07-20-2022 - 3DCA Case C095488 Waszczuk v. UC Regents - Second Notice of Ommission - Record On Appeal
07-20-2022 - 3DCA Case C095488 Waszczuk v. UC Regents - Second Notice of Ommission - Record On Appeal
07-20-2022 - 3DCA Case C095488 Waszczuk v. UC Regents - Second Notice of Ommission - Record On Appeal
Lodi, CA 95242
Phone: (209) 663-2977
Fax: (209) 247-1089
[email protected]
Subject: Waszczuk v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Case No. C095488
Sacramento County Superior Court Case No: No. 34-2013-34-00155479
I am the Plaintiff and Appellant in the above-captioned case before the Court of Appeal,
Third Appellate District (3DCA). Enclosed with this letter is a copy of the APPELLANT’S
SECOND NOTICE OF OMISSION submitted on July 20, 2022 to the Sacramento County
Superior Court, Appeal Unit in response to the Court Appeals Unit Deputy Clerk Kevin M.’s
07/11/2022 Declaration, which I received on July 13, 2022 together with one (1) volume of the
still incomplete CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL.
I challenged the defective Second Amended Complaint (SAC) filed on September 30, 2014
as invalid, as it was as same as the First Amended Complaint (FAC) filed on June 16 , 2014 without
a Motion for Leave to File by my (now former) drug-addicted attorney who was disbarred in
January 2020. Please see the attached filed in the October 25, 2017 APPELLANT’S PETITION
FOR REHEARING FOR ERROR IN LAW OR PROCEDURAL PROCESS (Pages 29–34) in
3DCA Case Waszczuk v . the Regents of the University of California Case No. C079524 (an Anti-
SLAPP Motion). (Attachments #3)
This diverted my attention from the defective First Amended Complaint, which was filed without
a MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE (see Clerk Erica Medina’s notice attached). I had known for
a long time that something was terribly wrong, but could not break through to see what is was.
The April–July 2021 desperation of Porter Scott attorney Lindsay Goulding to make me
drop litigation against the Regents of the University of California dragged my 70-year-old wife
from Lodi to Sacramento Superior Court’s Department 43 (under Judge Thadd Blizzard) in an
unsuccessful attempt to frame her Goulding extorted from her $22,284 . Goulding reckless
assault aimed at my wife caused disqualification of Judge Shama Hakim Mesiwala. After Judge
Goulding reckless action stealing money from my wife and 10- 15 minutes Court hearing on
September 15, 2021 with Judge Christopher E. Krueger made me look closer to understand why
it was all happening and why no one could stop this carnage against my wife and me. It would
not have happened if the 3DCA had not denied my Appellant's motion to recall the remittitur
The 9 years long pending litigations and this appeal should never have needed to take
place if my adversaries in 2011 would left me alone and let me work instead of unsuccessful
attempt to provoke and kill me on May 31, 2012 by especially assembled group of thugs which
I nicknamed “ UC Davis Death Squad “ or end my employment in UC Davis Medical Center
Trauma Unit No. 11
I appreciate your utmost attention and help with the problems with this incomplete
Record on Appeal outlined in my Appellant’s Second Notice of Omission submitted to the
Sacramento Superior Court’s Appeal Unit.
Sincerely,
________________
Jaroslaw Waszczuk , Per Se
Plaintiff & Appellant
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
6 FOR THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO
7 720 NINTH STREET
8 APPEALS UNIT ROOM 102
9 SACRAMENTO, CA 95814-1380
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JAROSLAW WASZCZUK )
12 ) Sacramento County Superior Court
) Case No. 34-2013-00155479- Filed on
PLAINTIFF,
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I.
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INTRODUCTION
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Plaintiff and Appellant JAROSLAW WASZCZUK (pronounced “Vashchook,” hereafter
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“Waszczuk,”) is representing himself in the above-captioned cases.
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On June 28, 2022, Waszczuk received from the Sacramento Superior Court’s Appeals Unit
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two boxes of incomplete records on appeal, which included only 13 volumes of the Clerk’s Transcript
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2 two and a half (2 ½) months after the CT on Appeal was certified, on April 22, 2022, by the
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Sacramento Superior Court Appeals Unit Deputy Clerk Kevin M.
4 The received package DID NOT INCLUDE the COURT REPORTER TRANSCRIPT (CRT)
5 from the September 1, 2021 Court Hearing held via Zoom (Motion for Summary Judgment), which
was presided over by Judge Christopher Krueger from Department 54. The Court of Appeal, Third
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Appellate District (3DCA) received the 13 volumes of CT on the same day, June 28, 2022 and filed
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incomplete Record on Appeal on the same day .
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Thereafter, Waszczuk examined the received 13 volumes of the CT and noticed that some
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documents listed in the Appellant’s Notice Designating Record on Appeal, which was filed on
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January 31, 2022, were not included in the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, nor were they
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listed anywhere or to be found in the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL’S CHRONOLOGICAL
12 INDEX or in the ALPHABETICAL INDEX.
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In response to Waszczuk’s Notice of Omission submitted to the Court on July 5, 2022,
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Waszczuk received on July 13, 2022 one volume of the CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL
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TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL noting on the cover page the correct judge, Christopher E . Krueger,
21 and Counsel for Defendant/Respondent, Lindsay A. Goulding. This was contrary to the June 28,
22 2022 13 volumes of CT which listed the wrong judge, David I. Brown, and the wrong Defendant’s
23 Attorney, Douglas Ropel, on the cover pages.
24 In addition to the CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, Waszczuk received
25 on July 13, 2022 13 new cover pages for the 13 volumes of the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON
26 APPEAL, not including the correct names of the judge and defendant’s counsel.
27 Waszczuk also received a copy of the Sacramento County Superior Court, Appeal Unit
28 Deputy Court Clerk Kevin M.’s Declaration dated July 11, 2022, in which he, under penalty of
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2 (EXHIBIT # 2):
16 I declare under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California, that
17 the foregoing is true and correct.
22 Krueger.
23 The July 13, 2022 169-page Clerk’s Supplemental Transcript on Appeal included:
24 • 12/04/2013 COMPLAINT
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• 06/16/2014 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
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• 09/10/14 NOTICE OF FILING PARTY
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5 that the CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL was assembled and certified
on July 6, 2022, the same day the Court received Waszczuk’s NOTICE OF OMISSION. According
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to the PROOF OF SERVICE, this was sent to Lodi, CA and to 3DCA five days later, on July 11,
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2022.
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III.
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THE CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL AND THE CLERK’S
10 TRANSCRIPT COVER PAGES WITH WRONG JUDGE NAME AND WRONG
RESPONDENT ATTORNEY
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The Sacramento Superior Court Deputy Clerk from the Appeal Unit, at the end of his July 11,
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2022 Declaration, stated:
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As to the minor type-o 's on the cover pages of the Original Clerks Transcript;
Cover pages have been supplied to swap out for all 13 volumes. Nothing was
15 omitted.
16 These were not “minor type-o’s on the cover pages.” This was a serious and deliberate move to
17 mislabel 13 volumes of the Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal with David I. Brown’s name instead of
Judge Christopher Krueger’s name, and listing the wrong respondent attorney, Douglas Ropel, who
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has been employed for the last six years by Littler Mendelson PC and has nothing to do with this
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appeal and Judge Christopher E. Krueger .
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The question is:
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Why did Sacramento County Superior Court Deputy Clerk Kevin M. DID NOT INCLUDE the
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12/04/2013 COMPLAINT; 06/16/2014 FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT; 09/10/14 NOTICE OF
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FILING PARTY 9/24/14 EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE SECOND
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AMENDED COMPLAINT BY STIPULATION & ORDER THERON in the CLERK’S
25 TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL certified on April 22, 2022, but these documents were provided three
26 months later as a CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL?
27 The above-listed documents WERE NOT INCLUDED in the original CLERK’S
28 TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, which was certified on April 22, 2002. They should have been
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file a Petition in the Supreme Court so that only Volume No.1 would be transmitted to the Supreme
Court. In 2018, Waszczuk did not know that only Volume 1 of CLERK TRANSCRIPT ON
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APEPAL was subject to transmittal to the Supreme Court if a Petition for Review is filed on the
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Decision of Appellate District Court. Waszczuk, in March 2018, asked 3DCA Clerk Anita Kenner
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why only one volume of the Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal was submitted to the Supreme Court
7 (SLAPP Motion Appeal 3DCA Case No. C079524).
8 Ms. Kenner responded to Waszczuk’s inquiry with a letter dated March 20, 2018 (EXHIBIT # 4)
9 stating:
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It is standard procedure for this court to transmit only the first volume of a
11 record to the Supreme Court when a Petition for Review has been filed
21 justice and violate the Court’s Rules is a different subject. Ms. Medina is very experienced and well
educated Court Clerk. That is the reason and that why we have a CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON
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APPEAL which contains misleading information, such as the wrong names for the judge and
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respondent attorney and the CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, instead of
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the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL VOLUME NO. 1 and a three-month appeal process
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delay.
26 . Who is behind of this scheme of obstruction of justice, which has forced the Sacramento
27 Superior Court Clerk from the Appeal Unit to take such awful and unlawful measures to harm the
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IV.
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THE SACRAMENTO SUPERIOR COURT CASE #34-2013-80001699 -OMITTED
5 (ITEMS 126–147) IN THE CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL
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7 In the first part of the Declaration, Deputy Clerk Kevin M. addressed Waszczuk’s request to
8 produce the omitted records on appeal from the case cross-referenced to this appeal, Jaroslaw
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Waszczuk v. California Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and the Regents of the University
of California as the Real Party in Interest (RPii), Case No. 34-2013-80001699-CUWMGDS,
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3DCA Case No. 079254, the Supreme Court of California Case No. S253713 & S245879, filed
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on December 2, 2013.
