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Founded November 13th, 2025-
for the many victims of Gary "Ghislane" Gibson 

The racket of Mr. Gibson targets one specific demographic as religion: Dads that make less per hour than Mom. To dispose of the Dad, Gibson refuses to hold trial hearings and CANCELS TRIAL HEARINGS when the Dad is in a positive position.  Gibson next grants frivilous RO's as his primary tool to alienate Dads from their children. 

Gibson sanctions violence and intimidation of children, and any form of child abuse to make sure DAD with LESS INCOME than Mom is terminated.  Mr. Gibson's motive and intent for canceling hearing is to cause frustration for the party that is in a fair position. With a BA in psychology Mr. Gibson knows that frustration CAUSES AGGRESSION. Aggression in the family conflict resolution environment is the last thing any community wants or needs.  

GARY G.GIBSON alone, is the Shasta County Family Court judge that INTENTIONALLY heightens conflict in EACH CASE he oversees- and is INTENTIONALLY 'overseer level' influencing and baiting the public into domestic crimes.

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​The only way to keep your family intact if Dad makes less income than Mom is to file a peremptory challenge to remove the Jester Judge Gary G. Gibson from the case.  GIBSON TARGETS EVERY DAD WITH LESS INCOME WITH THE SAME RACKET.  Regardless of who this reaches- victims of Gary "Ghislane" Gibson have support here in Redding, CA. -- contact jthomasrdg@gmail.com

As administrated today, the illicit 'business-model family court' of Shasta County Superior is operated primarily and illicitly 'as a business'  to produce revenue for court associates.  This semi-standardized illicit court model is implemented by liberal administrations in lower population areas.  Possibly the most valuable government service created by the people, for vulnerable families needing honest help and intervention- when and where the illicit business court model is implemented it is used to EXPLOIT those families. 

               **Not on our watch**

ShastaCourtWatch.com

The following is a public service message from SCSC Google reviews- written originally January. 2025

Re:  CA standard custody & the illicit 'business model family court' EXPOSED in Shasta County

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(1) **BEWARE**  The DARK BISHOP role is ACTIVE at this court.   The 'Dark Bishop' role is a mandated mediator role assigned to write bias reports and case recommendations that support COMMISSIONER intentionally illicit orders.  In an illicitly operated 'business model court' the COMMISIONER unbalances financially targeted standard custody cases to keep those parties money active in the system for as long as possible.  

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(2) As a TEMPORARY OFFICIAL, a commissioner is the first official that hears standard custody cases.  In corruptly administrated family 'business model' courts like Shasta County Superior, the role of the commissioner is to play 'bad judge' to unbalance targeted cases free of liabilities as a temporary official.  The temporary official is the .gov liability buffer for baseless family court orders, and is the .gov 'Queen' in a theoretical game of chess.  Just like in chess, the .gov opponent Queen is a free-ranging attack weapon and is the most important piece to sack and remove from the opponents position.​​  The Commissioner is LEGALLY REMOVED  by either of the parties through a SINGLE WRITTEN OR VERBAL SENTENCE called a NON-STIPULATION.

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A state judge supervises all cases and plays the role of 'the King.  In classical legal theory, the mediation department is loosely termed the 'Cavern of the Dark Bishops' and the Commish Queen (not a judge) is viewed as the lead player in the role of the state bishops. Once parents remove the Commish, the state judge/King plays 'g00d judge' and generally fixes what the commissioner had unbalanced so the parties were forced to stay in the system.  However, in the business model court a state judge will further the financial exploitation and administrate selected and targeted cases from the position of  'the JESTER'.  The agenda of the 'The Jester' judge is to intentionally delay cases primarily by illicitly canceling scheduled trials to dodge rebalancing the case for years or until a parent confronts and corrects the illicit scheduling behavior.  NOTE:  ALL ATTORNEYS play along with the court and WELCOME THE YEARS OF DELAYS.  That is EACH ATTORNEY'​​S MAIN SCAM- pretending to be on their clients side, but actually an attorney only wants the court to keep the case unbalanced eternally so the attorney can collect a perpetual monthly fee.  RULE #7- NEVER HIRE A FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY.

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COMMISSIONER STROMBERG Dept. 51 is CORRUPT & ILLICIT

To file the NON-STIPULATION (CA 170.1) a the start of a commissioner hearing state "I do not stipulate to a commissioner hearing" and walla!!!... you have pulled the right string on the set of the Cavern of the dark Bishops to reveal the King behind the curtain.​

Once a commissioner hears a matter there needs to be a significant change in circumstances to re-file and non-stipulate.  FILE ANY NEW MOTION with a non-stipulation to move that motion and generally the entire case from the commissioner to the judge.  The self-attorney can FILE A MOTION for ANYTHING they legally need to happen.

