Filed Statement Accuses Judge Rupert Byrdsong of Antisemitism and Religious Retaliation

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Article overview: A filed statement accuses Judge Rupert Byrdsong of antisemitism, religious discrimination, retaliation and replacing law with biased rulings. This post presents the accusation in the source’s own legal context.

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“Judge Byrdsong even purported to overturn every single one of his discovery orders without due process of law, when Discovery Referee Judge Bruguera actually recommended that Farmers counsel be sanctioned, having lied to the Discovery Referee and created a false record. Judge Byrdsong then decided – again without due process of law – that he would throw out

EVERY DISCOVERY ORDER and just make new rulings, based on what he felt like, not on law, (which he regularly does), on every discovery issue ever raised in the lawsuit for (more than) four years. LAW HAS HAD NO PLACE IN THIS LITIGATION IN FAVOR OF JUDGE BYRDSONG’S BIASED WHIMS AND DECREES, DESPITE PLAINTIFF NEVER AGREEING TO WAIVE ACTUAL LAW OR DUE PROCESS OF LAW. He happily, literally smiling at times, did this to discriminate, harass and retaliate against Plaintiff and his counsel for complaining of religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation regarding religious observance.

Those are also Constitutional issues. So, it is foreseeable that Judge Byrdsong will neverrule against Farmers for any material purpose or enforce any orders against them going forward, just as he has not done for the more than four years the case was pending. He wants to continue his discrimination against Plaintiff and his counsel. He hates Plaintiff and his counsel. It’s not a question of “not liking how things are going.” It’s about flagrant bias and antisemitism.”

Excerpt from “PLAINTIFF COSTIGAN’S REPLY REGARDING HIS MOTION FOR AN ORDER ENFORCING THE PARTIES’ MUTUAL FULL AND FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT” filed by Nancy Anfanger, attorney for the Plantiff, on January 17, 2025 in Los Angeles Superior Court case titled Costigan vs. FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, a reciprocal interinsurance exchange, et al., case number 20STCV18816.

Why the antisemitism allegation demands direct scrutiny

A filed statement accusing a judge of antisemitism, religious hostility and retaliation cannot be waved away as an ordinary personality conflict. The allegation goes to equal treatment, judicial temperament and whether the court punished a litigant for protected religious identity or expression.

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