Reminiscences from the 20150923 Hearing.
The judge was a pleasant talkative middle aged woman,
who had probably not been at the head of her class in law school.

I had the opportunity to observe her for about an hour and 15 minutes
because mine was the next to last case. The transformed the hearings
that preceeded mine into argumentative conversations, the substance
of which I coulnd't understand because of my deafness.

When my turn came she wanted to confirm that my Nantucket house had
stood vacant for 7 years because I wouldn't compromise. That I was offered
the opportunity to hire a plumber tp get the house completed. I explained
that I had a plumber whom they would not permit to do the work and that
I considered the offer to compromise had been made in bad faith. That, more
than I cared about the house, I cared about the rule of law, a concern
which she characterized as bombast.

I focussed on the argument that there was no case, because poor workmanship,
failure to conform to accepted practice was NOT a specific deficiency.
that if the Court found to the contrary, I apologized that perhaps because
English was not my native language, the Court in effect mandated a language
which I could not understand, in which I could not think, and with which
I could not argue.