No. 25-11

Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al.

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2025-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the systemic failure of judicial and medical professionals to address domestic violence and child custody issues constitutes a violation of constitutional and human rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. How is it possible in the most revered judicial system in the world-the United States of America-that a caregiver of the married couple’s 3 children ages 12, 10, and 8 enters into a divorce and child custody case with documented evidence of abusiveness by her husband and treatment for ‘battered woman syndrome,” {App D, p.66a Exh 10,p.68a Exh 12, p.75a Exh 17} meaning she and her children are living in a home of a batterer in an unsafe environment of domestic violence which is a national crime, that instead of criminal prosecution of the batterer throughout his pattern of battering over the 5+ years of this child custody case, the professionals involved in our case aided and abetted his criminal agenda to erase the mother from their children’s lives in collectively perpetrating malfeasance upon this family leaving children ongoing over 21 years in the state of Stockholm Syndrome/Domestic Violence By Proxy with domestic violence laws, mental health best practices, medical and therapeutic interventions, enforcement of law completely disregarded during the entire $500k+ child custody fiasco violating children’s and mother’s Constitutional, civil, federal, state, and human rights up until and including today? 2. Why was my Petition for Extraordinary Relief to the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court denied as the evidence of collusion of AG’s, lawyers, judges, law enforcement, evaluators, doctors, school officials, therapists in their abuse, fraud, extortion, and malfeasance in this case against my children and me, their mother and iti primary caregiver, as this case is one of such substantial public national importance to end the child custody crisis as to require prompt and definitive resolution as the lower courts have so far departed from accepted judicial practices, so abused its discretion as to require Petitioner, Margaret M. FitzGerald, to call for the exercise of the highest court in the land, U.S. Supreme Court’s supervisory authority? 3. When there is evidence of the pattern of a batterer’s tactics occurring against his wife and children which is occurring as an epidemic in the child custody crisis occurring in our nation {App C p. 50a} throughout our judicial system documented throughout duration of this legal case substantiated in its entirety in the research, theory, and mental health practice of domestic violence and medical research as to the signs and symptoms, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) emerging in children due to their father’s abusiveness ignored by medical and mental health providers, exacerbated by numerous violations of the law left unsanctioned by Court, Petitions of Contempt treated ineffectively by lawyers and judges, how can I, Petitioner, mother, in good conscience not come to the highest court in our land to remedy this child custody/domestic violence crisis and achieve justice and restitution for harm done against my children and me due to across the board malfeasance by all professionals involved in our legal case {App. D p54a-115a}? ©

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-08-01
Waiver of Honorable Richard Renn, Honorable Michael Bortner (ret.), Honorable John R. Thompson, Jr. (ret.), Glenn Vaughn, Esquire, Sheryl Dorney (deceased), Suzy S. Moore, Esquire of right to respond submitted.
2025-08-01
Waiver of right of respondents Honorable Richard Renn, Honorable Michael Bortner (ret.), Honorable John R. Thompson, Jr. (ret.), Glenn Vaughn, Esquire, Sheryl Dorney (deceased), Suzy S. Moore, Esquire to respond filed.
2025-07-30
Waiver of Peter Kovach; Dean Picarella of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-30
Waiver of right of respondent Peter Kovach; Dean Picarella to respond filed.
2025-07-28
Waiver of right of respondent Attorney Thomas O'Shea to respond filed.
2025-07-25
Waiver of right of respondent David Zelis to respond filed.
2025-07-24
Waiver of right of respondent Sheriff Justin Smith to respond filed.
2025-04-28

Attorneys

Attorney Thomas O'Shea
John R. WilsonCGA Law Firm, P.C., Respondent
John R. WilsonCGA Law Firm, P.C., Respondent
David Zelis
David Zelis — Respondent
David Zelis — Respondent
Honorable Richard Renn, Honorable Michael Bortner (ret.), Honorable John R. Thompson, Jr. (ret.), Glenn Vaughn, Esquire, Sheryl Dorney (deceased), Suzy S. Moore, Esquire
Michael DaleyAdministrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, Respondent
Michael DaleyAdministrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, Respondent
Margaret Fitzgerald
Margaret M. Fitzgerald — Petitioner
Margaret M. Fitzgerald — Petitioner
Peter Kovach; Dean Picarella
Kathleen Ann Wilde LaBayPennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Respondent
Kathleen Ann Wilde LaBayPennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Respondent
Sheriff Justin Smith
David Patrick AyraudLarimer County Attorney's Office, Respondent
David Patrick AyraudLarimer County Attorney's Office, Respondent