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DOCKET NUMBER 1:03CV-203
Filed 3:58 PM. July 25, 2003
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF VERMONT
Peter D. Moss, Plaintiff pro se
v.
E.ON AG (successor in interest to VEBA AG) and
Ulrich Hartmann (former VEBA
Chief Executive Officer), and
VEBA subsidiary Stinnes Corporation and
Michael Moebius, its former President,
and Dr. Hans-Juergen Knauer, its former
Chairman, and Stanley L. Goodman, their
counsel and Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman,
P.A., their law firm,
Defendants singly, severally and jointly
BODILY INJURY COMPLAINT
Trial by Jury Demanded
PETER D. MOSS, PRO SE
42 Village View Road
Fairfax, Vermont 05454-0413, U.S.A.
Phone 802-849-2108
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Federal Diversity Jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Amount in Controversy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vermont Jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Timeliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Wrongful Conduct by Each Defendant . . . . . . . . . 6
Causes of Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
First Cause: dental damages . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Second Cause: loss of consortium and loss of sex life 20
Erroneous Denial by Second Circuit . . . . . . . . . 20
Erroneous Denial by Southern Distr. of New York . . 25
Jury Nullification of erroneous prior decisions . . 27
Jury Nullification of Vermont Time Limitation . . . 30
Jury Demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Prayer for Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
List of Plaintiff's Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
COMES NOW Peter D. Moss, pro se, and alleges as follows:
FEDERAL DIVERSITY JURISDICTION
1. This is a civil action seeking damages to protect rights guaranteed
by United States law and Vermont law. Original jurisdiction of
this complaint is founded on the complete diversity of citizenship
of the parties, and amount, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1332(3).
Plaintiff is a citizen of Vermont. Defendants are citizens of
Germany, Delaware, and New Jersey, respectively.
PARTIES
2. Plaintiff Peter D. Moss is a citizen of the United States
and a resident of Vermont. His address is 42 Village View Road,
Fairfax, County of Franklin, Vermont 05454-0413, U.S.A.
3. Defendant E.ON AG and Defendant Ulrich Hartmann, CEO, are
citizens of Germany, and their address is Bennigsen-Platz 1,
40474 Duesseldorf, Germany. Defendant Stinnes Corporation is
a corporation of Delaware, whose principal office is at 120 White
Plains Road, 6th floor, Tarrytown, New York 10591. Defendant
Michael Moebius is a citizen of Germany, residing at Broicher
Waldweg 172, 45478 Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany. Defendant Dr.
Hans-Juergen Knauer is a citizen of Germany, residing at Danziger-Strasse
20, 45470 Muelheim and der Ruhr, Germany. Defendant Stanley Lewis
Goodman is a citizen of New Jersey residing at 38 Shadowlawn
Drive, Livingston, New Jersey 07039. Defendant Grotta, Glassman
& Hoffman, P.A., has its principal office at 75 Livingston
Avenue, Roseland, New Jersey 07068-1761 and for venue purposes,
is a New Jersey citizen.
AMOUNT IN CONTROVERSY
4. The matter in controversy exceeds seventy-five thousand
dollars ($75,000) exclusive of interest and costs.
VERMONT JURISDICTION
5. The Vermont Constitution, Chapter I, Article 4th provides
in relevant part that "Every person within this state ought
to find a certain remedy by having recourse to the laws, for
all injuries or wrongs which one may receive in person ... "
TIMELINESS
6. Under 12 V.S.A. §512(4): "Except as otherwise
provided in this chapter, injuries to the person suffered by
the act or default of another person, provided that the cause
of action shall be deemed to accrue as of the date of the discovery
of the injury;. .." The earliest date of discovery is August
8, 2000, when Dr. Edward L. Schumer, D.M.D., removed the bridge
and found that teeth 27 & 28 were fractured at the gum line
(Plaintiff's Exhibit A, attached), because until that date the
loose bridge could have been due to nothing more than broken
cement, in which case the bridge could be simply re-cemented.
Therefore, this complaint is timely if filed at any time before
August 8, 2003, the statutory deadline.
FACTS
7. About 5 p.m. on November 11, 1991, my wife Barbara Moss, then
54, was suddenly and age discriminatorily terminated by Defendant
Moebius, solely because Moebius wanted a young secretary. At
54, my wife Barbara was replaced by a 27-year old illegal alien
woman so unqualified that she was denied a working visa before
entering the United States. She testified that she told Immigration
at Kennedy Airport that she came to visit when she knew she came
to work and was going to take my wife's job and livelihood.
When my wife Barbara and I filed an ADEA complaint on May
26, 1992 as co-plaintiffs because the defendants reduced us from
a two-paycheck family to a one-paycheck family and for emotional
and other damages, the defendants retaliated to destroy my wife's
employability, followed by systematically and intention-ally
inflicted emotional harm by tormenting us to destroy our will
to exercise our lawful right to make ourselves whole, but also
seriously impairing our physical and emotional health over the
8 years, from 1991 to 1999, caused by malicious prosecution using
willfully false and defamatory fabrications perpetrated by the
defendants, their witnesses, and their attorneys, under color
of a defense.
The defendants and their attorney never admitted the simple
truth that defendant Moebius wanted a 27-year old single secretary,
not my then 54-year old wife with 30 years of U.S. business experience.
