel from outside of South
Carolina to hearing this case. [Entry #14]. This portion of Plaintiff’s motion has been
recommended for dismissal in a separately docketed Report and Recommendation.
Plaintiff’s October 16, 2012 motion also seeks an “immediate hearing” before a judge “from
outside South Carolina.” [Entry #33]. To the extent Plaintiff’s motions asks the court to
unseal this case, her motions are granted. The remainder of Plaintiff’s October 16, 2012
motion [Entry #33] is denied as duplicative.
TO THE CLERK OF COURT:
The Clerk of Court is directed not to issue the summonses or forward this matter to
the United States Marshal for service of process on the defendants. The Clerk of Court is
further directed to unseal the complaint and lift the seal from the docket as to all other
matters occurring in this action.

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TO PLAINTIFF:
Plaintiff must place the civil action number listed above (C/A No. 3:12-1786-TLWSVH) on any document provided to the court pursuant to this order. Any future filings in
this case must be sent to the address below (901 Richland Street, Columbia, South
Carolina 29201). All documents requiring Plaintiff’s signature shall be signed with
Plaintiff’s full legal name written in Plaintiff’s own handwriting. Pro se litigants shall not
use the “s/typed name” format used in the Electronic Case Filing System. In all future filings
with this court, Plaintiff is directed to use letter-sized (eight and one-half inches by eleven
inches) paper only, to write or type text on one side of a sheet of paper only and not to write
or type on both sides of any sheet of paper. Plaintiff is further instructed not to write to the
edge of the paper, but to maintain one inch margins on the top, bottom, and sides of each
paper submitted.
Plaintiff is a pro se litigant. Plaintiff’s attention is directed to the following important
notice:
You are ordered to always keep the Clerk of Court advised in writing (901
Richland Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201) if your address changes
for any reason, so as to assure that orders or other matters that specify
deadlines for you to meet will be received by you. If as a result of your failure
to comply with this order, you fail to meet a deadline set by this court, your
case may be dismissed for violating this order. Therefore, if you have a
change of address before this case is ended, you must comply with this order
by immediately advising the Clerk of Court in writing of such change of
address and providing the court with the docket number of all pending cases
you have filed with this court. Your failure to do so will not be excused by the
court.
IT IS SO ORDERED.

November 14, 2012
Columbia, South Carolina

Shiva V. Hodges
United States Magistrate Judge

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