Jessica Simpson.

Image Credit: Instagram: Jessica Yaniv

A BC trans activist and "prolific litigant" who regularly takes legal action at perceived slights against her, has failed in her latest attempt to sue, this time claiming her dog was a service dog and she shouldn't have been refused entrance into a gas station.

According to an April 25 BC Civil Resolution Tribunal decision, Langley resident Jessica Simpson said she was denied entry into the gas station because of her dog, which in turn caused her low blood sugar and she now lives the "constant threat" of blood sugar issues.

She filed a case against the gas station owners Hung Long Enterprises claiming $5,000 as compensation.

It's a tactic the 37-year-old self-described transgender activist, who also gives by the name Jessica Yaniv, has done many time previously with no success.

In 2018, Simpson, who went by the name Jessica Yaniv, made international headlines when she filed multiple complaints to the BC Human Rights Tribunal after she was refused a Brazilian wax at numerous body waxing salons – even though in some instances it would have meant waxing her scrotum.

While the BC Human Rights Tribunal accepted her case it ultimately found she was "abusive and deceptive" and harassed and threatened salons when they refused to provide service. 

In a scathing decision, the Human Rights Tribunal found she misled it about the need for a publication ban – as she actively shared information online – was untruthful about her genitalia, engaged in “extortionate behaviour” and made false and unfounded allegations against lawyers.

She lost and was ordered to pay $6,000 to several salons. Two closed down as a result of her actions.

In this case against the gas station, Simpson used artificial intelligence to write her submissions – but the AI got it all wrong.

"Ms. Simpson referred to a non-existent Civil Resolution Tribunal case to support a patently incorrect legal position. She also referred to three Supreme Court of Canada cases that do not exist," the Tribunal ruled. 

The Tribunal said her submissions explain in detail what legal principles the non-existent cases stand for. 

"Simply put, they read like a lawyer wrote them even though the underlying legal analysis is often wrong," the Tribunal said.

While the cases didn't exist, the gas station owners still had to take the time to understand and respond.

The Tribunal said there's little detail given by Simpson about what happened on the day of the incident, only that she was denied access because of her dog, which she told them was a service dog. She claimed she suffered low blood sugar because she was unable to buy food.

In the decision, the gas station said it told her dogs weren't allowed and for proof her dog was a service dog.

She then became abusive and left the store and never mentioned she was in a medical emergency, the gas station said.

The Tribunal pointed out it's not the first time she's unsuccessfully used the same argument.

Last year, she claimed a restaurant had refused to let her in because of her dog and she had a blood sugar crash. In 2022, in another very similar case, she tried to sue a pharmacy and lost.

In 2023, she lost a case in the small claims court after a restaurant refused her dog entrance. She had wanted $34,000.

In a July 2022 BC Supreme Court decision where she tried to sue Rebel News for defamation, Justice Warren Milman described Simpson as a "prolific litigant."

The decision said she was suing someone for $15,000 for using male pronouns and her birth name of Jonathan, and another individual for $35,000 for harassment. 

She's also taken action against the City of Langley and the RCMP for using her male pronouns during her arrest and for ignoring her request to be strip searched only by a female officer.

During this time she publicly commented about the cases on various social media and YouTube sites and according to her gained "significant notoriety online.”

In 2023, she took action against BC Emergency Health Services saying it had negligently flagged her as a “mental health concern” which impacted her ability to receive emergency health services.

The decision said in a period of 20 months she’d made 53 calls to BC ambulance, and police had joined paramedics more than 30 times for those calls.

Her address was flagged “Female resident can be unpredictable and abusive to responders, may also have weapons in apt. Police Department assistance may be required.”

The Tribunal found that the flag on her address was “reasonable in all the circumstances” dismissed her case and ordered her to pay $1,620 to cover BC Emergency Health Services costs.

In 2021, she lost another case agains BC Emergency Health Services after she sought $2,100 saying a paramedic had damaged her stove when they put their bag on it.

She also ended up in a criminal courtroom after being convicted for assault. In 2022, she was given 14 months probation.

In the last few years, she’s also launched four, largely unsuccessful cases against her Strata. In one case she was ordered to pay $3,268 to cover half the strata's legal fees.

She once accused the strata’s cleaners of being aggressive around her dog and sued for $5,000. She lost.

Earlier this year, her mortgage company began foreclosing on her property. Court documents said she’s deliberately trying not to be served.

Last year, she put her name to a class action suit against Quaker Oats claiming to have suffered after its products were taken off shelves following a salmonella scare. She’s since removed her name from the suit.

In 2016, under the name Jonanthan Yaniv, they filed a suit claiming $24,000 after inhaling smoke when sage was burned at the Vancouver Playhouse. The case was closed after a $500 settlement.

The BC court registry also shows there are several other legal cases she’s involved in.

In the current case, she claims that since the gas station refused her service she lives under a "constant threat” of blood sugar issues.

However, the Tribunal didn't buy it.

The Tribunal said she provided no proof she had a medical condition and only submitted an undated blood sugar chart which proved nothing.

"Ms. Simpson argues that she does not need to prove harm with medical evidence if the harm flows logically from the facts, or would be obvious in the circumstances. What she does not explain is how it flows logically that a person denied entry to a convenience store would suffer a blood sugar crisis without immediate access to food," the Tribunal ruled.

The Tribunal dismissed her case, and then in a highly unusual move said the case had “extraordinary circumstances” and ordered Simpson to $500 in compensation.

"Whether artificial intelligence was involved or not, Ms. Simpson provided fake and irrelevant cases. This forced its owner to spend considerable time researching each one," the Tribunal ruled. "It takes little time to have a large language model create lengthy submissions with many case citations. It takes considerably more effort for the other party to wade through those submissions to determine which cases are real, and for those that are, whether they actually say what Ms. Simpson purported they did."

The Tribunal went on to say it was "manifestly unfair" that the burden of Simpson's use of artificial intelligence should fall to the gas station owner.

"While I accept that Ms. Simpson did not knowingly provide fake cases or misleading submissions, she was reckless about their accuracy," the Tribunal ruled.

The Tribunal went on to say she has a troubling pattern of litigation conduct and she should have known her claim would have failed.

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