All of the slanderous and perjurious defense fabrications and
numerous obstruction of justice crimes have enabled the defendants
to postpone judgment day for 8 years, and then extract a confidential
settlement (which will be produced if this Court so orders) which
I did not sign. My wife Barbara sent out over 1000 resumes in
8 years, which resulted in a total of 2 jobs. One lasted for
2 days, as secretary to the president of a German bank where
Defendant Stinnes was a client. The other job lasted for 2 weeks,
as secretary in a German consultant's office where VEBA was a
client or prospect. Defendant Moebius admitted badmouthing my
wife in the German American executive community in the New York
metropolitan area, which was Barbara's primary job market. One
employment agent said that "all the Moebiuses are talking."
Also, we were forced to provide intrusive and irrelevant discovery
including our tax, bank and credit card records, while the defendants
never had to and never did produce numerous relevant and crucial
discovery that would harm or destroy the defense. The documentation
of the defendants' crimes, torts, and ethical violations fills
8 transfer files, each 14 inches deep. It documents the principal
corporate defense method used by the defendant attorney and his
law firm: scour the victim's history for anything that can be
misrepresented to a jury to set it against the victim, and at
the same time subject the victim to years of intrusive depositions
and document production, all the while insisting on "mitigation"
by forcing a fruitless job search while working behind the scenes
to prevent re-employment of the victim. Also, whenever we left
town for a few days of respite, the defendants complained that
my wife was vacationing instead of job hunting for mitigation.
From eight years of such mental torture, Barbara and I, the plaintiff
herein, were diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome. Plaintiff's
Exhibit B and C. In addition, I sustained Prinzmetal's angina,
symptomatically akin to angina pectoris, but without organic
heart damage (Plaintiff's Exhibit D and E), and nocturnal bruxism,
an involuntary gritting of teeth during sleep, a complaint which
continues on and on, and furnishes the 3-year statute of limitations
making this action timely.
WRONGFUL CONDUCT BY EACH DEFENDANT
8. The general rule is that tort liability is established
when unlawful acts and violations of statutes are the proximate
cause of an injury. 74 Am. Jur.2d, TORTS, §29 at 644. In
this cause, my ongoing dental, cardiac, and related conditions
were caused by the defendants' ceaseless abuses causing us post
traumatic stress syndrome
E.ON AG (formerly VEBA) has financed and maintained their
frivolous obstruction for eight years which is malicious prosecution
in the guise of a defense. Moreover, E.ON AG is responsible under
the respondeat superior doctrine, E.ON being the sole and whole
owner of Defendant Stinnes Corporation, so Defendant E.ON AG
(VEBA's successor in interest) is the main real party in interest.
VEBA's previous chairman, Klaus Pilz, died on April 13, 1993
in a fatal skiing accident. Ever since then, Defendant Ulrich
Hartmann has headed and/or chaired VEBA AG, and has financed
and maintained for eight years Defense Counsel Goodman's frivolous
action which is malicious prosecution in the guise of a defense.
Moreover, when I was removed as a co-plaintiff from my wife's
action, not being a party, I could and did write Defendant Hartmann
a conciliatory letter dated April 13, 1998, offering to settle
the litigation under permanent confidentiality, but also putting
him on notice that if we cannot settle, I will have no choice
but to commence a civil action of my own (which is the action
at bar). The reply came not from Defendant Hartmann but from
Defendant Goodman, threatening me with F.R.Civ.P. Rule 11 sanctions
should I exercise my right under New York C.P.L.R. 205(a).
Defendant Stinnes Corporation is, of course, the platform
from which all offenses, criminal and tortious, as well as the
8-year frivolous defense has been schemed, mounted, and financed.
Defendant Moebius conspired (18 U.S.C. §241 and 42 U.S.C.
§1985(3)) with Defendant Knauer to violate the Age Discrimination
in Employment Act(29 U.S.C. §623(a)(1) and §623(a)(2))
by replacing my then 54 year old wife with a 27 year old alien
woman so unqualified she was denied a working visa. Defendant
Moebius signed under penalty of perjury a petition to Immigration
and Naturalization Service containing about a dozen willful falsehoods
(18 U.S.C. §1546(b)(3) and 28 U.S.C. §1746) to obtain
a three-year visa as transfer employee for the 27-year old who
had already entered illegally and had taken my wife's job. Defendant
Moebius suborned (18 U.S.C. §1622) perjurious testimony
by Margot Koch, executive vice president of Koch Travel, to slander
my wife with the false accusation that my wife solicited a kickback,
in exchange for the $300,000 a year travel account of Defendant
Stinnes. As part of the deal, Defendant Moebius extracted a 4%
kickback from Koch (18 U.S.C. Sentencing Guideline 2(B)4.1) and
pocketed about $48,000 in kickbacks over 4 years, calculated
from figures which are accurate according to Defendant Goodman.
Before coming to the U.S., Defendant Moebius had a kickback deal
with Koch Travel in Hamburg for many years. Defendant Moebius
admitted under oath slandering my wife to the German American
executive community in the Metropolitan New York area and in
retaliation (29 U.S.C. §623(d)) for our attempt to make
ourselves whole, Defendant Moebius refused a useable reference
to deny my wife gainful employme
End run is a character trait of Defendant Michael Moebius.
