Tom Scott - Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor: Understand Americas Corrupt Judicial System—Protect Yourself Now and Boost Chances of Winning Cases Later

About the Authors

Sara Naheedy has represented clientsin real estate, immigration, employment, and business-relatedmatters. She has practiced law in both the federal and statesystems in California and was one of several attorneys who defendedindividuals and business entities in an $80 million federal RICOlawsuit in Los Angeles that eventually settled throughmediation. She worked as in-house counselfor a property management company that she represented in numeroussmall claims lawsuits. Litigating small claims cases was a majorinfluence on her view of the law as it affects ordinary Americans.She understands the frustration that most people experience whenfaced with the complexities and inefficiencies of the U.S. legalsystem and holds the view that it is often preferable to mediaterather than litigate . Sara has beenpracticing law since 2009. She received her Juris Doctorfrom Chapman University School ofLaw .

Tom Scott has been a litigant inapproximately two dozen traffic, small claims, criminal, divorce,jurisdictional, class action, and other cases. In court he hasdefeated individuals who are supposed to uphold the lawpolice,lawyers, and judges. He has an amazing sixteen and four win/lossrecord and has won his last nine battles. The remaining legalmatters are ties, are ongoing, or have another status. Althoughsometimes costly and emotionally draining, his personal experiencein various courts in four states over more than two decades hasprovided him with the best means for helping others avoid thepitfalls within the treacherous U.S. judiciary. Tom is alsocoauthoring Stack the Health Odds in YourFavor .

Important Notice

Although the intended purpose ofthis book is to aid the American public in their interactions withthe U.S. legal system and to help them protect themselves from it,by no means should this book be construed as a substitute for theadvice or recommendations of the readers personal attorney. Theinformation provided herein is not legal advice or advice of anykind, and no attorney-client or confidential relationship is orshould be formed by any application thereof. The authors andpublisher expressly disclaim all responsibility for any detrimentalor adverse effects resulting from the use or application of any ofthe templates, explanations, ideas, or information contained inthis book .

FirstEdition.... February 2016

Editor. Randy Schneider

CoverDesign..... Tom Scott

BookDesign... Sara Naheedy and TomScott

Sara Naheedy, Tom Scott

Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor

Understand Americas CorruptJudicial System Protect Yourself Now and Boost Chances of Winning CasesLater

www.stloiyf.com

ISBN 978-0-9965929-1-8

Copyright 2016 Sara Naheedy, Tom Scott, Smart PlayPublishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission ofthe authors and publisher.

Exceptions to reproduction and transmission apply tothe templates listed in the appendix. These may be freely copied,edited, printed, and used as the reader sees fit. Note that theappendix is not included with the ePub version due to technicallimitations, but is available separately from our website.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to individuals who have beenvictimized by the U.S. judicial system. In particular, it isdedicated to people who have been unjustly imprisoned and, in somecases, those who have been executed or have died in U.S. jails orprisons while serving time for crimes they did not commit. But itis also dedicated to other victimseveryone who has sufferedinjustices and deleterious effects at the hands of police, lawyers,judges, and other officials or entities associated with thesystem.

One can only speculate, but this all-inclusive groupmust currently number well into the millions. Merely listing thesubset of those who have been unjustly imprisoned would beprohibitive since it is estimated that there are literally hundredsof thousands of such persons to date. Additionally, the list is adynamic one that is growing all the time, and every one of thesepeople, past, present, and future, should not be forgotten. Whilenot named explicitly on this page, we sympathize with these men,women, and children.

We have personally heard about manylegal calamities from clients, family, friends, and others. Theinjustices they have suffered and the injustices suffered by peoplelike them have guided us in the selection and presentation ofmaterial. We dedicate this book to all theforegoing individuals. Their tragedies have helped shape it andconsequently may conceivably help othersavoid becoming future victims of our countrys defective legalsystem .

Acknowledg ments

We extend our sincerest thanks and best wishes tothe following individuals and businesses whose contributions wereinvaluable to the success of this project. It was a massiveundertaking that required well over 3,000 hours of research,writing, and management. Certainly, it would not have been possiblewithout their contributions.

Randy Schneider , editor, for his hawk-eye attention to detail, his valuableinput during the entire final phase of this project, and hisultra-dry sense of humor along the way

Michael Mitroff of Casino Magic, SanDiego, CA, for providing the blackjack table layout for the coverdesign, www.casinomagicparties.com

Zachary Barron, San Diego, CA, for photography of cover art and SaraNaheedy, www.zacharybarron.com

Robert Taliver, New York, NY, for photography of TomScott

Florence Chase, Tom Scotts high school Englishteacher, who strengthened his grasp of the English language andhoned his writing skill

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Closing Quote

Foreword

While I amhonored to have been asked to write the foreword to Stack the Legal Odds in Your Favor, I regret that this book is necessary. In a societygoverned by the principles of individual liberty andself-responsibility, it is easy to avoid becoming a defendant incriminal or civil litigation. All you need to do is keep your word,not take other peoples property, and not initiate acts of physicalviolence. If you do harm another person, either intentionally oraccidentally, you can still avoid litigation by acceptingresponsibility and fairly compensating the injuredparty.

In such a society, there would be no need for a bookto teach those who have not committed an act of violence or fraudagainst their fellow citizens how to survive an encounter with themodern (in)justice system. Sadly, modern American society isneither free nor just. As a result, we live in a land whereindividuals are dragged into court, subjected to onerous fines, andeven imprisoned for inadvertent or trivial violations of obscurelaws and/or regulations. Individuals can also lose theirlivelihoods, property, and liberties via civil litigation thanksto the unholy alliance of unscrupulous lawyers and greedyplaintiffs who benefit from and contribute to our corrupt legalsystem.

Our legal systems transformation into a tool ofoppression and redistribution shares the same origin as theAmerican governments transformation into an imperialwelfare-warfare-regulatory state: the widespread embrace of theideologies of authoritarianism and entitlement. Calling the modernAmerican government authoritarian may strike some as unduly harsh.But how else would you describe a society wherein governmentregulations control, to some degree or another, the means by whichyou get to work, your working conditionsincluding the individualswho can be hired and fired and the minimum pay they must receive,the food you can eat, or even the ways you raise and educate yourchildren? Today, citizens of the so-called freest nation in theworld are not even free of government regulation when they use therestroom.