Our courts are intended to be used for actual victims seeking justice, not for greedy individuals seeking riches by playing "lawsuit lottery" with false victimization claims.

This was a person, who from her own bankruptcy affidavit, swore under penalty of perjury in Bankruptcy court that she only made on the average $11,000 a year in income from her claimed "fame" for the prior three consecutive years. This filing reflected that her annual income actually increased from $10,000 to $13,000 annually, and yet at the same time she was swearing (under penalty of perjury) in her complaint against us in Federal Court that we caused her over $75,000 in lost income from the past year. (That amount of a $75,000 loss is the ticket to be able to file a complaint in "Federal" court.) A bold lie from Dolen? Oh, absolutely! She banks on the court's right hand never knowing what the left hand is doing! (And surprisingly, they don't!) She is confident that she can exploit the flaws in our system. (And she does!)

We answered with counterclaims, and Dolen immediately threatened to have us sanctioned, claiming that she was under the protection of her Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  Eventually, the bankruptcy Judge informed her that from the date she filed her bankruptcy she was not protected from her actions against us, but would be liable for those actions. After reading the case, he further cautioned her in proceeding with her claims against us, clearly stating that the purpose of that court was was not to "protect" her from her actions or the liability resulting from them.  What did debtor Dolen hear him say?  Somehow, she interpreted and boasted in many delusional statements and additional filings that 'she won, we lost’ and that the Judge had "barred" our counterclaims. Go figure!

Deborah Dolen went on to make her claims against us public. She posted false and libelous commentary about us on websites, in forums, and self-published press releases. She has named us individually as "known cyberstalkers" and claimed we wanted to obtain notoriety by associating ourselves with her self-proclaimed "famous author" name of Mabel White. She fabricated claims that we had other victims and had "stalked" her. She fabricated claims that we had committed all sorts of internet fraud, trademark infringement, criminal acts against her - and more. At one point, she posted online a self-written and fake court order against us. Every claim, every allegation, and in fact, the entire "Federal lawsuit" was based solely on false pretenses, and was a wild display of grandiose and persecutory delusions, reckless irresponsibility, intentional lies, and a vexatious attempt to libel and disparage us, then demand money from us to stop.

So, why did Deborah Dolen target us for her lawsuit?
From what I have learned about and read from this plaintiff since January of 2009, I think this came about because of some sort of grandiose/hero complex she may have.  According to my husband's ex, Angela Schubart Ledcke, Dolen had contacted and befriended her because they were both featured on the same online scammer site. The ex, who has been an intrusive thorn in our side over the past several years because of her own inappropriate actions, saw an opportunity to enlist someone into her retaliation campaign against us who was claiming to have legal muscle.  Ledcke dangled my family like a carrot in front of someone who was greedy enough to forget logic and reasoning, and set her sights in rolling the dice and playing a game of pro se lawsuit lottery.  There was no other way on earth for this woman to know who we were, know our names, emails, and/or our personal information without the rants of my husband’s longtime bothersome ex, Angela Ledcke. Although Ledcke eventually confessed to supplying this pro se plaintiff with our names because Dolen had promised Ledcke that she would “get them” for her, this plaintiff's original claim was that our attorney had “dimed us out” and supplied her with our names and information.  The only little problem with that was that she and Ledcke were trashing us on an online forum days prior to our attorney even knowing we exist. 

At one point, Dolen threatened our attorney with a bar complaint if he did not do what she demanded.  She took it to the next level and actually filed a fantasy-filled Texas Bar Complaint against our attorney, stating under oath that he was the one who initiated her claims against us by prodding her to sue us.  Her next step was to post her "testimony" and this bar complaint on the same website as the fake court order against us, and then trash-talk, lie about, and libel our attorney continuously in public forums - eventually to the point to where our attorney was forced to file his own Complaint Against Deborah Dolen for torts, injury, assault, libel, and slander. 