Character traits are admissible under Evidentiary Rules 405 and
406. Item: When Moebius asked Rita Doehring for a kickback, she
said no. Rita told me and my wife that when Moebius threatened
to take the $300,000 Stinnes travel account to another agency,
Rita refused, gun to her head, to use Rita's phrase. So Moebius
called in Margot Koch and got more than a kickback agreement;
Moebius also suborned Koch to perjure herself to accuse my wife
Barbara of soliciting a kickback for herself when in fact my
wife refused Koch's kickback offer when Koch thought she could
buy the account from my wife. Item: When the U.S. Embassy in
Bonn denied an E-2 working visa for lack qualifications, Moebius
imported the object of his desire, then-27-year old Manuela Eckert
Andersen to take my then 54-year-old wife's position. While Manuela
worked for months without a visa and was paid by cash advances
for lack of a Social Security number, Moebius then hired an immigration
attorney to procure an L-1 visa filing a totally perjured application
grossly overstating Manuela's qualifications and signed by Moebius
under penalty of perjury punishable by $10,000 or 5 years in
jail or both. Moebius testified that when Manuela came for an
interview to New York, he first interviewed her in his hotel
where Moebius was living at the time. Item: Since an L-1 visa
requires continuity in employment, a "contract" between
Manuela Eckert and Stinnes AG was produced for misleading the
INS into believing that Manuela was still employed by Stinnes
AG and would have a job there upon expiration of the L-1 visa.
Manuela told Evette Madison, a bilingual employment agent in
Manhattan, that she had no idea what would happen to her once
she returned after just 5 months in the U.S. on a 3-year L-1
visa. Sure enough, by the time Moebius was deposed some few months
later, Manuela was no longer employed by Stinnes AG. We can only
imagine what Manuela's personnel file at Stinnes AG contained.
After a long drawn out discovery dispute, we were denied discovery
of her file. People who have nothing to hide don't go to a lot
of trouble to hide it. Item: Stacey Lopez was a salesperson at
Denis Florists which had the Stinnes account. When Moebius insisted
on a live Christmas tree in the 44th floor office of Stinnes,
Stacey explained to Moebius about the New York City fire ordinance.
Not impressed, Moebius contacted Greenwich Orchids near Moebius's
home and gave Ted Siegel and Wendy Siegel the Stinnes flower
account. Ted Siegel brought in a large, fresh Christmas tree
wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag, as well as live Christmas
wreaths with wax candles for the desk of every Stinnes executive.
This incendiary material had to be locked in a closet over the
weekend or whenever a building employee came to the office. --
Anybody would go to a nearby supermarket or drug store for an
item the first one did not have. The issue is not an end run
in itself. The issue is that Moebius's end runs are always illegitimate
and habitually criminal. Since commercial kickbacks are punishable
under the Title 18 Sentencing Guidelines, the "handshake
agreement" with Koch Travel is prima facie criminal. Rita's
refusal (Pistole am Kopf) simply encouraged Moebius to make an
end run around Rita to extort criminal kickbacks from Koch as
he had done for years at Koch Hamburg where he was house counsel
for Stinnes Interoil. If Moebius thought the E-2 denial was erroneous,
he would have appealed it. After being told that the E-2 denial
was correct, and then applying for an L-1 with heavily perjured
claims to deceive the INS is again criminal.
Applying for a working visa for a person rejected on truthful
qualifications is criminal when a forged "contract"
is fabricated to establish employment continuity for Manuela.
Contracting with Ted Siegel to smuggle a live Christmas tree
and wreaths with wax candles to the 44th floor Stinnes offices
is a criminal violation of the NYC fire code, and reckless after
being told of the NYC fire code by Stacey Lopez and the building
management. Item: The Maginot line was built against Nazi invasion
all along the French-German border but the Germans made an end
run going around the Maginot line through Holland and Belgium
and occupied France anyway. The end run seems to be a character
trait of the German ruling class. Such people should not be allowed
to do business in the United States breaking U.S. criminal and
civil law.
Defendant Knauer conspired (18 U.S.C. §241 and 42 U.S.C.
§1985(3)) with Defendant Moebius to violate the Age Discrimi-nation
in Employment Act (29 U.S.C. §623(a)(1) and (2)). Moreover,
Defendant Knauer is responsible under the respondeat superior
doctrine since he hand-picked Defendant Moebius to be president
of Defendant Stinnes Corporation and at all relevant times, Moebius
reported to Knauer and Knauer supported Moebius and supported
the financing of all of the tortious conduct still causing me
physical harm discovered less than 3 years ago, of which I am
complaining and for which I now claim compensation. Thus Defendant
Knauer is responsible for aiding and abetting the tortious acts
of Defendants Moebius and Goodman. Defendant Knauer was managing
the acquisition of Schenkers International Forwarders of Jersey
City in the late 1980s, completing the acquisition in 1991. During
that period, 12 senior German American executives complained
of age discriminatory discharge by Schenkers, apparently undertaken
to make the acquisition more attractive to Knauer. I have copied
some of the Schenkers victims' papers still in Federal, N.Y.