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ATTACHMENT NO. 4B TO THE APPELLANT’S NOTICE DESIGNATING RECORD APPEAL
18 California General Counsel Charles Robinson and his three top deputies, Karen J. Petrulakis, UCOP
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Chief Deputy General Counsel, Cynthia A. Vroom, UCOP Senior Counsel, and Margaret L Wu,
UCOP Managing Counsel.
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The unemployment insurance benefits that were denied to Waszczuk by the California
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Employment Development Department (EDD) in 2013 because Waszczuk was slandered and
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wrongly accused of misconduct with EDD by his employer, the Regents of the University of
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California, the Defendant in this appeal. They sought to use the unemployment insurance benefits
24 case against Waszczuk in his wrongful termination case (this appeal) and deprive him of any
25 financial resources to force him to drop litigation against the UC Regents
26 Waszczuk learned that the EDD’s and CUIAB’s decision could be used against an employee
27 in litigation against an employer, as outlined in the State of California Attorney General’s 2001 Third
Edition Civil Rights Handbook, (page 30), which states:
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5 However, after the case was investigated at Waszczuk’s request in 2013/2014 by the California
6 Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board’s (CUIAB) Chief Counsel, Mr. Kim Steinhardt, the EDD
reinstated Waszczuk’s unemployment insurance benefits on May 14, 2014; thereafter, his benefits
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were stolen and vanished. This was one of the important reasons why Waszczuk included the Court
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record from Case No. 34-2013-80001699-CUWMGDS in his ATTACHMENT NO. 4B TO THE
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APPELLANT’S NOTICE DESIGNATING RECORD APPEAL (Pages 9 & 11), filed on January 31,
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2022.
11 It is not Waszczuk’s intention to argue whether Sacramento County Superior Court Appeal
12 Unit Deputy Clerk Kevin M. has the right and power to deny Waszczuk’s record on appeal from Case
No. 34-2013-80001699-CUWMGDS. However, if he had informed Waszczuk in April 2022 after
14 certifying the 13 volumes of the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL that he denied including the
record from Case No. 34-2013-80001699-CUWMGDS in the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON
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APPEAL, than Waszczuk would file motion to augment record on appeal However, the April 22,
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2022 certified CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL vanished like Waszczuk’s unemployment
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insurance benefits in 2014, and Kevin M. informed Waszczuk of this almost three months after the
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CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL was certified; thus, he was acting with premeditated
19 prejudice and precluded Waszczuk from filing a motion to augment the record on appeal and
20 unlawfully delayed the appeal process.
21 In the criminal case People v. Grimes, 172 Cal.App.4th 121 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009), the court
22 held:
23 The superior court clerk must "promptly mail" to the Court of Appeal notification
24 of the filing of a notice of appeal. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.304(c)(1).) "The
failure of a court reporter or clerk to perform any duty imposed by statute or these
25 rules that delays the filing of the appellate record is an unlawful interference
with the reviewing court's proceedings. . . ." ( Id., rule 8.23.)
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27 Furthermore, the same Court, in the same case, cited People v. Massie (1998) 19 Cal.4th 550, 566-
28 567 [ 79 Cal.Rptr.2d 816, 967 P.2d 29] and stated:
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11 If the Sacramento County Superior Court Deputy Clerk Kevin M., after this Second Notice
12 of Omission, still refuses to provide the additional volumes of the CLERK’S SUPPLEMENTAL
TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, which includes Court records from Case No. 34-2013-80001699-
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CUWMGDS, in his ATTACHMENT NO. 4B TO THE APPELLANT’S NOTICE DESIGNATING
RECORD APPEAL (Pages 9 & 11), filed on January 31, 2022, Waszczuk will file the a motion to
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augment the record on appeal and ask for help from the California Commission on Judicial
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Performance.
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V.
18 THE OTHER MISSING DOCUMENTS NOT PROVIDED WITH THE JULY 11, 2022 SUPPLEMENTAL
CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL-WASZCZUK’S JUNE 18, 2020 COPY OF MOTION TO RECALL
19 REMITTITUR AND COPY OF THE REQUEST/MOTION FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE WITH WASZCZUK’S
DECLARATIONS IN SUPPORT OF 3DCA CASE C079524 (SLAPP MOTION)
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21 In the second part of the Declaration, Sacramento County Superior Court Clerk Kevin M.
stated “The remaining missing documents as part of the current above listed case on appeal
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have been supplied in the accompanying Supplemental Clerks Transcript on Appeal.”
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The above statement by Deputy Clerk Kevin M., dated July 22, 2022, is not a true statement, despite
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being signed by him under penalty of perjury.
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Waszczuk, in his FIRST NOTICE OF OMISSION, filed on July 6, 2022, requested that the
26 Sacramento Superior Court’s Appeal Unit produce the omitted record on appeal listed in
27 ATTACHMENT NO. 4B TO THE APPELLANT’S NOTICE DESIGNATING RECORD APPEAL
28 (Pages 7 & 8), which was filed on January 31, 2022. Item 102 was provided with the Supplemental
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Item 102 is Lodged in Dept. 53 as an unfiled copy of the Plaintiff’s Motion to Recall
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Remittitur and a copy of the Request /Motion for Judicial Notice with Plaintiff’s Declarations in
5 Support in 3DCA Case C079524 (SLAPP Motion). (Please include only one attached to the Motion
6 EXHIBIT # 44) in the Clerk’s Transcript, which is a draft of the Plaintiff’s Third Amended
7 Complaint (TAC)).
8 The above-listed Documents with Cover Letter were submitted to Dept. 53, Hon. Shama
Mesiwala by Priority U.S Mail on ………………………………..………………. 6/18/2021.
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WASZCZUK, Volume 9, and 06/29/21 PLAINTIFFS PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE, Volume 9, or
it should be listed in Volume 8 of the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL, but Volume 8 is
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completely missing or has been omitted in the Chronological and Alphabetical Index and must
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be corrected. It appears that the copy of Waszczuk’s June 18, 2020 Motion to Recall Remittitur and
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copy of the Request/Motion for Judicial Notice with Waszczuk’s Declarations in Support of 3DCA
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Case C079524 (SLAPP Motion) with included EXHIBIT # 44, which was a draft of the 2015
19 Plaintiff’s Third Amended Complaint (TAC), vanished like the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON
20 APPEAL in April 2022 and was never provided to Judge Shama Hakim Mesivala or filed. Waszczuk
21 did not know what was going on and disqualified Judge Mesivala because of a lack of any reaction or
22 response from Department 53 to his inquiries to stop the Porter Scott attorney’s assault aimed at his
wife. At the same time, in June 2021, Porter Scott attorney Lindsay Goulding, out of desperation to
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make Waszczuk drop the litigation against the UC Regents, dragged Waszczuk’s 70-year-old wife
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into Department 43 in an unsuccessful attempt to frame her and extorted from her $22,284. This
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happened while appearing before Sacramento County Judge Thadd Blizzard and the Court Clerk.
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The omitted from the CLERK’S TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL Item 102 must be produced
27 by the Sacramento Superior Court Appeal Unit and provided to Waszczuk and 3DCA as a Record on
28 Appeal for the ongoing appeal.
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8 Defendant’s Attorney from the Porter Scott law firm Thomas L. Riordan (not Douglas Ropel or
Lindsay Goulding). The new Notice of Filling of Designation/Notice to Reporters should resolve
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the problem with the Court Reporter.
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The Sacramento Superior Court Deputy Clerk Kevin M. from the Appeals Unit stated in his
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d7/11/2022 Declaration in regard to the Court Reporter Transcript on Appeal:
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As to the Reporters Transcript, The CSR T. Tavalero was noticed to prepare a
21 Ms. Tavalero did not say that she received the Notice of Filling of Designation/Notice to
Reporters. I am quite sure that, if any Sacramento County Superior Court Reporter would have
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received a Notice of Filling of Designation/Notice to Reporters from the September 1, 2021 on any
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Court Hearing with Judge David I. Brown on the Note, since every Court Reporter and Clerk Court
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was informed that Judge Brown had resigned from Department 53 in December 2020, the Court
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Reporter would have returned the Note to the Court’s Appeal Unit for correction.
26 Clerk Kevin M stated that “A filing party is responsible for verifying the validity of the
27 information on said designation prior to submission.” This is a very lame excuse for not providing
28 the Court Reporter Transcript from the September 1, 2021 Court Hearing with Judge Krueger.
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Jaroslaw Waszczuk
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
This letter is in response to your letter received on March 19, 2018, in case number
C079524 only. I apologize for missing some questions in your first letter received on
March 9, 2018, and rejected on March 16, 2018. I'll attempt to give you more answers
now, although the Clerk's Office is not allowed to give legal advice.
I cannot tell you when a decision will be made in case number C079254. This case is with
the court and has not yet been scheduled for oral argument. I will inform the court that you
inquired as to the status of the case.
It is standard procedure for this court to transmit only the first volume of a record to the
Supreme Court when a Petition for Review has been filed.
Your letter received on March 9, 2018, was rejected because the letter was considered an
inquiry on a motion to recall the remittitur in case number C079524. Nevertheless, my
letter dated March 16, 2018, was in response to your inquiry.
Please send a letter to the court requesting what files you would like to be retrieved from
the State Records Center. You must send $20.00 for each file, and if a file is located in
more than one box, you must send $20.00 for each box retrieved.
ANDREA K. WALLIN-ROHMANN
Clerk/Executive Officer
Copies of this document have been sent by mail to the parties checked below unless they
were noticed electronically. If a party does not appear on the TrueFiling Servicing
Notification and is not checked below, service was not required.
