THE ONE AND ONLY JIM COURI - 01/17/2016: "The [New York State Supreme] Court concluded, from the hearing evidence, including telephone calls to the Court and [Couri's] abusive nature towards Court personnel by telephone, that he is a vexatious litigator and needlessly prolonged this action to harass defendant [John Siebert], his attorney [Joe Burke], and needlessly exhausted this Court's resources with motions completely devoid of merit."

More from the Court's 01/17/2016 Decision and Order, "[Couri's] cross-motion to disqualify [Siebert's]  counsel [Burke] is denied. There is no credible or rational basis in the Courts record to support such an application. Moreover, plaintiffs cross-motion to disqualify Burke is at least the tenth such motion for same, and this Court concludes that it is frivolous, totally without merit, and unsupported by the Court record, and is designed to harass and annoy the defendant and his attorney. Thus, the cross-motion violates Rule 130.1-1 and as such plaintiff is subject to sanctions.

Finally, plaintiff has been claiming he suffers from a serious illness since the inception of this case since it was filed in 2004. He has chosen to proceed pro se, but continually asserts that an illness prevents him from making Court appearances, participating in telephone conferences, following Court orders and rules, completing discovery requests and orders or even defending or prosecuting his cases. The Court notes that plaintiff has failed to provide admissible evidence of such illness, by affidavit or otherwise. Nonetheless, the plaintiff continues to file multiple motions over and over and to bombard the Court with ex parte facsimile communications, in violation of this Court's Rules. The Court once again concludes from the hearing evidence, including telephone calls to the Court and plaintiffs abusive nature towards Court personnel by telephone, that he continues to be a vexatious litigator and is needlessly prolonging this action to harass the defendant, his attorney, and needlessly exhausts this Court's resources with motions completely devoid of merit."

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