State and N.Y. City court files. I have found no evidence of
vindication or recovery by any of the Schenkers victims. Thus
Defendant Knauer had good reason to believe that the defendants
would get away with his conspiracy with Defendant Moebius before
leaving Germany for the U.S., to violate the Age Act with impunity,
and apparently reinforced the widely held view that in "Amerika"
all problems can be fixed by throwing enough money at them. This
is supported by a statement made by Defendant Goodman on the
record on July 6, 1992 during the deposition of Manuela Andersen,
the object of Defendant Moebius's desire: Defendant Goodman said
that money is of no concern to him, apparently referring to the
unlimited litigation budget offered by Defendant Stinnes Corporation
Defendant Stanley L. Goodman, counsel for defendants, slandered
my wife to Rita Doehring, the travel agent preceding Koch, hoping
to induce Rita to accuse my wife of soliciting or accepting kickbacks.
Initially Rita Doehring offered to testify for my wife and told
us she refused Defendant Moebius's kickback demand but after
Defendant Goodman tampered (18 U.S.C. §1512) with Rita Doehring
and canceled her subpoena for a deposition, Rita refused to testify.
Defendant Goodman also claimed he obtained an affidavit, which
he later changed to a certification (18 U.S.C. §1623), in
which Doehring allegedly testified that Goodman did not tamper
with her, but Goodman avoided production if indeed any such document
ever existed.
Defendant Goodman also tampered (18 U.S.C. §1512) with
Anna Berger, another travel agent, to induce Berger to change
her testimony and to create a wage theft smear against my wife.
This time Defendant Goodman succeeded in suborning a perjurious
affidavit from Berger which states that Goodman did not tamper
with her.
Defendant Goodman also tampered (18 U.S.C. §1512) with
Juergen Kley, Moebius's predecessor, to testify falsely that
Barbara's German spelling was inadequate (disproven by a letter
from Barbara to Kley where a translator recommended by the German
Consulate certified that the spelling was correct). Defendant
Goodman also suborned (18 U.S.C. §1622) Kley to perjure
himself and claim that Barbara was "confused" at executives'
meetings but thank-you gifts from VEBA Corp. executives for whom
Barbara hosted functions discredited the Kley perjuries.
Defendant Goodman also tampered (18 U.S.C. §1512) with
Theodore H. Siegel and Wendy H. Siegel, proprietors of Greenwich
Orchids that Defendant Moebius selected as florists for the office.
The tampering was to convince the Siegels to deny statements
of account, to deny paying Moebius a kickback for the Stinnes
account, and to deny providing a live Christmas tree and live
Christmas wreaths adorned with wax candles to the 44th floor
Stinnes offices in violation of fire ordinances.
There are 8 transfer files accumulated over 8 years that document
Defendant Goodman's criminal, tortious, unethical and immoral
conduct.
Defendant Goodman coached every defense witness in this action
and improperly interfered with every deposition upon oral examination.
Upon my removal from the action by order dated January 28, 1993,
U.S.D.C./S.D.N.Y. 92 Civ. 3788 (JFK), I had to sit mute through
all those abusive depositions (and in-court conferences) as a
silent observer. This was an ordeal so sickening that I cannot
fully describe it. There are whole pages of transcript where
Defendant Goodman, to prevent the witness from uttering damaging
testimony, falsely claims that Goodman does not understand the
question (28 U.S.C. Rule 37(a)(3)).
After 10 motions over 7 years for permission to file a motion
for partial summary judgment on liability, Defendant Goodman
blackmailed us (18 U.S.C. §873) with a $15,000 sanction
if we don't withdraw the motion, solely because he had no defense
or even colorable defense against the violations of the Age Discrimination
in Employment Act. This blackmail transpired in open court on
January 11, 1999 and is preserved in an official transcript by
a court reporter. That transcript is incorporated here by reference.
Needless to say, Defendant Goodman also violated numerous
provisions of the New York Code of Professional Responsibility:
DR 1-102 which prohibits dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation
and conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.
DR 2-109 which prohibits conducting a defense by harassing
and maliciously injuring a person and DR2-110(B) which mandates
withdrawal of the lawyer from such a defense. Defendant Goodman's
answer to my letter to Defendant Hartmann shows that far from
withdrawing, Goodman encouraged Hartmann to continue their outrageous
defense. EC 7-1 requires lawyers to act within the bounds of
the law. EC 7-26 prohibits the use of fraudulent, false or perjured
testimony. DR 7-102 prohibits conducting a defense and delaying
a trial to harass or maliciously injure another and prohibits
use of perjured testimony, false evidence and other acts of dishonesty.
DR 9-101 prohibits even the appearance of impropriety.
Defendant Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.C., the defendants'
law firm, aided and abetted the entire tortious conduct by Defendant
Goodman, instead of taking remedial action as required by DR
1-104(2). Defendant Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.C. is also
responsible under the respondeat superior doctrine. Defendant
Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.C. also provided other staff
members from the firm to conduct this malicious prosecution under
the guise of a defense. Marvin M. Goldstein, Jonathan Ramsfelder
and Heather R. Boshak come to mind. Also, my wife and I were
not the only ones forced to provide irrelevant personal financial
documents including our tax, bank and credit card records. I
will submit affidavit of additional verified case verified that
this kind of irrelevant, intrusive, invasive and insulting discovery
of personal financial documents is a corporate policy of Defendant
Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.C. to humiliate and intimidate
the victims of their clients. Plaintiff's Exhibit F.
For purposes of this complaint, it does not matter that the
defendants have not been indicted or convicted for any of the
Title 18 and other misconduct enumerated above. It is sufficient
that the violations are indisputably documented and that they
are the proximate cause for my suffering, illnesses, losses and
claims, as established by the entire record including the medical
and psychiatric testimony, among other things.
