THE JUDGE'S DECISION, THE START OF THE CISS PANDORA BOX:
                JULY 29, 2001 PETITION, DAVID PETERS, THE  IMAFD

Two days ago, February 9, 2002, I finally received a long-awaited letter from the USA District Court, District Court of Maryland Judge, Mr. William  M. Nickerson.
A decision  Order by this USA District Judge was reached to dismiss my long, 39-page, 10 Exhibit-presented Verified Complaint against the three defendans - Jerald Jordan, Donalda Ammons and John Lovett.

Wait for a pause.

The Judge's  decision is not the end of the world!

The Judge, however, left  for a plaintiff  the room to file an Amended Verified Complaint against the same three defendants no later than 20 days after the date of this Order, i.e., until  February 25,2002.

This means that until  February 25, 2002, I have the opportunity to file my new Amended  Verified Complaint  ( a shortened version ) against defendants Jordan, Ammons and Lovett at  that same Court.

I have not yet  decided whether to proceed with my Amended Verified Complaint because lately I have been in touch with the defendants' attorney, Mr. Kelby Brick, who is trying to amicably settle the matter between his clients and me without the Court.

The two opposing parties are still negotiating the possible out-of-the-court settlement. This is my  first option as a plaintiff.

My second option will be that in case our settlement talks collapse, I will  explore  in transferring  this lawsuit matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (in English abbreviation, the CAS, or in French - TAS ( Tribunal Arbitral du Sport ). For more details about the background of that Court, please see the website

WWW.TAS-CAS.ORG

In order to proceed the lawsuit with this specialized sports law disputes-Court, both opposing parties must agree to sign a document, in which the two opposing parties agree to the full jurisdiction of this Court.

In case the settlement talks collapse, I plan to clarify  with the defendants' attorney, Mr. Brick to see whether his clients - Jordan, Ammons and Lovett - will agree to accept the jurisdiction of the CAS in order to litigate my Verified Complaint or Statement of Claim.

The CAS  is recognized and partially funded by  the IOC and many other International Sports Federations.

I am now in advance announcing  that I am accepting the CAS' jurisdiction fully and unequivocally.

I do sincerely hope that in the interests of justice and fairness, the  famous CISS motto EQUAL THROUGH  SPORT,  the three defendants will accept the CAS' jurisdiction.

It will also be interesting to see as to how the IOC and other International Sports Federations, including the CISS community, will view and react  the act by Jordan, Ammons and Lovett in case  they  all  three will refuse to submit in litigating my Statement of Claim under the full CAS' jurisdiction.

You know that Jordan is the only deaf holder of the Olympic Order since 1995, while both Ammons and Lovett are maintaining good working relationships with the IOC and many different International Sports Federations ( all these organizations recognize the jurisdiction of the CAS  when  the legal disputes arise with their respective sports-related matters ).

My third option  will be, in case either of the two above options does not materialize, that I will file my new Amended Verified Complaint against the same three defendants at the same USA District Court for the District Court of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

For your information, Mr. Brick has  coincidentially  his Deaflympic Games connection, albeit an indirect one. His father, Lawrence Brick, has collected a complete set of the Deaflympic Games medals - gold, silver and bronze, which he earned by competing at the the Deaflympic Summer Games in 1961 and 1969 as a member of the USA tennis team.

Ironically, Mr. Brick was my first  and top choice as an attorney to represent me in this ongoing lawsuit case, but, for some reason, he chose to represent the defendants, instead!

Because  there were no other available deaf attorneys of Mr. Brick's stature, I had no other choice and I, with my  incomplete law school education,  have, as a result,  been  assuming  the  representation as my own pro se attorney in this ongoing lawsuit case. The dual job of a plaintiff and pro se is  a very tough one. However,  I will try my best to prevail in my long-sought  pursuit for JUSTICE  against these three defendants - the still Pinkhasov Pinchas paranoid and CISS provocateur-in-chief, Jordan, and the inept and "elected"  and "re-elected" CISS  officials  Ammons and Lovett.

Below are my new three materials which are affecting and implicating  my lawsuit case and the CISS a great deal.

