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45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 (...) that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 1 Samuel 17:45-49 (King James Version - KJV)
1 Samuel 17:45-49 (Nova Versão Internacional - NVI)
45 Davi, porém, disse ao filisteu: "Você vem contra mim com espada, com lança e com dardo, mas eu vou contra você em nome do Senhor dos Exércitos, o Deus dos exércitos de Israel, a quem você desafiou. (...) e toda a terra saberá que há Deus em Israel. 47 Todos os que estão aqui saberão que não é por espada ou por lança que o Senhor concede vitória; pois a batalha é do Senhor, e ele entregará todos vocês em nossas mãos". . 1 Samuel 17:45-49 (NVI):
https://www.biblia.com/bible/nvi/1-samuel/17/45-49
Uma Análise da Moção de Stafne por Márcia Almeida com IA GEMINI
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Leia, traduza integralmente e literalmente para português da primeira até a última página e faça uma análise jurídica detalhada dos argumentos apresentados pelo Scott à luz dos precedentes e artigos de lei invocados e procure outros precedentes do SCOTUS e dos tribunais internacionais de direitos humanos para fundamentar os pedidos dele.
Mostrar a obstrução da justiça e a falta de imparcialidade do juízo e a violação do devido processo legal e direitos de propriedade.
Leia a Integra da petição publicada em 15.09.25:
US District Court for Western Washington - Church of the Gardens and Alvin White vs. Deutsche Bank - Plaintiffs' Motion for Post Judgment Relief Pursuant to FRCP 59 and 60
17 Pages
This motion challenges the validity of a federal court judgment entered in the absence of a finding that removing defendants alleged and/or proved that standing necessary to invoke subject matter jurisdiction of the US district court. Plaintiffs argue that District Court’s misallocation of this burden to Plaintiffs rendered its judgment its merits judgment void.
The motion invokes FRCP 59 for manifest legal error, FRCP 60(b)(4) for void judgment, and FRCP 60(b)(6) for extraordinary circumstances, including what Plaintiffs describe as “treason to the Constitution.” Read the original petition on Academia.edu
Leia na íntegra :
GEMINI IA ANÁLISE
Análise Jurídica Detalhada
A petição elaborada por Scott E. Stafne em nome de Alvin White e da Church of the Gardens é uma peça jurídica robusta e agressiva, que se baseia em princípios fundamentais do direito constitucional e processual americano para argumentar que a sentença do Tribunal Distrital é nula e deve ser revertida. A análise a seguir detalha os argumentos, contextualiza-os com a jurisprudência e demonstra como eles apontam para obstrução da justiça, falta de imparcialidade, e violação do devido processo legal e dos direitos de propriedade.
1. Análise dos Argumentos Principais de Stafne
O cerne da petição de Stafne repousa em três pilares interligados: a primazia da jurisdição, o ônus da prova da parte que remove o processo, e a violação de direitos substantivos através de manobras processuais.
a) Jurisdição, Legitimidade (Standing) e o Dever Sua Sponte do Tribunal
Este é o argumento mais forte e central da petição. Stafne alega que o Tribunal Distrital cometeu um "Erro Manifesto de Direito" (FRCP 59) e proferiu uma "Sentença Nula" (FRCP 60) ao não verificar a legitimidade (standing) do Deutsche Bank (DB) para remover o caso do tribunal estadual para o federal.
● Fundamentação Invocada: Stafne cita Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens e Gaus v. Miles, Inc.. Esses precedentes estabelecem um princípio básico da lei federal: a parte que invoca a jurisdição federal (neste caso, o DB, que removeu o processo) tem o ônus de provar que a jurisdição existe.
● A Falha do Tribunal: O tribunal, segundo Stafne, inverteu esse ônus, tratando como se fosse obrigação dos autores (White) provar a falta de jurisdição. Isso é uma distorção fundamental da lei processual. Um tribunal federal é um tribunal de jurisdição limitada e tem o dever independente (sua sponte) de garantir que possui competência material sobre um caso antes de prosseguir para o mérito. Ao ignorar as contestações de White à legitimidade do DB e decidir o mérito primeiro, o tribunal agiu sem confirmar sua própria autoridade para fazê-lo.
● Consequência: Se um tribunal não tem competência material, qualquer decisão que ele tome sobre o mérito é legalmente nula (void ab initio). Portanto, o argumento de Stafne de que a sentença é nula sob a FRCP 60(b)(4) é tecnicamente correto se a premissa (a falta de prova de legitimidade do DB) for verdadeira.
b) "Traição à Constituição" e a Importância da Jurisdição
Stafne usa uma linguagem extremamente forte, acusando o tribunal de "traição à constituição".
● Fonte da Expressão: Ele se baseia na famosa citação do Chefe de Justiça John Marshall em Cohens v. Virginia, que afirma que um tribunal não tem "mais direito de declinar o exercício da jurisdição que é dada do que de usurpar aquela que não é dada. Um ou outro seria traição à Constituição".
