Gordon v. Bradshaw

1 WO 7 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 8 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Reynard Gordon, ) 10 ) Petitioner, ) 11 ) No. CIV 18-030-TUC-CKJ (JR) vs. ) 12 ) Kenneth Bradshaw, et al., ) ORDER 13 ) Respondents. ) 14 ) 15 On July 30, 2021, a July 25, 2021, document submitted by Reynard Gordon (“Gordon”) was docketed. This document appears to be correspondence directed to the Clerk of Court and states it is regarding “Letter Rogatory – ‘Abandoned Paperwork’ – Notice of Electronic Filing and ‘Order” Account No: CIV 18-030-TUC-CKJ (JR)[.]” July 25, 2021 Document (Doc. 45, p. 1).

20 Gordon is advised it is improper for a party to communicate directly with court personnel. Indeed, mailing a letter to the Clerk of Court, the judge, or any court personnel may be considered improper. Higuera v. City of Glendale, No. CV1905554PHXMTLJZB, 2020 WL 1873476, at *6 (D. Ariz. Apr. 15, 2020). “Any request for action by the Court must be in the form of a motion that complies with the Rules of Practice of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona (the Local Rules).” Id. 26 Additionally, “ a letter rogatory is ‘a formal written request sent by a court to a foreign court’ for the purpose of obtaining evidence, including depositions and documents, in a pending action.” Scalia v. Int'l Longshore & Warehouse Union, 337 F.R.D. 281, 287 (N.D. || Cal. 2020). There is no information in the document indicating this document is a letter || rogatory issued by a court. Moreover, the document appears to request the Clerk of Court: 3 close all accounts immediatelly [sic] and forward all accounts, interest, all proceeds, “bonds”, bills of exchange, credit, all financial documents (CAFR, CUSIP, 4 AUTOTRIS, etc[.]) and attachments, interest financial return with standard commercial compound interest at the rate — 16%: past and present, that means 5 everything associated with said account.

6 || July 25, 2021 Document (Doc. 45, pp. 4-5). The July 25, 2021, Document appears to request || a check be sent to "Gordon, Reynard Estate, Executor Office, Nation Arizonal[,]" as a || "priority creditor[,]" in care of a corrections officer in Douglas, Arizona. (/d. pp. 1, 5).

9 The assertions contained within the July 25, 2021, Document appear to be variants of || “sovereign citizen” arguments which courts have “uniformly rejected” based on “the || sovereign citizen ideology as frivolous, irrational, or unintelligible.” Mackey v. Bureau of || Prisons, No. 1:15-CV-1934-LJO-BAM, 2016 WL 3254037, at *1 (E.D. Cal. June 14, 2016), || citation omitted; see alsoMassey v. United States, No. CR B:14-876-1, 2017 WL 7790110, || at *4 (S.D. Tex. Dec. 7, 2017), report and recommendation adopted, No. CR B-14-876-1, | 2018 WL 1027439 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 21, 2018) (collecting cases by six Courts of Appeals).

16 || Indeed, “[t]he Ninth Circuit has rejected arguments premised on the ideology as ‘utterly || meritless.”” Mackey, 2016 WL 3254037, at *1.

18 Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED to the extent Gordon requests any relief in the July 25, || 2021 Document (Doc. 45) it is DENIED.

20 DATED this 3rd day of August, 2021.

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23 Cindy K. Jorgénso 54 United States District Judge 28 _2-