Note: this page will be transferred into an online spreadsheet during the next week sometime, and a lot more defined information will be added, and all existing Team Leaders will be also emailed the same. However, the basics of being a County or City Team Leader are still the same as below. (05/11/07)
(02/11/07) The main role of a county team leader is simply this: to take our
guidance, and then guide their county team into the actual filing of the
classaction lawsuit. Other than that, just talk about family court reform like
usual...
A county team leader should live in or near the
county in question. See below.
When we hit the minimum requirements listed
below, we at "national" will distribute the legal paperwork packages
out to the "state-level" communications/distribution leaders, who may "tweak"
the packages slightly to conform to requirements of the federal courts within
their own state, and then forward that package on to the team leaders for each
county in their own state. When a county
team leader receives the electronic distribution of the federal
complaint package, which consists of the main complaint, plus a few procedural
papers, like a demand for jury trial, etc., the county team leader will simply take that stuff,
and cause the swapping in of names and addresses of each of the team's
plaintiffs where indicated, the name of your own county, your own county's
current family court judges, and the particular name of
the federal district court that covers your county (just swapping at the top of
each paper, and etc.). Someone on your county team,
whether the county team leader, or someone that they want to work directly
with, must have access to Microsoft
Word, any version from '97 or higher, in order to make the edits
in the legal paperwork for your own county and its team plaintiffs. There will
be one 2-page legal paper, called an "Appearance" that the county team leader
will email to his or her own county Yahoo group members, and also instruct them
to come meet him or her at some place a couple days later (to give them time to
plan), in order to come physically sign the MAIN legal package, and to bring
their signed Appearances along with them, so that the entire thing can be taken
down to the local federal court for actually filing the new lawsuit. The correct
federal District Court for your own
county can be easily determined by going here:
Most federal districts have more than one
"Division" (branches in different
major cities in the same general region), so choose the correct one -- you
may have to look at the websites for each "Division" to confirm which one is the
right one, as they will say which counties they are responsible for, on their
own federal court website...
It is up to the county team leader to gather the
full names of all the current family court judges of
that county, so that they can be properly listed on the legal paperwork as
Defendants...
If your county of interest is not yet currently
represented by a listed team leader, and you wish to do so,
then please email us directly with your name, your county of interest
(with State, please - there are many "Franklin" and
"Marion" counties in the different states, for example...), and your preferred
email to be listed on the county coordinators page. Please see your own state's
county list page for an easy "Register" link, at:
The fees for filing a new federal lawsuit are
$350. Therefore, each of your original filing plaintiffs should be willing
to contribute to your own county team's initial filing fees and expenses. With a
$350 filing fee, plus about $15-$20 in xeroxing and certified mail ("service")
postage, the breakdown for having only the bare minimum of 40 original
plaintiffs comes out to only about $10 each, more or less - unless your team has
any other sources of finances - with the more plaintiffs, the cheaper per
person, naturally... We believe that there will easily be hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of people in
each county wanting to be a plaintiff, by the time your lawsuit actually gets
filed, so the per person cost will be virtually nothing by that
time...
The minimum requirements to file a
classaction lawsuit:
Each
county or city group must have at least two (2) "pure" taxpayers (i.e., someone who
is *only* a regular taxpayer of your county, and is *not* a CPS victim, or noncustodial parent,
or young adult child of divorce/paternity) (use grandmothers and grandfathers, or other family supporters), and at least two (2) qualifying
young adult children of custody cases in your county or city. The more plaintiffs from each of the different "classes" the
better, obviously. State-level leaders are basically
responsible to make sure that all of their state's county/city team leaders have all of their questions answered, help given, and various needs getting attention somehow.
The legal paperwork package will be setup
for the minimum requirements above, but you will also be receiving
an additional attachment package of three simple papers for any and all others to
join in your own team's classaction lawsuit after it is filed, so the more that
you have ready over and above the original 40 persons, or the more that you can
keep recruiting to come on board and file, the merrier, and the stronger your
team's lawsuit will be...
Your team will also receive the simple instruction
details sent out with the legal paperwork packages, but it will probably be so
straightforward that you won't even need it...