Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine can require the Petitioner to pay a fee to buy a hearing or defend himself

QUESTIONS PRESENTED . Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine, in violation of 7 the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, can require the Petitioner to pay $150.00, as demanded in a Notice of Violation, to the City of ; Lewiston to buy a hearing or to pay $150.00 to the . City of Lewiston before the Petitioner can defend himself for the first time by challenging the unconstitutionality of the Respondent’s demand that the Petitioner pay $150.00 to the City of Lewiston to ; buy a hearing or pay $150.00 to the City of Lewiston : before the Petitioner can defend himself for the first : time against a Notice of Violation that seeks to impose mandatory statutory monetary fines and the _ _ Respondent threatens to seize real property, ve otherwise the Petitioner automatically loses the right a to defend himself in court and the City of Lewiston Page 2 of 250 : automatically wins the entire lawsuit. The $150.00 fee covers either or both the purchase of the hearing or the purchase of the ability of the Petitioner to defend himself. . Suggested Answer: No. Whether, in violation of the Due Process Clause of : the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, the Respondent can ; : first tell, three years after filing the lawsuit and issuing the Notice of Violation, the Petitioner of a non-existent waiver to the $150.00 fee to buy a , hearing or $150.00 fee before the Petitioner can defend himself for the first time against a Notice of Violation (NOV) that seeks to impose mandatory ——-.—_ __.__ .__statutory monetary fines andthe Respondent — _ . threatens to seize real property; and when the non4 existent waiver, as emphasized by the dissent, isn’t ; Page 3 of 250 mentioned in the Notice of Violation, and as the dissent states, there isn’t a city ordinance that allows the Zoning Board to waive the $150.00 fee to buy a hearing or waive the $150.00 fee for the Petitioner to . defend himself for the first time against the Notice of Violation, and when as the dissent emphasizes the ; Respondent never argued that the $150.00 fee could . be waived. : Suggested Answer: No. . Whether, in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, the : City of Lewiston can use a Notice of Violation to impose unconstitutionally excessive mandatory statutory fines for the Petitioner having had deliberately disorderly, for artistic purposes, placed household items and other non-dangerous items on the Petitioner's lawn that expressed political speech : either with the political speech painted on the items Page 4 of 250 or written in magic marker on the smaller items, and the political speech is very similar to political speech that has all ready been approved by the Supreme Court of the United States of America in Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), which is why it was used, and when the City of Lewiston has never presented any sworn affidavits that the household | items, sheetrock, tires, and other items listed in the ' Notice of Violation cannot also qualify as political | speech when political speech is written on them, and when the dissent below states that none of the items posed any type of danger to anyone, and when the Respondent has never claimed by affidavit that the items posed a danger to anyone, and when the Code Enforcement Officer states that during his _... . investigation he deliberately avoided asking the — ——— —-—_—— Petitioner any questions about the political speech os before issuing the Notice of Violation. . Page 5 of 250 . Suggested Answer: No. ; Whether, in violation of the First Amendment to the : Constitution of the United States of America, the City of Lewiston can use a Notice of Violation to impose mandatory statutory fines for the Petitioner having had deliberately disorderly, for artistic purposes, placed household items and other nondangerous items on the Petitioner's lawn that expressed political