● Análise do Uso: Embora a linguagem seja retórica e hiperbólica, ela serve para enfatizar um ponto constitucional vital: a aderência estrita aos limites jurisdicionais não é uma mera formalidade técnica, mas a base da legitimidade do poder judicial e da proteção
contra a tirania. Stafne argumenta que, ao decidir o mérito sem confirmar a jurisdição, o tribunal "usurpou" um poder que não lhe foi dado, o que, na visão de Marshall, é uma ofensa fundamental à ordem constitucional.
c) Violação do Devido Processo Legal e Direitos de Propriedade (RCW 61.24.130) Este argumento conecta a falha processual (jurisdição) a um dano material (perda da propriedade).
● Direito Substantivo Estadual: A lei de Washington (RCW 61.24.130) concedia a White o direito de solicitar a um juiz que impedisse a venda de sua propriedade. Ele exerceu esse direito no tribunal estadual.
● Obstrução via Remoção: A remoção do caso pelo DB para o tribunal federal e a subsequente atribuição do caso a um juiz magistrado (que não podia decidir a questão sem o consentimento de todas as partes) efetivamente negaram a White a "oportunidade de ser ouvido" antes que a privação de sua propriedade ocorresse. O sistema do tribunal federal, na prática, obstruiu o remédio legal que a lei estadual lhe garantia.
● Implicação Constitucional: Isso constitui uma violação clássica do devido processo legal (Due Process), garantido pela Décima Quarta Emenda da Constituição dos EUA. O devido processo exige não apenas a existência de um procedimento, mas que ele seja justo e ocorra em um momento significativo. A venda da propriedade de White antes que ele pudesse ter sua petição para impedir a venda julgada por um juiz competente é um exemplo de negação de um processo significativo.
2. Fundamentação Adicional com Precedentes da Suprema Corte (SCOTUS)
Os argumentos de Stafne podem ser ainda mais fortalecidos por outros precedentes da Suprema Corte.
● Sobre a Primazia da Jurisdição: Em Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998), a Suprema Corte afirmou inequivocamente que a questão da competência material deve ser decidida antes da questão de mérito. O tribunal declarou que "A hipótese de jurisdição não é jurisdição". Isso contradiz diretamente a abordagem do Tribunal Distrital, que pulou para o "núcleo" do mérito para, em seguida, declarar a questão da jurisdição como irrelevante (moot).
● Sobre Legitimidade (Standing): Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992) é o caso seminal sobre legitimidade, estabelecendo que a parte que invoca a autoridade judicial deve provar (1) um dano concreto e particularizado, (2) uma conexão causal entre o dano e a conduta reclamada, e (3) a probabilidade de que o dano seja reparado por uma decisão favorável. Stafne argumenta que o DB nunca provou ter legitimidade para executar a hipoteca em primeiro lugar, uma questão que o tribunal tinha o dever de examinar.
● Sobre o Devido Processo Legal: Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950) estabeleceu que o devido processo exige "aviso e oportunidade de ser ouvido... concedidos em um momento significativo e de uma maneira significativa". A petição de Stafne argumenta que a remoção e o limbo processual subsequente privaram White de uma audiência em um "momento significativo" — ou seja, antes da venda de sua propriedade.
3. Perspectiva dos Tribunais Internacionais de Direitos Humanos
Os princípios defendidos por Stafne estão alinhados com as normas internacionais de direitos humanos, que podem servir como autoridade persuasiva.
● Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos (DUDH):
○ Artigo 10: "Toda pessoa tem direito, em plena igualdade, a uma audiência justa e pública por parte de um tribunal independente e imparcial..." A alegação de que o tribunal agiu com parcialidade ao inverter o ônus da prova e ignorar a questão jurisdicional para favorecer o réu ecoa este princípio.
○ Artigo 17: "1. Toda pessoa tem o direito à propriedade, individual ou coletivamente. 2. Ninguém será arbitrariamente privado de sua propriedade." A perda da propriedade de White sem uma audiência judicial efetiva para contestar a venda pode ser enquadrada como uma privação arbitrária.
● Pacto Internacional sobre Direitos Civis e Políticos (PIDCP): (Ratificado pelos EUA)
○ Artigo 14(1): Garante o direito a "um julgamento justo e público por um tribunal competente, independente e imparcial estabelecido por lei". O argumento de Stafne de que o tribunal agiu sem confirmar sua competência (jurisdição) é uma contestação direta ao cumprimento deste artigo. O conceito de "acesso efetivo à justiça" é central aqui; um acesso que é obstruído por manobras processuais não é "efetivo".
4. Conclusão da Análise: Obstrução da Justiça e Falta de Imparcialidade
A petição de Stafne, quando analisada à luz da jurisprudência e dos princípios legais, pinta um quadro convincente de falha judicial sistêmica no caso em questão:
1. Obstrução da Justiça: O uso da remoção para um tribunal federal, combinado com os procedimentos internos desse tribunal (atribuição a um magistrado sem poder de decisão), funcionou como um mecanismo para impedir que White exercesse seu direito legal de impedir a venda. Isso impediu o curso da justiça que havia sido iniciado no tribunal estadual.
2. Falta de Imparcialidade: A decisão do tribunal de (a) inverter o ônus da prova da jurisdição, (b) ignorar o dever sua sponte de verificar sua própria competência, e (c) "reduzir" uma queixa complexa a um único argumento "central" para então descartá-lo, sugere uma predisposição para encerrar o caso em favor do réu, em vez de atuar como um árbitro neutro.
