Today I drove to Birmingham, AL, walked up the steps of the Hugo L. Black United States Courthouse, and hand-delivered a Motion to Remand — one more step in a fight that, more and more, feels less like one woman against a corporation, and more like standing united with everyone else who’s ever felt a big company try to bully them into backing down.

There’s something different about doing it this way. It’s easy to forget that at some point, paperwork has to physically land in a physical building, in front of a physical clerk, under a name carved into stone. Standing in front of that building today, I felt the weight of that a little more than usual — and I won’t pretend the name on the front of the courthouse didn’t give me pause. Some names carry more history than others. I’ll leave it there.

Why I Filed In Person

This one had to be hand-delivered.

There’s a certain peace of mind in watching a clerk stamp a document with your own eyes — but beyond that, there was something almost fitting about it. Federal courthouses aren’t built to be forgettable. The architecture, the security line, the hush of the hallways — it’s a reminder that this is real, moving through a real system, one filing at a time.

The Quotes on the Wall

While I was there, I stopped in front of two quotes posted inside the courthouse — words attributed to Hugo Black himself, on the subject he was arguably most famous for defending: the First Amendment.

Black spent 34 years on the Supreme Court, and the two quotes posted in that lobby capture both sides of the man — the personal devotion and the judicial philosophy.

The first, from a 1968 lecture, gets at how he felt about the Constitution on a personal level:

“The constitution is my legal bible; its plan of our government is my plan and its destiny my destiny. I cherish every word of it, from the first to the last, and I personally deplore even the slightest deviation from its least important commands.” — Carpentier Lectures, delivered at Columbia University Law School, New York, NY, March 1968

The second is from one of his opinions on the bench, and it’s the one that stopped me longest:

“Under our constitutional system, courts stand against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered or because they are non-conforming victims of prejudice and public excitement.” — Chambers v. State of Florida, 309 U.S. 227, 241 (1940)

That’s a bold, almost stubborn, reading of the Constitution — and it’s not a bad thing to be reminded of, whatever brings you through those doors. Words carved into a wall have a way of landing differently when you’re standing there in person, about to hand a stack of paper across a counter, than they do in a textbook or a law school lecture.

What That Has to Do With Why I Was There

I litigate some of my own TCPA cases pro se — no attorney standing between me and the courtroom, just me, the filings, and the record. And along the way, I’ve been told, more than once, that I shouldn’t be writing publicly about cases that are already a matter of public record. That my blog, this investigation, my own documented account of what’s happening in cases I am a named party to — that somehow that’s off-limits.

Standing in that lobby, reading Black’s words, that idea didn’t hold up.

Court filings are public. Docket entries are public. What I file, what gets ruled on, what gets argued — none of that is a secret, and none of it stops being a matter of public record just because a company would rather protect its reputation. Or would rather other people not find out what happened to me and realize they can sue them for the exact same thing. Black spent his career insisting that “no law” means no law — that the First Amendment doesn’t come with an asterisk for whoever finds the speech inconvenient. I’m not a party to be talked over. I’m pro se. This is my case, my record, and my right to write about it.

And that second quote — about courts standing as “havens of refuge” for the “helpless, weak, outnumbered” — is the part that actually explains why I keep doing this in the first place. Because here’s what I’ve actually lived through: I’ve told this company to stop calling. Not once, not twice — I’ve sued over it three separate times before this case. And instead of stopping, what I’ve experienced feels less like a company correcting course and more like being bullied — big, well-funded, and banking on the idea that if they wait me out, threaten, and make it expensive and exhausting enough, I’ll eventually just go away. But it hasn’t worked, and it isn’t going to.

That’s exactly the kind of imbalance courts are supposed to exist to correct — one person, standing alone in a marble lobby, against an operation with more lawyers than she has hours in the day. But “alone” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, because it isn’t really true. Every consumer who’s been ignored after saying “stop calling me.” Every person who’s felt the weight of a company with far more resources trying to make them feel small enough to quit. Every pro se litigant who’s shown up to a courthouse without a law firm behind them — we’re not alone in this. We’re UNITED. And no amount of pressure changes the fact that the law is supposed to apply to everyone, corporations included, whether or not they can afford to pretend otherwise.

I didn’t expect a courthouse lobby to reframe why I do this work. But it did, a little. I walked in to file paperwork. I walked out reminded that this fight was never really about one company versus one person — it’s about whether the law means what it says for everyone, or just for whoever can afford the best lawyers. UNITED is what happens when enough people get sick and tired of companies thinking they're above the law.

What’s Next

The motion is filed and now in the court’s hands. There’s more coming on this case — and as always, everything I write about is public record. I’d rather you go look it up and see it for yourself than just take my word for it. Because that’s the only way that these harassing phone calls will end… if we stand UNITED.

Thanks for following along. More soon.

Here’s the short version: these calls hit my phone the same way they hit yours — uninvited, constant, and in violation of federal law. Unlike most people, I’ve spent years documenting them, filing formal claims, and holding the companies behind them accountable. This is where I show my work.

What this is:

Think true crime, but the crime is a robocall and the detective’s wearing a mask instead of a badge. Every post here follows the same format — the evidence I received, the trail it points to, and what I think it means. I’m not here to accuse anyone of anything. I’m here to show you the paper trail and let you decide for yourself.

And here’s the part that matters most: this isn’t just entertainment. The same laws that protect me protect you. If you’ve gotten a call like the ones I document, you may have grounds to do something about it too — I’ll walk through what the law actually says, case by case, so you leave knowing more than you did when you got here.

Let’s also clear something up: I’m not a serial litigator. I’m a serial victim — as in, this keeps happening, episode after episode, one masked case file at a time.

What this isn’t:

A courtroom. What you’ll see here is what’s already public, what I’ve personally documented, and what I genuinely believe based on the evidence — always clearly labeled as mine.

The Robin Hood part:

When a company is held accountable, a portion of the proceeds goes to charity — and you help pick where. Catch a Medicare scammer targeting seniors? We might send it to Meals on Wheels. The charity fits the crime.

Why the mask?

I’m an actress in real life, and I love a good costume. My name’s a matter of public record on every claim I file, so this was never about hiding — it’s about having fun while going after something we can actually all agree on. This country is divided on a lot right now, but if there’s one thing nearly everyone can get behind, it’s being sick of scammers. And let’s be honest — if the product they were selling was actually that good, they wouldn’t have to break federal law to sell it. Turns out those acting skills come in handy for more than the stage — these companies go to great lengths to hide who they really are, so sometimes it takes a little performance on my end just to get them to reveal it. Call it method acting, for discovery purposes.

What’s next:

The first real case file drops soon — full evidence, full trail, and a question for you at the end. If you’ve ever hung up on a spam call and wondered “can they actually do that?” — you’re in the right place.

Maybe you’ve gotten a call just like mine. Same script, same spoofed number, same company hiding behind a dozen different names. Part of what we’re building here is a record — so if my case sounds familiar, I want to hear about it.

Subscribe below to get every case file the moment it drops. And if you’ve gotten a call from a company you suspect I should know about — evidence welcome. Confessions optional.

— Robbie Brown