More about this pro se plaintiff:
Although it has been defined by this deluded plaintiff as "stalking" her, I discovered while trying to figure out just who this deranged-acting nut was who had targeted and was suing, harassing, threatening and disparaging my family in an absurd and fantasy-filled pro se lawsuit, that Deborah R. Dolen (aka Deborah Ruth Harvey, Deborah R. Graves, Deborah R. Avramidis, Deborah Ruth Avamidis), has an extensive arrest, criminal, and felony record!  According to her FDLE Report and court records in various Florida counties, she has been arrested for everything from prostitution procurement, solicitation of arson, pandering, forgery, credit card factoring, probation violation, Rico violations, money laundering, racketeering and grand theft, and much more.  Deborah Dolen was one of several defendants in a consumer fraud action filed by the Federal Trade Commission, and the FTC named her in one of the top 10 "Dot Con" scams ( more info). She was once even captured as a fugitive, tried and convicted in Jacksonville, FL of racketeering in a children’s Spina Bifida charity scam, and sentenced to a seven year prison term. It appears that while In prison, this pro se plaintiff obtained a paralegal certificate (via correspondence classes) and this may be where her illusions of being an actual attorney began.  (I think this may also be where she learned and practiced the language she uses to attempt to intimidate others with her threats and legal-bully-talk, which I personally refer to as monkey-mouth-cell-gangster talk.  This pro se litigant, as Deborah R. Harvey, had once been previously determined incompetent to represent herself pro se in Florida court during an appeals trial after being found guilty of felony charges.

In one instance, I discovered that she had tried this bullying 'I’m going to sue you' tactic before by claiming she had the exclusive trademark for the term "soy wax" and went so far as to pretend to be “legal counsel” (as D. Dolen) for Mabel White and somebody else in order to threaten and intimidate candle makers. She claimed she would haul "violators"  into Federal Court in Tampa if they used that term, but offered to sell them permission to use the term.  Now THAT, in my opinion, is just not normal!  Anyway, being a convicted felon, no wonder she changed her name to Mabel White.  Sounds pure and clean, doesn’t it? 

It seems that even "Mabel White" could not live up to honest standards, and although Dolen claims the name to be “good,” Mabel White Home Living has received numerous complaints over the years through the Better Business Bureau and has been the subject of several online scammer sites, reports, and consumer forums, and the defendant in at least one small claims lawsuit from Fed Ex.  These complaints and concerns date back throughout the past half a dozen years, but Dolen has now claimed that even the complaints that are from 2002 through 2007 for Mabel White Home Living (MWHL) have come from me and my family, regardless of the basic fact that we would have had no motive, had no prior business dealings with her, and didn’t even know she existed until January of 2009 when she began to harass us!  Dolen, AS "Mabel White" has even recently posted rebuttals to many of these aged complaints against her business of Mabel White Home Living, and although they are years old she has publicly named and accused my husband, my 85-year-old mother (who doesn’t own or know how to use a computer), and me for submitting them.  On the site RipOffReport.com, only moments after she emailed our attorney stating that whatever is posted on that site never comes down, as a rebuttal to a complaint from 2007, using her "trade name" of "Mabel White," Dolen posted all of our names and her delusional accusations in a clear attempt to simply libel, further damage, and harass us. She also boldly states that we are "losing so poorly in Federal Court,"  threatens that we will be paying her "a LOT of money," and eludes that we will all be evicted as a result. 

Of course it’s just my opinion, but I would never do business with someone who demonstrates such unprofessional, unbalanced, and disturbing behavior.  But then again, I've never purchased products from a business that was not licensed, reputable, and/or have FDA approval on their products.  After all, these bathroom-chemist type businesses can too easily substitute canola oil as cheap fillers for essential oils, for example.

