Part 18 — The Limbo

In Part 17, I showed the point where the court became part of the story.

Judge Welch denied my Trial Rule 53.1 request herself.

The published procedure said the Chief Administrative Officer was supposed to decide whether withdrawal was warranted.

I asked Judge Welch to correct it.

She denied correction too.

Then a higher-court document appeared with an earlier date and later electronic activity.

That left me in a position that is difficult to explain unless you have lived inside it.

I call it the limbo.

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The Same Pattern Again

This was not the first time I was stuck between two doors that were both locked.

Earlier in the case, I had asked for the Compensation Agreement.

Valeo’s own Employment Agreement said my compensation was governed by a separate Compensation Agreement.

Valeo’s own Employment Agreement said the complete agreement included the Compensation Agreement.

So I asked for it.

I denied that a valid Compensation Agreement had been produced.

I raised it in filings.

I asked to inspect the original instrument.

But the case kept moving anyway.

That was the first version of the trap.

The document mattered.

The document was not produced.

The case moved forward anyway.

Then the same kind of thing happened with Trial Rule 53.1.

Part 17 — When the Court Became Part of the Story

In the last status update, I explained why this is no longer just an old lawsuit.

The same judgment I have been writing about is now being enforced against my family’s daily life.

My daughter’s vehicle.

My wife’s property interests.

My tools.

My ability to work.

So now I need to move faster through the record.

Not recklessly.

But faster.

Because at a certain point, this stopped being only a story about Valeo.

It stopped being only a story about Valeo’s lawyers.

It became a story about what the court allowed.

This is that point.

Status Update — Now It Reaches My Daughter’s Car

I need to pause the numbered series for a current update.

This is not just history anymore.

The same judgment I have been writing about is now being enforced against my family’s daily life.

And once again, one of my children is being pulled into a lawsuit that was never against them.

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First Ethan. Now Emily.

Earlier, I wrote about my son Ethan’s bank account.

That account included money he earned from his summer job at UPS and money intended for college.

It was frozen anyway.

Now the court has entered an order and writ that lists my daughter Emily’s Toyota 4Runner as property to be seized.

Emily is not a defendant.

She is not part of this lawsuit.

She uses the 4Runner in Colorado to get to and from work.

She has made the payments.

I am connected to the title because she needed a co-signer to qualify for financing.

There is still a sizeable loan on it. I’m unsure of the balance because I do not have a login or make payments. Emily does.

It is not sitting in my driveway.

It is not hidden.

It is my daughter’s transportation.

And it is now listed in a sheriff’s writ.

Part 16: The Boxes

In Part 15, I showed the metadata from the 2010 Employment Agreement and the 2010 Compensation Agreement.

Both PDFs were generated from the same Word document.

Both were created on April 28, 2017.

Valeo filed its Motion for Summary Judgment three days later.

That made the missing Compensation Agreement problem worse, not better.

Because Valeo was not simply missing a piece of paper.

Valeo was asking the court to enforce a written agreement while the document defining my compensation had not been produced in signed form.

That raised the obvious question:

How did the case keep moving?

The answer is that the case was put into boxes.

Part 15: The Same Word Document

In Part 14, I explained why metadata matters.

A PDF is not just a picture of a document.

Sometimes it is a scan.

Sometimes it is a court-stamped filing.

Sometimes it is exported from Word.

Sometimes it carries the name of the Word document it came from.

And sometimes that matters more than the words on the page.

This is one of those times.