Cast of Characters
Madder v Ramsey: A surreal legal drama in which every character insists the script is normal. Below is the full cast list, introduced exactly as they appear in the record.
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The Defendants
9 named defendants
Court Administrator
Record Administrator Nicole Rueger
The bureaucratic alchemist who turned clerical errors into constitutional crises: altered ROAs, missing signatures, and contradictory notices.
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Referee
Referee Elizabeth Clysdale
The HRO referee whose unsigned orders materialized like ghost signals, producing due-process blackouts wherever they appeared.
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Referee
Referee Jenese Larmouth
Specializing in void hearings and improvised fiction, she presided over her own recusal while issuing findings sourced from a parallel universe.
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Attorney
Attorney Kyle T. Manderfeld
Represents: M. Lee
The former county law clerk who leveraged his old login credentials like a skeleton key, filing false evidence, emailing the plaintiff at unknown addresses, and mailing pornography across state lines while requesting her arrest.
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Law Firm
Law Firm Barna, Guzy & Steffen, Ltd.
Employs: K. Manderfeld
The law firm that chose silence as a defense strategy, shielding Manderfeld while letting procedural incompetence accrue like interest.
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Sheriff's Deputy
Deputy Corrine Loya
Affiliation: Ramsey County Sheriff's Office
The deputy who filed a false police report, a plot twist so audacious it could only be true.
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Referee
Referee Rebecca Rossow
The continuity editor of misconduct — preserving each glitch exactly as she found it, never correcting, never questioning, always clicking "accept."
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Referee
Judge Victoria Gardner
Status: Referee at filing; now sitting District Court Judge
The quiet custodian of problems left unsolved — a judicial screensaver that activates whenever accountability approaches.
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County Government
Ramsey County, Minnesota
An institution collapsing under the weight of its own paperwork, denying ADA rights and losing track of the very documents it claims to rely on.
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The Defense Counsel
3 attorneys of record
Asst. Attorney General
Assistant Attorney General Matt Mason
Represents: The Judiciary
The lone steady signal in a storm of procedural static. The court's de facto tech support — resetting expectations, stabilizing timelines, and quietly refusing to participate in the chaos.
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Attorney
Ramsey County Attorney Brett Bacon
Represents: Ramsey County
The county lawyer who inherited the glitch and hit send — pushing altered evidence into the federal record with confidence unburdened by verification.
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Attorney
BGS Shareholder Bradley Kletscher
Represents: BGS & K. Manderfeld
The firm's phantom signature line, filing late, filing wrong, and filing again — proving that if you recycle the same error often enough, someone might call it strategy.
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Supporting Cast
4 related actors
District Court Judge
Judge Nicole Starr
The judge who laundered defective orders with elegant footnotes, crafting rulings so contradictory they folded appellate timelines like origami.
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District Court Judge
Judge Mark Ireland
The judge who dismissed an active case he wasn't assigned to, sua sponte, despite a Certificate of Service blinking neon "NO."
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Court Administrator
Court Administrator Michael Upton
The keeper of evasions — long on courtesy, short on answers — finalizing an unlawful dismissal with the serenity of a man sending a routine memo.
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Sheriff's Office
Ramsey County Sheriff's Office
Employs: Deputy Loya
The agency that couldn't serve an HRO but successfully leaked Plaintiff's address — a rare 0% success, 200% harm scenario.
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The Antagonist
1 origin / catalyst
Adverse Private Party
Madeline S. M. Lee
Aliases: Pojo Kutty
The cyberstalker who started it all: weaponizing police reports, void HROs, and a Telegram archive of strangers' nudes, all to silence a woman she never met.
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Social Media
1 platformMeta Platforms, Inc.