3. Violação do Devido Processo e do Direito de Propriedade: O resultado final foi a perda da propriedade de White sem que ele tivesse sua devida oportunidade em tribunal. A sequência de eventos — remoção, atraso processual e venda — resultou em uma privação de propriedade sem o devido processo legal.
Em suma, os argumentos de Scott Stafne, embora expressos em linguagem contundente, estão solidamente ancorados em princípios jurídicos fundamentais. Eles demonstram como falhas processuais, sejam elas intencionais ou negligentes, podem levar à negação de direitos substantivos, constituindo uma grave falha no dever do judiciário de administrar a justiça de forma justa e imparcial.
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GEMINI AI SAID:
Of course.
Here is the English translation of the legal analysis, expanded with indexed footnotes containing the text of the invoked laws and precedents, expanded URLs, and the additional research on international human rights court decisions and the legal grounds for denial of defense through procedural manipulation.
Detailed Legal Analysis
The motion drafted by Scott E. Stafne on behalf of Alvin White and the Church of the Gardens is a robust and aggressive legal document, which relies on fundamental principles of American constitutional and procedural law to argue that the District Court's judgment is void and must be vacated.
The following analysis details the arguments, contextualizes them with jurisprudence, and demonstrates how they point to obstruction of justice, lack of impartiality, and the violation of due process and property rights.
1. Analysis of Stafne's Core Arguments
The core of Stafne's motion rests on three interconnected pillars:
the primacy of jurisdiction, the burden of proof on the removing party, and the violation of substantive rights through procedural maneuvers.
a) Jurisdiction, Standing, and the Court's Sua Sponte Duty
This is the strongest and most central argument in the motion.
Stafne alleges that the District
Court committed a "Manifest Error of Law" (FRCP 59)¹ and rendered a "Void Judgment" (FRCP 60)² by failing to verify the standing of Deutsche Bank (DB) to remove the case from state to federal court.
● Invoked Authority:
Stafne cites Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens³ and Gaus v. Miles, Inc..
These precedents establish a basic principle of federal law: the party invoking federal jurisdiction (in this case, DB, which removed the action) bears the burden of proving that jurisdiction exists.
● The Court's Failure:
The court, according to Stafne, inverted this burden, treating it as if it were the plaintiffs' (White's) obligation to prove the lack of jurisdiction.
This is a fundamental distortion of procedural law.
A federal court is a court of limited jurisdiction and has an independent duty (sua sponte) to ensure it has subject-matter jurisdiction over a case before proceeding to the merits.
By ignoring White's challenges to DB's standing and deciding the merits first, the court acted without confirming its own authority to do so.
● Consequence:
If a court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction, any judgment it renders on the merits is legally void (void ab initio).
Therefore, Stafne's argument that the judgment is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) is technically correct if the premise (the lack of proof of DB's standing) is true.
b) "Treason to the Constitution" and the Importance of Jurisdiction
Stafne uses extremely strong language, accusing the court of "treason to the constitution".
● Source of the Phrase: He relies on the famous quote from Chief Justice John Marshall in Cohens v. Virginia⁴, which states that a court has "no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution".
● Analysis of its Use:
While the language is rhetorical and hyperbolic, it serves to emphasize a vital constitutional point: strict adherence to jurisdictional limits is not a mere technicality but the foundation of the judiciary's legitimacy and a protection against tyranny.
Stafne argues that by deciding the merits without confirming jurisdiction, the court "usurped" a power not given to it, which, in Marshall's view, is a fundamental offense against the constitutional order.
c) Violation of Due Process and Property Rights (RCW 61.24.130)
This argument connects the procedural failure (jurisdiction) to a tangible harm (loss of property).
● Substantive State Right: Washington law (RCW 61.24.130)⁵ granted White the right to ask a judge to restrain the sale of his property. He properly exercised this right in state court.
● Obstruction via Removal:
DB's removal of the case to federal court and the subsequent assignment of the case to a magistrate judge (who could not decide the matter without the consent of all parties) effectively denied White the "opportunity to be heard" before the deprivation of his property occurred.
The federal court's system, in practice, obstructed the legal remedy that state law had guaranteed him.
● Constitutional Implication:
This constitutes a classic violation of due process of law, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Due process requires not just the existence of a procedure, but that it be fair and occur at a meaningful time.
The sale of White's property before he could have his motion to restrain the sale adjudicated by a competent judge is an example of the denial of a meaningful process.
2. Additional Support from Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Precedent
Stafne's arguments can be further strengthened by other Supreme Court precedents.
● On the Primacy of Jurisdiction:
In ***Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998)***⁶, the Supreme Court stated unequivocally that the question of subject-matter jurisdiction must be decided before the merits.
The court declared, "For a court to pronounce upon a law's meaning or constitutionality when it has no jurisdiction to do so is, by very definition, for a court to act ultra vires."
This directly contradicts the District Court's approach of jumping to the "core" of the merits to then declare the jurisdictional question moot.
● On Standing: ***Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992)***⁷ is the seminal case on standing, establishing that the party invoking judicial authority must prove
(1) a concrete and particularized injury,
(2) a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of, and
(3) the likelihood that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision. Stafne argues that DB never proved it had standing to enforce the mortgage in the first place, a threshold question the court had a duty to examine.
