We will take a brief holiday hiatus and return after the New Year with more documents and more news. The last three weeks have been overwhelming but indicative that inherent goodness and justice shall prevail. We wish you, our dear readers, a blessed and Merry Christmas and all the best for you and your loved ones in 2023.

We wish to let our dear readers know that we will be back the week of August 9th. Please enjoy your summer break and we’ll have more news and insightful reports next month. Until then, we wish you and your families a happy, enjoyable, and safe summer.

We have been pleased to see support from individuals tied to Balch & Bingham allies. We always knew there were honorable and decent people who could rise above the noise and do the right thing. Almost three months after her liver transplant, Baby Natalia is healthier than ever. We want to take a moment to thank YOU, our dear readers, for your prayers, warm thoughts, and financial support. We are working with Natalia’s boosters to now help raise the balance due to pay for her life saving treatment. As readers may recall, Baby Natalia was scheduled to have her transplant…

With all the doom and gloom in recent weeks, we share some good, joyful news today. Baby Natalia’s liver transplant was a success and she and mom (the donor) are recovering well. We ask you, our dear readers, to keep Baby Natalia and her mom in your prayers. The unfortunate delay after mom and baby were infected with COVID-19 worried us all, but now we breathe a collective sigh of relief. Above is a photo of Natalia after the transplant. We, the CDLU, are starting a fundraising drive to help pay for Baby Natalia’s medical bills. Feel free to donate…

Yesterday, we had unfortunate news that Baby Natalia’s transplant surgery has been postponed because she has tested positive for COVID-19. Her mother, Natalia’s liver donor, has tested positive for COVID-19, too. We are asking for your prayers for this little girl and her entire family. She and her mother will be in quarantine between 10 to 20 days. She has overcome many obstacles including the inability to crawl. Doctors had told her family that she would most likely never crawl until she had the transplant. But she eventually did crawl. We are hopeful that the surgery will happen soon and…

Many of our readers are lawyers and as The New York Times points out, lawyers are at the greatest risk, like cashiers, of contracting the Coronavirus. We, ourselves, will be hunkering down in self-imposed quarantine with our families. And we hope that you, our dear reader, do, too. As long time healthcare advocates, we, the CDLU, understand the critical need for families to stay quarantined and prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. We will be on hiatus and will return in April. Until then, our good wishes to you and yours.

Today marks the 19th anniversary of the founding of our public charity, the CDLU. The late Hortensia Magaña and K.B. Forbes founded the organization in 2001 after numerous other public charities refused, out of fear, to tackle the powerful hospital sector for price-gouging uninsured minorities. Without fear, the CDLU has vigorously fought for inherent goodness, fairness, and justice. Our organization has spurred three U.S. Congressional investigations, and countless federal, state, local, and Civil Rights probes. Even after the most heated and fierce fights, as a gesture of goodwill, we have built solid relationships with our former opponents. We are a…

Our main mission as a public charity is to help the sick and the dying. We have helped over 10,000 families since 2001. One extraordinary case was that of Blanca Blancas Luna, a wonderful mother from Mexico who desperately needed our help to obtain a ground-breaking stem-cell surgery in Chicago. Our original contact with Blanca’s family was near the time Balch & Bingham and their stooge Judge Carole Smitherman created the unconstitutional and corrupt Star Chamber in August of 2017. We traveled multiple times to Chicago and wrote about her original care on this blog titled, “Blanca versus the Brookies.”…

This week our leadership is in Chicago helping the sick and dying. Blanca Blancas Luna (pictured) is to undergo a transplant procedure next month after heart surgery tomorrow. Why is there a criminal trial, now, today, this very moment in Birmingham? Because of Balch & Bingham’s corporate culture. A corporate culture that appears to fight to the death and justifies Balch’s “ruining a rival” mentality. Even if it means allegations of corruption, cutting corners, misquoting legal decisions, or greasing the wheels, Balch appears to do everything with impunity and hubris. We have had record breaking traffic to our website from across…

We would like nothing more than to unplug this site if and only if Balch & Bingham would settle the Burt Newsome Conspiracy case and apologize to the North Birmingham African-American community. Our educational advocacy project simply started with the Newsome conspiracy case and has mushroomed into numerous unsettling matters concerning the once prestigious, silk-stocking law firm. Google analytics tells us we have over 17,000 unique users who visit our site regularly, some on a daily basis. We thank you for your readership. Google also tells us that our number one post of all time is about the unconstitutional and…

Good morning from the Windy City where the CDLU will be meeting with surgeons and others to help Blanca Blancas obtain a hopeful and ground-breaking treatment in an attempt to save her life. That is what the CDLU is truly about: helping the sick and the dying. What we thought would be an easy task of working with Balch & Bingham to rid themselves of bad apples, has turned into an investigation on multiple fronts while esteemed partners leave the firm. As some of the elite in Mountain Brook defend Balch’s alleged abhorrent misconduct, we will not lose sight of…

What will it take for Balch & Bingham to come to their senses? A management change? More indictments? More partners fleeing? We, the CDLU, have engaged in fights for goodness and justice for almost 17 years.  In addition, we have provided or secured over $10 million in medical services for the sick and the dying. Our track record is solid and includes: Fighting a corrupt adult day care center that protected a sexual predator for almost a year who sexually abused developmentally disabled adult children and transmitted an STD to these innocent children. The center was eventually shut down because…