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11-04-14 Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler has been asked to review the evidence
of large-scale computer fraud in the courts

Computer systems enable the routine churning out of fraudulent records in both the state and US
courts. The key systems are Sustain and eCourt in the state courts, and PACER and CM/ECF in
the US courts. Prof Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School, an expert on computers and the law,
has been asked to provide an opinion.

Los Angeles, April 14 - "If for no other reason, the case of Lomas v Bank of America in the Los Angeles
Superior Court is important,” says Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO), “for clearly
documenting the pervasive fraud in the computerized records of the Los Angeles Superior Court".
In Lomas v Bank of America Plaintiff Susan Lomas is trying to protect her rights against alleged fraud by
Bank of America and others in foreclosure procedures. The litigation is opined by Dr Zernik as Fraud on the
Court through collusion of BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION, California Judge PETER MEEKA, and
Clerk of the Court JOHN A CLARKE, aimed to dispossess Lomas, while denying her due process and access
to an honest court. [i ]
“Judge Meeka and the Clerk of the Court created false online ‘Case Summary’ in eCourt, which would lead a
naïve person to conclude that true litigation is being conducted”, says Dr Zernik, “but the ‘Minutes’ show that
none of it was considered by the court itself as real litigation”.
The online “Case Summary”, produced through the e-Court system by Sustain Technologies, Inc, listed a
series of proceedings and the corresponding rulings. The “Minutes” of the same proceedings were recorded in
the Sustain case management system of the same company. The “Minutes” show that Judge Meeka routinely
listed the proceedings as “off of the record”, and that none of the minutes were certified by the Clerk of the
Court.
An extreme example was found in the April 8, 2011 “proceeding”, when Plaintiff Lomas tried to protect her
due process rights. The “Case Summary” (Figure 1) for that date shows: “Department O, Meeka, Peter J
Presiding, Exparte proceeding – Denied”
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Figure 1: April 8, 2011 "Ex Parte Proceedings" for due process rights - excerpts
from the online "Case Summary" of the eCourt system of the Los Angeles
Superior Court.

The “Minutes” (Figure 2) for the same “proceeding” show an empty minutes form, with the date of
“00/00/00”, no case caption or number, no judge, no department, no deputy clerk listed, and no ruling either.

Figure 2: April 8, 2011 "Ex Parte Proceedings" for due process rights -
"Minutes" from the Sustain system of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