THE  START OF THE  CISS PANDORA BOX

THE JULY 29, 2001 PETITION

Following my abrupt removal as the CISS EC Member candidate  by Lovett on July 21,
2001,  my aides and I launched a petition drive among the officials of the CISS Member
Nations who were in Rome, Italy. That  petition strongly condemned the one-man act by Lovett, who very blatantly violated a number of the Constitution rules, especially the Rule 15. Forty  national leaders  signed the petition by denouncing Lovett's suppressively
undemocratic and unlawful act against Rafael I. Pinkhasov Pinchas at the 37th CISS Congress election session in the late afternoon  hours of July 21, 2001.

Thus, July 21, 2001 was the day of the start of so-called "Pandora Box"  for the CISS in general and  for the current lawsuit defendants - Lovett, Ammons and Jordan - in particular.

The many  materials that  are listed on my website under UPDATE are also part of such a Pandora Box for the three defendants!

Here is the list of nations that signed the petition by condemning Lovett's unconstitutional removal of  Rafael I. Pinkhasov Pinchas as a candidate for the CISS EC Member seat
position ( note: ** means a nation that made the list of the top ten in medal winnings at the recent 19th Deaflympic Summer Games ):

**The United States of America ( USA )
**The Russian Federation ( Russia )
The Republic of Uzbekistan
**The Republic of South Africa
**Italy
**The Islamic Republic of Iran
**The Ukraine
**Japan
Moldova
Korea
The Czech Republic
Slovakia
Turkey
India
Yugoslavia
Malaysia
Greece
Portugal
Croatia
Finland
Romania
Spain
Belarus
Estonia
Mongolia
Venezuela
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Arzerbajan
Uruguay
Brazil
Argentina
Cyprus
Bulgaria
Algeria
Turkmenistan
Singapore
Indonesia
Kenya
Armenia.

Other CISS Member Nations and their respective 37th  CISS Congress delegates -**Germany ( Herr Hubert Wilhelm ), **France ( Madame Isabelle Malaurie ), Israel ( Mr. David Lanesman ), Mexico ( Senora Eugenia Rivera ), Cuba ( Senora Miriam Meneses ), Great Britain ( Mr. Edward Webb ) and **Canada ( Miss JoAnne Robinson) - were personally consulted about the petition's contents during the various Deaflympic Summer Games days in Rome, Italy, but each of them chose to take the neutral position.

The only nation - Australia, which will be the host of the next  jubilee 20th Deaflympic Summer Games in Melbourne, in 2005 and home country for the CISS Constitution rules
violator, Lovett - refused to sign the petition. The person who refused to sign the petition on Australia's behalf was its delegate, David Peters, a Lovett accomplice and the one who
brought  publicly up the highly-slanderous and concocted charge against  Rafael I.  Pinkhasov Pinchas at the 37th CISS Congress floor podium premises ( "Pinkhasov Pinchas has four foreign passports. Is he eligible to run for the CISS EC seat?" ).


THE SPECIAL CASE WITH DAVID PETERS

David Peters of Melbourne, Australia,  earned a very special place in my difficult and constantly-struggling life as a bold deaf individual, who, unlike the many deaf sports leaders, has experienced  the taste of dwelling in  the oppressive communistic system in the USSR and in democracy-loving nations of the USA and Uzbekistan.

A handsome, moustachioned, bald, tall  and American-football-body-sized Peters has been since 1985 Australia's second ( after Lovett ) most visible deaf sports leader at the Deaflympic Games - Summer and Winter.

His older deaf brother, Graham, was a friend of mine during our Gallaudet University days some 24 years ago.I do still very fondly remember one unforgettable event in my life. One day during the Christmas school break vacation in 1978, Graham Peters and I were invited to spent one night at the Cresskill, New Jersey, USA residence of Mr. James and Mrs. Eleanor Bahan ( the deaf parents of then Mr. Ben Bahan, also a Gallaudet University student ). This lovely and family-warm home of  the Bahans ( I do still also remember Ben's sister Jill ) was the scene of an international mini-contest in  vodka drinking between the three Gallaudet University students from the USA ( Bahan ), Australia ( Graham Peters) and the USSR  ( Pinkhasov Pinchas ).
The formerly Mr. Ben Bahan is now Dr. Benjamin Bahan,  the widely-respected Chairman of the increasingly-popular Department  of   Deaf Studies   at Gallaudet University in
Washington, D.C., USA.  

Very sadly, Graham, later on, died of the AIDS.

Now, please note the two below-mentioned important dates.

