Modrall Sperling, and the APS

It is often suggested, and I am often asked, about suing the leadership of the APS over their many illegal arrests and the other harassment, retaliation and retribution I suffer at their hands.

On a philosophical level, I am opposed to the idea that one should have to sue their government for justice. Government should be guaranteeing justice, not denying it. And once you find yourself suing your government, the cause is already lost. Also, one mustn't forget that when you sue the government, your opponent has the wealth and power of an entire nation at its disposal in litigating the demise of the cause and the complainant.

On a practical level; when you sue APS you do battle with lawyers from Modrall Sperling, link.

In my experience, their lawyers are the kind of men and women who give lawyers a bad name; unprincipled, mean, and despicable people.

If William Shakespeare were still alive, he would write, link;

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers;
let's start with those from the Modrall.

The joke should read;

Why are Modrall lawyers better than rats for laboratory experiments?

Because there are things rats just won't do.

Do you know a lawyer? Ask him or her to describe litigation with Modrall. It will not be complimentary.

APS should not even be doing business with this kind of people. Yet until very recently, Modrall and the APS School Board were related by marriage; the President of Modrall and the President of the School Board.

Many lawyers will not litigate against them. APS has hired
the best law firms all over town, the effect of which is that,
according to conflict of interest ethics, they can not then
represent anyone trying to hold an APS administrator or
Board Member accountable for their conduct or competence.

Modrall's budget for litigation is unlimited. They enjoy a large bore pipeline directly to unwitting taxpayer support for the "education" of their children.

Those same taxpayers are paying recently raised premiums for APS' insurance from United Educators based on APS' extraordinarily high expenses for litigation; well in excess of comparable school districts.

Modrall makes so much money off taxpayers via the leadership of the APS, if you ask how much, they won't answer.

Once, in Judge Valarie Huling's Court, I was pointing to evidence that Modrall lawyers were deliberately deceiving her. She said;

"It's not my job to determine who is telling the truth",

or words to that effect.

Their influence is everywhere.

They even have one of their lawyers on the Executive Committee of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, while other Modrall lawyers are billing to litigate exception to the NM IPRA and NM OMA for APS administrators and board members.

All this, to avoid telling stakeholders the truth about

• the corruption in the Police Department,
• the need for a district wide standard and accountability audit,
• their abdication as role models, and
• their denial of due process to more than 200 whistleblower complaints.

In short, I have no faith in the Justice System when Modrall lawyers are around.

There has to be another way.


PS; it has been suggested that the use of the oft quoted line
from Shakespeare could be conceived as a threat; it is not.
I have never threatened any of these folks, not even their
Modrall lawyers. Nor do I condone, nor would I support
using Modrall lawyers in laboratory experiments (except
with their fully informed consent).