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Lassen County Judge Ordered Removed From Office

The Commission on Judicial Performance said Superior Court Judge Tony Mallery committed numerous acts of misconduct, including retaliating against lawyers who moved to disqualify him for prejudice.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Candidate for Judge Challenges Disqualification Linked to 'Bank Error'

Meeting minutes attributed the challenger's candidacy disqualification to an untimely dispute of a banking error that resulted in a returned qualifying fees check.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Staggering Gamesmanship': Case Law, Statute Clash Over 'Gotcha' Settlement Tactics on Appeal

Defendant-appellant counsel Matt Friedlander said waiving the Civil Practice Statute was "a legally inert proclamation … like Michael Scott standing up and saying 'I declare bankruptcy.' It's funny, but it doesn't mean anything."
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'A Tremendous Colleague to All of Us': NJ Supreme Court Bids Farewell to Retiring Justice Lee A. Solomon

"If you have a problem, it is always a sensible place to stop and ask Lee Solomon for his advice and for his insight, born of experience, born of judgment, and born of character," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said. "I have done it many times and I have never come away disappointed."
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton County Judge's Failure to Instruct Jury Leads to Overturning of Former Atlanta Attorney's Murder Conviction

"[T]he harm from the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the defense of accident was compounded by the trial court's express instruction that the jury must 'disregard' that accident was a key legal principle," Georgia Supreme Court Justice Nels Peterson said.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Federal Judge Reprimanded for Handcuffing Defendant's Teen Daughter

Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of California's Southern District said he was trying to warn the 13-year-old about the dangers of drug use. The Judicial Council said the judge exceeded his authority.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Even-Keeled, Level-Headed, Unflustered': Meet the Judge Handling Harvey Weinstein's Retrial

"In terms of a jurist, one could not ask for a more fair and balanced individual," one lawyer said of Justice Curtis Farber. "He is even-keeled, level-headed, unflustered by anything. He is no one's fool, and he is a strong rudder for our court system."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judicial Restraint Could Make or Break This Ga. Appellant's Argument for Venue-Anchoring

"I don't know that we really should care about policy," said Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard. "It's only what the statute says, and you may be right on that, you may not be right on that, but that's what I'm not getting."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Hearing Date Announced in Judge's Misconduct Probe

Judicial misconduct proceedings for Middle Georgia Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Robert S. Reeves have been scheduled for June 17-20 at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Private Investigator Testified Against a Candidate for Judge

"Mr. Davis must be resident of Georgia," argued respondent counsel Bryan Tyson of The Election Law Group in Atlanta. "If he's not a resident of Georgia, what other state is he a resident of?"
8 minute read

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