Cast of Characters
Madder v Ramsey: A surreal legal reality in which every character insists the script is normal. Below is the full cast list, introduced exactly as they appear in the record.
The Antagonist
The Defendants
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Referee Elizabeth ClysdaleThe HRO referee whose unsigned orders materialized like ghost signals, producing due-process blackouts wherever they appeared.
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Referee Jenese LarmouthSpecializing 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 Kyle T. ManderfeldThe 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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Court Administrator Nicole RuegerThe bureaucratic alchemist who turned clerical errors into constitutional crises: altered ROAs, missing signatures, and contradictory notices all flowed from her desk like a glitch in the matrix.
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Law Firm Barna, Guzy & Steffen, Ltd.The law firm that chose silence as a defense strategy, shielding Manderfeld while letting procedural incompetence accrue like interest.
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Referee Rebecca RossowThe continuity editor of misconduct - preserving each glitch exactly as she found it, never correcting, never questioning, always clicking "accept."
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Judge Victoria GardnerThe quiet custodian of problems left unsolved - a judicial screensaver that activates whenever accountability approaches.
The Defense Counsel
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Assistant Attorney General Matt Mason
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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Ramsey County Attorney Brett BaconThe 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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BGS Shareholder Bradley KletscherThe 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.
Supporting Cast
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Judge Nicole StarrThe judge who laundered defective orders with elegant footnotes, crafting rulings so contradictory they folded appellate timelines like origami.
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Judge Mark IrelandThe 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 Michael UptonThe 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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Ramsey County Sheriff's OfficeThe agency that couldn't serve an HRO but successfully leaked Plaintiff's address - a rare 0% success, 200% harm scenario.
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Ramsey County, MinnesotaAn institution collapsing under the weight of its own paperwork, denying ADA rights and losing track of the very documents it claims to rely on.