● On Due Process of Law:
***Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950)***⁸ established that due process requires "notice and opportunity for hearing... granted at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner."
Stafne's motion argues that the removal and subsequent procedural limbo deprived White of a hearing at a
"meaningful time"—that is, before the sale of his property.
3. Perspective from International Human Rights Tribunals
The principles Stafne advocates for are aligned with international human rights norms, which can serve as persuasive authority.
● Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):
○ Article 10⁹: "Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal..."
The allegation that the court acted with partiality by inverting the burden of proof and ignoring the jurisdictional question to favor the defendant echoes this principle.
○ Article 17¹⁰:
"1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property."
The loss of White's property without an effective judicial hearing to contest the sale can be framed as an arbitrary deprivation.
● International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR): (Ratified by the U.S.)
○ Article 14(1)¹¹: Guarantees the right to "a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law."
Stafne's argument that the court acted without confirming its competence (jurisdiction) is a direct challenge to compliance with this article.
The concept of "effective access to justice" is central here; access that is obstructed by procedural maneuvers is not "effective."
Further supporting this, international human rights courts have annulled property deprivations based on due process violations.
For example, in the case of Aguayo v. Paraguay (2021), the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found that Paraguay violated the right to property and judicial protection because the state failed to provide an effective remedy to an indigenous community to claim title to their ancestral lands, leading to their sale to third parties.
The Court emphasized that the right to property is not absolute but any deprivation must be subject to a legal process with proper judicial guarantees.
Similarly, the European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly held in cases like Iatridis v. Greece (1999) that a deprivation of property, even if lawful, violates Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 if the owner is denied a fair opportunity to challenge the measure and its consequences before an independent judicial body.
These cases establish the international principle that a lack of effective judicial review before or immediately after a
property deprivation constitutes an arbitrary violation of fundamental rights.
4. Denial of Defense Through Procedural Manipulation
The tactics alleged in the motion—using removal to frustrate a timely hearing and benefiting from a court's failure to address a threshold jurisdictional challenge—fall under legal doctrines concerning the denial of the right to defense and corruption of the judicial process.
In U.S. law, this is most closely related to the doctrine of "fraud on the court."
This doctrine, established in cases like Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944), refers to conduct that is a "deliberately planned and carefully executed scheme to defraud the... court" or conduct by an officer of the court that subverts the impartial function of the judiciary.
While Stafne's motion does not use this exact term, the allegations align with its spirit: that the defendants and, through purposeful omission, the court itself, engaged in a course of action that fundamentally compromised the integrity of the judicial process.
A purposeful omission by a judge to address a dispositive, threshold issue like subject-matter jurisdiction, especially when repeatedly raised, can be seen as a subversion of the judicial process.
It prevents the opposing party from being heard on a critical point and allows the case to proceed on a legally invalid basis.
This creates an unlevel playing field and constitutes a severe form of denial of the right to defense (cerceamento de defesa), where the system itself is manipulated to prevent a litigant's core legal arguments from being adjudicated.
5. Conclusion of the Analysis
Stafne's motion, when analyzed through the lens of jurisprudence and legal principles, paints a compelling picture of a systemic judicial failure in this specific case:
1. Obstruction of Justice:
The use of removal to a federal court, combined with that court's internal procedures (assignment to a magistrate without dispositive authority), functioned as a mechanism to block White from exercising his statutory right to prevent the sale.
This obstructed the course of justice that had been initiated in state court.
2. Lack of Impartiality:
The court's decision to
(a) invert the burden of proof for jurisdiction,
(b) ignore its sua sponte duty to verify its own competence, and
(c) "reduce" a complex complaint to a single "core" argument to then dismiss it, suggests a predisposition to terminate the case in the defendant's favor rather than acting as a neutral arbiter.
3. Violation of Due Process and Property Rights:
The end result was the loss of White's property without him having his day in court.
The sequence of events—removal, procedural limbo, and sale—resulted in a deprivation of property without the due process of law.
In sum, Scott Stafne's arguments, though expressed in forceful language, are solidly anchored in fundamental legal principles.
They demonstrate how procedural failures, whether intentional or negligent, can lead to the denial of substantive rights, constituting a grave failure of the judiciary's duty to administer justice fairly and impartially.
