Magistrate Barbara Holmes recommends stalling the case Tulis v. Gerregano, targeting a mass fraud that has created 68,000 illegal criminal convictions in Tennessee since my project to end “Eye of Sauron” began July 2023. Judge Waverly Crenshaw gets my response in Monday’s mail. (Photos Nashville Bar Association, Wikimeia Commons)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Saturday, Aril 19, 2025 — A federal magistrate, Barbara Holmes, urges a federal judge to stay prosecution of my prosecution of the commissioner of revenue, David Gerregano, and the department of revenue on grounds of federal respect for state legal proceedings.

On Monday, the clerk at the federal court at 719 Church St. in Nashville will get by U.S. mail my 20-page response to this 12-page opinion regarding the so-called “Younger doctrine” of abstention.

I argue that proceedings in my 20-month-old state administrative case are not legitimate, are without statutory basis, that I am denied a hearing and the prospect of relief in these proceedings, that the state has no interest in fraud and oppression and that the federal case to blinker “The Eye of  Sauron” rightly must continue.

Mr. Gerregano runs EIVS, the electronic insurance verification system as part of a private operation and a criminal enterprise. The federal government should intervene and allow the case. 

In a nutshell —————–

➤ Federal intervention proper because state system rogue

➤ TN admin. hearings are void, apart from law

➤ Don’t defer to criminal enterprise under color of law

The presiding judge is Waverly Crenshaw, a man whose life experiences as a black have been subsumed by his enrobement in office, and no natural sympathy for the poor oppressed black or other is likely to have any influence on his discretion in this case.

My main argument is that my 20 months of administrative litigation in agency account for nothing, are not authentic, not appealable, void as a matter of law, and thus constitute no proceeding in a state that the federal court must respect under Younger.

I am suing in a “contested case” to get the tag back on my 2000 Honda Odyssey minivan, worth F$400 and with 300,000 miles under it and many more tens of thousands of miles ahead in personal service to the Tulis family of Soddy-Daisy.

I also argue that even if the case vs. revenue and the commissioner in official capacity are stayed, I am suing him personally. He personally is in no proceeding regarding EIVS, and so I can continue to demand relief as against him. This relief is that he cease his arbitrary and capricious program and return once again to his office and operation of law.

HOLMES: “[T]he state of Tennessee unquestionably has an important state interest in matters relating to the operation of motor vehicles and the well-being of [motorists] on its roadways and in enforcing the statutes and policies it has enacted to this effect. Plaintiff raises no argument to the contrary.” (PageID# 501)

Note the quote from magistrate Holmes, and my response, on the question of “state interest.” Younger says the feds can’t intervene upon a “state interest.” 

TULIS: The Sixth Circuit has found important state interests in multiple contexts: from maintaining and assuring the professional conduct of attorneys, governing state and local housing codes, and zoning laws, divorce laws, governing the health and safety of its workers, and eliminating sexual assault on college campuses. “The strong weight of authority requires the Court to find that the state has an important interest in regulating its escrow statute.” Id. Xcaliber at 754. 

Tennessee has an important interest in “regulating its [financial responsibility] statute.” But the state refuses to regulate solely parties subject to the statute, and instead runs a program of extortion serving insurance carriers. It allows its revenue commissioner to rewrite the TFRL, and in so doing create 28 abrogations and contradictions, as detailed in plaintiff’s brief in support of injunction. The EIVS program is an independent venture of the executive branch, a separate operation with only colorable connection to title 55, chapter 12.

The law charges state government with maintaining the roads and using police powers to monitor the person who’s been adjudicated irresponsible and high risk under TFRL. To falsely accuse 40,800 people a year, with many arrests, many towings of vehicles if there is a local agreement, T.C.A. § 55-12-139(C)(4), makes the streets unsafe for the public. It converts state troopers, sheriff’s deputies and municipal police into predators and bandits, enforcing § 55-12-139 illegally, contrary to the public health, safety and welfare tens of thousands of people.

An individual subject to the law fails to satisfy a court judgment or is convicted criminally for a motor vehicle offense. Safety revokes his license. Under T.C.A. § 55-12-114, the commissioner gives notice to the commissioner of revenue who “shall suspend or revoke those registrations immediately; provided, that the registrations in the person’s name must not be suspended or revoked, unless otherwise required by law, if the person provides and maintains proof of financial responsibility [“POFR”] for the length of the license’s revocation or suspension.” 

The state interest is in the “ankle monitor” of each SR-22 insured, not each motor vehicle registrant. The law’s interests and the state’s interests should correspond. But since plaintiff’s administrative notice about the law in July 2023 and defendant Gerregano’s abrogation of the law, the department has refused to change course and come into compliance. 

Here is a way to read the whole analysis, for God’s glory and man’s benefit.

SERVICE COPY Guano Memorandum of law supporting objection to magistrate’s recommendation

Princely warfare against principalities & powers

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