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Jerry O'Neil is a state legislator in Montana.
In his own words - “A couple of items that might be of interest to you include why I chose to challenge the established legal system and what I have accomplished after more than 30 years of battle.
Between 1975 and 1979 the attorneys I retained to represent my children and myself against a cult did nothing for over 2 1/2 years. During this time members of the cult, in violation of a known court order, traveled from Idaho to Montana with the intent to indoctrinate my children in their dogma. While this allowed a longer length of strain and emotional damages to us, the Idaho Supreme Court in O'Neil v Vasseur, protected the monopoly and threw out my case against the attorneys.
Not being able to retain another law-firm to pursue the case against the cult it was necessary for me to litigate it by myself without an attorney. After a 6 day jury trial my children and I received a million dollar jury verdict. The defendants moved for a judgment not withstanding the jury verdict which the judge sat on for over a year before granting.
I appealed the judgment notwithstanding the verdict and the Idaho Supreme Court initially denied my appeal on July 23, 1986. I moved for reconsideration. The attorney who handled my Idaho divorce and helped me get custody of my 5 children informed me he had received word the Idaho Supreme Court wanted to reconsider their opinion but was unwilling to award a $1,000,000.00 verdict to someone who represented their self without an attorney (pro se). Therefore I was forced to have an attorney sign on to the appeal and then the court reinstated my cause of action for invasion of privacy.
When the reinstated cause was sent back to the district court I timely recused the judge who had taken so long to wrongly decide the case. After losing the judge who was predisposed to their arguments the defendants requested he put himself back on the case to hear their motion to dismiss the case. After he put himself back on the case and dismissed it, the Idaho Supreme Court overturned the dismissal. The justice, whom I believe passed down the word to me that I would have to engage a licensed attorney to prevail on the case, stated in his concurring opinion,
"Moreover, the particular district judge who granted the motion and vacated the judgment directed by this Court, had been timely disqualified from acting further in this case."”
Site: Jerry O'Neil
Michael Olson cultivated his first crop at the age of six with what he imagined, at the time, was the world’s biggest tractor. He has since participated in the commercial production of beans, beets, blueberries, cattle, garlic, hay, oats, shallots, strawberries, turf grass, wheat and wine grapes in the states of California, Montana and Oregon. Olson also consults on farm projects throughout the world, with projects ranging from the City of Watts to the island nation of Cyprus, to the jungles of the Amazon.
Michael Olson produced, wrote and/or photographed feature-length news for a variety of media, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner newspapers, Skiing and Small Space Gardening magazines,NBC, ABC, Australian Broadcast Commission, and KQED Public Television networks. His production and photography helped win a National Emmy nomination for NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. Olson is the author of MetroFarm, the Ben Franklin Bookof the Year Finalist and Executive Producer and Host of the syndicated Saturday Food Chain radiotalk show, which received the Ag/News Show of the Year Award from the California Legislature. He recently authored Tales from a Tin Can, which is the oral-history of a World War II US Navy destroyer that earned a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly.
Olson is currently a partner in the MO MultiMedia Group of Santa Cruz, California.
Site: Metrofarm