General rules for the position of the self-attorney position:

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1) **ALWAYS** NON-STIPULATE to the Commissioner. Write and refile the single sentence on a declaration with each new motion

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2) File an FL-300 motion form for ANY ISSUE that needs a resolution. If a motion has not been filed, the issue cannot generally be heard by the court. ANYTHING you want to discuss or resolve needs to have a motion on file. When filed the clerk sets a date for prelim hearing. If a court date is already scheduled, the matter just filed can then be discussed at the already scheduled date. -If the judge seems to 'squash the motion' without resolution and without swearing in witnesses on the motion; refile the motion at your discretion. - File an EMERGENCY MOTION for anything perceived as an emergency - ** Be Aware** the Jester judge will ALWAYS illicitly CANCEL TRIAL HEARINGS the day of the trial hearing. An attorney knows the 'cancel' is going to happen and will ALWAYS PRETEND to be caught off-guard. Its a standard act and a legal mistrial eg.case#207551

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3.) Evidence & the M-030 dec form

Document EVERYTHING OUT OF ORDER IN THE CASE and submit as PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE by attaching all evidence to the declaration M-030 Your own M-030 forms serve as THE ONLY WRITTEN ANALOG OF THE CASE. 

i. ALWAYS quote the judge’s statements and positions and submit to the record via this declaration process.

ii.  'Dec in'  a TIMELINE OF EVENTS prior to trial hearings

iii. 'Officially', evidence must be TESTIFIED TO BY A SWORN WITNESS to be ‘official evidence’. Dec-in evidence at your discretion, present the evidence at trial.

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4.) Witnesses the self-attorney lists on their witness list and submits to the record via declaration- are barred from sitting in the courtroom in hearings due to 'their status as a potential witness'.  File and list on your witness list those pesky in-laws or a child predator or agitator on the other side and request the judicial officer have the baliffs remove them to the hallway at your discretion.

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5.) Treat ALL TEXT COMMUNICATIONS as a SCRIPT and file as evidence.

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6.) File CONTEMPT when opponent is in contempt of any orders. This starts a criminal case against the opposition. List each count of contempt individually. (eg. #177087 on this website)  Paperwork is generally required to be served by a law officer (local sheriff service) or process server.

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7.) Never hire an attorney for custody.  File your own motions and take the .gov Queen off the chessboard with commissioner non-stipulation.  If seemingly trapped- flood a circus-court jester judge with motions, challenges, and evidence.

All citizens are EQUAL KINGS in the eyes of US laws

Untold Stories

re: The Leak in Dept. 53     (May 2025)

In May 2025 the Shasta County Superior Court family law department found themselves under pressure of an experienced adversary.  Eight years previous in 2017, a local case disputant through a series of motions and precedents pressured the court presiding judicial officer into an 'in-house' resignation and 5-year self imposed exile to 'The Pedo Files Department'. 

 

Ending 2016 Mr. Gibson went on the run from civil rights violations he committed in case #1770-- which would have ended his tenure as a judicial officer had he stayed and heard standardized cases.  With a 3-year statute, Mr. Gibson put himself out of sight and out of mind of the vengeful '2nd term' and legally armed for a disrobing self-attorney dad.

Through that time period, Republican Judge Molly Bigelow presided over the are standard FL cases which she handled swiftly and efficiently for minimal disruptions to peoples lives.

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Currently the liberal minded, liberal operating, and absolute criminal sociopath and raging liberal Gary G. Gibson is back operating in his preferred role.  And since 2022 the court agenda has once again been operating under the liberal position of a 'business model' court.

Regarding the very public 'leak in dept. 53' and a more than full week shutdown of the entire Shasta County Courthouse- that May Mr. Gibson was working his standard MO to extend a case indefinitely that he himself had scheduled for trial.  Having previously illicitly cancelled the trial hearing the day of the trial, the old adversary case disputant had Mr. Gibson cornered on a Friday to set an immediate trial hearing date.  Mr. Gibson offered to re-set the hearing for "Monday or Tuesday" of the very next week and business day.  However, by his giddy Friday demeanor and the dozens of tells in his posture and mannerisms, it was crystal clear that Mr. Gibson had no intent whatsoever to proceed or hold the trial he scheduled for the upcoming Tuesday.  

Having 8-years previously forced the 'departmental shuffle' the disputant turned long-time adversarial court activist was exceptionally prepared to counter the corrupt practices of Mr. Gibson's court.  Formally trained in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as a mediator, publicly exposing the corrupt practices and how to counter them was the approach the activist had been trained to apply for the scenario.   

