Alabama Family Rights Association Spreading Family Law Reform Message

Posted: Aug 18, 2015 8:47 AM EDT   ---   Updated: Aug 18, 2015 9:34 AM EDT

The Alabama Family Rights Association continues efforts to spread its message on family law reform.  ALFRA will discuss a number of topics related to this Tuesday, August 18, in West Tuscumbia.

ALFRA representatives will talk about how they want to see the Alabama child custody law changed "to guarantee that no child is put at risk.. All children have a fundamental right to each fit parent regardless of the parents' marital status."  They hope to pursue these changes in the 2016 legislative session. 

The ALFRA presentation is from 6-7 PM in the conference room at the Coldwater Inn, located at 712 Highway 72 in West Tuscumbia.  By Ebony Hall

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Judge Manno Schurr Brings Nursing Background to Courtroom

Judge Valerie R. Manno Schurr, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Valerie Manno Schurr had been a nurse for a dozen years when she passed the Florida Bar exam. She kept working in the operating room.

"One day we had a new surgeon come in, and they said, 'You know there's a lawyer in the room. You better be careful,' " she said. After the operation, "the head nurse came to me and said, 'You know you made that guy very nervous. He didn't like that there was a lawyer in the room.' "

The Miami Beach native pursued nursing right after graduating from North Miami High School, urged on by her sister, who was already a nurse.

"I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, and she said, 'Why don't you go to nursing school? It's a great job. You're going to love it.' " Manno Schurr recalled. "And I did. I really did. Nursing is a wonderful, wonderful profession."

She started in oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital.

It was emotionally trying. Her mother died of breast cancer at 37 when Manno Schurr was 5. Caring for cancer patients took its toll.

"You're just trying to prolong their lives," she said. "I wanted to take care of a patient, get them better and never see them again. These people kept coming back and coming back. They come in. They get diagnosed. You give them chemo, and they would get worse and worse and worse."

Even though some were cured, she said the work was still painful for her. After two years, she got reassigned to the intensive care unit, then the recovery room. "Then I got cross-trained to work in the operating room," Manno Schurr said.

"I did paperwork. I'd get the patient from the holding area, check the band—'Are you so and so? Are you having this surgery?' You have to make sure that everybody knew what we were doing," she said.

She served as the operating room's official historian and monitor, recording every event and keeping track of every instrument and piece of equipment used.

"I would do: Time patient in the room. Time patient on the table. Anesthesia started at this time. The time of the first incision," she said. "And then when they would start to close, I had to count everything."

The operation couldn't end until every item was accounted for, down to every single sponge—even if it meant, as she once did, getting down on her hands and knees and searching under the operating table to find it.

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In 1989, she said, "I started getting restless. I just wanted to do something else. I knew a bunch of people that were at UM law school. … Actually, we went to the law school, and I sat in the back of the room. They didn't say anything. They let me do it. And I said, 'I think this is very cool. I think I want to do this.'

"The next thing I know," she said, "I'm a law student."

Manno Schurr kept working as a nurse and as a clerk at a law firm steps from the Flagler Street courthouse.

"I went to night school, and I had a job Saturday and Sunday that I worked from 7A to 7P" in the ICU units at local hospitals, she said. "I went to school at night."

After Manno Schurr graduated, she said, "It took me a couple of years to get a job." When she did, her years of experience in hospitals paid off.

"I got a lot of work doing medical malpractice," she said. "That's what people wanted me to do."

In 1996, she left to form a general civil litigation practice with her husband. In 2004, she ran for county court and lost. She ran again for circuit court in 2006 and won.

"I loved being a nurse," she said. "I loved being a lawyer. Now I'm here, and I love it. I'm very happy."

Still, she kept her nursing license active until just a couple of years ago, and she keeps her nursing honor society pin in her chambers. And she said her years of nursing still pay off in the courtroom, in more ways than one.

"I've been in every division. I started off in dependency; I went to criminal and civil. When I was over there in civil and I was trying a medmal case and the doctor was testifying on the stand, it was great because I knew everything that was going on," she said.

Now in the family division, Manno Schurr said: "Everybody who's on the bench, all of us, we bring to this job all of our experiences in life, and it makes you a better judge. I think that being a nurse gives me a lot of compassion, especially in this division. It gives me a lot of compassion for people."

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Judge Manno-Schurr:  "the father (me) is turning red in the face, yelling at me, and pointing his finger at me"
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Little to no oversight is brought to bear for Americans...

