Oregon State Bar Reporter
Daniel A. Bernath, Editor
Regularly publishing on the internet at www.OregonShyster.com
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September 12, 2008 

Oregon State Bar-Disciplinary 

Re: Dan R. Hyatt 

  Dan R. Hyatt is a member of your bar association and is currently employed by the Social Security Administration.  His title is administrative law judge.  Before a case reaches the office of adjudications for social security it is adjudicated by the Oregon Department of Disability Determination.  Thereafter, the claimant can appeal.  That appeal then is done by Social Security in-house disability determination.  (The US Supreme Court has referred to ALJs as “semi independent, inferior court, hearing officers”.) Dan R. Hyatt is currently assigned to that job.  As part of that job he must decide issues of disability based only upon the criteria set down for him by law.

   As I have disclosed before, Dan R. Hyatt has used criminal coercion against me, using his official position to get me to stop my news gathering and news publishing enterprise.  He said that he would recuse himself from my cases where I am a social security representative IF I gave up my right to news gather and news publish.  This after he had already stated that he was too biased against me to be fair to a claimant and his bias would spill over into his decisions.  As such, Hyatt is guilty of criminal coercion.  As he pulled at least two social security employees into his criminal coercion, Dan R. Hyatt is also guilty of conspiracy to commit criminal coercion.

 NOW, it has come to light that Dan R. Hyatt has a long history of criminal coercion against social security representatives.  I present an affidavit from Tim Wilborn who swears that after Hyatt called Wilborn “an asshole” in the presences of the court reporter and vocational expert that Hyatt then said he would betray his oath and decide against Wilborn’s clients because Wilborn filed motions regarding Hyatt’s bias against Hyatt.  Hyatt said he would rule fairly in the future if Wilborn gave up his right to file motions regarding Hyatt’s obvious bias.  As such, Dan R. Hyatt is guilty of criminal coercion for these acts against Tim Wilborn and the many clients of Tim Wilborn ORS 163.275. 

 To protect the public against Dan R. Hyatt I demand that you disbar him and/or as an emergency measure suspend his license to practice law and that formal proceedings begin immediately.

 Respectfully,

Daniel A. Bernath

Daniel A. Bernath, Editor