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Legally combatting the corrupt official since February, the activist had begun using a simple 'edit hack' on Google reviews to both continually communicate with the court and to publicly expose the courts corrupt operating procedures, players; and the legal counters to their game.  There was a big leak in Dept. 53 and it had been spouting openly on the internet for the last 3 months everything a business model court, attorneys, and the government works to keep citizens generally in the dark about.

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And like clockwork. the scheduled trial hearing never happened.  The court made a public announcement that there was a 'massive leak' on the '5th floor that started in Dept. 53' and the entire Shasta County Courthouse facility went into a government shutdown phase cancelling all court business for nearly two weeks.  Multiple high profile cases were scheduled for the governments absolutely 100% pre-planned shutdown week, notably a recent Sherri Papini custody trial.  And the attorneys on both sides were able to gain multiple more months of fees in the Papini matter and other.  It all sounds petty, and 'beneath the government standard operations'.  But, family court is a trillion dollar a year money maker for all associates of the court, and with the minimal Shasta County population, the family court department  CALLS ALL THE SH0TS with this racket.

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Criminal cases don't generate revenue and are mostly state funded on both sides.  General civil matters are minimal in rural Shasta County.  Traffic division is straightforward.  The majority of the court process is domestic family court issues.  That's where the money is at.  Corrupt court operators (liberal GIBSON RUNS THE PROGRAM) attack income targeted families with a standardized 'unbalance & intentional delay' tactic to keep that money in house.  Shasta County Superior is the model of the illicit business model-court; and by exposing those corrupt practices and operators ShastaCourtWatch.com is a bar setter for combatting a tyranny of the government in America with non-violence.

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The most likely case scenario about 'the leak' was that there was a small water leak that had been predetermined would need attention at some point in the year for maintenance.  The family court administration scheduled multiple cases they wanted delayed for the shutdown week, and shutdown undercover of the 'water leak'.  

There was an information leak happening in the activists case.  It was not contained, and the leak continued to grow and grow, and grow... 

The activist had been anticipating another case cancellation and in retaliation he countered the court shutdown by going on a digital rampage across the country. Posting on more than 560 county courts 'most relevant content-Google reviews' covering at least 17 states and 1/3 of U.S. with what he called his 'Little pamphlet' exposingstandard family court corrupt operations.  

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After 7-8 weeks of the digital Little pamphlet crop dusting campaign the simple but vital in the custody arena and heavily suppressed  information had captured and held the west coast, and was scaling up and down the east coast set to encircle and pinch intended to digitally overthrow all of the United States Courts Google Reviews.  The theory learned from an old conservative guru ADR professor was that providing key suppressed information to the general US public would allow the public to free themselves from corrupt practices in family courts and government oppression.

The activist Google Review press was shutdown in New York.  The liberal area legal squad whispered in the right ear and the I.P. address of the activist was blocked and could no longer pass the coveted information on the public review sites.  It was announced publicly by SCSC a week after that 'the leak from May' had been 'completely contained' and that 'business was back to usual' on the 5th floor.

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The activist countered with a scale back- holding Rome with ShastaCourtWatch.com

Judge Reviews 

COMMISSIONER Stromberg

as 'the Queen of Dismay'​

Dark Cavern

A county commissioner is not a state judge and is classified as a 'temporary official' assigned to the case.  In the liberal 'business model court', the commissioner acts as a liability buffer that takes illicit action to unbalance standard custody cases.

 

Non-stipulations are valid for almost ANY MOTION other than an initial motion for custody support.  The self-attorney can file an individual motion for ANY AND EVERY ISSUE in their case.

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**Always non-stipulate to a commissioner hearing as the gold standard rule #1 of the self-attorney.**

Judge Gary "Ghislaine" Gibson
aka., the Jester

The primary goal of the liberal clown jester position played in Shasta County by the raging liberal Gary G. Gibson, is to extend the active life of every case.  Primary targets are the middle and upper class with young children.  The primary method a Jester judge uses to keep cases active is to illicitly CANCEL EVERY SCHEDULED TRIAL HEARING.  **BEWARE** When Mr. Gibson schedules a trial hearing; he will 9/10 CANCEL THE HEARING ON THE DAY OF THE HEARING. Gibson uses a legal loophole to cancel the trial hearings- if the parties have not been sworn in: the trial legally has not started and a judge can manage their own schedules.  That's the loophole. Gibson schedules trials that carry with them months of pressure, anxiety, and preparation, and he CANCELS THE TRIAL with ZERO NOTICE to the parties until they get to the courthouse.  The goal of the JESTER JUDGE POSITION is to frustrate a party to get that party to hire an attorney that will take control of the case and manufacture more years of delays, or get the the party to take illicit and sometimes VIOLENT ACTIONS that will END THE DISPUTE WITHOUT A CUSTODY TRIAL as the TARGETED PARENT either, go to jail, abandons their family, or commits suicide through a plethora of different methods like what happened to Commissioner Kenned's son, J.T. Kennedy.

