The Florida Anti‑SLAPP Project

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Spencer Levine's refusal to author written opinions for non‑attorney / pro se appellants at the dystopian 4th DCA in Florida is both a professional and moral failure and demands his removal from the bench by the state's chief executive Ron DeSantis
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I have tried at every turn to do my level‑best at everything in life. Caring for my family, servicing my clients with the highest standards of integrity and honor, coaching youth sports, rescuing homeless and mistreated animals, teaching English to impoverished children in the Dominican Republic, and sharing my legal expertise with other victims of non‑meritorious First Amendment lawsuits in the State of Florida, pro bono.

I would not and could not live any other way.

I'll never accept or understand laziness, and I'll never accept or understand grotesque people like Spencer Drew Levine (DOB: 3/23/1960), the chief judge at Florida's 4th DCA, who takes shortcuts through life, who skirts his professional responsibilities, and who accepts a paycheck that comes entirely from taxpayers without doing the work required of him.

Even grade‑school children know that the Constitutions of the State of Florida and the United States of America demand both due process and equal protection for all. Yet these concepts, which are fundamental to every democracy and every civil society, have become entirely lost on Florida 4th DCA chief judge Spencer Levine.

When Spencer Levine rubber‑stamps "PCA" (per curiam affirmed) as a matter of course on every Initial Brief filed by non‑attorney/self‑represented litigants, he is failing taxpayers, failing the judiciary, and failing himself.

I have endeavored on this website for the last six years to help victims of bogus defamation lawsuits in Florida. For just three examples, I tell them to check the Complaint they were served for things like averment with compliance with Fla. Stat. § 770.01, to ensure the statements at issue are actually facts that can be proven false by an objective core of evidence, and to verify that the plaintiff's defamation claim was not recast as an additional cause of action (such as tortious interference) in violation of Florida's single‑publication rule.

Now, and regrettably, I feel obligated to offer this bit of guidance to all pro se litigants within the 15th, 17th, and 19th Judicial Circuits in Florida: If you lose your case either on a motion to dismiss, at summary judgment, or upon the reading of a bench or jury verdict, do not bother filing a Notice of Appeal. It would be a waste of $325.

I do not believe that Spencer Levine will read either your Initial Brief or your Reply Brief.

Florida 4th DCA chief judge Spencer Levine has zero respect for the rule of law.

Zero respect for himself.

Zero fidelity to either our republic's founding documents or his Oath Of Office.

Florida 4th DCA chief judge Spencer Levine is in this solely to collect his enormous $212,562 salary. Nothing more. Nothing less. He has no interest whatsoever in things like truth, justice, or fairness.

And there isn't a whole helluva lot you can do about it.

You cannot appeal a PCA to Florida's Supreme Court.

You cannnot picket or demonstrate outside of Spencer Levine's residence at 9624 Phipps Lane in Wellington, Florida, thanks to a recently passed piece of legislation (Fla. Stat. § 810.15).

You cannot file a Motion For A Written Opinion because you'll receive service of an Order denying your Motion lightning‑fast. Trust me, Spencer Levine won't even read it. Ditto for filing a Motion For Oral Argument; my extensive research did not yield a single occasion on which Levine either granted such a Motion (or authored a written opinion) for a non‑attorney/pro se appellant.

You cannot send a formal complaint against Spencer Levine to the Judicial Qualifications Committee because Levine's unwillingness to author written opinions for non‑attorney/self‑represented litigants is not a matter in which the JQC has any interest. Trust me. I tried two years ago after Levine rejected out‑of‑hand an appeal I filed when an ignoramus trial court judge named David Haimes in Broward County denied my Post‑Verdict Motion For A Directed Verdict after six jurors determined my alleged use of the words "deceptive," "sneaky," and "greedy" to be false statements of fact.

(The buffoonish Haimes actually entered defaults against two parties that were not even on the Service List of the operative Complaint in that case. But that's a story for a whole other occassion).

In my heart of hearts, I believe that Spencer Levine possesses the intelligence to know full‑well that "deceptive," "sneaky," and "greedy" are words that are incapable of being proven true or false. He simply refuses to author a written opinion for a pro se/non‑attorney appellant.

Most recently, Levine refused to reverse for me a trial court's granting of summary judgment in favor of a defamation defendant who repeatedly confessed under oath that he did not know or suspect to be true any of the cockamamie lies he told about me to the DCF, in blatant defiance and violation of Fla. Stat. § 415.1034. To be candid, I do not believe Levine is or was even aware of the egregiousness of the trial court's error. I think he saw the Initial Brief was filed by a non-attorney (me) and never bothered to read it.

Aside from showing up for work drunk, yelling, screaming, using profanity, or soliciting funds for a political candidate, the JQC does not care a lick about what an apathetic and wholly corrupt judge like Spencer Drew Levine does on the bench.

And you obviously cannot threaten to physically hurt Spencer Levine because both threats of violence and the actual carrying out of such threats are unlawful.

All that I can encourage for victims of Spencer Levine's abject laziness is to wait until your case is officially closed and then politely knock on his front door at 9624 Phipps Lane in the Olympia/Phipps community just off U.S. Route 441 in Wellington, Florida, to ask for a respectful conversation in the hope Spencer Levine will explain why he does not author written opinions for non‑attorney/self‑represented appellants.

Perhaps your kindness and your insightfulness will motivate Levine to change his ways. To start to live his life with a sense of decency and purpose. To do the job Floridians have entrusted him to do.

Levine, who is a former Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Broward Healthcare, resides at 9624 Phipps Lane in Wellington, Florida. The split‑level house has five bedrooms, spans 3,333 square feet, and was purchased for cash by Levine and his wife, Judith Ann Levine (née Wolfson), for $482,500 in 2018.

The couple was wed in 1992 and has three adult daughters (Tamar Yoela Levine, Rachel Lillian Levine, and Hannah Ariel Levine).

Sadly, I am afraid the only viable hope for Floridians affected by Florida 4th DCA chief judge Spencer Levine's ongoing inexplicable, reprehensible, and wildly reckless conduct is Governor DeSantis who is empowered as the State's chief executive to unilaterally remove Levine.

But as everyone here knows, DeSantis effectively has ditched Florida for now for a run at the presidency.