By September 17 the situation in district court had escalated into something almost surreal. I had already filed a motion for sanctions against Yopp for his pattern of meritless filings and procedural abuse, yet instead of the court addressing the misconduct or even reviewing the filings already pending, the judge refused to rule on the written motions and forced everything into a hearing that never should have been scheduled in the first place. The order entered that day made the problem unmistakable. It acknowledged that my Motion to Strike had been filed on August 8, that Yopp never filed any opposition, and that both motions were fully briefed, yet it still claimed that “factual issues exist requiring oral argument” and compelled me into the September 25 hearing anyway . That ruling alone confirmed the judge had not reviewed the record or my ADA accommodation requests, and it became clear that the only way to protect myself from further prejudice was to file a motion for reconsideration.
I filed that motion immediately, explaining that there were no factual disputes, that the counterclaim was untimely, that Yopp’s motion rested on a dismissed motion to dismiss, and that the insistence on a hearing violated my ADA accommodations and was being used as a tool to harass me. I also alerted the court that forcing unnecessary hearings was part of the pattern that had already driven me to federal litigation. My motion laid out every one of those facts in detail .
What happened next showed exactly why I had to document everything as it happened. Yopp became rattled that I filed the motion for reconsideration and immediately tried to inject himself again by telling the Trial Court Administrator he was going to file a response, despite knowing he had no right to do so unless the judge ordered it. The email chain shows him openly pushing for permission, the TCA responding in a way that implied informal approval, and then Yopp treating that implication as an invitation to file. His response was filed the same afternoon, despite the Rules of Civil Procedure and despite my explicit warnings on the record that he was overstepping and multiplying the proceedings. His filing was improper on its face, which is why I had to file a Motion to Strike the very next morning. That entire sequence is captured in the email thread and the improper response itself , and it is exactly what I meant when I said the process became absurd.
The amount of work this forced onto me was staggering. I had to track every violation, preserve every issue, document every irregularity, and file notice after notice simply to stop the court and opposing counsel from bypassing the rules. I was dealing with a judge who refused to rule on unopposed motions, a court that scheduled a hearing in direct violation of procedure, administrators who routed filings to judges with known conflicts, and an attorney who was openly using ex parte channels to influence the handling of my case. Every step required me to correct the record, clarify the violations, and file something new just to prevent further harm. Nothing about it was normal. It was obstruction layered on retaliation layered on procedural irregularities, all while the court continued insisting on a hearing that did not legally belong on the calendar at all.
This was the turning point where the pattern of misconduct became impossible to ignore. I was no longer dealing with isolated errors but a coordinated breakdown of process, and everything I filed over those days was part of preserving the truth of what was being done to me