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Kent Hovind is fond of using sports analogies in describing his legal situation. The one he is leaning on right now is about the absence of a “verified complaint” in his 2006 prosecution being equivalent to a runner failing to touch first base thereby invalidating the grand slam that the prosecution hit with his conviction that was upheld on appeal.

I prefer board and card game analogies. Litigation is like a duplicate bridge tournament.  There are strict rules about when you can bid and you have to be open about what your bids mean.  There are also strict rules about how you play.  And there is the etiquette on top of that.  I like to say that Hovind and Hansen go into court and play crazy eights because that sounds funny.  What they actually play is TEGWAR – The Exciting Game Without Any Rules, which ironically is explained in a baseball movie Bang The Drum Slow (go to 0:46)

TEGWAR was a card game that the pro ballplayers would use to get money from foolish civilians who asked to sit in on their card games.  Sovereign citizens had some success with TEGWAR stye legal tactics when they held court in Denny’s with appeals to the International House of Pancakes.  In actual courts, it does not work that well as we are seeing in Hovind’s current half-billion dollar lawsuit against the United States and some individuals some, if not all, of whom have immunity.

I have decided that the latest round of Hansen mishegas is not Forbes worthy but at my request Robert Baty, bane of the basketball ministers and Kent Hovind’s worse nightmare, is giving my hardcore readers an update. PJR

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Hansen/Hovind v. Judge Cannon – A Class Action?
By Robert Baty
August 8, 2020
8:45 AM MT
Paul John Hansen and Kent Hovind filed a federal COMPLAINT against Judge Hope Thai Cannon which was docketed in federal court on August 6, 2020.
That COMPLAINT stems from Judge Cannon’s handling of the related case filed by Hansen and Hovind wherein they are seeking over $500,000,000.00 in damages related to Hovind’s successful criminal prosecution in 2006.
Here is  Judge Cannon’s latest ORDER in that case, which prompted the suit against her.
In this article, I will offer some brief, non-lawyerly observations.
I am not a lawyer.
I am not the son of a lawyer.
Besides listing themselves as plaintiffs in the case against Judge Cannon, they list “Creation Science Evangelism Ministry” as a plaintiff.  It is not clear whether or not Kent Hovind, who signed the Complaint and listed “Creation Science Evangelism Ministry” under his name, is proposing that is simply his “doing business name” or that he is representing “Creation Science Evangelism Ministries, Inc.”, the tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) corporation that was set up by Kent’s man Ernie Land to collect contributions and to own the assets of Kent’s operations in order to keep the IRS from seizing them to pay Kent’s past-due taxes.
If the corporation is intended, and not merely Kent’s business name, it must be dismissed as a plaintiff as neither Kent nor Paul are qualified or authorized to represent the corporation in federal litigation such as is being proposed.
After Kent’s and Paul’s names and the name of “Creation Science Evangelism Ministry”, they have listed “et al”.  No other plaintiffs are actually named.  The COMPLAINT explains what that “et al” represents.  Kent and Paul want the case certified for “class action”, claiming that “the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impractical.    Kent and Paul are also not qualified or authorized to represent any other plaintiff that might be named.   Well, I think I can say with confidence that trying to get this certified as a class action will go nowhere.
In brief, Judge Cannon’s ORDER in the $500,000,000.00+ suit was critical of Kent’s and Paul’s efforts, noting that certain defendants had apparent immunity, a statute of limitations had apparently expired for such action, the previous amended complaint was too long, gave Kent and Paul a deadline for curing perceived defects, and advised them the case may be dismissed if the defects were not cured.

Rather than simply deal with any concerns via motions, Kent and Paul filed the stand-alone COMPLAINT against Judge Cannon, whining about the ORDER, whining about not getting it soon enough, and adding charges designed to have Judge Cannon removed from the related case and from office.

The specific claims appear to be frivolous on their face and will not be dealt with in detail in this article.

Judge Cannon did quickly recuse herself from the case filed against her by Hovind and Hansen.  That was to be expected.  It will be reassigned and a new judge will make appropriate determinations as to where the case against Judge Cannon will go.
I suspect it will not result in getting Judge Cannon removed from the related case for $500,000,000.00+ in damages.

For more background see My Hovind Posts As Youtube Stars which includes links to the original coverage. PJR

About Bang The Drum Slowly

I can’t mention Bang The Drum Slowly without giving you my favorite scene.  I hate to give you a spoiler but the power of the scene is much clearer if you know that the Robert De Niro character has a terminal disease and some of the players know and others don’t. Bang The Drum Slowly is IMHO the greatest bromance ever.

The book is really good too with a closing paragraph that almost competes with Middlemarch.

He was not a bad fellow, no worse than most and probably better than some, and not a bad ballplayer neither when they give him a chance, when they laid off him long enough. From here on in I rag nobody.

Actually is not in the same league as Middlemarch, but I still like it.  Here is the end of Middlemarch so you know what I mean.

Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.