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• On February 16, 2016, the first annual report was released on Opt IN USA, a grassroots U.S. foreign policy reform, judicial accountability, and international human rights campaign. The report title is “AMERICANS IN JEOPARDY: When Human Rights Protection Becomes America’s Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch Shell Game”.
• Corporate sponsor of the report is National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. (NJCDLP), a nonprofit U.S. public policy think tank and legal reform advocate headquartered just outside Chicago in Crown Point, Indiana.
• While all NJCDLP board members are cutting-edge pioneers in detecting and addressing patterns of U.S. legal system abuse, the organization's Executive Board member Mr. Rodney A. Logal, his wife, attorney Zena Crenshaw-Logal*, and their fellow NJCDLP co-founder, Dr. Andrew D. Jackson, are the organization's driving force.  They are NJCDLP’s full-time volunteers as well as the non-profit’s primary financial benefactors. 
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• In late September 2015, the Logals and Dr. Jackson asked the Indiana House Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana to investigate several area judges whose activities may be part of what has been dubbed “The Third Degree” (TTD).  
• As the 2016 Opt IN USA report makes clear, TTD is a persistent pattern of persecution and psychological torture imposed through U.S. legal system abuse.  
• U.S. District Attorney Capp has shown no interest in the phenomenon despite its obvious peril for Mr. and Mrs. Logal as well as Dr. Jackson, not to mention the prospect of multiple related murders, including the suspicious death of a lawyer who attested to the bribery of a now retired Indiana state court judge.
• Uncanny it is that little to no oversight is brought to bear for Americans claiming to endure TTD.
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Judicial supremacy and the infamous Dred Scott decision.

—  The most carefully concealed skeleton in Judges' closets.

Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia in 1795. Little is known of his early years. In 1820, he was taken by his owner, Peter Blow, to Missouri, where he was later purchased by U.S. Army Surgeon Dr. John Emerson. After purchasing Scott, Emerson took him to Fort Armstrong, which was located in Illinois. Illinois, a free state, had been free as a territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and had prohibited slavery in its constitution in 1819 when it was admitted as a state.

In 1836, Emerson moved with Scott from Illinois to Fort Snelling, which was located in the Wisconsin territory (in what would become the state of Minnesota). Slavery in the Wisconsin Territory (some of which, including the location of Fort Snelling, was a part of the Louisiana Purchase) was prohibited by the United States Congress under the Missouri Compromise. During his stay at Fort Snelling, Scott married Harriet Robinson, a slave who had been acquired by Emerson at the fort.

In 1837, the Army ordered Emerson to Jefferson Barracks Military Post, south of St. Louis, Missouri. Emerson left Scott and his wife at Fort Snelling, where he leased their services out for profit. By hiring Scott out in a free state, Emerson was effectively bringing the institution of slavery into a free state, which was a direct violation of the Missouri Compromise, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Wisconsin Enabling Act.

Before the end of the year, the Army reassigned Emerson to Fort Jesup in Louisiana. There Emerson married Eliza Irene Sanford in February 1838. Emerson sent for Scott and Harriet, who proceeded to Louisiana to serve their master and his wife. While en route to Louisiana, Scott's daughter Eliza was born on a steamboat underway along the Mississippi River between Iowa and Illinois. Because Eliza was born in free territory, she was technically born as a free person under both federal and state laws. Upon entering Louisiana, the Scotts could have sued for their freedom, but did not. Finkelman suggests that in all likelihood, the Scotts would have been granted their freedom by a Louisiana court, as it had respected laws of free states that slaveholders forfeited their right to slaves if they brought them in for extended periods in a free state. This was Louisiana state precedent for more than 20 years.

Toward the end of 1838, the Army reassigned Emerson to Fort Snelling. By 1840, Emerson's wife Eliza returned to St. Louis with their slaves Scott and Harriet, while Emerson served in the Seminole War. While in St. Louis, she hired them out. In 1842, Emerson left the Army. After he died in the Iowa Territory in 1843, his widow Eliza inherited his estate, including the Scotts. For three years after Emerson's death, she continued to lease out the Scotts as hired slaves. In 1846, Scott attempted to purchase his and his family's freedom, but Eliza Irene Emerson refused, prompting Scott to resort to legal recourse.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom. In a 7–2 decision written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the Court denied Scott's request. For only the second time in its history the Supreme Court ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional.

Although Taney hoped that his ruling would settle the slavery question once and for all, the decision immediately spurred vehement dissent from anti-slavery elements in the North, especially Republicans. Most scholars today (as did many contemporary lawyers) consider the ruling regarding slavery in the territories to be dictum, not binding precedent. The decision would prove to be an indirect catalyst for the American Civil War. It was functionally superseded by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave blacks full citizenship. As of 2007 it is widely regarded by scholars as the worst decision made by the United States Supreme Court.

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