Pro se federal litigation · 2019–2026

Every contradiction.
On the record.

On May 19, 2026, the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the dismissal of a pro se civil-rights complaint on the ground that "absolute immunity applies," and on the same page directed the litigant to "seek review by the United States Supreme Court" (No. 2025-P-0855). The federal questions the state courts declined to reach — due process, equal protection, and the First Amendment right to petition the government — are, by the state court’s own instruction, left for the Supreme Court to review.

The panel reached that result on a record that, as the filed affidavits set out, the Family Court had already emptied: a 437-item request for admissions truncated, across six 2025 e-filing dates, from 77-to-81-page envelopes to two docket pages. The one set of evidence the panel did not have — three certified hearing transcripts — the Family Court, per the same affidavits, first denied, then delayed past its decision. On May 21, 2026, those transcripts entered the record as part of a four-volume, 389-page exhibit set stamped as received by the Appeals Court; the filings assert that those transcripts corroborate the erasures — motions to correct the record are pending before the Family Court and the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and a June 12, 2026 status affidavit reports the stamped submission — and the Family Court’s same-day reversals of its own e-filing rules against the same papers — to the First Circuit. The forthcoming sixth petition for certiorari will put that record before the Court.