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Verdicts

Sep. 2, 2006

Mediator Is Wily in Ways of Sweetening Deal

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not uncommon for retired Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Norman Spellberg to resort to outright bribery as a means of inducing parties to settle their grievances.

By William-Arthur Haynes
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not uncommon for retired Contra Costa Superior Court Judge Norman Spellberg to resort to outright bribery as a means of inducing parties to settle their grievances.
      As a JAMS neutral, Spellberg recalled presiding over a matter between a brother and his two unyielding sisters. They had been going b...

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