Why am I being so tacky and blogging about this? 
No, it isn’t like me, but because my family and I have been inconvenienced for the past couple of years by having our names polluted by being associated with this convicted felon, I am personally sick of Deborah Dolen's lies, threats, dogmatic delusional pro se legal attacks, constant attempts to libel and disparage us, and demands of money from us. In my opinion, this woman has obviously caused her own problems because of the poor and dishonest choices she has made and continues to make in life, and neither I nor any member of my family has had anything to do with her, her history, her problems, her scams, or anything else she may dream up, claim, and sue us for.  As “famous” as she may think she is, she was (as is) inconsequential to us, as we had never even heard of her or her claimed trade name of “Mabel White” (an alias name she has used freely and directly to libel and harass us) prior to her unwarranted attack on us.

What is a clear and undisputable fact in our world is that this plaintiff, prior to anyone in my family having any idea that she existed, was conspiring against us, researching our assets, posting libelous content about us online, and had already gathered our names, address, phone numbers, personal emails, work emails, and other personal information, and yet her claim is that we had been "stalking" her!  Deborah Dolen has since continued to harass my family by publishing our names and address online, posting distasteful and delusional online comments and outbursts, complete lies, libel, libel per se, and has even published a self-authored fake and unsigned court order against us. Again, go figure.

I am confident that plaintiff "Deborah R. Dolen aka author Mabel White" must realize that her fictional claims against us have no merit whatsoever and were solely based from the unsupported claims and gossip of her only source, my husband's ex, Angela Ledcke (who has personally published online that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic).  Whatever delusional entitlement this person may think she has to be able to pick someone out of thin air to sue, trash, and harass, and attempt to extort money from, she needs to face reality and realize that she made a poor decision when she attacked my family with her lawsuit lottery game. She doesn’t know any of us well enough to comment on anything about us, and I daresay if she did, she would be surprised to discover just who she choose to target. As well, she certainly doesn’t know us well enough to lecture us on any of the many matters she has harassed us with in her numerous emails - some of which she actually sent via our employer's emails.  Nonetheless, she has continued in her libel campaign and empty, unsupported, and ridiculous accusations regarding my family. 

I am also convinced that pride, arrogance, mean-spirited gaming and greed outweighs her ability to recognize reality and actually admit that she was completely and totally wrong in the fantasy-filled conclusions, assumptions, and allegations she made against my family, and in naming us in her nonsensical Federal lawsuit. 

July 5, 2010:
Since writing about my experience in the above content on my blog, bogus lawsuit filer/pro se plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen aka author "Mabel White" has motioned the Federal Court in the middle district of Florida for injunctive relief to shut down my entire blog, and has continued to demand money from us. Although that motion was filled with more lies, complete delusions, and whatever fantasies filled her head at the time of filing, the motion was denied.  After the Court ordered her to amend her Federal complaint, she made a few more attempts at making demands from us, and even though we ignored her, she eventually dropped my family from her newest amended bogus Federal complaint. She will now face our counterclaims. With any luck, plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen aka author "Mabel White" will not be able to victimize others with her vexatious pro se litigation games in the future. Aside from the fact that she often portrays herself as one of the "rich and famous," sadly, this person, as we have found through our personal experience, demonstrates a total lack of connection with reality, and in our opinion is nothing more than a bully, a nut, and a delusional wanna-be seeking attention.

October 21, 2010 - Here We Go Again....
I am always shocked that there are people who simply do not recognize the consequences of their own actions. Dolen targeting my family in a vexatious lawsuit based solely on greed in order to try and profit from extortion attempts and also to "get us" for her friend (and my husband's ex), has brought with it the consequence of me starting this blog. Because she brought my name online in order to try and trash and damage me in some way, I felt I had the right to defend my name from her delusional rants. In reality, this blog never would've existed, or at least, she never would've been mentioned. After all, without her bullying, lies, threats, libel, abuse, tirades, and vexatious lawsuit against my family, obviously I would not have known who she was or anything about her! (She's not as "famous" in reality as she seems to be in her own mind.) It's just that simple, yet something this person does not seem to understand this. Instead, she is continuing to blame others for her own actions, and is now throwing a fit in Federal court because I've blogged about our experience of being the target of her bullying and latest scam attempt.