Jaroslaw Waszczuk
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
Subject: Waszczuk v. Regents of the University of California, et al. Case No. C095488
Sacramento County Superior Court Case No: No. 34-2013-34-00155479
Sincerely,
________________
Jaroslaw Waszczuk , Per Se
Plaintiff & Appellant
Re: Your Letter Dated July 8, 2022- Court Reporter Transcript (CRT) on
Appeal
I am responding to your July 8, 2022, letter (Attachment #1) because I see from this
letter and the email correspondence with you that we have some misunderstanding on
the matter. I did not have time to respond earlier to your letter because I was working
on Petition for Panel Rehearing and Petition for Rehearing En Banc, in Jaroslaw
Janusz Waszczuk v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, Case No. 20-1407,
pending in U.S. Court of Appeal District for the District of Columbia (D.C Circuit )
https://www.scribd.com/document/582301661/07-12-2022-Appellant-s-Petition-for-
for-Rehearing-En-Banc-Waszczuk-v-IRS-CommissionCase-No-20-1407er and
https://www.law360.com/tax-authority/articles/1510983/tax-whistleblower-asks-dc-
circ-to-rethink-award-denial).
which is cross referenced with the pending in Court of Appeal, Third Appellate
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District (3DCA) Case No. 095488 Waszczuk v. Regents of the University of California
et al.
I would not bother you and your office if I only had to pay $23 for the Court
Reporter Transcript (CRT). This is about the CRT for which I paid $375 on March 9,
2022, and the CRT should be produced and provided to me and transmitted by the
Sacramento Superior Court and to the 3DCA for the pending appeal in the above-
captioned case by May 9, 2012; see April 8, 2022, Sacramento County Superior Clerk
Notice (Attachment #. 2) The notice is a proof itself that I paid for CRT.
Today is July 15, 2022 and CRT was not produced and not provided to me not
is not transmitted to 3DCA . This a very short CRT to prepare and send to me and to
3DCA. Don’t you make you wander what is in this $ 23.00 CRT which is causing that
the appeal process is being manipulatively delayed .
FACTS
On August 31, 2021, Superior Application for the Court Fee Waiver
The August 31, 2021, Court Order on Court Fee Waiver clearly shows that
the reporter's fee for attendance at hearing or trial and preparing, certifying,
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copying, and making a transcript or copy of an official electronic recording
under rule 8.835 were waved. . Therefore, I do not know why you implied in
your email correspondence and the July 8, 2022, letter that I should pay $23 for
the September 1, 2021, Court Hearing CRT. I provided to you the August 31,
2021, copy of the Court Order on Court Fee Waiver with April 8, 2022,
Application for Reimbursement and copies of the two checks totaling $375; thus,
you should acknowledge and know that all fees related to CRT were waived by the
August 31, 2021, Court Order, and in addition, to the waiver, fees were paid by
myself on March 9, 2022, for the amount of $375.
I thought that the August 31, 2021, Court Order on Court Fee Waiver,
which waived the reporter's fee for attendance at hearing or trial, and for making a
transcript or copy of an official electronic recording under rule 8.835, would take
care of all fees for CRT after I provided the Court Order on the Court Fee Waiver
to the Sacramento County Superior Court Clerk with my Appellant's Notice
Designating Record on Appeal filed on January 31, 2022. Apparently, this was not
the case.
You are hereby notified that you are in default for failure to:
[X] Deposit the Court Reporters fee for preparation of the Reporter's
Transcript
In addition to the Superior Court trust hold fee of $50 (payable as separate
checks) as required by C.R.C. 8.130(b)(1) or substitute for cost of
transcript under C.R.C. 8.1130(b)(3).
[IX] As an Appellant your appeal may be dismissed by the reviewing
court if you fail to perform the act(s) necessary to procure the record
as enumerated in this notice within 15 days of the date of the mailing
of this notice.
On the bottom of the Notice of Default, you could read in bold italic letters:
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The Appeals Unit of the Sacramento Superior Court is requesting a
dismissal of the above referenced case on appeal.
DATED:
Deputy Clerk
Superior Court of California
Regardless of the August 31, 2021, Court Order on Court Fee Waiver on
March 9, 2022, according to California Rules of Court 8.130(b)(1) and
8.130(b)(1)(b)(i) I submitted two separate checks for $50 and $325 to clear the
alleged default and avoid having my appeal dismissed. (Attachment # 4) The
checks both cleared on March 17, 2022; the $375 should be reimbursed to me by
the Court Reporters Board of California or Sacramento County Superior Court due
to the August 31, 2021, Court Order on Court Fee Waiver, and the CRT should be
produced and transmitted to the 3DCA for the ongoing appeal as a part of the
designated record on appeal and provided to me in May 2022 as per the Superior
Court Clerk (Kevin M.) April 8, 2021, Notice to the Court Reporter.
I will send today the $23 check to the Court Reporter Ms. Valerie F. Halley
CSR 10771, and afterward, hopefully I will receive one original and one copy of
the transcript; then I will send the original to the 3DCA. What other options do I
have? I could file a motion to augment the record on appeal as I did in January
2016 over six years ago in the same 34-2031-00155479 case (different appeal;
attached). (Attachment # 5)
I hope that my letter will make you understand that my April 8, 2022,
Application for Reimbursement was not about $23, but about the CRT from the
10–15 minutes Court Hearing (Ms. Valerie Haley) with Judge Christopher
Krueger on September 1, 2021 for which I paid $375 long time ago and I and the
3DCA still waiting to receive it.
Sincerely,
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MAILING LIST
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Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
Phone: 209-687-1180
Fax: 209-729-5154
Email: [email protected]
With this letter, I am informing you again that I am not interested in a reimbursement of
$23.00 for the Court Reporter Transcript on Appeal, which was due to be produced and
transmitted to the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District on May 9, 2022.
In regard to your email dated July 15, 2022, which made reference to my letter dated
July 15, 2021, you said:
I hope in the future you can send me a simple email or pick up the phone to call
me instead of faxing and emailing 35 pages of documents, some of which I
already had with your application. There is no need to complicate this.
I can only say to you that, instead of conspiring with my adversaries, you in April
2022 could have picked up the phone or sent me a simple e-mail letting me know that
you could not process my Application for Reimbursement of $375.00. I would not then
have had to write the letter with 35 pages of documents to you, which, in fact, was a
response to your official letter dated July 8, 2022 (see attached,)
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
https://www.scribd.com/document/582903463/7-15-2022-Re-Court-Reporter-Transcript-
on-Appeal-Court-Reporter-Boards-of-California-Paula-Bruning.
Conspiracy and corruption sometime work, but not always, and your deceptive behavior
has cost me a few hundred dollars to deal with problems you caused with others in
Sacramento Superior Court and Court of Appeal , Third Appellate District .
Furthermore, I am requesting with this letter that you cease all communications
on my behalf with the Court Reporter Valerie Haley, CSR 10771, or anyone else from the
Sacramento Superior Court in this matter. At this point, I am not interested in any
reimbursement from your office.
Using your words from your July 15, 2022 e-mail response, “I came to the
conclusion” by taking into consideration all facts related to my Application for
Reimbursement of $375.00, which I submitted to your office after you bluntly conspired
and unlawfully interfered to delay the legal appeal process in the above-captioned case,
Waszczuk v. The Regents of the University of California et al. Case No. C095488. The
appeaL was delayed for at least six months because of your and others’ reckless
conspiracy and corruption.
All I needed for you to do in this matter was to inform me in April 2022 that
your office could not process the Application for the Reimbursement of $375 that I
submitted to your office. That was it.
As you know from the previous documents I submitted to your office with my
April 8, 2022 Application for Reimbursement of $375, the CRT from the September 1,
2021 hearing was an integral part of my APPELLANT’S NOTICE DESIGNATING
RECORD ON APPEAL, FILED ON JANUARY 31, 2022. It should have been
produced and transmitted by Sacramento Superior Court Appellate Unit to the 3DCA for
the ongoing appeal by May 9, 2022. Simultaneously, the Clerk Transcript on Appeal was
certified by the Sacramento County Superior Court’s Appeals Unit on April 22, 2022 and
should have been transmitted right away to 3DCA, as a record on appeal, and to me.
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
From: Bruning, Paula@DCA <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 5:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Jaroslaw Waszczuk vs. The Regents of the University of California (34-2013-
000155479 / C095488)
Dear Applicant,
Thank you for your application for the Transcript Reimbursement Fund (TRF) in the above-
referenced case number. A review of your application reveals the following deficiencies:
You indicated that you paid for the transcript of September 1, 2021; however, we require
itemized invoices from the court reporter. The invoice should include the case information,
the date(s) of proceedings, the number of pages, and the price per page. It should also denote
that the court reporter has been paid. Please obtain this from the court reporter. I have
attached a sample for your reference.
We cannot process your application without the above information. Please provide the
required information or make other arrangements within 10 days from the date of this letter.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Paula Bruning
Executive Analyst
Court Reporters Board of California
Direct: 916-263-4690
Fax: 916-263-3664
I did not know what you were talking about in your e-mail, when you said:
You indicated that you paid for the transcript of September 1, 2021; however,
we require itemized invoices from the court reporter. The invoice should include
the case information, the date(s) of proceedings, the number of pages, and the
price per page. It should also denote that the court reporter has been paid.
Please obtain this from the court reporter. I have attached a sample for your
reference
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
On the same day, I forwarded your June 27, 2022 email to Court Reporter Valerie Halley
with the following statement:
Jerry Waszczuk
On June 28, 2022, at 11:36 A.M., Ms. Haley responded to my June 27, 2022 e-mail as
follows:
Good morning,
I'm a little confused by your request, so if I can get a little clarification, please?
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
I have not received any appeal notice on Waszczuk v Regents. I did produce the transcript
previously due to a transcript request from the Porter Scott law firm. I did look through my
past emails and could not find any requests for the transcript from you directly. The cost of
any transcript would therefore be at the copy price, as the original has already been
produced.