The behavior of Defendant Goodman and Defendant Grotta, Glassman
& Hoffman is no more supportable than murder by a professional
hit man who is "only doing his job." I believe the
criminal, tortious, unethical and immoral conduct by these defendants
does not qualify as "only doing his job." They have
done a job on me and on my wife and on our marriage and we can
never be whole again, except posssibly financially.
The sustained behavior of the defendants at bar is so outrageous
in character, and so extreme in degree , as to go beyond all
possible bounds of decency, and must be regarded as atrocious
and utterly intolerable in a civilized community. The defendants'
misconduct is also contrary to not only statute law and case
law but also contrary to public policy and should be discouraged
by all the means at the Court's disposal
9. Plaintiff's compensable losses include:
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION: DENTAL DAMAGE
Due to the years of abuse by the defendants and their attorney,
I have developed post traumatic stress disorder. The diagnosis
of Leonard P. Henschel, M.D., diplomate of the American Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology, states in relevant part:
"Nightmares occur at least weekly wakening in cold sweat
and gritting his teeth. This bruxism has become a serious problem,
he says, requiring a prosthesis." Plaintiff's Exhibit B.
Dr. Edward Schumer, D.M.D. removed a bridge on August 8, 2000
and found that teeth 27 and 28 were fractured at the gum line
and tooth 31 was not suited for a posterior abutment. He therefore
referred me to Dr. William D. Purdy, an oral surgeon. Plaintiff's
Exhibit A.
Dr. Purdy confirmed Dr. Schumer's diagnosis and on September
5, 2000, he extracted teeth 27, 28 and 31. After a period of
healing, on March 14, 2001, Dr. Purdy placed four implants in
sockets 27, 28, 30 and 31. Plaintiff's Exhibit G. After a period
of healing, on December 7, 2001, Dr. Schumer took impressions
for a five unit bridge for my lower right jaw and on January
23, 2002, the bridge was cemented on the new implants. Plaintiff's
Exhibit H.
On May 28, 2002, I went to Dr. Schumer with the bridge on
my lower left loose but he was unable to remove it without damaging
it. On September 6, 2002, the bridge was loose enough to remove,
and it was sent to the laboratory for reglazing. Plaintiff's
Exhibit H.
While I was without the bridge, the gums overgrew the implants
which were installed in 1996 by Dr. Weiztman of Forest Hills.
N.Y. Dr. Purdy phoned Dr. Weitzman to ascertain the implant brand
he used, and although the original manufacturer had merged into
another company, the correct healing caps were still available.
On September 19, 2002, Dr. Purdy cut off the excess gum and installed
the healing caps and sutured the soft tissue around the transmucosal
necks using dissolving sutures. Plaintiff's Exhibit I. On October
16, 2002, Dr. Schumer re-cemented the reglazed bridge, using
the specially ordered new screws for the implant posts. Dr. Schumer
concludes: "I do have concerns with his long term prognosis
due to his history of bruxism, which most likely was the etiology
for the failure on the lower left." Plaintiff's Exhibit
H.
Dr. Steven H. Gold, my family dentist until November of 1992,
has certified that I was free of bruxism. Plaintiff's Exhibit
J. My bruxism developed clearly because of the age discriminatory
termination of my wife on November 11, 1991, and the abusive
and debilitating defense complained of herein. Clearly bruxism
will stay with me for the rest of my life, and the plastic nightguard
(akin to a prizefighter's) I have to wear to protect my dentition
during sleep reminds me of the defense abuses every night when
I insert the nightguard, and every morning when I remove it.
In addition, the nightguard causes excessive salivation, and
every morning I wake up with pajamas wet from spittle. During
the trial, I will have various dental imprints and other exhibits
used for me by the dentists and Dr. Schumer and Dr. Purdy will
explain to the jury the function of each exhibit.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION: LOSS OF CONSORTIUM AND LOSS OF SEX
OF LIFE
As part of my post traumatic stress disorder, I developed
Prinzmetal's angina, symptomatically akin to angina pectoris,
but without organic heart damage (Plaintiff's Exhibit D), diagnosed
by my first cardiologist, Dr. Lawrence M. Weinstein, in 1997.
Plaintiff's Exhibit D. My next cardiologist, Dr. David J. Schneider,
writes: "Also during the November 16, 2000 visit, Mr. Moss
complained of erectile dysfunction for the first time, not uncommon
in a man aged 72, and asked me to prescribe Viagra. I had to
decline and warned Mr. Moss that Viagra must never be used by
men who are taking any form of nitrates, including nitroglycerin,
because Viagra can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure to unsafe
and even life-threatening levels. Thus Mr. Moss's need to take
nitroglycerin and to avoid Viagra has in effect denied him a
normal sex life prematurely." Plaintiff's Exhibit E.
ERRONEOUS DENIAL BY SECOND CIRCUIT
10. Since the defendants are sure to raise erroneous and adverse
prior rulings in prior causes, it is necessary to address these
issues at this point. It is well to recall now that the present
cause at bar has nothing to do with ADEA but is a bodily injury
complaint under Vermont law, and any defense attempts to drag
in now irrelevant prior erroneous rulings must be firmly rejected.
