Plaintiff,
CIV. 07-286
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BRIEF IN
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OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO DISMISS
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* Appellant
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COMES NOW the Appellant, Harlan L. Jacobsen pro se and submits this
Brief in Support of his Opposition to Motion to Dismiss.
The Court has subject matter jurisdiction to hear this matter because
it is an appeal of a state of South Dakota and the US Constitution
protected rights and is an issue of denial of a "legitimate review" of
governmental actions by the defendant city against appellant and other
citizens of Sioux Falls.
Appellant alleges this matter rises to the level of a constitutional
violation of "due process' in as much as it does not "afford Appellant a
fully constitutional judicial mechanism" with which to challenge the
administrative decision" in question.
The Defendant City maintains a system that deliberately and knowingly
denies and has been made aware of and continues to deny Appellant
and other citizens of Sioux Falls an appeal or adequate review mechanism
required and guaranteed by the South Dakota and US constitutions.
No change in state law or city ordinance is necessary for this court to
have jurisdiction over the issue of denial of rights protected by the
South Dakota and US Constitution.
Appellant maintains that all actions by the city while knowingly denying
constitutionally protected review access of their actions by Appellant
and other citizens affected should be declared null and void and the
defendant city ordered to provide such access forthwith.
DEFENDANTS BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS IS NOTHING BUT A SMOKE
SCREEN
Defendants brief is a smoke screen of page after page of legal gobly
gook on how they have cleverly nullified constitutional requirements
with legal technicalities on voiding legitimate appeals of their actions.
A distraction from the real issue, are constitutional rights and
protections of review of abuses by the government in affect in Sioux
Falls, or has clever legal technicalities neutered these guarantees.
Both Constitutions were written, not to protect citizens from each other
but to protect citizens from abuses by governments. Here defendants
have worked out a system to avoid any review of their actions taken
against citizens.
DEFENDANTS IN THEIR BRIEF CLAIM THEIR "DENY RIGHTS" SYSTEM, IS WORKING,
HAS BEEN WORKING AND WILL CONTINUE TO WORK.
Appellant maintains their "administrative hearings are a sham and their
offering appeals to the Circuit Court and then
when filed go after them in successfully getting them squashed as soon
as filed, is a governmental FRAUD at best.
The City Action Here Is A House Of Cards Built On Fraud.
The city administrative hearing officer at the hearing being appealed
here, advises of the right to appeal their adverse decision to the
Circuit Court.
The ordinance itself promises a "suggested right" to such an appeal.
The city also puts in writing the promise that the citizen involved in
the administrative hearing has the option to appeal the Administrative
hearing officers ruling to the Circuit Court.
On the strength of these many promises, the citizen then files with the
circuit court and pays out of his pocket the monetary fee for an
"appeal" of this matter gravely affecting him, with the circuit court.
Normally, in this writers experience when doing an appeal the previous
decision and fines etc are put on hold until the appeals court rules on
the validity of the matter invalidity of the fines in question.
In this case the city attorney asks the hearing officer to rule, "the
fine must be paid immediately" and is not subject to the appeal delay,
which request the hearing officer, who is in the city prosecutors
employment, immediately complies by so ruling.
Appellant on filing the appeal then, as is usual procedure on appeal,
orders a transcript of the administrative hearing on the phone from the
city attorney office and is told the request for a transcript must be
"in writing". A written request is filed.
After weeks of delay, an audio tape of the hearing appears, with no
explanation.
Obviously the city attorney already "knows" there never has been one of
these hearings happen and that there is not going to be one here,
therefore there is "no need" for a genuine text transcript.
The appellant then invests time and money on developing and preparing
his appeal, of great concern to him, and all the time "believing in the
judicial system," and that he has a "fair shake finally" appeal
scheduled.
At the last minute the city attorney then files a motion with the
Circuit Court to have the scheduled appeal thrown out forever on the
grounds the Circuit Court has never been given jurisdiction by the city
ordinance to hear appeals of these matters.
This is not something that just came out, this ruse has been going on
for years.
This is outright fraud perpetuated by the city attorney, and the fully
aware of this city administration itself on unsuspecting citizens
trusting in their "local" government officials,
This court is the citizen of Sioux Falls only access to a remedy of a
government run amuck.
"The city has been knowingly, and for a long time, fraudulently
guaranteeing a right to appeal that they knew all along does not now and
by the way they themselves purposely set it up, has NEVER existed.
FURTHER ARROGANCE AND DISPLAY OF HOW DEFENDANTS CONSIDER CITIZENS
"POWERLESS".
The day the City received appellants notice of appeal, filed here, the
City issued appellant a new additional $200. fine. Apparently open
"punishment" for taking the appeal route and putting them to all the
"trouble".
Appellant then contacted the issuing agent and asked why, when this
matter was under appeal of the City action, why they issue another fine.
The response was the City Attorney "told him to do so".
Therefore this was not an accidental slip, this was deliberate evidence
the City considers this appeal already null and void and that they are
going on with their harassment program unabated.
Last Friday a city employee is again caught prowling the property and
taking photographs indicating they are proceeding with additional action
against appellant during the appeal.
THIS IS AN APPEAL OF CITY ARROGANT VIOLATION OF CITIZEN PROTECTED
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
This court is sworn to uphold not only South Dakota Constitutional
Rights and protections, the court is sworn to uphold US Constitutional
rights.
As the ultimate enforcer and maintainer of these rights it has
jurisdiction to rule on all governmental actions that arrogantly, openly
and continually violate citizen plainly spelled out rights amply
demonstrated as being violated here.
Appellant hereby requests that this matter of open city actions
violating these rights, be declared an unconstitutional violations of
protected rights and null and void.
That the Defendant city has had more then ample time to correct, has
done nothing, has demonstrated they plan to continue and are daily using
this tactic in violating citizen right of review of such governmental
actions.
Have been made fully aware of such actions and have done nothing to
correct it.
WHY THIS ACTION MUST BE ALLOWED TO PROCEED AND ACTION SOUGHT
Appellant requests the court to order the defendant to make a full
legitimate appeal available, to the circuit court, of city actions, not
just a "judicial review" on mere legal technicalities of their sham
administrative hearings.
Appellant asks the court to hereby nullify all such previous actions,
fines returned and restrain further actions until an independent full
court review method that meets constitutional muster has been
implemented and made fully operable by the Defendants.
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