As far as the transcript reimbursement fund, the $375 is a fee paid to the court directly, and I
have nothing to do with that payment. As far as the transcript on appeal, you would either
have to submit a pre-determined deposit to the Sacramento court when you file your appeal,
and they would notice me to produce it, or you can pay me directly for the transcript, and I
would give the appeals department a waiver of costs for the transcript on appeal. I would
then produce the appeal transcript once I receive the appeal notice to produce it. If you
wanted a copy before filing the appeal, I can send you a copy at the copy price, which you
would pay to me directly, but you would have to purchase another copy in the appeal format,
which would be produced once I receive the appeal notice. I can submit an invoice to the
CRB for the amount of the appeal transcript, and once I receive payment, I will provide the
appellate department the notice of waiver of deposit for the reporter's transcript on appeal.
I hope that's not too confusing! Please let me know how I can further assist you.
Ms. Haley’s response to my e-mail clearly indicated that she had never received the
Notice of Filing of Designation/Notice to Reporters issued on April 8, 2022 by the
Sacramento Superior Court, Appeals Unit Deputy Clerk Kevin M. On that same day,
April 8, 2022, I sent my Application of Reimbursement of $375.00 to the Court
Reporters Board of California. (your office)
I examined again the April 8, 2022 Notice of Filing of Designation and Notice to
Reporters to Prepare Transcripts, which was sent by Deputy Clerk Kevin M. (no full last
name), from Appeals Unit Room 102, under penalty of perjury, and discovered that a
Notice was sent to Tina Tavalero with a due date to produce transcripts on appeal. The
April 8, 2022 Notice of Filing of Designation/Notice to Reporters was addressed to
Court Reporter Tina Tavalero, CRS Number 8923, with a due date to file the CRT in
3DCA on May 9, 2022.
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
2021 and who granted a Motion for Summary Judgement to the Defendants on
September 1, 2021 during the 10–15 minute Court Hearing held via Zoom. Judge Brown
resigned or retired from Sacramento Superior Court Dept. 53 in December 2020 and was
replaced by Judge Shama H. Mesiwala in January 2021.
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
Attorney Douglas Ropel does not represent the Regents of University of
California in this appeal. Ropel resigned from the Porter Scott law firm six years ago, in
March 2016, and since then has been working for Littler Mendelson. The Regents of the
University of California are represented in this appeal by Lindsay Goulding, from Porter
Scott, a Sacramento-based law firm, and attorneys Karen Bray and Thomas Watson,
from the prestigious Horvitz & Levy LLP, based in Los Angeles (see
https://www.horvitzlevy.com/our-value-to-clients).
I notified the Sacramento County Superior Court 3DCA, and the three above-
listed Defendants’ attorneys, about this error on April 15, 2022, seven days before the
incomplete Clerk’s Transcript on Appeal was certified on April 22, 2022.
I forwarded your e-mail to Ms. Tavalero, and she responded that she had nothing to do
with the CRT from the 9/1/2022 Court Hearing with Judge Krueger. She stated in her
email response:
PASTE E-MAIL FROM TINA TAVALERO
Original Message-----
From: Tavalero, Tina <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 2:06 PM
To: Jaroslaw Waszczuk <[email protected]>; Haley, Valerie
<[email protected]>
Cc: Bruning, Paula@DCA <[email protected]>
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
Subject: Re: Jaroslaw Waszczuk vs. The Regents of the University of California (34-
2013-000155479 / C095488)
I was not the court reporter for this case. My name was put on the appeal notice by
mistake. It had another court reporter's CSR No. and my name. I checked all my
notes and I was not the reporter on this. I sent a declaration to the 3DCA stating that I
was listed by mistake and I have no notes for any of the proceedings.
thank you.
All of the facts lead to the conclusion that my Application for Reimbursement of
$375.00, which I submitted to your office on April 8, 2021, caused that entire process of
Once again, please stop any further efforts to communicate on my behalf with
Court Reporters without my consent. I am not interested in any reimbursement from your
office for the CRT from the Court Hearing with Judge Krueger on September 1, 2021.
Sincerely,
Jaroslaw Waszczuk
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
MAILING LIST
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Response to Paula Bruning ‘s 7/15/2022 e-mail
Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
Document received by the CA 3rd District Court of Appeal.
OFFICE OF THE CLERK
COURT OF APPEAL
Third Appellate District
State of California
914 Capitol Mall ANDREA K. WALLIN-ROHMANN
Sacramento, CA 95814-4814 Clerk/Executive Officer
916.654.0209
www.courts.ca.gov COLETTE M. BRUGGMAN
Assistant Clerk/ExecutiveOfficer
Jaroslaw Waszczuk
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
This letter is in response to your letter received on March 19, 2018, in case number
C079524 only. I apologize for missing some questions in your first letter received on
March 9, 2018, and rejected on March 16, 2018. I'll attempt to give you more answers
now, although the Clerk's Office is not allowed to give legal advice.
I cannot tell you when a decision will be made in case number C079254. This case is with
the court and has not yet been scheduled for oral argument. I will inform the court that you
inquired as to the status of the case.
It is standard procedure for this court to transmit only the first volume of a record to the
Supreme Court when a Petition for Review has been filed.
Your letter received on March 9, 2018, was rejected because the letter was considered an
inquiry on a motion to recall the remittitur in case number C079524. Nevertheless, my
letter dated March 16, 2018, was in response to your inquiry.
Please send a letter to the court requesting what files you would like to be retrieved from
the State Records Center. You must send $20.00 for each file, and if a file is located in
more than one box, you must send $20.00 for each box retrieved.
ANDREA K. WALLIN-ROHMANN
Clerk/Executive Officer
Copies of this document have been sent by mail to the parties checked below unless they
were noticed electronically. If a party does not appear on the TrueFiling Servicing
Notification and is not checked below, service was not required.
Jaroslaw Waszczuk
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
JAROSLAW WASZCZUK,
v.
JAROSLAW WASZCZUK
In Pro Per
2216 Katzakian Way
Lodi, CA 95242
Phone: (209) 663-2977
E-mail: [email protected]
1
TO BE FILED IN THE COURT OF APPEAL
APP-008
Court of App<l&I Caoo Number.
COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD APPELL.ATE DISTRICT, DIVISION CIVIL
C079524
ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY {N9me, Sta!e Bar number. Md sd1ress): Superior Court case Number.
2. a. 0 There are no interested entities or persons that must be listed in this certificate under rule 8.208.
b. D Interested entities or persons required to be listed under rule 8.208 are as follows:
( 1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
D Continued on attachment 2.
The undersigned certifies that the above-listed persons or entities (col'porations, partnerships, finns, or any other
association, but not including government entities or th air agencies) have either (1) an ownership interest of 10 perc,nt or
more in the party if it is an entity; or (2) a financial or other i nterest in the outcome of the proceeding that the justices
should consider in determining whether to disqualify themselves, as defined in rule 8.208(e)(2).
JAROSALAW WASZCZUK
(TYPE OR PRINT NAME)
Page 1 of 1
Form Approved for OptloMI Use C.I. Rul�• of Coo�. rule& 8.208, 8.488
Judicia CouncJ of California
CERTIFICATE OF INTERESTED ENTITIES OR PERSONS �c:-.o.Jrl,nfa.ca.gav
APP-008 [Rov. January 1, 2009]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................ 1
I. INTRODUCTION
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CT 164-168). Waszczuk is submitting this Petition for rehearing because the
Court of Appeal of the State of California Third Appellate District (hereafter
Court or 3DCA) unpublished Court Opinion in the above captioned case was
issued by the Court with unbelievable blunt bias against Waszczuk and with
favoritism given to the Defendants. Waszczuk views the Court decision as
prejudicial and discriminatory against and a large part of the Opinion as
merely a redacted Defendants’ Respondent Brief (RB) and other documents
filed by the Defendants in the Superior Court.
In the biased Opinion, the Court did not even mention the Oral
Argument which took place on August 28, 2017. The Superior Court and the
Court of Appeal also completely failed to address in their ruling the breached
2009 Settlement Agreement by the Defendants in relation to the Code of
Civil Procedure section 425.16 and to Vergos v. McNeal (2007) 146
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find out through litigation about the Defendants’ electric power laundering
from the UC Davis Medical Center 27 MW cogeneration facility in relation
to enormous tax fraud.
The Superior Court and the Court of Appeal completely failed to
establish that their speech and writings are constitutionally protected, and
both Courts’ decisions are fraudulent in light of information and evidence
that Waszczuk provided, which were ignored after citing Vergos v. McNeal
(Kim v. Regents of University of California (2000) 80 Cal.App.4th 160, 165)
and repeating aspects of the Defendants’ Respondents Brief (RB 16) in a
redacted statement that Waszczuk’s disregard of the Rules of Court should
not be overlooked, citing Nwosu v. Uba (2004) 122 Ca1.App.4th 1229, 1246-
1247 and other cases in the Court Opinion PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
on page 2. In this matter, Waszczuk agrees with the Superior Court and the
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was entirely destroyed after 13 years of service to the University of California
with an outstanding employee record, provided in [SAC] (Vol. I CT 175).
Waszczuk is happy in having no need to be more aggrieved by the Court of
Appeal than already caused by the Superior Court Judges Hon. David Brown
and Hon. Shelleyanne Chang.
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Agreement that the Regents of the University of California signed with
Waszczuk in February 2009 after Stein filed the First Amended Complaint
on June 16, 2014. Waszczuk visited Douglas Stein in El Dorado Hills just
before the Defendants filed the Special Motion to Strike with the hope that
Stein would cure the faulty pleading in the Second Amended Complaint.
Stein finally agreed to amend the complaint after Waszczuk gave him an
extra $500.00 in cash, thinking that the extra money would encourage Stein
to properly amend the complaint (AOB Page #14). Stein was very pleased to
have the $500.00 cash bonus from Waszczuk before Thanksgiving.
