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The Wrong Sensor
Satire. Dialogue is imagined; the underlying rulings and records are linked below.
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Title: The Wrong Sensor
JUSTICE-DENIED | SATIRE
Panel 1: THE EVIDENCE
The clerk places Marie’s reported-attack card beside a brass OUTRAGE DETECTOR. Its sensor cable is attached to Judge Miller’s wrist.
Case card:
MARIE REPORTED 5 PANIC ATTACKS
AFTER SEAN'S REPEATED CONTACTS
WITH HER ESTRANGED FATHER
Clerk: Five panic attacks, Your Honor.
Panel 2: THE READING
The detector reads JUDGE: CALM and CONDUCT: NOT OUTRAGEOUS. The cable remains attached only to Judge Miller; the clerk points toward the machine.
Clerk: It's measuring you.
Judge Miller: Then we're fine.
Footer: Imagined dialogue. Sources accompany the cartoon.
Behind the cartoon
An outrage detector is wired to the judge instead of the evidence. The scenes and dialogue are imagined satire.
Underlying records
- June 16, 2023 order, Doc. 429 — contact chronology and emotional-distress analysis excerpts (PDF)Selected original pp. 10–12 contact chronology is on excerpt PDF p. 1; pp. 28–29 formulation, community-response and known-vulnerability reasoning are on excerpt PDF p. 2; pp. 30–31 analysis and p. 32 holding are on excerpt PDF p. 3.
- December 6, 2022 order — later panic attacksDoc. 366, printed/PDF pp. 35–36: alleged later attacks, videos/transcripts and panic-history exhibit. The earlier May 27, 2019 event is separate.
- Marie’s account — Bullied by the Judicial SystemFirst-person account expressly reports five panic attacks resulting from repeated contacts with her father.
- Marie’s account — Marie’s Breast Cancer JourneyFirst-person account reports five panic attacks over the course of a year due to repeated contacts.
Marie reports five panic attacks after Sean repeatedly contacted her estranged father. Judge Miller dismissed her intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress claim at summary judgment, holding that the alleged conduct, even viewed in the plaintiffs' favor, did not satisfy the extreme-and-outrageous requirement. The five-attack count comes from Marie's published account; the order describes three mailings. The scenes and dialogue are imagined satire. The invented statements about the judge's own experience are not quotations or stated reasons from the order.
More record detail
Stevenson v. Stevenson, 56-CV-20-2928, Doc. 429, June 16, 2023: pp. 10–12 contact history and warning emails; pp. 28–30 extreme-and-outrageous analysis and response to known vulnerability; p. 32 dismissal of IIED claim. Doc. 366, December 6, 2022, pp. 35–36 records allegations of later attacks and references videos/transcripts (Doc. 319, Ex. 15) and a panic-history table (Ex. 13). Five-count and causal attribution: Marie Stevenson, Bullied by the Judicial System, and Marie’s Breast Cancer Journey. The earlier May 27, 2019 episode is separate.