Footnotes
¹ Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59. New Trial; Altering or Amending a Judgment. (e) Motion to Alter or Amend a Judgment. A motion to alter or amend a judgment must be filed no later than 28 days after the entry of the judgment. URL:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_59
² Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60. Relief from a Judgment or Order. (b) Grounds for Relief from a Final Judgment, Order, or Proceeding. On motion and just terms, the court may relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: ... (4) the judgment is void; URL:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_60
³ Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens, 574 U.S. 81 (2014). This case affirmed that the burden of establishing federal jurisdiction remains on the party who removes a case from state to federal court. URL: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/574/81/
⁴ Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. 264 (1821). A landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed the Court's right to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law matters when the defendant claims their constitutional rights have been violated. URL:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/264/
⁵ RCW 61.24.130. Restraining orders—Notice—Grounds—Conditions—Enjoining
proceeding. (1) Nothing contained in this chapter shall prejudice the right of the borrower... to restrain, on any proper legal or equitable ground, a trustee's sale... (2) No court may grant a restraining order or injunction to restrain a trustee's sale unless the person seeking the restraint gives five days notice to the trustee of the time when, place where, and the judge before whom the application for the restraining order or injunction is to be made. URL:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=61.24.130
⁶ Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment, 523 U.S. 83 (1998). This case established the principle that a federal court cannot decide the merits of a case without first establishing its subject-matter jurisdiction. URL: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/523/83/
⁷ Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992). This case defined the modern requirements for Article III standing for a plaintiff in federal court. URL:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/504/555/
⁸ Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950). This case set the standard for the notice required under the Due Process Clause, holding that notice must be "reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections." URL:
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/306/ ⁹ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 10. URL:
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights ¹⁰ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17. URL:
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights ¹¹ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 14(1). URL:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-andpolitical-rights
HONORABLE TIFFANY M. CARTWRIGHT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA
CHURCH OF THE GARDENS, a
Washington Not-for-Profit Corporation operating as a faith-based religious organization; ALVIN WHITE, in his individual capacity, No. 3:23-cv-06193-TMC
PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR POST JUDGMENT RELIEF PURSUANT TO FRCP 59 AND 60
Plaintiffs,
v.
NOTE ON MOTION CALENDAR: OCTOBER 6, 2025
QUALITY LOAN SERVICES CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON; MTC FINANCIAL INC. DBA TRUSTEE CORPS.; DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY; LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-4; LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-5; and STATE OF
WASHINGTON, a State of the United States.
Defendants.
I. RELIEF REQUESTED:
Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 59 and 60 Plaintiff Alvin B. White (“White”) and the Church of the Gardens (hereafter “Church” and collectively with White referred to as “Plaintiffs”) respectfully request this District Court as it is established pursuant to the Judiciary Act1 and the first sentence of Article III, section 12 to vacate it’s September 2, 2025 Order granting Defendants’ summary judgment (Dkt. 105) based on:
1) FRCP 59’s “Manifest Error of Law” standard because a) Deutsche Bank (DB) never alleged or proved it had standing to remove this case to this District Court; and b) the failure of this District Court to identify this error under the circumstances of this case constitutes treason to the constitution.
2) FRCP 60’s “Void Judgment” standard because this District Court’s failure to adjudicate DB’s standing to have removed Plaintiffs’ state case leaves this District Court without having adjudicated the basis for its subject matter jurisdiction over this removed case.
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1 28 U.S.C. § 128 (establishing Washington’s 7 district judge Western District Court); 28 U.S.C.
§ 132 (b)(provides: “[e]ach district court shall consist of the district judges or judges for the district in regular active service.”); 28 U.S.C. §133(a) (provides that the Western District of Washington court is composed of seven “district judges”.) White and the Church concede that Tiffany Cartwright is a District Judge. White and the Church dispute that magistrate judges are district judges within the meaning of these statutes and the United States Constitution.
2 This sentence states “[t]he judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
…” It is Plaintiffs position that only the 7 active duty District Judges of this Court constitute this District Court as a matter of law.
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3) FRCP’s 60(b)’s “Any other reason that justifies relief” standard because this District Court’s “treason to the constitution” constitutes extraordinary circumstances requiring relief.
II. ISSUES:
1. Did this District Court err by assigning to White and the Church the burden of alleging and proving DB’s standing to remove this action to this District Court?
2. Did this District Court err by refusing to adjudicate White’s various presentations seeking summary judgments regarding his rights under RCW 61.24.130, thereby depriving him of the statutory protection the Washington State conferred upon property owners against the wrongful taking of their property?
3. Did this District Court err by shifting DB’s burden to establish federal jurisdiction onto Plaintiffs, and by using that error to avoid adjudicating Plaintiffs’ cross-motions for summary judgment under RCW 61.24.130, including White’s challenges to DB’s standing?
4. Did this District Court err by adjudicating merits claims based on the District Judge’s perception of Plaintiffs’ “core” claims and not those judicial inquiries Plaintiffs actually presented to this District Court?
III. STATEMENT OF FACTS:
Plaintiffs have not attempted to sue this Court and its judicial officials (i.e. the magistrate, the unknown “chambers”, District Judge Cartwright, or the district judges which make up this District Court) to obtain relief for what they contend is this District Court’s inappropriate conduct in not providing litigants with a constitutionally sufficient court, i.e. one composed of qualified judges, at the time of removal. Plaintiffs sought relief only against those parties they sued who used this Court’s inappropriate procedures in such a way as to “steal” the titles to two of White’s properties.
