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Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 25-50062 · judgment July 24, 2025
Questions presented
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Question Presented (where USA Title 11 System is OC): Is Merkle’s surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proceed to discovery and jury trial in USDC case 5:20-cw5023 as an 18 USC Chapter 13, Civil Rights, §241 “conspiracy against rights” case, free of sanctions?
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Prefatory Statement* I, Carl Nathaniel Merkle, am a victim of many crimes committed by the USA against a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (“BK”) filer. I filed BK for proper purpose on 1/4/16 to stop an illegal foreclosure scheduled for 1/5/16 of my then sole and primary personal residence and planned form of retirement income due to Denis Stratford, Esq’s 2015 theft/embezzlement/misapplication of my hazard insurance (fiduciary property). An accounting fraud done by organized crime (“OC”); theft by 3 or more people. Misapplication showed my loan (unsecured) as delinquent when in fact it was current and fully performing using proper accounting: my accounting. My accounting must be used per doctrine of interpretation against the draftsman. I’m an accounting and auditing expert. Stratford’s crimes became the USA’s crimes via BK judge Craig A. Gargotta’s fraudulent July 14, 2017 FRCP 12(b)(6) order that was a virtual copy and paste of David Gragg’s Motion to Dismiss for 12(b)(6), causing a fraudulent set of Fed.R.Evid.201 “judicially noticed facts” to emerge, fueling years and years of “frauds upon the court”. I fully agree with this truthful Tf written by 22-50216-to-25-50062 referring USDC judge, Jason K. Pulliam: Stating that his bankruptcy case is “an ‘organized crime ’ case, since inception, fraudulently converted to Chapter 7 on March 18, 2020, which then started the 2020, 2021, and 2022, crimes by the ‘Gang of 7’ revealed in 3 of die Notice of Appeal (NOA). Withdrawal of reference is mandatory.” ECF No. 11 at 1 (found within caption). That same document identifies the Bank ruptcy Judge and trustee as “enforcers for organized crime and members of the ‘Gang of 7.” Id. 3 This still open “sealed” USDC “whistleblower case”, opened 4/23/20, complains of OC and has a jury demand. See https://tinyurl.com/WhistleblowerStatement on YouTube recorded 5/25/20. But I’m gagged, a 1st Amendment right violation, intended and used by judges, clerks, and DOJ to conceal their role in the crimes, OC. And conceal my demand for jury trial, free and clear of any sanctions. Sanctions are part of an OC plot: “Gragg’s scam with gag plot” (“GSWGP’) the focus of 23 50692 & 25’50062. Dated: September 17, 2025, Constitution Day. 1 of 40 Micah 6:8
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Carl N. Merkle
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 26 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jan 08 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
- Sep 18 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 22, 2025)