March 14, 1999, Davos, Switzerland.
After the end  of the Closing Ceremonies of the XIVth Deaflympic Winter Games, many athletes and officials were packing their luggages up for their home return. I also packed my own luggage up. Before I was going to aboard the waiting bus nearby  my hotel premises   ( the bus  was headed to the Zurich International Airport)  a moderately-drunk Peters hurriedly ran toward me.  It  was around 3:30 in the very early morning. In  the hotel lobby Peters, in the presence of the two Australian athletes - Dean Hacker, a snowboarder ( he also played basketball for  Team Australia  at the recent Deaflympic Summer Games in Rome ) and Miss Fiona May, an alpine skier, began to persuade me to buy from him his expensive and high-quality material and Australian-manufactured hat and coat, which Peters as an Australian official  wore and prominently and publicly showcased during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Games in Davos.

Peters, as he explained to me, was short of money ( he overspent his money by wildly partying at the local disqoteque and bar club ). He was afraid    to go back home money pocketless. No deaf person, who was in the hotel lobby premises during the eerie
morning hours,  was able to afford to purchase the expensive stuff from Peters.
Peters continued to beg me to buy his stuff. As a result, by having my usual open heart, I, a financially-self-sufficient deaf person and by reminiscing my previous warm friendship  with his older brother, Graham, decided to come to the rescue of the cash-drained Peters. I purchased his expensive, superbly-sewn and brown-colored hat and coat!

November 3, 2000,  Taipei, Taiwan.
During the Asia Pacific  Deaf Sport Federation ( APDSF ) Congress morning coffee break held at the glitzy AsiaWorld Hotel, Peter' boss, Lovett had an audience with me, in which he was very upset because Peters did not bring a single athlete from Australia,  to participate at the 6th Asia Pacific Games for the Deaf  held in Taipei. Lovett felt that Australian team's  absence at these important regional Games  was a bad public relations  and promotional venture for his nation as the host of  the coming 2005 Deaflympic Summer Games to be  held in Melbourne.
Then Lovett left this  hotel for good.

In Lovett's absence  at the Congress proceedings in the hotel room, Peters individually and covertly    began to launch his own campaign  by begging  some delegates to vote for him for the new APDSF EC seat. When I learned of his wish, it became no problem for him  because at that Congress proceedings I, as a delegate for Uzbekistan, and because of my multilingualism, knowledge of sports and constitution rules, was the most articulate and visible delegate there. Because of my tremendous personal respect for him, his  knowledge of English ( the official language of the APDSF ) and in order to honor the memory of his deceased brother, Graham, my university friend,  I decided to unequivocally encourage and support Peters' aspirations to gain the APDSF EC seat.

For the record, at that very Congress it was I who single-handedly and successfully        re-nominated the incumbent Chou Tung of Taiwan for the new APDSF EC ( this was done in spite of the fact that before the elections Chou Tung  publicly and repeatedly  announced that he wanted to completely cease his activities with the APDSF, which would also automatically mean his exit as the CISS EC member from the  APDSF region ).

On the other hand, under the pressure of the many foreign delegates at the Congress, I also initially  accepted my own nomination for the EC seat, but, later on, for only one big reason,  I  unselfishly  and sacrificiedly withdrew my  nomination.

( For the record, on that day of November 3, 2000, before the start of the APDSF Congress election session, I witnessed a very annoying scene in the Congress room:
the very pale and sickening face of one CISS EC official - Ammons, who attended
the meeting as a guest. Very obviously, Ammons was very shaking and as if she was dying
at the room scene because she did not genuinely want me to get elected to the APDSF
EC. As a result, by not wanting to see the possible arrival of the ambulance medics,
in case Ammons gets very ill or gets collapsed at the Congress room, I instantly decided
to withdraw my name as one of the six already declared candidates for the four vacant EC positions. When, at the Congress floor podium, I abruptly announced my withdrawal from the election race, many foreign delegates were upset, while Ammons' own face began to
shine! That was the sole reason of my unselfish and sacrificing decision to drop out of the
election race in Taipei. To this day, however, to my much happiness, the still cutely-faced
Ammons ( the one to whom I personally, with the blessings of Mr. Arthur Kruger, the Father of the USA Deaf Sports, opened to her sports administration world's "foothold" in 1978 ) is still surviving! ).

Back to the APDSF EC elections.

After an elaborate voting count, the four persons were elected to the EC, including my personal choices  Peters and Tung, at the Congress. Later on, at a separate four-member EC meeting, Tung retained his position as the APDSF President, while  a very intelligent deaf Malaysian leader, Mohammed Sazali, the  man   who also knows English, became the Secretary, Peters - the Treasurer, and the always hospitable and warm-hearted Ismail Karam of Kuwait, the host organizer  of the next 7th Asia-Pacific Games in 2004  - the EC member.

