What Is Driving Atty. Pauline Quirion and Other Women Who Have Extreme Dislike of Men?

Lesbians Are Powerful in Mass. Courts; Responsible for Hostility To Men and 'Straight' Women?

By Atty. J Edward Pawlick
November 2001

I first met Atty. Pauline Quirion in June 2000 at the Dedham Probate Court when she was trying desperately to put Ken Newell in jail.

She was also attempting to stop his children from ever seeing him.

I could not stop wondering what had caused this intense dislike of men. I had never before seen such an attitude in a lawyer in my forty years at the bar.

All of this was happening, Quirion said, because Newell had spent more than $5 on a gift to each of his two children.

For this she had taken all this time and energy from a judge who says she is overworked?

What really happened was that Newell had bought one Pokemon set at $9.90 and split it between the two children. He also bought two $1 gold coins but had not yet given one to his daughter because he had not seen her since he purchased it.

Judge Christina Harms tried her best to take a serious look at Atty. Quirion's complaints, but she made plain her feelings about the frivolity of the charges when she announced she would cut it short with only a "speech."

Atty. Quirion Planned the Entire Thing

This all started on May 15 when Quirion filed the Contempt of Court charge against Newell.

The lawyer is free to the wife (paid for by the state and federal governments out of a $17 million slush fund that's kept by Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the state's Supreme Court) and she won't lose any time at work because she doesn't work due to her problem with drugs.

Atty. Quirion doesn't have to worry about the time she is wasting because she is a poverty lawyer who is paid by the government to help women. She is paid no matter what she does.

But that's not true with civil rights lawyer Chester Darling who had volunteered to help Newell this morning after he had discovered what was happening.

Atty. Darling and Judge Forced to Wait

Although Newell had been ordered to arrive at the court at 8:30 a.m., everyone had to wait: Newell, his lawyer and Judge Harms while Atty. Quirion desperately tried to find something, anything, that Newell had done wrong.

She attempted to obtain by fax some derogatory statements about Newell from his daughter's "therapist," a social worker who conducts post-visit interrogations of the children after each visit.

But she could find nothing. Finally, at 1 p.m. it became clear to everyone that her efforts were fruitless.

Judge Harms then told everyone to go home. This never would have happened in an ordinary courtroom. No judge would allow anyone to waste their time this way. But Atty. Quirion is not just any lawyer. She is a poverty lawyer and a protege of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SJC), Margaret Marshall. She can do anything she wants with impunity.

Before poverty lawyers appeared on the scene back in the 1970s, most people acted reasonably in the courtroom because no one could afford to waste their time or money. Settlements and compromises were the accepted norm. But these "poverty lawyers" have no reason to settle a case because they are paid by federal and state monies. They can waste all the time they desire on a frivolous case, which they do.