I was an original co-plaintiff in USDC/SDNY 92 Civ. 3788 (JFK),
but was erroneously removed by the District Court using F. R.
Civ. P. 12(c), because I was never employed by Defendant Stinnes
Corporation. It is true that the Age Discrimination in Employment
Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §623, does not provide for "direct
action" by injured spouses but mine was not direct but pendent
on my wife's action so my removal was clearly erroneous. ADEA
obviously does not prohibit "pendent" action by spouses,
although case law was made against victims such as myself. The
absence in the ADEA of specific remedies for injured spouses
was of course not because Congress did not intend it. Rather,
there are plenty of other laws to redress co-victim injuries
inflicted by unlawful corporate age discrimination. For one thing,
our complaint sought equitable relief which the District Court
could have granted but erroneously ignored. Even better, the
District Court could have permitted my permissive joinder under
F. R. Civ. P. 20(a) but erroneously denied it to me. Since a
jury trial was timely demanded, it was a third error for the
Court to rule that I have shown "no right to relief,"
which was a question for a jury (empaneled seven years later).
A fourth error was that the Court should have permitted me to
intervene under F. R. Civ. P. 24(a)(2): "... when the applicant
claims an interest relating to the property or transaction which
is the subject of the action and the applicant is so situated
that the disposition of the action may as a practical matter
impair or impede the applicant's ability to protect that interest,..."
Clearly I had a right to intervene but of course the judge and
the defendants wanted me out. "Defendants' real concern
is that if they cannot intimidate and overwhelm the stand-alone
pro se Barbara Moss, they may lose an impartial jury trial,"
we argued.
The existence of Rule 24 is also a good explanation why Congress
did not provide for spousal remedies in ADEA in Title 29 when
Rule 24 in Title 28 does it so well. I did not press my rights
because my wife, the primary victim and surviving plaintiff,
firmly believed that to do so would alienate the judge with dire
consequences for both of us. She even said that I was removed
because I "come on too strong" and that could alienate
the jury and the judge wanted to spare her that fate.
The years passed and the debilitating torture by the defense
attorney and his clients continued. In April of 1997, over six
years after my wife's lawless victimization by the defendants
at bar, I could take no more and sought psychiatric help. The
results are summarized in Plaintiff's Exhibit B. Sleeplessness
and violent nightmares, painful angina pectoris and my dentition
destroyed by nocturnal bruxism, restless leg syndrome, and other
symptoms: "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Depression
and Obsessive Thinking," the psychiatrist wrote. On April
21, 1997, I submitted this diagnosis to the District Court.
Because of my on-going heart pain, I also consulted a cardiologist.
Diagnosis: no heart disease but Prinzmetal's Angina which causes
the same symptoms and is due to "emotion stress."
Plaintiff's Exhibit D.
On August 26, 1997, my wife Barbara was diagnosed by the same
psychiatrist who saw me in April 1997. Diagnosis: Posttraumatic
Strees Disorder with obsession, anxiety and depression. Panic
Disorder Without Agoraphobia. Plaintiff's Exhibit C.
Upon the denial of my motion to intervene in my wife's case
(not direct action) under Fed. R. Civ. P. 24, Intervention, I
appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
After oral argument, the Second Circuit published the following
terse opinion by the unanimous three judge panel:
"Plaintiff-appellant Peter D. Moss, appearing pro se,
appeals from an order of the United States District Court for
the Southern District of New York (Keenan, J.), denying plaintiff-appellant's
motion to intervene in his wife Barbara M. Moss's action under
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ("ADEA"),
29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., and the New York State Human Rights
Law ("HRL"), N.Y. Exec. Law § 290 et seq.
We hold, as have all other courts that have considered the
question, that neither the ADEA nor the HRL, affords a direct
cause of action to a non-employee due to discrimination against
his spouse. Moreover, neither statute provides for a claim for
a loss of consortium. Accordingly, we affirm the order denying
intervention for substantially the reason stated by the district
court. See Moss v. Stinnes Corp. No. 92 Civ. 3788, 1997 WL 530113
(S.D.N.Y. Aug. 25, 1997); see also Moss v. Stinnes Corp., No.
92 Civ. 3788, 1993 WL 33591 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 29, 1993)."
There are many errorrs in this decision.
First error. An action by intervention is a pendent action, not
a direct action, by definition. This simple little linguistic
trick immediately invalidates both District Court and Second
Circuit decisions, but there is more, much more.
Second error: under Second Circuit case law, once a direct
action is established, subsequent plaintiffs, by joinder or intervention,
are not required to establish again that a valid cause of action
exists.
Third error: under a Second Circuit rule, only the entire
active bench sitting en banc can change Second Circuit case law.
Since they failed to do so (why bother for a pro se), I moved
for a rehearing en banc. This got even shorter shrift: my motion
was denied by "the judges for the court in regular active
service and to any other judge that heard the appeal and that
no such judge has requested that a vote be taken thereon."
Docket 97-9450, filed June 7, 1999. This reminded me of the dog
who defecates on a concrete surface and then kicks twice with
a hind leg. Not very effective.
Fourth error: If the defendants had assassinated me instead
of just sickening me, the Second Circuit would have decided,
using the same logic, that the ADEA and the HRL affords no protection
for the life of a non-employee due to discrimination against
his spouse. Here the Second Circuit pretends that the age acts
suspend all other laws, but courts (like all lawyers) only cite
those laws that support their case or decisions, not those required
to administer justice. The Conference on Critical Legal Studies
has recognized that the law is not for administering justice
but is a political tool to protect the privileges of the ruling
class.
