Cheryl Miller

January 25, 2011 | The Recorder

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

May 29, 2007 | The Recorder

A Shakespeare character advocated killing all the lawyers. Though a scholar of the Bard, this Sacramento County Superior Court judge isn't one to adopt extreme positions.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

November 19, 2009 | Law.com

Wells Fargo & Co. will buy back an estimated $700 million in troubled auction-rate securities from California investors under terms of a settlement announced by Attorney General Jerry Brown on Wednesday. In a separate deal reached with the North American Securities Administrators Association, the San Francisco-based bank has agreed to repurchase nonliquid auction-rate securities totaling approximately $700 million from non-California residents.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

July 08, 2009 | Law.com

California AG Jerry Brown on Monday sued a lawyer for allegedly bilking desperate homeowners with troubled mortgages out of thousands of dollars. Mitchell Roth charged at least 2,000 homeowners substantial fees in exchange for false promises that he would help them escape foreclosure and improve their credit, Brown wrote in a complaint. Also named in the suit: Paul Noe Jr., president of Nevada-based United First, a corporation that allegedly solicited homeowners facing foreclosure and referred them to Roth's firm.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

March 08, 2007 | The Recorder

State judges are all supposed to draw the same salary, but some counties sweeten the pot with car allowances, cash payments and other perks. Chief Justice Ronald George wants that to change, though not in the way you might expect.

By Cheryl Miller

11 minute read

July 15, 2009 | Law.com

Two trial courts will close most of their courtrooms and furlough staff Wednesday, offering California a glimpse of the once-a-month closures expected to affect courtrooms statewide later this summer. Leaders of the Los Angeles and Mendocino, Calif., superior courts decided they could no longer wait for a coordinated, statewide closure plan to emerge from the mire of legislative budget negotiations. Instead, they'll shutter hundreds of courtrooms, keeping a relative few open to handle emergency business.

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read

February 11, 2010 | The Recorder

Court leaders say the controversial Court Case Management System is already being reviewed by state IT experts, and argue a separate probe would gum up the works.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

July 07, 2009 | The Recorder

Jerry Brown's office is going after a Southern California attorney who has already resigned from the Bar and has been accused of bilking homeowners desperate to keep their houses.

By Cheryl Miller

3 minute read

December 20, 2007 | The Recorder

By Cheryl Miller

6 minute read

December 14, 2006 | Law.com

California's Commission on Judicial Performance removed Superior Court Judge Diana Hall from the Santa Barbara County bench on Tuesday for "materially deceitful and lawless" conduct. The commission cited Hall's 2003 drunk-driving conviction, an attempt to cloak a romantic partner's campaign contribution and her improper quizzing of a prosecutor who requested a different judge. The commission said Hall's "inability to exercise self-restraint ... convinces us there is a strong likelihood she will re-offend."

By Cheryl Miller

4 minute read