With the hearing on 404th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez's complaint in federal court and her petition for an injunction and Temporary Restraining Order against the Brownsville Independent School District to stop its administration and staff from allegedly violating her children's constitutional rights scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, some of our readers have noticed several irregularities in the document.
To begin with, they say that she named herself as her own attorney, only to be "terminated" Dec. 28 as lead attorney by Judge Andrew Hanen for not being licensed to practice in federal court.Undeterred, Cornejo-Lopez has asked that the court allow her "for this time only" to act as an attorney in the case.
Then, after the docket sheet for the case listed $1 billion in the demand portion, she said her lawsuit had not listed a damage amount, and said federal court clerks had inserted the number to err on the side of caution.
She later issued a letter listing how she and her daughter "Lucy" would spend the money from the lawsuit, promnpting some courthouse wags to to call her "Elia Claus" and circulate a graphic of her pictured as the merry elf distributing the lawsuit cash.But that's not all. They say that a review of the case file indicates that the telephone contact number she listed on her complaint – (956) 544-0856 – (click on complaint graphic top right to enlarge), is actually the phone number for County Court-at-Law #2 of Judge Laura Betancourt.
A review of the Cameron County website indicates that to be true. And a call to the number elicited a response from Betancourt's secretary who said we were calling County Court-at-Law #2.
County Court at Law No. 2
Laura L. Betancourt
974 E. Harrison St.-Judicial Building
Brownsville Texas, 78520
Ph. (956) 544-0856
A simple oversight, perhaps? Cornejo-Lopez's 404th court phone number is (956) 544-0837, quite different from CC-at-Law #2. While it is true that the now-district judge announced for that court in 1997 and then served there from 1999 through 2006, that was almost 20 years ago.
How could that have eluded whoever put that phone number as her contact phone? Or is there another motive behind the move?
The fact that it is Betancourt's number is also suspect. In fact, courthouse sources tell us that Cornejo-Lopez had tried to recruit candidates to run against her after Betancourt opposed her petition to the board of the BISD to change the way they credit AP Spanish credit so that middle school students who took the exam – as did her daughter – also be granted GPA points like students in high school who take the same exam.
This, they say, irked Cronejo-Lopez to no end, and eventually she convinced Betancourt's opponent in the Democratic Party primary in March – San Benito attorney Carol Lynn Sanchez – to enter the race for the county court-at-law position held by Betancourt. It was later revealed that Sanchez's brother still has an indecency with a child case in Cornejo-Olpez's court. Will she have to recuse herself from that case now?
So how did Betancout's court telephone number end up being listed as Cornejo-Lopez's contact phone on her federal complaint?
2 comments:
Dont ask me if her number is on the complaint..
Ask me if I care.
(HINT: ME VALE....)
Elia Cornhole Lopez is manages by intimidation....a characteristic of someone who is insecure and her no leadership skills. She intimidates the attorneys in her courtroom, she intimidates witnesses in her courtroom and she seeks to intimidate BISD by using a law suit to gain special attention and special treatment for her kiddies. She uses the power of her position to salve the fact that she is insecure.
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