After reading up on this case a lot more, I'm convinced the Ben Perkins on the sheet is the Lawyer from Inglewood. Here is one of his cases from 1986:
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/187/1494.html
I thought the number of delay tactics used in that case was interesting and it reminded me of how much FLEK fought her 1997 bankruptcy case. I wonder if she got a lawyer in Dallas recommended by Perkins? I don't know much about bankruptcy cases though and how common it is to appeal and fight the rulings multiple times as FLEK did.
ETA: I posted this in the main thread:
Reading through that case above and how many delay tactics the clients attempted I'm reminded of FLEK's own bankruptcy case in 1997. Here's an except:
"This court has made clear in the past that it will not condone the actions of litigants to misuse this court's process solely for the purpose of delay. (See Hersch v. Citizens Savings & Loan Assn. (1983)
146 Cal. App. 3d 1002 [
194 Cal. Rptr. 628].) The Blacks' efforts to manipulate and abuse the processes of this and other courts are manifest in this case.
The Blacks engaged in a series of procedural maneuvers, in both the Los Angeles Superior Court and the federal court,
designed to stay the effect of a judgment to which they had stipulated. By the time the matter reached this court,
the superior court had twice rejected the Blacks' claims that Coast had breached the agreement of sale. One of these rulings was made after the Blacks' then-attorney, Mr. Perkins, admitted that he had advised the Blacks to sign the escrow instructions as prepared by Coast. Further,
the Blacks had made four different requests for a stay of execution of the judgment, and had been turned down by the superior court each time. After their last request was denied, they filed a petition for extraordinary relief which misstated the facts of the case in a manner designed to evoke the sympathies of this court and delay the inevitable even further by procuring a temporary stay. Once the petition was denied and Coast was finally successful in evicting the Blacks from the property, the Blacks apparently abandoned their appeal of the stipulated judgment, having failed to perfect the appeal in the manner set forth in the California Rules of Court.
All of these facts demonstrate that the Blacks' petition for writ of supersedeas was simply another one of their continuing efforts to delay the proceedings and prevent Coast from obtaining possession of the subject property."
BBM. IIRC, FLEK also fought and delayed the case as much as possible. I don't know anything about bankruptcy. Does anyone know if these types of procedures are common? I also wonder if there is any connection between the attorney FLEK used in 1997 and Ben Perkins, Jr.