This pro se plaintiff is petitioning the court to amend her lawsuit for the third time to once again add us back into her "Federal complaint" of make-believe allegations - simply to harass us and attempt to restrict me from using her name(s) and saying on my blog what she has done to us. She seems to think that I have no right to use the very names that she, herself has used so freely in her attempts to publicly mock, disparage, bully, cyberbully, cyberstalk, cyber smear, harass, threaten, libel, and sue us in bad faith. As has been her usual pattern, she is adding new coo-coo concocted theories and fantasy allegations to her motion to amend. This time, she is claiming and has submitted an exhibit in the case that someone called "the water filer lady" will sign a "formal declaration" against us because this "water filter lady" person received an email from someone else. I don't even know who the heck this "water filter lady" is, so I can only assume that she is just another nutcase.

In our world, we have never come across someone that could act so outrageously irrational and crazy, but I have to admit, Deborah Dolen, as "Mabel White, CEO" did email us (during the phase of her harassment campaign where she was emailing us threats via our employers) and warn us that she "can DO crazy!" Excerpt from one of her harassing emails to us.

An Extra Helping of Insanity!
I've personally witnessed more insane conduct in this one bogus and vexatious lawsuit filed by pro se plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen than I think I've seen collective from anyone in my lifetime. Maybe that's because by choice, I've never had any association with this type of unscrupulous person before. Some of the tactics this plaintiff has used is beyond what anyone with an ounce of honesty and/or credibility would attempt. Although she omitted my family from her 2nd amended complaint and threatened that if we continued with our counterclaims that she would motion to add us back in, she actually seems to believe that she can simply invent claims against us and act as though we were still included in her bogus lawsuit. In some crazy attempt to try and intimidate me, Dolen listed my ex husband on her new witness list and stated that he would testify against my character. When asked about this, my ex said he had never even heard of Deborah R. Dolen and that he had no intention of making any statement or testimony against me. Somehow, in her own little world, she must've theorized that he would have something negative to say about me. Dolen actually included this delusional theory in one of her pleadings and even intimated that he'd left me in our marriage. As with all of her assumptions and claims, It doesn't seem to matter to her that she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about because she doesn't know anything about us.

Dolen has claimed over the past two years that we have "confused" the Federal court Judge in Texas, which resulted in the orders and decisions made in our favor in this case; that we prejudiced the mediator (and experienced criminal attorney) against her; that we "tampered" with the [imaginary] potential jury pool; that I, personally, "witness tampered," because of my blog; and most recently, that we "tainted" the Federal Court Magistrate Judge in Tampa. (All that, and yet I can't even get the postman to stop walking on my lawn!) She has made a lot of crazy and stupid claims throughout this endeavor of hers, but each and every one of them have all been nothing more than her own fabricated, delusional, and unsupported speculations.

February 24, 2011 - Deborah Dolen's Lawsuit and ALL Claims Against Us Are Dismissed
For the first day in over two years my family and I are no longer being sued and harassed in Federal court by pro se plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen aka "author" Mabel White in a targeted, nonsensical, and fictitious lawsuit lottery game. The Federal court ruled on the  pleadings and ALL of Deborah Dolen's delusional and bogus claims against my family and me were DISMISSED with prejudice today in our favor and she is now barred from ever making those claims against us again. (Predictably, she somehow thought and immediately boasted in an email to our attorney that this decision was in her favor.) As the Federal Court order stated about claim-thrower Deborah R. Dolen's "tortuous action," "enough is enough."  Order of Dismissal  Our counterclaims were dismissed in that case, but were dismissed without prejudice, allowing us to reassert them in a separate action when and where we choose - which we plan to do.
 