In  the evening hours of November 3, 2000, I again met Lovett, this time at another  fashionable Grand  Hotel. There I personally congratulated him on Peters' becoming the new APDSF EC member. But, to my much  surprise, Lovett was very furious of the news by explaining the following to me,

"Why  was my illiterate David Peters  chosen to the EC position  without my advance knowledge and permission; he very  very much embarassed me by completely failing  to bring our Australian team to Taipei; he needs to spend more of his quality  time by concentrating on the big work of the coming 2005  Deaflympic Games in Melbourne."

When, in Rome's Olympic Stadium swimming pool premises, on July 28, 2001, I shared the above Lovett  remark about Peters to Peters himself, he reacted about this in disbelief. But he refused to believe me and  also refused to sign the petition . No question, Lovett, my lawsuit adversary, will deny that  he ever uttered such words about  Peters he made to me in Taipei. But, I, by knowing Lovett's already historical pattern of lying, hope one day Peters will realize as to kind of  "a boss" and accomplice he had and still has  in Lovett.

Now, you see as to what kind of politics and hypocricy, in order to ensure his power retaining,  Lovett plays with not only deaf foreign leaders ( recall  the case of Knud Sondergaard, the 1997-1998 CISS troublemaker and the contents of the April 18,2001 Lovett written-letter to me) but also with his own hometown leader like Peters.

In addition, while in Davos in 1999, I also had provided "my helping hand" to the delegation of Australia there, which was led by Miss Anne Bremner and Peters.

On March 7, 1999, a day before the start  of the 2005 Deaflympic Summer Games bid election contest   between the cities of Melbourne, Australia and Kosice, Slovakia, at the 36th CISS Congress, a special meeting of the APDSF region countries was convened in the late evening hour in a small Davos hotel room. At that meeting there were representatives of 12 member-nations of the APDSF, who gathered for the XIXth Deaflympic Summer Games qualification draw in football. And there, at the closed-door meeting and in the presence of  Chou Tung, the APDSF President and Emmanuel Rossel, a Belgian CISS TD in football, I, standing in front, was the only one, as an act of regional solidarity and support, to urge all the representatives  from these 12 APDSF countries, to vote for the city of Melbourne as a candidate city for the 2005 Games ( to prove this event occurrence, I  have good photos in my possession ).

And "my helping hand" for Australia's Games bid delegation worked!

The next day, on March 8, 1999, the city of Melbourne handily won  the bid in hosting the 2005 Games  over Kosice, 59 votes to 33 votes. When Melbourne was announced as the bid winner, Peters instantly reacted like a happily crazy man ( to prove this scenario, I have a videotape of that  big day's event in Peters' life, also in my own possession ).

You see what kind of  noble, extraordinary and  unselfish deeds I did   for Peters in Taipei and  Davos.( also for Chou Tung in Taipei).  How could Peters, later on,  dare to act betrayingly  and very unfriendly toward me in Rome? Was it difficult for him to ask me in person  in Rome before the start of the elections whether I  actually owned the four foreign passports? And does Peters, a good English reader and by refusing to sign the July 29, 2001 petition, still think that his "boss" Lovett did not violate the CISS Constitution  rules, especially Rule 15, in Rome?

Finally and most importantly, what a scandalous, provocative  and irresponsibly treacherous act Peters  did to me in Rome in  the late afternoon hour of  July 21, 2001!

No question, the power-hungry Lovett, was the one who influenced and coached  Peters to defamingly  act against me!

Do one realize as to where were Peters' noble acts of personal gratitude and appreciation toward me, who learned for the first time the name of David Peters from his own older and long-deceased brother, Graham, my university friend and one-time vodka drinking contest  buddy and rival?

Partly because I am concentrating on my lawsuit case against the three, I have no time to bring up another legal matter - defamation of character or libel or slander - against Peters, Lovett's own "illiterate"  man and 37th CISS Congress accomplice.

Another part is that in  my whole heart, I know that much success in organizing of the next Deaflympic Games in 2005 in Melbourne depends  on Peters, the nation's charismatic deaf leader and by knowing of the shortage of the qualified man power in his Australian Deaf Sports Federation of which Peters is still the President, I do not wish to distract Peters' dynamic leadership work there by suing him for his slanderous remark about    his concoctingly so-called "my possession of four foreign passports".