As Waszczuk pointed out to the Court, a few days later, instead of the
Third Amended Complaint to cure the defective SAC, Douglas Stein with
the Defense Attorney Michael Pott served Waszczuk the Special Motion to
Strike pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 425.16 (anti-SLAPP) in order
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Waszczuk a lesson about the First Amendment in the form of a Special
Motion to Strike pursuant to Code of Civ. Proc. § 425.16 for the cost of a
$20,000 retainer to destroy Waszczuk’s lawsuit and devastate his life further
is too extreme, and the Court of Appeal should recognize this.
After just 15 minutes of oral argument, the Defendants legal counsel
David Burkett from the Sacramento-based law firm Porter Scott approached
Waszczuk in the Court Hall outside the courtroom and attempted to instigate
a confrontation. He made threats toward Waszczuk wife and tried to exploit
the emotional and financial suffering we have both experienced since UC
Regents terminated Waszczuk employment in December 2012 at age 61
without any possibility to find new employment . For the Court information
, Waszczuk spouse Irena Waszczuk is working in Nordstrom in Sacramento
as seamstress -fitter for almost 30 years and has nothing to do with the
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B. The Court’s Preliminary Statement in the Opinion
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Court statement discriminatory, biased, and prejudicial toward himself.
Regardless of what Waszczuk’s former attorney Douglas Stein and the
Defense attorney Michael Pott did to Waszczuk, forcing him to maintain his
lawsuit in Pro Per, the Court of law shall not use a double standard giving
preferential treatment to the Defendants.
The Court of Appeal record (Register of Action) shows that this
appeal was initially declared by the Court as fully briefed on August 23, 2016
after Waszczuk filed his Appellant Reply Brief. It appears that two and half
months later, after the case was fully briefed, the Court reviewed the case
and issued the following order on November 9, 2016:
“On the court's own motion, the respondent's brief filed July 25, 2016,
is stricken for failure to ‘[s]upport any reference to a matter in the
record by a citation to the volume and page number of the record
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should be granted because Waszczuk sees many Court statements in the
issued Opinion that do not correspond with the facts. Waszczuk does not
understand why the Court placed Waszczuk’s appeal in abeyance for another
10 months after the Defendants’ attorney corrected their RB and refiled on
December 15, 2016. The Court’s delay to resolve the appeal for almost a year
translated to Waszczuk being unemployed for another year and a $70,000
loss for Waszczuk, since he was dismissed by the Defendants in December
2012. Five years without a job translated to $350,000 lost since December
2012. The October 10, 2016 Court Opinion added more devastation to
Waszczuk’s life and health.
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Waszczuk’s Special Motion to Strike appeal, which is connected to Douglas
Stein.
On September 8, 2017, Waszczuk received a subpoena from the State
Bar to appear as a witness in the State Bar Court to testify against Douglas
Stein on October 12, 2017, just two days after the 3DCA issued the
Unpublished Opinion affirming the Superior Court’s Judgement.
On September 9, 2017, a State Bar Notice of Disciplinary Charges
was filed against Douglas Stein in the State Bar Court in relation to
Waszczuk’s complaint.
On October 11, 2017, Waszczuk informed State Bar Investigator Ms.
Laura Sharek and Deputy Trial Counsel Ms. Laura Higgins that Waszczuk
was ill and asked for a trial continuance for one month.
On October 12, 2017, the California State Bar Deputy Trial Counsel
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While examining the documents, Waszczuk noticed that the Special
Motion to Strike all pleadings included five individual Defendant
Declarations and one Declaration that was not by a Defendant are the old,
altered Defendants’ Demurrer documents striking Waszczuk’s First
Amended Complaint or part of it with the pleading front pages, which instead
read “Amended Complaint filed: September 30, 2014,” whereas in the
Second Amended Complaint (SAC), all filed pleadings read “Amended
Complaint filed June 16, 2014,” referring to the First Amended Complaint
(FAC).
• APPENDIX OF EXHIBITS (VOL. I , CT 255-256)
• DECLARATION OF STEPHEN CHILCOTT – HR EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR (Vol. II CT 338-343)
• DECLARATION OF DANESHA NICHOLS (Vol. II, CT 386-388)
The fact is that the Special Motion to Strike was fabricated from the
old Demurrer in a rush manner during the long Thanksgiving weekend when
the University of California employees are off work for four days (ARB 26)
(Vol. V, CT 1479;1515). This shows that Defense Attorney Michael Pott was
tipped off by Stein that Waszczuk was demanding changes in SAC after Stein
agreed on November 25, 2014 to fix Waszczuk’s defective complaint
“The special motion may be filed within 60 days of the service of the
complaint or, in the court's discretion, at any later time upon terms it
deems proper. The motion shall be scheduled by the clerk of the court
for a hearing not more than 30 days after the service of the motion
unless the docket conditions of the court require a later hearing.”
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but a fraudulent court document that should be rejected and dismissed by the
court.
Waszczuk’s attorney did not file an objection to the Defendants’
Motion to Strike due on December 15, 2014, and he panicked when
Waszczuk told him on December 15, 2014 that he would report him to the
State Bar, then sent Waszczuk a text message saying that he had known the
Honorable Judge David Brown for more than 20 years and would get an
extension to file. The text message about the Hon. Judge Brown 1 was the
main reason that Waszczuk fired Stein. Waszczuk hates corruption and
corrupted lawyers.
Waszczuk is bringing up the issue of the old Defendants’ Demurrer
because it shows that the Special Motion of Strike was fabricated at the last
minute during the Thanksgiving weekend, which makes Waszczuk believe
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Stein had something completely different on their minds to end Waszczuk’s
lawsuit.
(Williams v. Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. (1986) 186 Cal. App. 3d 941,
944) Thus, as is the case with attorneys, self-represented litigants must
follow correct rules of procedure. Nwosu v. Uba (2004) 122 Cal. App. 4th
1229, 1246-1247; see also Rappleyea v. Campbell (1994) 8 Cal. 4th 975,
984”
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Deposition Subpoena for Production of Business Records to obtain
Waszczuk’s record from the State of California Department of Fair
Employment and Housing. The subpoena was issued by the Defendants'
former Counsel, Michael Pott, on December 8, 2014, six days after the
Defendants filed the Anti-SLAPP Motion and violated Discovery Stay CCP
§ 425.16 (g). The Defendants obtained the requested Plaintiff records without
the Plaintiff's knowledge on January 12, 2015, which was five days after the
Court issued an Order on January 7, 2015 stating that DISCOVERY
REMAINS STAYED PENDING RESOLUTION OF THIS MOTION.
On March 2, 2015, Waszczuk filed a Motion to Dismiss the
Defendants’ ant-SLAPP motion with prejudice for violation of Discovery
Stay by the Defendants during the time that the Defendants were pursuing
the anti-SLAPP motion they filed on December 1, 2014 (Vol. V CT 1376-
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2015 (Vol. VI, CT 01725-01800). Waszczuk covered this part in his
Appellant Reply Brief (ARB 13, 14).
In the first part of the Opinion, on pages 1 & 2, the Court, by affirming
the judgment which struck the Waszczuk four causes of action against the
Defendants, stated: 3
Waszczuk sincerely apologizes to the Court for offending the Court
by misunderstanding the burden on appeal and for unintentional ignorance
of the dispositive issue, of which Waszczuk still is not sure to what the Court
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between his then lawyer, the Defense counsel, and the trial judge, then
Waszczuk feels that it was unnecessary for the Court to write another 13
pages in legal opinion to further aggrieve a person who is already aggrieved
by the justice that he was served in the Sacramento County Superior Court
by two judicial officers, the Hon. Judge David Brown and the Hon.
Shelleyanne W.L. Chang. The Hon. Judge Chang is handling a cross-
connected case, Waszczuk v. California Unemployment Insurance Appeal
Board (CUIAB), Case No. C079254; Superior Court Case No: 34-2013-34-
00155479 No. 34-2013-80001699-CU-WM-GDS, which Waszczuk was
hoping would be resolved first by the Court of Appeal instant of slapping
Waszczuk with fraudulent anti-SLAPP Unpublished Opinion
However, even though Waszczuk disagrees with the Court Opinion,
which added more pain and suffering to his devastated life, Waszczuk was
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B. Waszczuk’s Proposed Third Amended Complaint
This case has merit, but not as the Court of Appeal presented in the
Opinion on pages 9-13. The merit of this case presented by the Court on
pages 9-13 is the fruit of former Defense attorney Michael Pott and
Waszczuk’s former attorney Douglas Stein unusual friendship and their
Second Amended Complaint, with which Waszczuk had nothing to do, with
the exception that his name is attached to it. Waszczuk wrote in September
2015 his 295-page detailed amended complaint without individual
defendants and with only two causes of action. Waszczuk provided the
proposed amended complaint to the Defendants’ attorneys David Burkett and
Douglas Ropel because they wanted to see it and they offered to help file it.
[See Waszczuk’s meet and confer letter Augmented Record on Appeal] (Vol.
C. The Defense Michael Pott’s August 19, 2014 confer letter and
Douglas Stein’s response dated August 26, 2014
4 In a meet and confer letter dated August 19, 2014, Michael Pott,
representing the Regents and the employees sued in their individual
capacity, described a number of deficiencies in the first amended
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Waszczuk understands the definitions of meet and confer and
demurrer and the new changes in Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 430.41 & 472
regarding the demurred and complaint amendment. What the Court presented
in the Opinion is completely irrelevant to Waszczuk’s case, however.
The meet and confer letters exchanged between Stein and Pott
completely left the Code of Civil Procedure 425.16 out of the picture, since
the main goal of Pott and Stein was to avoid letting Waszczuk know about
the anti-SLAPP law. Waszczuk paid $20,000 to be advised about the anti-
SLAPP law and the consequences of this law, having nine individual
Defendants in the complaint. If Waszczuk had known that such a law existed,
then he would not be struggling today to write this Petition. This is why
Waszczuk does not care about the merit of this anti-SLAPP appeal. Stein and
Pott, by their corrupted behavior, caused Waszczuk enormous financial
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Civil Procedure § 425.16 and what SLAPP meant? Is it not a duty of
attorneys to protect their clients’ interests instead of exposing their clients to
harm by adverse parties?
