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California Supreme Court

Aug. 4, 2010

Arbitrator Disclosures Mirror Judges'

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-2 that a former judge did not have a duty to disclose his public censure for sexual harassment before acting as arbitrator in a woman's cosmetic surgery malpractice case.

By Rebecca Beyer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Finding in favor of a man it admonished 14 years ago, the California Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-2 that a former judge did not have a duty to disclose his public censure for sexual harassment before acting as arbitrator in a woman's cosmetic surgery malpractice case.

The opinion reverses a decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal, which held in a 2-1 ruling that the arbitr...

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