A fifth error in the above decision: the coerced, confidential
settlement with my wife Barbara clearly states that "The
parties acknowledge that the settlement payment is not payment
for lost wages but rather is for Moss' claims for compensatory
damages based upon her claims of physical injuries, emotional
distress and pain and suffering." All of the medical certifications
on which this settlement was based were in evidence before the
Second Circuit when it made its erroneous decisions. The Second
Circuit did not provide the equitable remedies that defendants
were even willing to offer in settlement, for reasons more fully
discussed below.
It is not widely known but the U.S. Supreme Court denies 99%
of the petitions for certiorari, and mine was no exception. Docket
99-303.
ERRONEOUS DENIAL BY SOUTHERN DISTR. OF NEW YORK
11. Once we decided to move to Vermont, I filed a complaint
in Albany, NY, in the Northern District of New York. Docket 00-CV-0488(LEK)(RWS)(N.D.N.Y.
Apr. 26, 2000). After a year of no meaningful action, the Northern
District judge was apparently instructed to send me back to Southern
District, to finish me off. Judge Keenan wanted nothing further
to do with me, so then-Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey delivered
the coup de grace (Docket 01 CIV. 2043) by Order of Dismissal
dated March 12, 2001. Judge Mukasey cited pages of unrelated
case law for res judicata and collateral estoppel. My wife's
case was settled, not adjudicated, and thus created no res judicata.
Even if it had ended in a judgment, it was an age bias case,
not personal injury, as is my case. I am not assuming that Judge
Mukasey did not perceive these irrelevancies, but it does show
the contempt judges have for underdog pro se's intelligence.
To insure that I am sufficiently intimidated, Judge Mukasey resorted
to the totally irrelevant statute for indigents, 28 U.S.C. §1915(a)(3):
"An appeal may not be taken in forma pauperis if the trial
court certifies in writing that it is not taken in good faith."
I am not a pauper and never was, nor did I ever apply to proceed
in forma pauperis but Judge Mukasey was apparently instructed
to discourage me from appealing his errors to the Second Circuit
and of course no matter how erroneous, judges can make it stick.
I did perceive the frustration and rage of the courts in their
inability to administer justice so as to protect the privileges
of corporations, and realized that if I appealed, I would be
charged with "bad faith" and fined severely.
JURY NULLIFICATION OF ERRONEOUS PRIOR DECISIONS
12. All of which will raise some questions in the mind of
any fair jury. (1) Why do corporate defense lawyers and judges
fight age discrimination claims and victims so hard, and so much
harder than, say, race or sex discrimination complaints? Answer:
because age bias is extremely profitable. In a typical case,
a 55-year old managerial, administrative or professional earning
$60,000 per year is replaced by a 30-year old earning $30,000.
To the $30,000 difference must be added another $10,000 in fringe
benefits. Over the next ten years, the discriminator pockets
$400,000 tax free. By contrast, a female or minority earning
$30,000 cannot be replaced by a white or male for $15,000, and
even if that were possible, the savings would only be $200,000
which could easily be wiped out by lawyers' fees and "amicable"
settlement costs.
(2) Why is up to a decade of debilitating "discovery"
granted when the discriminators jolly well know that they violated
the age law, long before they are served an age bias complaint
and summons? Answer: because age violators have no real or even
colorable defense, so they keep up aggressive "discovery"
over many years which will either sicken or pummel the victim
into submission, or at least produce some event in the vitim's
history that can be misrepresented to a jury to turn it against
the victim. Failure to try to mitigate by documented job searches
in a market where millions are unemployed and nobody seeks elderly
applicants; résumé "fraud" by accusing
victims of overstating qualifications, or any unfavorable "witness"
that is willing to badmouth the victim for a consideration, etc.
(3) And most importantly, how does the ruling class served
by corporate defense lawyers and judges implement their obviously
unjust control on the legal and judicial machine? Answer: the
ruling class effectively controls the judicial selection and
appointment process, and has unlimited stockholder funds to pay
exorbitant fees to "labor lawyes representing management
exclusively." There are about 10 such firms with offices
nationwide, and they do mostly age bias victim battering. Millions
of older, higher paid managerial, administrative and professional
staff have been replaced with half-as-old staff at half the pay
since the ADEA was enacted in 1967. How is that possible? Because
judges have not created effective financial deterrents to discourage
and stamp out age bias as Congress intended. On the contrary,
the Supreme Court fashioned the McDonnel-Douglas scheme to insure
that victims cannot "prove" age bias. The general public
is told that age bias is "hard to prove." The truth
is that the courts have made age discrimination hard to prove,
to protect the power of corporations to profit from age discrimination.
The real reason for termination is in the minds of the terminating
executives who never confess, and any witnesses are either still
working for the violator, or are dependent for life on the violator's
favorable job reference. Thus are coworkers intimidated from
testifying for victims. The personnel records of the victims'
replacements are rarely if ever discovered. (My wife's half-as-old
replacement's personnel file stayed in Germany under some German
labor law precedent.) Even if it were produced, age violators
would edit out any damaging information.