Waszczuk is rather interested in whether the Court would explain in
the Opinion what would have happened if Stein had not filed a Second
Amended Complaint on September 30, 2014. Waszczuk has nothing to do
with the Second Amended Complaint.
5 Yet plaintiff asserts that defense counsel colluded with Stein to file a second
amended complaint designed to rob him of meritorious claims. He also
contends that Stein bowed to defense counsel’s untoward pressure to amend
the complaint and subjected his pleadings to the anti-SLAPP motion. He adds
the naked allegation that the trial court acted improperly as well because the
trial judge had known defense counsel for a number of years. Plaintiff’s
allegations are without evidentiary support.
Stein prepared a second amended complaint with the same eight causes of
action. He signed the second amended complaint on September 8, 2014.
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Demurrer to Stein on July 23, 2014. Stein did not prepare a second amended
complaint with the same eight causes of action and with the same nine
individual Defendants for Waszczuk’s benefit. The SAC was needed for
Michael Pott to include in the complaint a copy of the 2009 Settlement
Agreement that Douglas Stein declared in the FAC’s eight causes as void,
unlawful, and against public policy (AOB 10) (Vol. I, CT 81-82) (Vol. VI
CT 1706-1707) (Vol. VII CT 1852).
Nothing was held back, allowing Defense attorney Michael Pott to file
the anti-SLAPP motion of the FAC in July or August 2014. Michael Pott is
a skilled attorney in SLAPP lawsuits.
Furthermore, the Court, on the same page of the Opinion, stated: “He
signed the second amended complaint on September 8, 2014.” (Vol. I CT
151) Douglas Stein signed the SAC on September 8, 2014 and submitted it
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The filing without Leave of Court was a premeditated and well-
planned move by Stein and Defense Counsel Michael Pott to get the SAC to
be returned and to manipulate into their dirty game against Waszczuk the
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Hon. David I. Brown, who
Douglas Stein had known for 20 years. Nothing was amended, and Stein and
Pott needed Judge Brown to approve Stein’s Ex-Parte Application for Leave
to File the SAC. The SAC did not meet the strict requirements of the Cal.
Rule of Court 3.1324, as was stipulated by Stein’s and Pott’s Ex-Parte
Application for Leave to File SAC on 9/19/2014 (AOB 25)(Vol. I, CT 164),
and the Order approving the Ex-Parte Application was signed on September
22, 2014 by the Hon. David I. Brown from the Department 53 Law and
Motion Department without appointment or the appearance of the parties
(Vol I. CT 166-167).
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provided 100% assurance for the Defense attorney Michael Pott and used his
long friendship with the Honorable David Brown to achieve the above.
Because of the listed and not listed in the lawsuit Defendants
conspiracy 6 Waszczuk life since January 2007 became a misery and since
2012 was entirely devastated by the University of California white collar
criminals and thereafter by corrupted state of California administrative
agencies and corrupted judicial officers who collaborated with Waszczuk
former employer attorneys to harm Waszczuk.
On pages No. 8 of the Opinion Court stated: 7
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amendment of any pleading, but, in this case, the Court allowed the
amendment in order to hurt Waszczuk.
After the Appeal is finally concluded, Waszczuk will ask the Court
for Court Order to let Waszczuk include the civil conspiracy cause of action
in the amended complaint pursuant to California Civil Code Section
1714.10(a).
IV. ARGUMENTS
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knowing that Senator Feinstein’s husband ordered Waszczuk’s dismissal
from his job in January 2007 (Vol. I CAT 218-225).
University of California, Davis, administration subjected 60-year-old
Waszczuk to malicious psychological terror unthinkable for any normal
person and beyond the bounds of human decency from April 2011 to
December 2012 and prior to this, in 2006-2007, with involvement of four of
five listed defendants in the lawsuit, Michael Boyd, Cindy Oropeza,
Stephen Chilcott, and Charles Witcher.
The terror and witch hunt aimed at Waszczuk between 2006 and
2012 included unwarranted suspension and reassignment interrogations in a
style Waszczuk knew from his native country during the Communist era,
when Waszczuk was subjected to such interrogation by Communist secret
police for his political activities against communism in 1980-1981.
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Eastern District of California, Indictment Violation(S) 18 U.S.C § 2252 ()
(4)(B) –Possession of Visual Depiction of Minors in Sexually Explicit
Conduct ).
After Waszczuk and his coworker reported the above-mentioned
crime, Waszczuk and his coworker Kenneth Diede automatically became
subjects of a witch hunt by the Defendants in July 2011, and Waszczuk was
not allowed to come back to work on September 1, 2011, after one month
of sick leave for work-related stress.
In addition to the above-listed acts of terror against Waszczuk, the
Defendants denied Waszczuk’s disability income in an attempt to force him
to take UC retirement and quit; placed Waszczuk on investigatory-
administrative leave for over one year and did not let Waszczuk know when
the administrative leave would end; sent Waszczuk threatening letters, even
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Supervisor Karen Kouretas to receive Waszczuk if provocation was
successful. [Barbour Pay raise](Vol V CT 1354);[ Danesha Nichols
Waszczuk Confidential Summary for Chancellor ]( Vol. V ; CT 1349) -
What the UC Chancellor wanted to know about an immigrant from Poland
.? [ UC Davis Med. Center Poster Boy ) (Vol IV ; CT 1057-1061)
The involvement of the Defendants in the criminally minded pseudo
investigation to terrorize the employee because of believing that the
employee would blow the whistle constitutes the type of outrageous conduct
beyond the bounds of human decency that should not be tolerated by the
Court, and the Plaintiff’s First Cause of Action shall remain in Waszczuk’s
complaint.
Blocking Waszczuk’s Third Amended Complaint by the Court after
the Court was informed about electric power laundering from the UCDMC
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D. The Fourth Cause of Action – Violation of California
Government Code Section 8547.10(b), which allows people to sue
University of California employees who intentionally engage in
` acts of reprisal
“A brief excerpt from a letter he sent to the general counsel for the
University reflects his bitterness as well as his belief that there is much
more at stake than his mere wrongful termination lawsuit. He wrote: ‘The
stake in this lawsuit must be a lot bigger and more important than the life of
a 63-year-old Polish refugee who escaped communist oppression and was
promised protection from oppression in his new country by the US
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481 followed with a similar 53-page complaint with the State Board of
Equalization and the Tax Recovery and Criminal Enforcement as well as a
213-page complaint with the State Bar of California against 23 university
and state agency attorneys involved in covering up the fraud, including three
listed defendants in the ant-SLAPP lawsuit and 47 detailed complaints
against Superior Court Judge Hon. Shelleyanne Chang with the Commission
on Judicial Performance.
Keeping Waszczuk out of UCDMC premises for over one year and
persecuting him with pseudo investigations in order to fire him because of an
unlawful contract power sale between the UC Regents and the Sacramento
Municipal Utility District was underway and was signed on May 31, 2012.
Not providing Waszczuk with employee evaluations for the last two years of
his employment is a classic example of a despicable and outrageous violation
10 Finally, the trial court found that plaintiff did not establish that the
individual defendants’ conduct was in retaliation for his whistleblowing. The
court explained: “The mere fact that Nichols, Oropeza and Seifert conducted
investigations and reached conclusions with which Plaintiff does not agree
with does not establish their investigatory findings are an act of retaliation.
Nor can Boyd’s decision to deny Plaintiff’s grievance at the Step II level of
PPSM 70 review be deemed to be a retaliatory action. Finally, there is no
allegation that Chilcott took any particular action against Plaintiff that could
be deemed to be a retaliatory action.” In the absence of any evidence or
analysis provided by plaintiff, we have no basis for reaching a finding at odds
with the trial court. Plaintiff has not shown a likelihood of prevailing on a
whistleblower retaliation cause of action. (Gov. Code, § 8547.10.)
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whoever invested $65,000,000 into the UCDMC 27 cogeneration facility
in 1998 lost millions of dollars after the illegal power sale was ceased in
2003 due to Governor Grey Davis’s recall from office. Waszczuk was
viewed as an obstruction who could find out about the laundered power
from the UCDMC 27 MW plant because of his involvement in the similar
$100,000,000 fraud in 1990-1998 committed by Waszczuk’s previous
employer, Dynegy, against Pacific Gas and Electric ratepayers and
California taxpayers. Waszczuk learned the real reason for his termination
in June 2015 thanks to an August 2012 interview of the UC Davis
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Dr. Shelton Dur uisseau, which Waszczuk
described in the letter to the University of California Office of
the President (UCOP) Principal Investigator J udith Rosenberg
in the Plaintiff’s Opposition to the anti-SL APP motion (Vol.
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relation to the illegal power sale from the UCDMC 27 MW cogeneration
plant.
E. February 2009 Settlement Agreement
Since February 2009 Waszczuk was employed by the Defendants per
2009 by written Settlement -Agreement agreement thus Vergos v. McNeal
(2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1387, 1399 (Vergos)) has no weight in Waszczuk
case . Defendants did not provided any evidence that they investigation
Waszczuk because breach of settlement agreement . The Settlement
agreement was result of the Defendnts January -March 2007 witch hunt
aimed at Waszczuk and which was orchestrated and supervised by the
Defendant Stephen Chillcott Witch who assigned to this task by the UC
Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef and UC Davis Chief Counsel Steven
Drown in 2006. See the UCDM HR assigned witch hunter’s report dated
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Chilcott promoted from the investigator position to the UC Davis Health
System HR Executive Director position with $ 300, 000 annual salary and
lot of given power employed forces which almost ended Waszczuk
employment with UCDMC in the UCDMC Trauma Unit # 11 on May 31,
2011. See March 7, 2003 Waszczuk Whistle Blowing Retaliation
Complaint ( Vol IV , CT 1015-1057 page 15-23) . On September 26, 2012
Defendant Chilcott in collaboration with new UC Davis Police Chief
distributed Police Poster with Waszczuk photo and description on and did
not inform Waszczuk about (Vol. IV , CT 1057-1061) In October 2011
Waszczuk complained against Defendants Chilcott and Danesha Nichols to
the UC Davis Police Department not knowing why Waszczuk being
attacked so viciously and removed from the premises on September 1, 2011
for over one year until Waszczuk’s employment was terminated on
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V. THE DEFENDANTS GROSSLY VIOLATED WASZCZUK’S
RIGHT OF PETITION OR FREE SPEECH UNDER THE
UNITED STATES AND CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTIONS IN
CONNECTION WITH A PUBLIC ISSUE C.C.P § 425.16.