“Sustain is opined as a large-scale computer fraud” says Dr Zernik. His opinion in this matter was supported
by a world-renowned computer science expert. [ii ]
The system originated around 1985 in Los Angeles, California. According to Sustain Technologies, Inc, the
system is by now implemented in the courts of 11 states. [iii ]
Computer fraud is not unique to the state courts. The US courts have installed an online public access system
– PACER - and case management system - CM/ECF - in the early 2000s. “The principle is the same. The
courts routinely publish false online records, while keeping a separate system for the court, which shows,
which records are real, and which ones are not” says Dr Zernik. His opinion of fraud in PACER and CM/ECF
was published in an international computer science journal with an Editorial Board listing scholars from six
European nations and Canada, including Director of IBM Research Center in Ireland. [iv ] Leading law and
technology journals in the United States refused to review papers on the subject.
Dr Zernik also produced detailed review of the fraud in conduct of litigation in cases of the highest public
policy significance, which were repeatedly reported in both US and international media, including, but not
limited to the litigation of SEC v Bank of America Corporation in the US Court in New York. [v , vi ]
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The best example, showing the systems working together to abuse Human Rights, according to Dr Zernik,
remains the case of the arrest and habeas corpus petitions of the 70 year-old former US prosecutor Richard
Fine. Richard Fine exposed and rebuked the taking by Los Angeles judges of “not permitted” payments
(“bribes”).
On March 4, 2009, media reported that a “Sentencing Proceeding” was conducted in the Los Angeles
Superior Court. However, the online “Case Summary” in eCourt had no listing of such proceeding at all, and
the Court continues to deny access to the Register of Actions (California civil docket) of the case in Sustain.
Later, Richard Fine was held for 18 months in solitary confinement by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
However, the online Inmate Information Center listed him as imprisoned on location and by authority of the
non-existent “Municipal Court of San Pedro”.
Fine’s habeas corpus petition in the US District Court in Los Angeles and the US Court of Appeals, 9th
Circuit, appeared as true litigation in the online PACER records, but were replete with unsigned, uncertified –
invalid court records in CM/ECF. [vii ]
In 2010, Dr Zernik authored a report on Human Rights in Los Angeles County, California, which was
submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first ever Universal Periodic Review of
Human Rights in the United States. The report was based in part on review of the large-scale fraud in the
records of the courts and prisons in Los Angeles County. His report was later incorporated into the official
Staff Report of the United Nations, with a note regarding “corruption of the courts and the legal profession”.
[viii ]
Dr Zernik is also going to deliver two lectures on the subject in the upcoming World Criminology Congress.
“Corruption of the US justice system is one of the key factors in the current world economic crisis, which the
main subject of the Congress,” he explains.
While internationally, Dr Zernik’s opinions are re-affirmed, US experts have so far been reluctant to opine on
the matter. Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, and Law Dean Martha Minow of
Harvard University have previously refused to provide an opinion. The former claimed that he had no
expertise in computers and court administration, and the latter claimed that she was prevented from opining
on the matter due to her position as Harvard Law Dean.
Now, Dr Zernik has asked Prof Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School, an expert on computers and the law,
to opine on the matter.
Prof Benkler was one of the authors of the recent letter regarding the humiliation of Private Bradley Manning.
“Prof Benkler has shown courage in highlighting the abuse of the Human Rights of Private Manning. I hope
that he would also be willing to review the evidence of abuse of Human Rights of all in the United States,”
says Dr Zernik.
LINKS:
i
11-03-20 PRESS RELEASE Lomas v Bank of America (KC059379) Bank of America Continues Racketeering in the Los Angeles Superior
Court
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51160102/
11-04-07 PRESS RELEASE: Lomas v BofA (KC059379) – Judge Meeka is Requested to Restore Due Process, Declare Any Benefits from
BofA
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52494342/
11-04-12 PRESS RELEASE: California Judge Peter Meeka Refuses to Disclose Financial Benefits to Him by Bank of America, Accord Due
Process
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52846502/
11-04-13 PRESS RELEASE: Lomas v BofA - BofA, Brian Moynihan Are Asked to Name Their Attorney of Record in the Los Angeles Superior Court
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52921960/
ii
09-04-20 Prof Eliyahu Shamir's Opinion Letter re: Sustain - the Case Management System of the Superior Court of California, County of Los
Angeles
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46069337/
09-04-20 Prof Eliyahu Shamir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, directory information
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30454039/
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iii
Sustain Technologies
http://www.sustain.net/
iv
Zernik, J: Data Mining of Online Judicial Records of the Networked US Federal Courts, International Journal on Social Media: Monitoring,
Measurement, Mining, 1:69-83 (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38328585/
v
Zernik, Joseph: Securities and Exchange Commission v Bank of America Corporation - Pretense Litigation and Pretense Banking Regulation
in the United States
http://www.scribd.com/doc/44663232/
vi
11-02-09 ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit Insists on Conducting a Pretense Appeal from a Pretense Judgment of
the US District Court
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49070315/
vii
10-04-20 Fine v Baca (09-A827) at the US Supreme Court: Motion to Intervene and related papers: Motion to Intervene and related papers
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30304657/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30161573/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30161636/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30162109/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30162144/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30161692/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30185575/
viii
10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights
in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report, with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)

Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice systems of the State of
California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert focuses on the unique role of computerized case
management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice system in the United States.
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are
convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends must be investigated
relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
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United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative, delivered an important
speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice systems before they become indistinguishable
from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation aimed at fashioning
"mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was
triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices
Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School (February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" on
the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/

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