The undisputed facts giving rise to the actual takings of the titles to two of White’s real properties without White’s consent demonstrate that
(1) White had filed a complaint with the Pierce County Superior Court (hereafter “state court”) pursuant to RCW 61.24.130 to restrain various trustees’ threats to sell the titles to five real properties White owned;
(2) White timely filed a motion to restrain the sales of his properties, which motion was scheduled to be argued to the state court before two of the sales were scheduled to take place; (3) Instead of arguing against
White’s motion to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130 before the state court, DB (claiming to be the beneficiary of the deed of trust, see RCW 61.24.005(b)) removed this state case to this District Court on December 28, 2025;
(4) Instead of arranging a time for White’s restraint of sale motion pursuant to RCW 61.24.130 to be heard by this District Court, DB instructed the Washington State trustee (its agent) to sell White’s property, which that trustee did;
(5) At the time of removal, i.e. December 28, 2024, this District Court had in place procedures restricting litigants’ access to actual “district judges”. See note 1;
(6) These procedures caused this removed case to be assigned to a magistrate judge, who was not a District Judge of the United States District Court for Western Washington, and who could not adjudicate the instant motion to restrain the sales of White’s two titles without the consent all the litigants (which DB, its Trustee, and Plaintiffs never gave.);
(7) DB’s paid Washington State trustee sold White’s property without White’s consent during the time period no Article III judge had been assigned to this case;
(8) Once White learned of this procedure White promptly objected to it, but “Chambers” (whatever that is? Perhaps unidentified employees of this District Court’s Clerk’s Office?) responded that under the Court’s procedure this objection would be stricken from the record;
(9) As this Court knows, White objected to this procedure and this District Court, through District Judge Cartwright, restored these pleadings as records of the presentations filed in this case, as was required by the factual circumstances of this case;
(10) White filed his first motion for summary judgement against all defendants seeking a declaratory judgment regarding some aspects of the meaning of RCW 61.24.130 on January 29, 2024 (Dkt 19); (11) White filed a second motion for summary judgment, against the trustee who did not sell any of his properties, on April 17, 2025 (Dkt. 63); and (12) White filed a third motion for summary judgment challenging DB’s standing to enforce the note instrument by way of a foreclosure pursuant to the Deed of Trust Act on May 21, 2025 (Dkt. 76). That third motion (together with its supporting declarations and evidence, Dkt. 77–82) proved that DB had not alleged in its removal presentations that it had contractual standing or Washington State statutory standing or Article III standing to enforce the purported note instruments tied to the title of White’s two properties.
That same motion and supporting documents also proved that numerous questions of fact existed with regards to whether the note in question could be enforced, including among others, the fact that the person who was purported to have endorsed the Note for the original Lender signed a declaration that he never signed any such endorsements. See Dkt. 76 at 23; Dkt. 77 at 28–29; Dkt. 81 at 4.
IV. EVIDENCE RELIED UPON:
As evidence in support of this motion for post judgment relief White and the Church rely on the declaration of Scott Erik Stafne in support thereof as well as the entire record of this case.
V. ARGUMENT:
A. Treason Against the Constitution
In Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. 264, 404 (1821), the Supreme Court observed: It is most true that this Court will not take jurisdiction if it should not;
but it is equally true that it must take jurisdiction if it should. … We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the Constitution.
(Emphasis Supplied)
Cohen’s statement that Article III courts and judges commit treason to the constitution when they purposely usurp their jurisdiction reflects this Nation’s founders understanding that liberty has “every thing to fear” from the power of courts not being tethered to their jurisdiction over specific cases and controversies. Thus, it has long been the rule that Article III courts have a sua sponte duty to determine the existence of their jurisdiction to adjudicate cases in good faith.
Here, Plaintiffs respectfully assert that the facts of this case indicate that this District Court has purposely not engaged in faithfully pursuing its jurisdiction duties and as a result is engaging in “treason to the constitution” and also violating that natural law which led to various ratifications of the Constitution and several of its amendments.
B. This District Court is purposely dodging Plaintiffs judicial inquiries about the meaning of RCW 61.24.130.
As this District Court knows, it is White’s position (and this Court has not ruled otherwise) that RCW 61.24.130 confers on White an enforceable substantive state law right to restrain a trustee’s sale “on any proper legal or equitable ground,” provided the trustee is given five (5) days notice of “the time when, place where, and the judge before whom the application…is to be made.” It is undisputed that these procedural steps were taken by White in the state case before the appropriate state court.
It is Plaintiffs’ position that this substantive right to restrain the sale of White’s title to these two properties was not simply a gift to property owners from Washington State’s political branches of government, but is necessary to preserve property owners’ rights not to have their titles to properties arbitrarily taken from them without their consent.
See Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 386, 388 (1798) (“A law [or judicial judgment] that takes property from A. and gives it to B. … is against all reason and justice for a government is instituted to protect property of every sort.”)
See also Murr v. Wisconsin, 137 S. Ct. 1933, 1950 (2017), quoting Armstrong v. United States, 364 U.S. 40, 49 (1960) (“The Fifth Amendment’s guarantee…was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole.”); Rappaport, “Originalism and Regulatory Takings: Why the Fifth Amendment May Not Protect Against Regulatory Takings.”
After title to two of White’s properties were taken from him by DB and its Washington State trustee agent by using this District Court’s magistrate judge policies to prevent White from obtaining timely judicial review of White’s state court claims based on RCW 61.24.130, Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in this District Court which alleged defendants DB and the trustee that sold these two without having afforded White the opportunity to obtain “restraint of sale” relief pursuant to RCW 61.24.130 were liable to White for this wrongful taking, i.e. conversion, of White’s property. Plaintiffs also asserted that DB and its Washington State trustee agent had duties pursuant to RCW 61.24.130 to restrain the sale of White’s properties under the circumstances alleged in this case.