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Waszczuk informing him that he is permitted to serve as the representative
in complaint meeting for Kenneth Diede , William Buckans and Dereck
Cole. Gina Harwood forgot mention to Waszczuk that the UC Police
“Most Unwanted” poster with Waszczuk photo and description is still
hanging araound UC Davis Campuses and Ms. Harwood did not say
what is going to happen to Waszczuk if show up in UC Davis Medical
Center . (Vol IV , CT 1106 [letter] and 1057 [Most Unwanted Poster ]
[10/20/2013 Waszczuk ‘s sent inquiry sent to Defendant Boyd in Re :
Request to Schedule a Hearing for the Step II Appeal -Dereck Cole’s
2011/2012 Evaluation UC Davis PPSM 70 . Defendants Boyd and
others did not give a same chance to Waszczuk with his evaluations for
2010/2011 and 2011/2012. ] (Vol VI , CT 1517 -1526) to defend his
employees rights under the UC Davis Policy PPSM 70. No one of the
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Ca1.Rptr.2d 567 (Cal.App. Dist.2 04/08/2003) and Janet Campbell v.
Regents of the University of California (Supra S113275.) However, as
Court noticed on the Page No. 4
“ The first amended complaint did not, however, contain a cause of action
for violation of PPSM 23.
However Court anyway affirmed the Superior Judgment having full
knowledge how much effort Waszczuk put to force his crooked lawyer to
amend properly the First Amended Complaint and restore the violation of
PPSM 23 by the five listed Defendants . Four of them are highly skilled
UCDM Human Resources Department including Defendant , HR
Executive Director Steven Chilcott . The Court completely ignored
Waszczuk Oral Argument in this matter during the Court hearing on
August 28, 2017.
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The APX and APX participants in the January 2007 Settlement and Release
of Claims Agreement § 5.2 entitled Non-Monetary Consideration stated:
“UC Davis Medical Center. The UC Davis Medical center represents that
the generation unit at the University of California Davis Medical Center
only sold ancillary services to the ISO during the Refund Period. APX
submitted unit-specific bids and schedules on behalf of the Regents of the
University of California (“Regents’) to the ISO and APX received unit-
specific dispatch instructions and ancillary service awards from the ISO.
Settlement statements from the ISO clearly identify all UC Davis Medical
Center schedules and transactions by unit designation for instructed energy,
deviations and ancillary service award. If the Regents and the California
Parties reach a settlement of refund issues related to APX Transactions
Waszczuk does not know why he was not given the same rights as
the Defendants under Code of Civ. Proc. 425.16. Quite a few times,
Waszczuk represented UC Davis Medical Center employees during
pending “witch hunt” action orchestrated and conducted by the Defendants
listed in the lawsuit. Waszczuk was denied access to UCDMC premises for
over one year.
The Defendant Chilcott ordered the employees’ complaint to be
placed in abeyance, and the employees that Waszczuk represented were
harassed, wrongfully accused, and disciplined.
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This occurred on February 6, 2015 during the discussion with Hon.
David Brown on the issue of Waszczuk’s representation of others (CRT page
8, 25-28) (CRT page 9, 1-28) (CRT 10, 1-5):
THE COURT: Let's talk about the five guys that are implicated by this
motion. After paragraph 70 of your papers, you said, and I believe this was
in your complaint, your first amended complaint, and this is not just the
only paragraph, you said the investigation was flawed, corrupt and biased.
The five people that you're addressing in this particular motion that you're
opposing, this motion, these five you've alleged were involved in the
investigation and proceeding that you alleged are corrupt, fraudulent, and
bad.
MR. WASZCZUK: Exactly, Your Honor.
THE COURT: But it all arises out of the investigation. Their actions all
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MR. WASZCZUK: I am representing – I was representing people, my
coworkers, policies PPM 70.
THE COURT: Yes.
MR. WASZCZUK: I'm still one guy who I still represent. I moved this to
the EEOC. Represent in the EEOC for discrimination.
The above conversation with the Hon. David Brown shows that
Waszczuk’s representation caught the Court’s attention, and Waszczuk
believes that the Court did not read the exhibit, subsequently ignoring
Waszczuk and his representation of others.
After the Court granted the anti-SLAPP Motion for the Defendants,
Waszczuk, in his Motion for Reconsideration filed on February 20, 2015
(Vol. V, CT 1252-1270), on page 2, reminded the Court about his
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Dereck Cole’s latter of Expectation with copy of the complaint under UC
Davis Policy PPSM 70 ] (Vol IV , CT 1107-1114 ) [10/20/2013 Waszczuk ‘s
inquiry sent to Defendant Boyd in Re : Request to Schedule a Hearing for the
Step II Appeal -Dereck Cole’s 2011/2012 Evaluation UC Davis PPSM 70 .
Defendant Boyd did not give a same chance to Waszczuk with his
evaluations for 2010/2011 and 2011/2012. ] (Vol VI , CT 1517 -1526)
.Waszczuk presented in details how differently Waszczuk was treated by
Defndannt ‘s Boyd in Plaintiff’s Appeal Meditation Statement using Dereck
Cole case in which Waszczuk represented Cole
Waszczuk’s represention for Kenneth Diede: [ Kenneth Diede’s Declaration]
(Vol. III, CT 759-765) ;
Waszczuk’s representation for William Buckans: [William Buckans’;
Declaration ](Vol. III, CT 745-757);
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Waszczuk’s attorney, who wasted Waszczuk’s $20,000 retainer and
conspired with the Defense attorney Michael Pott.
VI. CONCLUSION
The Waszczuk Petition for Rehearing in the above shall be granted
to Waszczuk by the Court for the captioned reasons:
1. The Superior Court abused its own discretion by accepting the Second
Amended Complaint filed on September 30, 2014 against Waszczuk’s
will and instructions. The Second Amended Complaint did not amend
anything relevant that should have been amended. The Second
Amended Complaint was filed with an evil motive by Waszczuk’s
attorney Douglas Stein in conspiracy with the Defendants’ Attorney
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2014 Defendants’ Demurrer and was filed with a defective pleading as
the anti-SLAPP motion of Waszczuk’s First Amended Complaint.
The Second Amended Complaint, filed on September 30, 2014 by
Waszczuk’s former attorney Douglas Stein with a suspended attorney’s
license, should be declared null and void. Douglas Stein is currently
suspended to practice law and is being prosecuted by the State Bar due
to misrepresenting Waszczuk and defrauding Waszczuk of a $20,000
retainer fee. The Superior Court and the Court of Appeal have no
jurisdiction to permit attorneys to practice law with suspended licenses.
The Defendants’ anti-SLAPP motion is the old demurrer crafted by
Defense attorney Michael Pott in July 2014 and was filed as the
Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint instead of the Second Amended
Complaint. The Plaintiff would never be permitted by the Court to file
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diligent, this attorney has had his license suspended for not paying child
alimony and being prosecuted by the State Bar.
The Court’s prejudicial and discriminatory Opinion reminded
Waszczuk of his employment at UC Davis Medical Center and how
differently the five individual Defendants treated other employees in
comparison to Waszczuk. By giving the opportunity to the Defendants
to correct the Reply Brief while denying Waszczuk the ability to correct
his briefs, the Court acted in a similar manner to how the five
Defendants acted in providing evaluations to other employees to give
them a chance to correct their performance but denying this chance to
Waszczuk. The Court used Waszczuk’s mistakes against him in the
discriminatory and outrageously biased Opinion.
For this reason alone, the Petition for Rehearing should be granted to
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Jaroslaw Waszczuk – Plaintiff and Appellant
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CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE
this Petition for Rehearing contains 14257 words, based on the word-
count feature of my word-processing program.
Respectfully submitted,
______________________________
Jaroslaw Waszczuk
Plaintiff and Appellant In Pro Per
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DECLARATION OF SERVICE BY ELECTRONIC MAIL
TRUEFILING
the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on October 25, 2017 , at Lodi CA
______________________
IRENA WASZCZUK
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Filed 10/10/17 Waszczuk v. Regents of the University of California CA3
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED
California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for
publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication
or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.
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shortcomings he cites. We need go no further than to answer the contentions he raises,
and in finding no merit in those claims, we affirm.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Plaintiff, a Polish immigrant, feels deeply aggrieved by the University of
California (the University), his lawyer, the defense lawyer, and the trial judge. A brief
excerpt from a letter he sent to the general counsel for the University reflects his
bitterness as well as his belief that there is much more at stake than his mere wrongful
termination lawsuit. He wrote: “The stake in this lawsuit must be a lot bigger and more
important than the life of a 63-year-old Polish refugee who escaped communist
oppression and was promised protection from oppression in his new country by the US
government. Instead of protection from oppression, the Polish refugee received treatment
from the University of California that has been a lot worse than the treatment he received
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how sympathetic his claims may seem to himself or us. It is a responsibility he has
ignored to his peril.