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Counter the Jester move- file an FL-300 motion declaring a mistrial and include a peremptory challenge to remove the Jester from the proceeding.  The Jester plays this game with EVERY CASE HE OVERSEES. The SCSC JESTER Gary G. Gibson utilizes two specific methods for this racket- illicit action and illicit in-action.

 

(1)  re: illicit in-action

When disputants file they generally have a problem that needs to be solved as swiftly as possible.  The Jester pinpoints the problem immediately through the filings, and then simply proceeds to DODGE THE SOLUTION until circumstances change.  Step-by-step,

(i)when parties meet with the Jester, he sends the matter to the states first liability buffer 'the Cavern of the Dark Bishops' where THE DARK BISHOP writes a heavily biased and vicious attack report against one of the parties. 

(ii)The standardized 'outrageous and ridiculous' mediation report will state no-cause what-so-ever and will needlessly recommend the heaviest sanctions that the court can place onto one of the parties.  STANDARDIZED JESTER ATTACK designed to (a) in-flame, and (b) trick the targeted party into hiring an attorney. 

 

(iii) The goal of the Jester is to stall the proceedings long-enough to in-flame the targeted party into being a reflection of the dark mediation report.  The intent of the Jester is to create a hostile environment for the targeted parent in order to create cause that supports the dark report.  

The Jester perpetually schedules 'primary hearings' and refuses appropriate case resolution interventions while canceling any scheduled trial hearings to further delay and in-flame the targeted party.  GARY G. GIBSON in his role as the Jester has no intent to resolve disputes, but instead seeks to create an environment through illicit in-action that supports the Dark Bishop's report **BEWARE**

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(2) re: illicit action

The CA state judge playing the position of the Jester takes intervention tools designed for child safety measures in un-standardized cases, and applies those interventions to standardized cases. The state judge playing the Jester uses the liability buffer Commissioner to order the intervention with or without cause.  The goal in ordering an 'illicit intervention' is to get the party to hire an attorney; whose job it is to STALL THE ONE 'FIX/MODIFICATION' MOTION AND ONE-SENTENCE  COMMISSIONER NON-STIPULATION for generally about a year of fees for a 1-minute 'anytime' filing.  Once the non-stip moves the case to the state judge, a regular state judge plays 'good cop' and fixes the issues in the case; and the Jester judge stalls the case further.

The state judge without a liability buffer commissioner, needs to find GOOD CAUSATION for issuing orders.  And a JESTER JUDGE like Gary G. Gibson will stall each case indefinitely rather than taking action to settle the matter civilly.  The raging liberal position of radicalized government corruption conducted solely and intentionally to exploit the finances of the upper and middle class with children.

State Judge BARTON

Standard custody; mid income, low conflict  cs

The honorable JUDGE BARTON officially transferred herself out of Gary Ghislane Gibson's Shit-Show-Circus Family Law Department as of February 27th, 2026.  Back in the criminal division 4th floor, Judge Barton will serve this community phenomenally as a criminal court judge her preferred and primary expertise as a long term criminal prosecutor.  

In one of her final assignments from the the circus department, Judge Barton is examining the legalities of Gary Ghislane Gibson's criminal deeds in case #207---. STAY TUNED

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Taking the place of Judge Barton in the standard cases dept.52 is long time Redding local, Honorable Judge Patrick Deedon.  Judge Deedon could do Gibson's job in his sleep because- he's not an extortionist and he's a young man with a grand conscience.  An all-star champion local, the next generation of Judge that doesn't play the game for crony loyalty to local attorneys pocketbooks.  **And this web site and this authors words in that case #177 will always help guide you in ur task & recognition of the darkside, brother. 

State Judge Molly BIGELOW
-Endangered Children aka PEDOPHILE DEPARTMENT

Republican Judge Molly Bigelow doesn't play any of this bullshit.  Judge Bigelow is from honor and integrity, and a completely different school of thought than her illicit business agenda liberal counterparts.  Judge Bigelow is so respectable that she would rather police the very bad ones where the outcome is set, than be any part of the moral less corruption of Gary G. Gibson's illicit business-model court agenda.  During the 4.5 year of 2017-2022 where Bigelow ran the standard cases and Gibson self-banished to avoid a civil rights crisis, the standard case ran smooth unlike Gibson's racket program.

