Meet the Inquisitors
Friday, February 26th, 2010
In the last post I stated that I did not know who authored the Board of Law Examiner’s final order denying me certification as to good moral character and/or fitness (the order is unclear as to which one). It is true that the order was unsigned. Hand dated by someone, signed by none. Three names do appear on the document, but evidently none of those three deemed it worthy of their John Hancock. (The henchmen of the Inquisition do prefer black hoods, see picture.)
Of those three hooded henchmen, one did get the report notarized as coming from the Board. Now the notarization does not state that the report is believed to be true, and in fact the report contains many, many errors — so many as to cause one to think that they were put in on purpose. (It makes the record much messier when factual errors plague a report, making the burden even heavier on the one appealing the report – as any experienced appellate advocate would realize.)
The Vice President of the Board, Jon B. Laramore, signed the “fig leaf” attempting to cover the nakedness of an unsigned report. His was the middle unsigned line on the report. The third unsigned line was for Board President and Walmart attorney Leslie C. Shively. Attorney Shively was both the Board President and Hearing Panel Chair — yet did not see the need to sign the final report. Must be how its done in Bentonville?
The first line, customarily the line reserved for the author of any report, was also unsigned. That line was reserved for Charlotte Westerhaus, who offices just around the corner from the IBLE offices. She is a Vice President for the National Collegiate Athletics Association. (Stay tuned for more on that.)
Thus no one signed that the report was true and not filed for any untoward purposes. Interesting, no? Read on more more … (more…)











