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California Justice Removed From Bench for Sexual Harassment In a first, the California Commission on Judicial Performance has removed an appeals court justice, citing a history of sexual harassment involving multiple victims. Justice Jeffrey Johnson becomes the first appellate judge in California history to be removed from the bench, although he can appeal the decision…
San Diego Divorce Court to Reopen Tuesday the 26th The San Diego County Superior Court (Family Law Division) has basically been closed since the middle of March, with the exception for the submission of paperwork to get an emergency temporary restraining order based on domestic violence or to get an emergency order regarding custody/visitation (and…
California Family Law Judge Punished for Remarks Made on Bench Who judges the judges? In California, that’s a complicated question. If you think your family law judge made a mistake that hurt your case, you may appeal to the Court of Appeal. If you think that the judge acted inappropriately, based on words, conduct, or…
Husband is Punished in California Divorce case for Way he Reacted to Judge’s Orders I don’t write a lot of blogs about property issues –sure, occasionally, I do—because some of the decisions from the California Court of Appeal are dry. I mean, let’s face it; issues regarding custody, domestic violence, misbehavior by attorneys or judges,…
How Are Divorce and Family Law Cases Being Affected by the Covid-19 Crisis? This is such a broad question that it’s difficult to answer. Let’s start with child custody and visitation. The Court, in San Diego County, is not scheduled to accept filings for motions or new cases until either Friday, May 1 or Monday,…
Woman Accuses California Man of Rape and Other Misconduct But Loses Bid for Domestic Violence Restraining Order Although, as I said several blogs ago, there seems to be a trend in California towards affirming judges who grant restraining orders and reversing those who deny them, the California Court of Appeal just affirmed a trial judge…
The Third Time is the Charm Two wrongs don’t make a right, but at least in a recent California domestic violence case, three appeals justices saw it differently. Usually in domestic violence cases, a judge is not allowed to issue a restraining order against both sides by not saying who is at fault and simply…
Another California Domestic Violence Case Mishandled The other day I wrote about a California domestic violence case where the judge made the responding party prove the allegations against her were not true and found that posting a nasty, private Facebook review was enough to impose a two-year restraining order. Not surprisingly, the judge was reversed.…
California court mishandles Domestic Violence case Would you like to read a blog about something else other than the coronavirus? I thought so. This blog will address domestic violence. The trend, it seems, for the past six years or so, has been for more and more cases to be issued by California’s Court of Appeal…
California Courts are Closed Only the most knowledgeable about history, or the ones with the greatest memories, can say what happened more than, say, half a century ago, like when Pearl Harbor was attacked or President Kennedy was assassinated. But within an hour or so after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the San Diego…