Plaintiff’s most glaring and consistent violation of the rules is his failure to cite to
the record. 1 He makes grandiose accusations against the University for illegally
generating and selling electric power and for tax evasion, but those allegations are not
supported by citations to the record and are not relevant to the special motion to strike.
Plaintiff fails to appreciate the limited scope of our review, which stands in stark contrast
to the wide-ranging allegations plaintiff lodges which are untethered to the second
amended complaint or the special motion to strike. We are compelled to ignore any
factual allegations that are not supported by citations to the record.
Plaintiff loses this appeal, but it is not the end of his lawsuit for wrongful
termination. The trial court reminded plaintiff at the hearing on the special motion to
1 An “appellant must support all statements of fact in his briefs with citations to the
record [citation] and must confine his statement ‘to matters in the record on appeal.’
[Citation.]” (Pierotti v. Torian (2000) 81 Cal.App.4th 17, 29.) “[I]t is counsel's duty to
point out portions of the record that support the position taken on appeal.” (Del Real v.
City of Riverside (2002) 95 Cal.App.4th 761, 768.) The Court of Appeal must not search
the record on behalf of an appellant or serve as “backup appellate counsel.” (Mansell v.
Board of Administration (1994) 30 Cal.App.4th 539, 545-546.)
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FACTS
Plaintiff worked in the University of California Davis Medical Center’s Plant
Operations and Maintenance Department for 13 years. He received many years of
favorable performance reviews. In 2007, however, he was given a disciplinary transfer
from the central plant to the HVAC/plumbing shop. He filed a grievance and ultimately
entered into a settlement agreement with the University whereby he agreed to the transfer
in exchange for a promotion to an exempt position with a more prestigious job title.
In 2011 the University again initiated an investigation of plaintiff based on
complaints that he had violated University policies by engaging in acts of ethnic
discrimination constituting hate incidents in the workplace. He was terminated in 2012.
He appealed the termination and ultimately filed a whistleblower retaliation complaint.
In this court, he fixates on his belief the University’s suspension, investigation, and
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In a meet and confer letter dated August 19, 2014, Michael Pott, representing the
Regents and the employees sued in their individual capacity, described a number of
deficiencies in the first amended complaint “that warrant the filing of a demurrer unless
they can be resolved by amendment.” Stein spent 10 hours reviewing the first amended
complaint and researching the law in light of the alleged deficiencies set forth in Pott’s
letter. By letter dated August 26, 2014, Stein agreed to amend the complaint in response
to those deficiencies he found legitimate and he explained why he rejected many others.
Stein prepared a second amended complaint with the same eight causes of action.
He signed the second amended complaint on September 8, 2014. Unbeknownst to him at
the time, his license to practice law was suspended on September 24, 2014, due to child
support issues that he resolved by October 7, 2014, but due to logistical aspects of the
process, the State Bar of California did not restore his license to an active status until
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wrong amount of child support for two or three months, a mistake that was quickly
rectified once he learned of it. The trial court granted Stein’s application and ruled that
the second amended complaint filed on September 30, 2014, “is deemed validly filed.”
In ruling on the individual defendants’ anti-SLAPP motion, the trial court
followed the requisite two-step process. First, the court examined the individual
defendants’ showing whether their acts were taken in furtherance of their constitutional
rights of petition or free speech in connection with a public issue. The court found the
individual defendants made a prima facie showing. The individual defendants’ speech,
the court ruled, was “made in connection with the processing, investigation, hearing and
deciding the workplace complaints filed by Plaintiff and others pursuant to University
policies.” Second, the court found that plaintiff did not sustain his burden of showing a
likelihood of prevailing on each of the elements of the four causes of action as well as
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There is nothing we can decide in this appeal or write in this opinion that will
disabuse plaintiff of this fiercely held belief. He fails to understand that these very
serious allegations are not before us on appeal of the anti-SLAPP motion. We will
explain for his benefit what the record discloses to us—the utter absence of any evidence
to support even a colorable claim of misconduct by any of the lawyers or judicial officers
in this case. We will also briefly describe the procedural context in which the allegations
are made and the futility of pursuing his corruption theory against these individual
defendants. Despite the ferocity of plaintiff’s feelings to the contrary, the fact that the
second amended complaint did not contain what he hoped it would does not translate into
reversible error and the fact that his lawyer and defense counsel engaged in an interactive
process to avoid an unnecessary demurrer does not translate into corruption.
Let us begin with plaintiff’s focus on the second amended complaint. As best we
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legal authority and evidentiary support in the record. Rather, Stein was forthright in his
disclosure to the court. When he filed the second amended complaint he was unaware
that his status with the State Bar had changed. The reason for his very brief suspension
was unrelated to his competency or ethics in the practice of law. Rather, as Stein
explained, he made an inadvertent error on the amount he paid in child support for two or
three months. His license to practice was reinstated within about two weeks of his
discovery of the suspension. On these facts, there is not the slightest hint of impropriety.
To the contrary, Stein was diligent and transparent—making an ex parte application to
assure the integrity of the document he inadvertently filed during the briefest of
suspensions for a minor transgression unrelated to his professional performance. He
should be commended, not chastised, for his fervent representation of plaintiff’s interests.
Yet plaintiff asserts that defense counsel colluded with Stein to file a second
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appeal—whether the trial court erred by granting the five individual defendants’ anti-
SLAPP motion to strike four of the causes of action alleged against them. We turn,
therefore, to the only relevant issue presented.
II
The Merits
The anti-SLAPP statute provides: “A cause of action against a person arising
from any act of that person in furtherance of the person’s right of petition or free speech
under the United States Constitution or the California Constitution in connection with a
public issue shall be subject to a special motion to strike, unless the court determines that
the plaintiff has established that there is a probability that the plaintiff will prevail on the
claim.” (Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16, subd. (b)(1).) We review an order granting an anti-
SLAPP motion de novo. (Daniel v. Wayans (2017) 8 Cal.App.5th 367, 379.)
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(1999) 19 Cal.4th 1106, 1115); and investigations and investigatory reports prepared in
connection with an issue under consideration or review by an official body, such as a
public entity’s internal investigations, are protected activities under the anti-SLAPP
statute (Miller v. City of Los Angeles (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 1373, 1383). Because the
speech of the individual defendants who were subject to the anti-SLAPP motion was
“made in connection with the processing, investigation, hearing and deciding the
workplace complaints filed by Plaintiff and others pursuant to University policies,” the
court concluded the individual defendants satisfied their burden and shifted it to the
plaintiff to demonstrate a likelihood of prevailing on the merits.
Plaintiff insists that Vergos, supra, 146 Cal.App.4th 1387, cited by the trial court,
does not support the granting of the anti-SLAPP motion. We disagree. In Vergos, an
employee of the University named the manager who denied his administrative grievance
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Nichols was appointed to investigate Plaintiff’s whistleblower complaints, and was also
appointed to conduct an investigation into complaints of workplace violence filed by
Putney and Daniliuc. All were protected petitioning activities.
“The allegations against Boyd and Chilcott are limited to their receipt of emails
from Nichols relating to the investigations, and Chilcott’s sending of an email relating to
the investigation of Plaintiff. The emails are protected speech in connection with an
investigation process.
“The allegations against Oropeza and Seifert are based upon their investigation
into the emails plaintiff sent to Nichols in April 2012. Oropeza and Seifert conducted
their investigation pursuant to the University’s grievance protocol and reached
conclusions documented in a report.
“Boyd acted as Complaint Resolution Officer (“CRO”) at Step II of the
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apt rationale for finding plaintiff did not sustain his burden of showing a likelihood of
prevailing.
Plaintiff’s first cause of action for the intentional infliction of emotional distress
fails because the tort requires a showing of outrageous conduct beyond the bounds of
human decency. The court found “[w]hat plaintiff has alleged, and what his evidence in
opposition appears to support, are complaints concerning personnel management by
defendants. Pleading of personnel management activity is ‘insufficient to support a claim
of intentional infliction of emotional distress, even if improper motivation is alleged.’
(Janken v. [GM Hughes Electronic (1996)] 46 Cal.App.4th [55,] 80.)” We agree with the
trial court that none of the allegations against these individual defendants involved in the
investigation and resolution of the grievances constitutes the type of outrageous conduct
beyond the bounds of human decency necessary to prevail on a claim of the intentional
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harassment. (Reno v. Baird (1998) 18 Cal.4th 640, 663-664; 2 Janken v. GM Hughes
Electronic, supra, 46 Cal.App.4th at p. 63.) Plaintiff has not shown any likelihood of
surmounting this obstacle.
Finally, the trial court found that plaintiff did not establish that the individual
defendants’ conduct was in retaliation for his whistleblowing. The court explained: “The
mere fact that Nichols, Oropeza and Seifert conducted investigations and reached
conclusions with which Plaintiff does not agree with does not establish their investigatory
findings are an act of retaliation. Nor can Boyd’s decision to deny Plaintiff’s grievance at
the Step II level of PPSM 70 review be deemed to be a retaliatory action. Finally, there is
no allegation that Chilcott took any particular action against Plaintiff that could be
deemed to be a retaliatory action.” In the absence of any evidence or analysis provided
by plaintiff, we have no basis for reaching a finding at odds with the trial court. Plaintiff
2 After Reno v. Baird, supra, 18 Cal.4th 640 was decided “the California Legislature
amended FEHA's harassment provision expressly holding individual employees liable for
their harassment.” (Scott v. Solano County Health & Soc. Orders Servs. Dep't (E.D. Cal.
2006) 459 F.Supp.2d 959, 966, citing Gov. Code, § 12940, subd. (j).) There is no
harassment claim targeted by the individual defendants’ anti-SLAPP motion.
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DISPOSITION
The judgment striking the four causes of action against defendants Nichols,
Oropeza, Seifert, Boyd, and Chilcott is affirmed. The parties shall bear their own costs
on appeal. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.278(a)(5).)
RAYE , P. J.
We concur:
NICHOLSON , J.
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