Press Kit

A one-stop reference for journalists, researchers, and other media covering Strickland v. Ramsey County. Everything below is publishable; everything below is also drawn from primary sources you can verify independently.

Case caption

Case name

Kellye Strickland v. Ramsey County, et al. (also referred to as Madder v. Ramsey)

Court

United States District Court for the District of Minnesota (D. Minn.)

Plaintiff

Kellye Strickland (publicly known as Onion Madder) — bio

Named defendants

Eighteen actors across the Ramsey County judicial system, defense counsel, the Sheriff's Office, and implicated institutions. See the full cast.

Central allegations

ADA retaliation, due-process violations stemming from a documented dual-record defect in Ramsey County's case-management system, judicial-misconduct patterns. Structural Monell theory.

Status

[Editorial: insert current procedural posture — pending motions, hearings, latest ruling. Update as posture changes.]

Plaintiff — one-paragraph bio

Kellye Strickland is an autistic indie game developer, OSINT investigator, and digital archivist based in Minnesota. She is the founder of Mad Sundar LLC and represents herself pro se in the federal action while a contingency-retained attorney handles parallel state-court work. She built this archive with the same discipline she uses in her day job: open sources only, every claim traceable to a primary document, every actor named with their public role.

For longer-form biographical material: /bio. For an interview or extended quote, contact below.

Why this matters — short version

Most cases in this docket would be dismissed as "clerical error" if you only looked at one of them. The structural argument of Strickland v. Ramsey County is that the errors are not clerical — they're architectural. Ramsey County maintains two incompatible systems of record for the same case: a public-facing MCRO view labeled "informational only," and an internal attorney-facing Register of Actions that defense counsel treats as authoritative in federal court. The two versions disagree.

The same defect surfaces in unrelated Ramsey County litigation (Wright v. St. Paul Police Department, Scheffler, others), ruling out the possibility that the discrepancy is user error or litigation strategy. Under Monell, that pattern — if proven — describes municipal custom, not isolated bad acts.

Key documents

The most consequential filings, orders, and exhibits — direct PDFs:

• Amended Petition — the federal complaint laying out the Monell theory.
• Motion for Preliminary Injunction — relief sought pending resolution.
• Notice of Altered Documents — alleges post-filing alteration of court records.
• Judge Starr's "Fake Facts" Order — Aug 19 2025, denying Motion to Vacate on collateral estoppel.
• Manderfeld's Motion for Contempt — accepted onto the docket despite explicit content.
• Wright internal "Bacon ROA" — cross-case evidence of the dual-record defect in unrelated litigation.

Full document index: /documents/

Quote bank

Quotable pull-lines from the dossier prose. Attribute to "the plaintiff" or "Kellye Strickland" as appropriate. All quotes are from this archive's published text.

• "When the ROA is not a fixed record but a variable output, litigants cannot safely rely on it, district judges cannot audit it, and federal courts cannot rely on representations derived from it."
• "Finality without authenticity is not justice — it is foreclosure."
• "A court system where the timeline itself is unstable is a court system in which procedural rights cannot meaningfully be exercised."
• "The pattern is the case."
• "When counsel insists that the internal version is the 'real' one, every structural defect in that system becomes a mechanism for misrepresentation, and every litigant becomes vulnerable to it."

Photos & image policy

Plaintiff headshot, project logo, and archive screenshots are available on request. Email below.

The actor portraits on the dossier pages are sourced from public profiles, professional directories, and court-system bios. They are reproduced under fair use for purposes of journalism, criticism, and public-interest commentary on public officials acting in their official capacity. These portraits should not be republished outside that fair-use context; journalists covering this matter should source their own imagery or request the originals from the relevant directories.

Permitted use

• Quote freely from this site with attribution to "the Madder v. Ramsey archive" or "Kellye Strickland (Onion Madder)".
• Link freely to any URL on this site, including deep-links to individual dossier sections (every section heading is an anchor).
• Reproduce primary documents — the PDFs in /documents/ are public court records; reproduce as you would any public filing.
• Cite the archive in your reporting per your publication's standards.

Asked-for-but-not-required

• Heads-up before publication when feasible. Not a precondition — appreciated when possible so the plaintiff can prepare for the response.
• A copy or link of the resulting piece. Not a precondition; useful for the archive's record.

Press contact

Email: onionmadder@gmail.com

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Response time: typically within 24 hours for press inquiries. Tip submissions go through the tips form.