How  soft-hearted, generous, charitable, patriotic  and considerate I am!

Eventually, I hope, instead, one day soon Peters ( if he has his own courage, conscience and wisdom)  will issue the public apology to me!


THE IMAFD ( International Deaf Martial Arts Federation of the Deaf )

Every day I receive  a great deal of communication - the  local and international  mail, facsimile and e-mail. Many people  - both the deaf and non-deaf  - seek for my assistance and opinion advice related to  many different spheres of life, including  the subjects of the CISS history and deaf international sports.

Recently, a number of letters sent to me by  the IMAFD officials caught my eyes.

The IMAFD, an associate member of the CISS since 1999, has in the last 20  years or so been successfully  and impressively organizing its own World Championships in various disciplines of martial arts, including judo and karate.

But, as I have just learned, that IMAFD is very unhappy with the Lovett and Ammons-administered CISS. While getting familiarized with the volumnious mail exchange between
the CISS and the IMAFD, I spotted that Lovett and Ammons, acting as the indifferent bureaucrats, are providing the misleading and vaguely-worded  communication to the IMAFD officials.

I see that  the inadequately-experienced sports administrators, Lovett and Ammons, for the unjustified motives, are  insensitive and unreceptive to the long-sought IMAFD's desire: to include marital arts as sports on the official Deaflympic Games program in 2005.
For example, there is a lunatically-adventurous suggestion by Lovett to the IMAFD officials recently: get disbanded as an organization and we, the CISS, will consider including the sport of martial arts on the CISS-supervised Games program!

Imagine the reaction scene  in a civilized sports world: Dr. Jacques Rogge, the IOC President, telling Dr. Sepp Blatter, the FIFA President, to disband his FIFA  as an organization and the IOC, in return, will consider  of including football on the Olympic Games program!

Because there is a friction between the CISS and  the IMAFD over one major  issue: Lovett's and Ammons' reluctance to include martial arts  on the official Games program, I caution you now that I will not be surprised that one day soon the IMAFD will cease paying $200.00 annual membership dues to  the CISS Treasury and leave the organization as its associate member. The IMAFD officials feel that they pay $200.00 to the CISS  by getting nothing in return from the CISS itself, except lip service!

To sum this matter up, it is my strong opinion that both Lovett and Ammons are again mishandling their case with an organization  like the IMAFD. Remember, in 2001, this inept duet, interalia, mishandled the high-profile cases of :

a) the National Sports Associations of  Turkey and Norway as the CISS Constitution rule violators;
b) the nasty banning of delegation of Kazakhstan from competing at the XIXth Games in Rome;
c) the very belated disqualification  of Osmel Sejas Rodriquez, an Italian triple gold medal winner in the 100 m, 200 m and 400 m  in the Rome Games;
d) the highly-questionable hiring of Miss Vicki White, a hearing woman and Ammons
roommate, as the CISS TD in Athletics in Rome;
e)  the questionable treatment of the legitimately-elected CISS EC member, Vojtech Volejnik of the  Czech Republic  as a security guard at the 1999 Deaflympic Winter Games in Davos and  registration-type clerk  at the 2001 CISS Congress in Rome;
f) Ammons' inappropriate and inflammatory comments  about the "CISS representative from Italy" ( Renzo Corti ) and the hearing Italian  2001 Games organizers in the primarily-children-geared deaf magazine called THE WORLD AROUND YOU, which is  published by the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., USA, recently.

In spite of the above, this year and before the start of the 2003 Deaflympic Winter Games in Sundsvall, Sweden, I GUARANTEE  you now that both Lovett and Ammons will produce  another new rule violation  derived from the three "Bibles" of the CISS - the Constitution or Deaflympic Games or World Championships!

Overall, I feel, for a number of valid  and logical reasons, very sympathetic to the IMAFD's cause.

If I am ever elected to the CISS EC,  I  will work hard to find a viable and realistic solution, which will  eventually make both the CISS and IMAFD officials very happy (I do, in fact, already have a formula to present as to how to realistically and satisfactorily solve this very touchy matter between the CISS and the IMAFD! ).

Remember, we are a  small deaf sports world and we must get UNITED as one close-knit and BIG DEAF FAMILY.
The sooner we do that  the better!

Sportingly Yours,

Rafael Pinkhasov Pinchas


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