Deborah Dolen's Lawsuit is DISMISSED at Trial by Federal Judge:
April 21, 2011 - Julie Ryals Receives a Judgment AGAINST Deborah R. Dolen and ALL of Dolen's Claims Are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE!
Deborah Dolen's vexatious and nonsensical lawsuit against Julie Ryals came to trial before the Federal Court in Tampa, Florida, on April 18, 2011. The issues were set before a jury. On the third day of the trial, after Deborah Dolen completed her performance as ringmaster for her own dog and pony show, in response to a verbal motion by Julie Ryals' attorney, the Federal Judge made a decision based on the case presented and immediately dismissed all of Deborah Dolen's claims against Julie Ryals WITH PREJUDICE. (Meaning that Dolen cannot bring those claims again.)

The Federal Judge in Tampa told Dolen that she [quote] did not show even the most minuscule ounce of proof to her claims. Dolen had said in published media interviews she had created by interviewing herself that she would not "fall into the sand trap" of having to provide proof of her unsupported allegations, but would instead bring in her own witnesses to simply testify "the old fashioned way." Because Dolen HAD no proof, but had been bulldozing through this case with only threats, bullying, and bogus accusations, it was no surprise that this desperate plan was actually put into play. Dolen introduced the testimonies of Annette Bartowsheski, and Sheryl (Sherry) Farley of Bradenton, FL - two anonymous and scripted "witnesses" that Dolen brought in off the streets to lie and perjure themselves in Federal Court for her cause. (I have to wonder if they realized while "testifying" under oath and the penalty of perjury, that there is indisputable evidence that rebuts what they were scripted and instructed to say.) In addition to the scripted "testimony" agenda, Annette Bartowsheski seemed to be bothered because I did not publish a negative comment she submitted to my blog, and she pointed this out to the Federal Judge. (Her comment, by the way, was the ONLY negative/ugly comment I have ever received, and it was one that fell into the "irrational" category.) Bartowsheski also, via her affidavit and testimony, stated and complained to the Federal court that my blog was "too long." I suppose I was unaware that this was a Federal Court-worthy issue or offense, but like I said, "irrational."  Sherry Farley was even less rational, and in addition to her testimony being completely off the wall, she told the court that her deceased mother spoke to her (by way of a tree falling on her house), and told her to "help Deborah Dolen."

Despite these witnesses' ridiculous testimonial scripts and transparent attempts to manufacture the necessary evidence by inventing it on the stand (aka perjury), the Federal Judge dismissed such foolery and disciplined Dolen by stating that she had an "infinitesimal-infinity chance of prevailing in this case." (Direct quote) When Dolen uttered a confused "a-wha?" the Federal Judge clarified by saying that Dolen had “a snowball’s chance in Hell of prevailing on ANY claims made against Mrs. Ryals.” (Another direct quote) He further instructed pro se plaintiff Deborah R. Dolen aka Mabel White that she is forbidden from ever bringing any claims she made or could have made against Julie Ryals in this case in the future in ANY court, therefore, dismissing ALL claims against Julie Ryals by Deborah Dolen WITH PREJUDICE! 

Pending was Julie Ryals' counterclaim of cybersquatting for the domain julieryals.com, which Dolen had originally purchased at the onset of this "lawsuit" endeavor to use as a tool for libeling, name-calling, and attempt to extort a cash settlement in the case. Dolen kept this domain for 26 months, until eventually abandoning the domain and letting it expire - at which time julieryals.com was recovered by Julie Ryals. Because this ($12.00) counter claim was at this point moot, it was also dismissed.
 

The Federal Court's Final Decision in Deborah Dolen's Vexatious Lawsuit:
"IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that Judgment is entered AGAINST Deborah R. Dolen and FOR Julie Ryals on ALL Deborah R. Dolen’s claims." Despite Deborah Dolen's continued delusions of the outcome of her fictional lawsuit, the orders of the court speak for themselves.