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NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L. CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, IN THE SPIRIT OF WALTER R. CLEMENT MS., MBA., BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., IN THE SPIRIT OF REV. C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF WILLIE GUINYARD BS., IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF RICHARD KAUL, MD., BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., IN THE SPIRIT OF LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. JOSHI MD., MBA, ADRIENNE EDMUNDSON, IN THE SPIRIT OF WALTER F. WRENN III, MD., ESTER HYATT PH.D., WALTER L. SMITH BS., IN THE SPIRIT OF BRAHM FISHER ESQ., MICHELE ALEXANDER MD., CUDJOE WILDING BS, MARTIN NDJOU, BS., RPH., IN THE SPIRIT OF DEBRA LYNN SHEPHERD, BERES E. MUSCHETT, STRATEGIC ADVISORS
A KAUL TO MENTAL ARMS
The Life and Legacy of Dr. Richard Arjun Kaul
This memorial article chronicles the life of Dr. Richard Arjun Kaul, a pioneering spine surgeon celebrated for his advancements in minimally invasive medical procedures. Born in India and educated in England, he eventually established a successful practice in the United States, where he developed innovative outpatient techniques designed to improve patient recovery.
Beyond his clinical work, the text highlights his philanthropic spirit, specifically through his efforts to provide medical care to underserved communities in Africa. The narrative also addresses the legal challenges that led to the revocation of his medical license, which Kaul attributed to systemic corruption and professional rivalry.
The Board issued the maximum statutory fine of $20,000 for each of 15 counts, along with attorneys’ fees and costs, resulting in an overall liability reportedly reaching into billions of dollars.
Consequently, he spent his final years as a legal advocate, fighting against what he perceived as the wrongful weaponization of regulatory law. Dr. Linda Cheek, MD, of Doctors of Courage, portrayed him as a fearless warrior who remained dedicated to his patients and his principles until his passing in 2025.
INTRODUCTION
In 2001, Dr. Kaul settled in the United States, eventually opening New Jersey Spine and Rehabilitation in 2005. As the lead physician and surgeon, he focused on shifting spine care from traditional “open” operations to outpatient models.
Targeted for his work and forced into law
As his minimally invasive practice grew, Dr. Kaul’s work attracted not only grateful patients but also formidable opponents.
In 2012, actions by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners led to the revocation of his medical license in 2014, after an administrative law judge determined that performing spine surgeries on 11 patients without what the Board considered proper training and experience amounted to gross and repeated malpractice, negligence, and incompetence.
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The conflict between Dr. Richard Arjun Kaul and the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners was a protracted legal and professional battle that centered on his qualifications as a spine surgeon and his use of innovative outpatient procedures.
The Medical Board’s Position:
The conflict escalated in 2012, leading to the revocation of Dr. Kaul’s medical license in 2014. The Board’s decision was based on the findings of an administrative law judge who concluded that Dr. Kaul had performed spine surgeries on 11 patients without what was deemed “proper training and experience”. Consequently, the Board found him guilty of:
• Gross and repeated malpractice.
• Negligence and incompetence.
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As a result of these findings, the Board imposed the statutory maximum fine of $20,000 for each of 15 counts, in addition to attorneys’ fees and costs. The total assessed liability was reportedly in the billions of dollars.
Dr. Kaul’s Perspective:
From Dr. Kaul’s perspective, these proceedings were not about patient safety but about “medical turf wars and political corruption in New Jersey,” driven by a network of politically connected neurosurgeons, hospitals, insurers, and lawyers whose financial interests were threatened by his innovative outpatient model.
Dr. Kaul fiercely contested these charges, asserting that the proceedings were not motivated by concerns for patient safety. He argued that influential neurosurgeons and corporate players engaged in racketeering, evidence tampering, mail and wire fraud, perjury, and obstruction of justice to destroy his practice and make an example of him.
Instead, he characterized the conflict as a product of “medical turf wars and political corruption in New Jersey.”
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His core arguments included:
• Economic Motives: He believed his innovative outpatient spine procedures—which offered faster recovery and lower infection risks—threatened the financial interests of established neurosurgeons, hospitals, and insurers.