The story of missing Judge Daryl Kennedy

Untold Stories

Mr. Daryl Kennedy was infamously the coldest and most heartless family court official Shasta county had ever seen.  And gratefully he didn't last long in the case tone setting position of county commissioner.  As commissioner, Kennedy separated more families than Moses did water droplets... ..., and one of his adult victims eventually got him removed from the position through an old formula...

 

The intriguing tale of how Commissioner Kennedy became Judge Kennedy: to be continued

Attorney Reviews & the State Bar

#1- Jennifer Ayers

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Ayers is the ultimate con.  She suckers in the volume with the lowest retainer in the area, and you get what you pay for.  Nothing but a monthly bill and intentional delays for more monthly bills.  It is confirmed that Ayers will desert clients at trial by simply not showing up.  When she does show up for a trial, she intentionally sabotages them. Ayers is the lead attorney that profits from working directly with the 'business model' court.  Ayers suckers in the client with a small retainer and keeps her cases unbalanced through intentional incompetence to maintain a monthly fee then deserts the client or keeps the cycle going. **BEWARE** #1 Class SNAKE #1

#2- Michael Darlington aka 'the Fatman'

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The Fatman attacks both his client and their opponent.  During the dispute the Fatman mounts a scripted playbook attack against the opponent by initially filing a restraining order by making up a cause that does not exist.  Both the commissioner and Gibson know that every word the Fatman writes is a completely fabricated lie; and those 'officials' work with the Fatman, COUNTING ON HIM TO WRITE ANY CAUSE for them to unbalance cases.  An attorney is the critical piece the court works with to keep cases unbalanced and active.  The court can then assign more associate service providers, and the attorney maintains their monthly fee.  To attack the opposing parent the Fatman uses a Sacramento firm to send bogus checks to the parents address with the intent the parent will try to cash the check and be charged with fraud; when the court authorizes an initial temporary RO in the standard unbalancing act, the Fatman uses a buffer to attempt to solicit the parent to buy prohibited weapons; the Fatman also uses a courtroom decoy who sits in the audience and gives 'case sabotaging' legal advice; the Fatman sends his employee buffers to the opponents place of business to slander; the Fatman gets passwords from his client, and hacks the opponents social media to impersonate the opponent, usually messaging the opponents family and friends about 'giving money' to isolate the opponent from their friends and family; when the Fatman feels like a case is in jeopardy of becoming balanced, he mails DEATH THREATS to the opponent the week of trial hearings as a shakedown (attached egs.); and finally, when a case closes after 3-5 years the Fatman creates a FIVE OR SIX FIGURE  BILL he leaves for his client.  **BEWARE** BOTH CLIENT AND OPPONENT ARE EXPLOITED BY THE FATMAN **BEWARE** #1 CLASS SNAKE

current Yelp review-

#3- Dret A. '4 Assholes' Mchatton

Dret is buddies with and from the same school of game planning as the Fatman.  However. Mchatton stops the press just before it comes to sending death threats.  Whether the 'A.' is 'for asshole', or whether Dret has four assholes, or is just four assholes all wrapped up as one guy remains unanswered.

#4- Carmel C."ookies" D'Amato

High dollar expense. 

Mediocre performance. 

Drags out and squeezes cases for monthly fees.

#5- Andreas A. Mittry

There is always one that stands apart. Andreas A. Mittry cannot bring himself to sacrifice integrity for a dollar.  This attorney will help your family mediate the dispute.

#6- Kinney & Kinney

Keeping clients in the dark about the process is a common way a family law attorney maintains an indefinite monthly fee.  Matters get brought to trial WHEN a licensed OR self-attorney file a motion to SCHEDULE TRIAL, which is a presentation of the evidence and a judges (or commissioner) resulting decision.  To drag out the case- attorneys simply don't file generally one-sentence trial request.  Without a dive-bar licensed attorney, the self attorney takes charge of their own case scheduling by filing a motion for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING they need to happen in the case.

#7- Michael Raysor "Blades"

"Blades" was the new kid, fresh and full of jazz, spirit, with a wanting to help others; a padawan.  Now.., Raysor "Blades" will cut your wallet into non-existence for monthly fees as a primary operation.  

#8 Rupert "the Animal" Corkill

Corkill is an absolute beast..., but in a good way.  Rupert can tackle anything in the field.  However, in law... Rupert performs exactly the opposite of how he performs in Rugby.

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