Plaintiffs assert that this District Court purposefully dodged their challenge to DB’s standing to remove, using that avoidance as the means by which DB was allowed to sell White’s properties without any adjudication of White’s rights to restrain the sale of those properties.
C. This District Court is dodging Plaintiffs jurisdictional arguments by falsely claiming as fact and holding as a matter of law that it is Plaintiffs’ burden to allege and prove removal jurisdiction.
As the District Court clearly knows the party invoking its jurisdiction to adjudicate a case or controversy has the burden of establishing standing through 1) the allegations in its initial presentations and 2) by way of proof at the appropriate time for doing so. See Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC v. Owens, 574
U.S. 81, 89 (2014); Cf. Gaus v. Miles, Inc., 980 F.2d 564, 566 (9th Cir. 1992).
So why does this District Court falsely hold that it is Plaintiffs' burden to demonstrate DB’s jurisdiction to remove this case? See Dkt. 105 at 11:6–14.
Plaintiffs assert that the most likely reason for this inaccurate factual finding and unsupportable legal holding is that this Court wants to avoid performing its sua sponte duties to 1) adjudicate in the first instance whether the removal presentations filed by DB adequately allege its standing to enforce the payment provisions of White’s two notes; and 2) adjudicate Plaintiffs motion for summary judgment asserting that DB does not have standing under Washington’s applicable Deeds of Trust Act, Chapter 61.24 RCW, and Uniform Commercial Code, Chapter 62A RCW.
In any event, as everybody who looks at the presentations in this case can discern, Plaintiffs’ presentations regarding removal do not plead or prove that DB had standing to remove this case to this District Court. More importantly, defendants' removal presentations, see Dkt. 1, do not allege facts demonstrating that DB or any defendant had standing to remove this case to this District Court, notwithstanding that Defendants should have been aware from the state complaint that their standing to enforce the Notes by way of non judicial foreclosures was being challenged on several grounds, including (among other things) the fact the purported endorser of the Notes had testified under oath that he never signed these endorsements. See Dkt. 2-1 at 19–20, 228–258.
So why does this District Court go out of its way to ignore Plaintiffs summary judgment evidence and legal argument establishing this Court does not have jurisdiction over this removed action?
D. The District Court’s holding that Plaintiffs had the burden of proving standing is a contrivance designed to avoid performing this Court’s
jurisdictional duties and constitutes treason to the constitution.
By falsely holding that Plaintiffs had the burden of proving DB’s removal jurisdiction, this District Court inappropriately sought to avoid the jurisdictional issue which was squarely before it based on the constitution; which was whether DB had appropriately alleged facts supporting its standing and whether DB had produced evidence supporting its standing sufficient to withstand Plaintiffs motion for summary judgment.
This District Court, through District Judge Cartwright, was able to commit this treason to the constitution by 1) pretending without actually adjudicating that DB had alleged and proved its standing; 2) then inappropriately moving on to adjudicate what that Court asserted was Plaintiffs “core” merits argument, i.e. the promissory notes were not signed by White; and 3) then claiming that because it has adjudicated the merits, Plaintiffs’ standing challenge to DB are moot.
The District Court’s assertion based on its adjudication of a “core” merits claim that Plaintiffs claim challenging DBs standing to have removed this case are moot is not legally supportable because this District Court has a duty to determine in the first instance that it has subject matter jurisdiction over this case which has been removed from state court.
Plaintiffs assert that the District Court’s attempt to avoid adjudicating whether DB had proved its standing to have removed this case is further evidence of this District Court’s treason against the constitution.
E. The District Court’s holding that its adjudication of a “core” merits argument supported its refusal to adjudicate Plaintiffs’ standing challenges is bizarre and supports the assertion that this Court
is engaged in treason against the constitution.
1.) This District Court’s adjudication of the merits before it ruled on Plaintiff's standing challenges reveals judicial bias.
In its merits adjudication the District Court admits that Plaintiffs filed a 109
page complaint3 against DB and its various trustees containing numerous theories of relief. Then by purportedly reducing this 109 page complaint to its “core” argument, which is described as not possessing White’s original signed note, this District Court grants a summary judgment on this core claim because it holds that White’s experts do not meet the Daubert standard. But even if this conclusion about Plaintiffs’ experts is true, these experts’ historical testimony (not tied to their expertise) and that other historical evidence presented by way of Requests for Judicial Notice established that it was a prevalent business practice in 2006 for money changers like White’s purported “lender” Long Beach Mortgage Company’ to destroy notes in favor of keeping electronic copies of them. Thus, there was evidence before this District Court tending to prove Plaintiff’s factual theory of the case that the original Note was destroyed.
And it is Plaintiffs’ position that a neutral and independent forum would have allowed a jury to adjudicate whether based on that historical and other evidence the Note had been destroyed, even if this Court’s Daubert analysis was correct. See infra.
2.) This Court’s purported merits adjudication of Plaintiffs’ purportedly “core” issue as a way of adjudicating Plaintiffs’ standing challenge constitutes
judicial subterfuge
3 The District Court does not state whether it is referencing the original complaint filed in state court or the amended complaint filed in this District Court.