• Allegations of Racketeering: Dr. Kaul argued that a network of politically connected professionals engaged in racketeering, evidence tampering, perjury, and obstruction of justice to dismantle his practice.
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• Innovation vs. Tradition: While the Board questioned his training, Dr. Kaul had an extensive workwide background in neuro patho physiology and was the innovator who developed percutaneous lumbar fusion techniques designed to avoid the aggressive maneuvers of conventional surgery.
From Kaul v. Christie to the United Nations
Aftermath of the Conflict
In response to the Board’s actions, Dr. Kaul transitioned from medicine to legal advocacy. He spent years teaching himself American law to fight the Board’s decisions through litigation and appeals, viewing himself as a “legal warrior” against the weaponization of regulation against physicians.
Unwilling to accept what he saw as a closed and corrupt system, Dr. Kaul took unprecedented steps by pursuing legal actions against the State of New Jersey in India, arguing that the persecution of black and brown doctors—particularly immigrants—had risen to a level requiring international intervention.
He also sought relief through a complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Committee, filed via the late Zena Crenshaw-Logal, Esq., a judicial-reform advocate, requesting international scrutiny of U.S. medical board practices and the treatment of minority physicians.
According to Talcott Parsons’ concept of the “Sick Role,” the doctor-patient relationship is a structured social contract designed to maintain societal stability by returning ill individuals to a productive state.
A Specialist Obligation: When standard care fails to manage a condition (such as chronic pain), there is a specific duty to research and attempt unique or even unorthodox treatments if standard care is no longer managing a condition, such as chronic pain.
Within the Parsons model, the medical profession serves as a vital institution in maintaining a functional “social body.” The physician’s primary purpose is to restore individuals to their conventional social roles and productivity.
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The Sick Role: Dynamics of the Physician-Patient Contract. The medical profession serves as a vital institution for maintaining a functional society by returning individuals to their conventional social roles. Within this framework:
• Physicians have a categorical imperative to try various procedures or medications to help a patient recover.
THE LION
Background
Richard was born on November 5, 1964, in Hyderabad, India, the third child of airline pilot Ravi Kaul, a Kashmiri Brahmin, and Marie Kaul from Agra. As a child he was lively, inquisitive, mischievous, intelligent, and charming, qualities that later defined both his bedside manner and his courtroom tenacity.
In 1971, his family moved to England and settled in Dartford with his grandparents, where Richard continued to excel both academically and on the sports field. That drive carried him into the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine at University College London (1983–1988), where he earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees and laid the foundation for a career at the cutting edge of pain medicine.
Innovator in minimally invasive spine care
After graduation, Dr. Kaul held important positions as a surgical house officer at The Lister Hospital and as a medical house officer in the Academic Department of Medicine at the Royal Free. He then crossed the Atlantic to complete residency in surgery and anesthesiology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York in 1995.
Afterwards, he returned to the UK for a fellowship in interventional pain management at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He subsequently practiced as a general physician for six years before transitioning fully into private practice, specializing in minimally invasive spine surgery.
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DR. RICHARD KAUL, MD VS. EVERYONE AND THE ABSOLUTE FAILURE OF MEDICAL BOARD AND FEDERAL STATE COURTS
Since 2012, he has responded by immersing himself in American law, becoming highly knowledgeable and fiercely competent to fight the injustices he believes he faces.
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This self-taught legal journey came at a great physical cost, but his determination and belief in his cause kept him going through years of litigation, appeals, and public advocacy.
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Dr. Kaul’s central legal narrative is captured in his memoir, An Impossible Victory: Kaul v. Christie, which describes his effort to expose corruption within state medical boards, New Jersey courts, and political circles.
In federal court, he brought a sweeping civil action, Kaul v. Christie (16‑CV‑02364), seeking extraordinary monetary damages for what he described as the illegal revocation of his medical license and the resulting devastation to his patients and professional reputation.
