Judge Jerri Bryant
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025 — A McMinn county judge charged with handling my lawsuit to overthrow a rogue program by two Gov. Bill Lee commissioners says all she can do is wait for the Tennessee supreme court to give a green light.
Chancery court judge Jerri S. Bryant on Jan. 3 enters an order stating that she has done her part in dealing with my petition against commissioners David Gerregano of department of revenue and Jeff Long of department of safety.
Mr. Long administers the Tennessee financial responsibility law of 1977, and Mr. Gerregano supervises monitoring of people required to show proof of financial responsibility.
These two pages are the order by chancery court judge Jerri Bryant in McMinn County, in whose court is lodged my case seeking a hearing before the Tennessee special three-judge anti-corruption panel.
David Gerregano, commissioner of revenue, talks to employees of the department. I am suing to overturn the “Eye of Sauron” fraud that tries to bar poor people — more than 1 million of them — from using the roads, netting 40,800 criminal convictions every year, on average. (Photo DOR)
Jeff Long is the Tennessee commissioner of safety, and is under administrative notice about extra-legal activities of his armed troopers. (Photo department of safety)
Chancellor Bryant indicates her court forwarded the complaint to the justices. It also forwarded Hamilton County presiding judge Boyd Patterson’s attack upon the complaint, an order denying it because it lacked constitutional material.
Judge Patterson in a single spaced 2 page order says that this reporter’s 93-page analysis of the racket run largely out of revenue is too long on pages, and too short on evidence or argument that the program violates the Tennessee constitution.
The silence of Gov. Lee’s two commissioners and the attorney general’s office run by Jonathan Skrmetti is deafening. “This court has no response filed by other respondent in this case,” Judge Bryant says. Judge Bryant’s order falls 63 days after the complaint was filed initially, or 76 days ago. Both commissioners were properly served summonses and the complaint.
Judge Patterson did not forward the complaint to Nashville, leaving the court served by the assigned judge to do so. Neither Hamilton County chancellor — Jeff Atherton nor Pamela Fleenor — would accept the petition.
“This matter is stayed pending a final determination by the Supreme Court and this court can make no further ruling until such final determination is made,” Judge Bryant says.
Patterson slams petition
In his Nov. 20, 2024, denial order, Judge Patterson slams the work of this reporter.
Boyd Patterson, criminal court judge, Hamilton County
Looking wholly at the potential merits of Plaintiff’s request, the allegation that most resembles a constitutional challenge is that Safety and Revenue’s unlawful application of the relevant statutes unfairly discriminates against poor citizens. Yet, that sliver of a potential meritorious claim lies buried within a 93-page complaint, supported by another 72 pages of exhibits, which overwhelmingly decry less of a constitutibnal violation and more of a statutory misapplication.
Perhaps this court oversteps its role in searching the pleadings for any potentially meritorious claim that simply might not have been articulated with sufficient legal precision. Yet, even after that search, the only claim that potentially merits convening a three-judge panel seems more of an afterthought. Plaintiff’s sincerity and commitment to combat government overreach remain well-known in this jurisdiction, Even so, the court finds that the Plaintiff’s claims as presented fit better within the framework of a statutory-interpretation matter and not a constitutional challenge.
The Tulis response to this order is denied consideration by the supreme court justices, not having been forwarded to its five members.
This complaint includes an abstract and summary explaining exactly how the fraud operates in Nashville against the people of Tennessee.