Once a fair jury understands these answers to these questions,
the outcome of this cause is not in question. To obtain jury
nullification of the injustices exposed above, I must answer
these questions to the jury. When I last looked on May 10, 2001,
Lexis-Nexis listed 905 authorities on the subject of "jury
nullification" which is available for both case law and
statute law. Obviously I have not perused these 905 items but
suffice it to say that among the 905 citations, there is sufficient
support to justify a jury trial and a verdict based on jury nullification.
There is no other way to make me whole and to discourage job
ageism and the sickening and debilitating abuses employed by
corporate defense lawyers. I am a candidate for U.S. Senate in
2004 and a candidate for the Vermont Senate in 2004, to introduce
legislation to enact jury nullification to overcome age bias
and other ruling class privileges. At the very least, I will
start the national debate going.
JURY NULLIFICATION OF VERMONT TIME LIMITATION
13. If the jury agrees with me and nullifies the erroneus
decisions in this case, I will seek jury nullification of the
time limitation on prior injuries suffered at the hands of the
defendants at bar. The 3 year time limitation I seek to nullify
is contained in V.S.A. Title 12, Chapter 23, Section 512. Additional
injury claims, if the jury nullifies the 3 year time limitation:
restless leg syndrome occasionally falling off the bed, excessive
startle response, nightmares, fear of finding adverse mail in
the mailbox late in the day which would keep us awake all night
debating possible responses, angry outbursts at old friends who
defend lawyers and judges and corporate power, difficulty concentrating,
depressed mood, all starting with and caused by the shock of
the sudden termination of my wife, then 54, on the evening of
November 11, 1991, solely to be replaced by a 27-year old unqualified
and therefore undocumented alien woman, followed by retaliation
to destroy my wife's employability, followed by systematically
and intentionally inflicted emotional harm to destroy our will
to exercise our lawful right to make ourselves whole, but also
seriously impairing our health over 8 years of "discovery,"
all of which were caused by malicious prosecution using wilfully
false and defamatory fabrications perpetrated by the defendants,
their witnesses, and their attorneys, under color of a defense.
The record shows that during a conference, Defendant Goodman
referred to me as an ugly little old man. On another occasion,
he referred to me as a court jester. I can understand the frustration
of overpaid counsel representing a giant global corporation,
but in this country even pro se's have some rights, even though
they may not be easily or quickly enforced.
JURY DEMAND
14. Plaintiff herein respectfully demands a trial by jury
of all issues. Under the 7th Amendment, my claims should be decided
by a jury on damages, not by the defendants' false arguments.
The defendants' disingenuity that I have no valid claims, has
been further underscored by trying to avoid a jury determination
of my claims. If the defendants believed that I have no valid
claims, they would have argued that to the jury instead of trying
to squeeze me out by sickening and debilitating misrepresentations.
PRAYER FOR RELIEF
15. Plaintiff seeks the following relief:
$1,000,000 compensation for angina pectoris caused by abuse by
the defendants, impairing cardiovascular function and shortening
my life, and denying me a normal sex life prematurely.
$1,000,000 compensation for nocturnal bruxism caused by abuse
by the defendants, causing cost, pain and suffering of extraction
of natural dentition and cost, pain and suffering of replacement
by implants and prostheses, impairing chewing ability and the
enjoyment of food for the rest of my life.
If the jury nullifies the 3 year statute of limitations, 12
V.S.A. §512 (4), I also claim $1,000,000 compensation for
posttraumatic stress disorder caused by abuse by the defendants
with evil intent to break my will to enforce lawful right to
make myself whole.
CONCLUSION
16. Judicial notice is respectfully directed to the attached
reports by cardiologists, specialized dentists, and a psychiatrist
diagnosing me and my wife with posttraumatic stress disorder
inflicted upon us by the defendants' sustained misconduct. Reports
on my wife Barbara by a cardiologist, a dermatologist, and an
internist are incorporated here by reference, to establish the
defendants' debilitating misconduct.
E.ON has a taxable income of about $20-million every day. Thus
my claim of less than 2 hours' taxable income is only like $500
to a lawyer billing $250 per hour. My claim is truly not out
of proportion considering the wealth of defendants, the wrongs
to be punished, and the deterrent to be set to giant corporations
who now think they can get away with it if only they waste stockholder
money to pay enough lawyers' fees long enough.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true
and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
DATED: Fairfax, Vermont
July 25, 2003
______________________________
Peter D. Moss, Plaintiff pro se
42 Village View Road
P. O. Box 413
Fairfax, Vermont 05454-0413
Phone: 802-849-2108
LIST OF PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBITS
A. Diagnosis dated May 9, 2001 by Dr. Edward L. Schumer
B. Diagnosis dated April 12, 1997 by Dr. Leonard Henschel (PDM)
C. Diagnosis dated Aug. 26, 1997 by Dr. Leonard Henschel (BMM)
D. Diagnosis dated April 24, 1997 by Dr. Lawrence Weinstein
E. Diagnosis dated April 12, 2001 by Dr. David J. Schneider
G. Diagnosis dated March 29, 2001 by Dr. William D. Purdy
H. Diagnosis dated February 28, 2003 by Dr. Edward L. Schumer
I. Diagnosis dated October 9, 2002 by Dr. William D. Purdy
J. Diagnosis dated February 5, 1997 by Dr. Steven H. Gold
K. LEXIS-NEXIS print-out of "Jury Nullification" authorities
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