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Stalking, harassment and abuse of the courts

Four lawsuits in under seven months. Two institutions had to get protection orders.

2 August 2023 · R.C. § 2323.52

Declared a vexatious litigator, and listed by the Supreme Court of Ohio

He was indefinitely barred from bringing or continuing any legal proceeding in an Ohio trial court without first obtaining the court's permission. A certified copy was sent to the Supreme Court of Ohio for publication, where it remains listed.

The court found his filings "duplicative, frivolous, abusive, and lacking legal grounds," and found that he "repeatedly asserts the same narratives across cases, fails to conform to court rules, fails to support his claims with competent evidence or argument, and resorts to threats and harassment of the litigants and courts."

The declaration rested on four lawsuits he brought between 27 April and 17 November 2022 — under seven months: against his ex-mother-in-law; against his ex-wife and her divorce attorney; against his ex-wife and the Cleveland Clinic; and against his ex-wife and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas · Judge Brendan J. Sheehan · No. CV-22-969917

See also. Every element of this description had already appeared on the divorce docket two years earlier — the chronology.

2 August 2023 · Permanent injunction

Every day it stayed up was a separate violation

A permanent injunction ordered him to remove all content claiming his victims had committed crimes — naming his website, his fundraising page (posted under the alias "John Baptist"), his LinkedIn profile and his YouTube channel by URL, "or any iteration thereof."

The order provides that "each day of publication and each site of publication constitute a separate violation."

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas · Judge Brendan J. Sheehan · No. CV-22-969917

See also. He rebuilt the channel eighteen times after being ordered to take it down — the affidavit of counsel.

8 March 2023 · Contempt

Held in contempt — $250 and thirty days, suspended so he could comply

He was found in contempt for violating the court's earlier order. The jail sentence was suspended to give him the chance to put things right.

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas · No. CV-22-969917

25 October 2023 · Trial

He asked the court to help him stay a fugitive

He did not appear for his own trial. The court recorded that he "asked this Court to assist him in remaining a fugitive from justice and to allow him to evade arrest for pending criminal charges in this county," and refused — noting that his alleged threats to his safety were "no greater in the courthouse than they are in the uncontrolled outside world."

Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas · No. CV-22-969917

2022–2023 · Protection orders

A hospital and a law firm each had to get protection orders against him

The Cleveland Clinic obtained one after he threatened, in a court filing, to hack its information systems to obtain discovery. His victims' own law firm obtained another after he attacked its email servers — conduct for which he was later ordered to pay criminal restitution.

Separately, he was barred from entering the Cuyahoga County Courthouse and from contacting court staff outside proceedings. All his hearings were moved to video. That order issued the same day as the email attack.

Nos. CV-22-970761 and CV-23-974806; DR-20-382383. Civil stalking protection order files are not published online by the Clerk; both are recorded in the vexatious litigator opinion above.

See also. The attack on the law firm’s servers is the conduct he was convicted of.

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