This Court knows perfectly well -- or should know perfectly well -- that Plaintiffs'challenges to DB’s standing to enforce the provisions of the promissory notes through the nonjudicial takings of the two titles to White’s properties were numerous. And that not all of Plaintiff's standing theories involved the contention that the original signed notes had been destroyed. See e.g. Dkt. 76, (summary judgment motion); Dtk. 77 (Stafne declaration in support), Dkt. 78 (White declaration in support), Dkt. 79 (Dr. Kelley declaration in support), Dkt. 80 (Wood declaration in support), Dkt. 81 (Paatalo declaration in support), Dkt. 82 (Third Request for Judicial Notice).
Among those many judicial inquiries asserting DB’s lack of standing was that the Notes had not been endorsed by Jess Almanza as is indicated on the Notes (See Dkt. 76 at 23; Dkt. 77 at 28–29; Dkt. 81 at 4). Indeed, Plaintiffs presented a declaration by Almanza which testifies that he never signed any such notes. See Dkt. 2-1, at 19–20, 228–258; Dkt. 8, at 23–24; Dkt. 8-1 at 132–162; Dkt. 19 at 10;
Dkt. 21 at 7–8; Dkt. 21-1 at 70–101; Dkt. 76 at 23; Dkt. 77 at 28–29.
But this District Court inappropriately avoids considering this judicial inquiry by inappropriately claiming all it must look at is the “core” of numerous judicial inquiries presented by Plaintiffs.
It is Plaintiffs’ position that if a jury believes Almanza, i.e. that he did not sign these five notes notwithstanding the money changers claim he did, a reasonable jury could also find that these Notes had been fabricated based on the historical evidence which was properly before this District Court.
John Marshall, this Nation’s fourth Chief Justice, observed in a speech to his countrymen that “I have always thought, from my earliest youth till now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a dependent judiciary."
With respect to this District Court, as an institution of government, White and his co-plaintiff in this case, i.e. Church of the Gardens, assert this District Court and District Judge do this Nation and its judicial branch of government a grave disservice by dodging any fair consideration of White’s claim that he has been injured by these entities’ sale of the titles to his properties without his consent.
Pretending that a District Court can erase a removing defendant’s standing obligations by foisting them onto Plaintiffs is conduct unworthy of a court created to establish justice. Indeed, Plaintiffs respectfully assert that this conduct by the District Court composed of its 7 District Judges constitutes treason to the Constitution. See supra.
CONCLUSION.
This Court should vacate its ruling that White and the Church do not have standing to insist that this District Court consider in the first instance their challenges to DB’s standing to remove this action to this Court.
I certify that this memorandum contains 3,263 words, in compliance with the Local Civil Rules.
DATED this 15th day of September 2025, at Arlington, Washington.
By: s/ Scott E. Stafne WSBA No. 6964 Scott E. Stafne
Stafne Law Advocacy & Consulting
239 North Olympic Avenue Arlington, WA 98223
360.403.8700
Scott@Stafnelaw.com
Attorney for Plaintiffs
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that a true and correct copy of the foregoing has been furnished electronically via the Court’s CM/ECF system to all persons registered to receive electronic notice.
Counsel for Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
Midori R. Sagara, WSBA #39626 Buchalter 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3100
Seattle, WA 98101-1337 T: 206.319.7052
msagara@buchalter.com
Counsel for Defendant MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps. Michael S. DeLeo, WSBA #22037 PETERSON RUSSELL KELLY LIVENGOOD PLLC
10900 NE 4th Street, Suite 1850 Bellevue, WA 98004-8341 Mdeleo@prklaw.com
Dated this 15th day of September 2025. By s/ Scott E. Stafne
Scott E. Stafne, Attorney.
Counsel for Quality Loan Services Corporation of Washington
Robert W. McDonald, WSBA #43842
Quality Loan Service Corp.
108 1st Ave S, Ste 450 Seattle, WA 98104-2557 rmcdonald@qualityloan.com
HONORÁVEL TIFFANY M. CARTWRIGHT
TRIBUNAL DISTRITAL DOS ESTADOS UNIDOS
DISTRITO OESTE DE WASHINGTON EM TACOMA
CHURCH OF THE GARDENS, uma corporação sem fins lucrativos de
Washington que atua como organização religiosa baseada na fé;
ALVIN WHITE, em sua capacidade individual,
Autores,
v.
QUALITY LOAN SERVICES CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON;
MTC FINANCIAL INC. DBA TRUSTEE CORPS.; DEUTSCHE BANK
NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY; LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2006-4; LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-5; e ESTADO DE
WASHINGTON, um Estado dos Estados Unidos.
Réus. N.º 3:23-cv-06193-TMC
MOÇÃO DOS AUTORES PARA
ALÍVIO PÓS-JULGAMENTO
NOS TERMOS DAS FRCP 59 E 60
NOTA NA AGENDA DA MOÇÃO:
6 DE OUTUBRO DE 2025
Moção dos Autores para Alívio Pós-Julgamento
Nos Termos das FRCP 59 e 60
Stafne Law Advocacy & Consulting
239 N. Olympic Ave
Arlington, WA 98223
360.403.8700
Caso 3:23-cv-06193-TMC Documento 107 Protocolado em 15/09/25
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