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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 16, 2016

Arbitrator orders chief justice to be deposed in State Bar suit

JAMS Arbitrator Edward A. Infante said that the former State Bar executive has adequately demonstrated Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye has information about material issues in the case.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye must sit for a deposition in the whistleblower retaliation lawsuit brought by former State Bar Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn, an arbitrator ruled Wednesday.

Edward A. Infante of JAMS denied Cantil-Sakauye's request to limit Dunn to "less-intrusive discovery" in the case regarding his 2014 termination.

A spokesman for the state Supreme Cour...

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