After being released from federal custody on her promise she would obey a court order and stop filing lawsuits, Kay Sieverding is back at it.
The former Steamboat Springs resident also did not dismiss the federal lawsuits she said she would drop.
The matter is set to go before U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham on Thursday.
“She makes a mockery of the system,” said David Brougham, a lawyer representing Steamboat Springs officials who repeatedly have been named as defendants. “She keeps doing what she wants to.”
Sieverding could not be reached for comment Friday.
She had spent four months in jail, defiantly refusing to stop filing pro se, or self-authored, lawsuits that stem from a dispute she had more than a decade ago with neighbors and city officials in Steamboat Springs.
In 2004, Nottingham issued an order saying Sieverding could go to jail if she kept filing lawsuits. She didn’t stop, so he put her in jail in September.
During a hearing Jan. 4, she promised Nottingham she would dismiss the pending actions and wouldn’t file more unless she had a lawyer or got permission from the court.
But according to documents filed in her case, Sieverding filed an action Jan. 17 with the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, asking that she be allowed to pursue a case in Kansas without being sent to jail. Judges dismissed that action Wednesday.