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Although U.S. District Judge Kevin McNulty dismissed the suit, accepting the Board’s findings that he lacked the accepted standard of training for spine surgeries, Dr. Kaul continued to insist that his evidence showed a coordinated campaign of misconduct by neurosurgeons, insurers, hospitals, and judicial actors.
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KAUL’S KIDNAPPERS OR KILLERS FEDERAL CASE K 11-7: THE STRANGE MATTER OF CHRIS CRISTIES’ HITMEN FAILED ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP
MUSCLING IN ON MEDICINE
Paramilitary muscle men, these local units are funded by the DEA. The paramilitary narcotic team operates outside the traditional police department, the property they seize never goes to the police property room nor is logged by the evidence technicians.
FORMER FBI SUPERVISOR JEFFREY DANIK, “..DOJ HUNTS DOCTORS..”
The investigations are funded through asset forfeiture. Physicians had their assets seized before even being charged . . . such forfeitures [often] result in plea bargains or civil settlements, given that the cases can drag on for years, and the asset seizure leaves the accused with no means to live, much less to pay attorneys’ fees and court costs.”71 The DEA does not track the number of clinicians investigated.
The program is self-financed and they are immune from oversight since they ever need to go to Congress for appropriation.
By classifying pain patients as “addicts,” they continue to pursue doctors as “dealers”.
Some of the tactics used are the same as used with drug kingpins like El Chapo.
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Prosecutors approach the medical staff and patients in a doctor’s office and threaten to make them co-defendants if they do not testify against the physician. They are then pressured to give misleading testimony.
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CIVIL DOCKET K-11-7
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DEFENDANTS MEMORANDUM:
These legal documents center on a motion to dismiss filed in the Southern District of New York involving Richard Arjun Kaul, a former physician whose New Jersey medical license was revoked. The defendants, including New Jersey state officials and various corporate entities, argue that the plaintiffs’ claims of a vast global conspiracy are frivolous, malicious, and incoherent.
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They assert that New York is an improper venue because the core events occurred in New Jersey, where similar lawsuits by Kaul have already been dismissed.
The filings highlight a history of vexatious litigation across multiple states, leading the defendants to request a permanent injunction to prevent Kaul from further abusing the judicial system.
Included excerpts show court dockets and correspondence used to support the claim that the plaintiffs are engaging in impermissible forum shopping. Overall, the sources document the legal efforts to terminate what the defense describes as a repetitive and meritless campaign of harassment.
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Vexatious Litigation and Sanctions
When the litigation process is perceived to be abused, the system provides mechanisms for protection:
• Abuse of Process: Courts have the inherent power to protect the public and defendants from litigants who use the courts to “harass and annoy others” with meritless or repetitive filings.
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Dr. Tennant is a member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Academy of Integrative Pain Management, the American Pain Society, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He has authored over 300 scientific articles and books.
• Permanent Injunctions: Defendants in this case have requested a permanent injunction under the All Writs Act (28 U.S.C. § 1651). This would require the plaintiff to obtain leave of the court (prior permission) before filing any new related actions, effectively acting as a “gatekeeper” to prevent further frivolous lawsuits.
• Dismissal with Prejudice: While courts generally prefer to transfer cases so they can be decided on their merits, they may dismiss with prejudice (meaning the case cannot be refiled) if they determine that further amendment would be “futile” or if the plaintiff is engaged in “impermissible forum shopping”.
Conclusion:
The docket for Case 1:21-cv-06992 in the Southern District of New York reveals a court that is already losing patience. Judge J. Paul Oetken has moved swiftly, denying Kaul’s motion for summary judgment (Entry 6) and rejecting his request for a Rule 16 conference (Entry 16) almost as quickly as they were filed.
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As of late 2021, the case remained a chaotic battleground of venue disputes and motions to dismiss from an exhausted roster of defendants ranging from Allstate Insurance to the Federation of State Medical Boards. T
The central question of the Kaul case, however, extends beyond the 400 pages of his complaint:
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“..At what point does a citizen’s right to petition the government for redress cross the line into a systemic abuse of power that the law must forcibly silence?“
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