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Judges and Judiciary,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
California Courts of Appeal

Jun. 14, 2022

The Commission on Judicial Performance speaks on the 3rd District Court of Appeal: What have we learned?

It is not a good precedent for the most capable among us, however salutary the goal, to lob repeated verbal grenades at the judicial branch.

Kevin K. Green

Senior Counsel
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP

The views expressed are his own.

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The lessons are many but, first, Jon Eisenberg was right.

His disciplinary complaint against three justices of the 3rd District Court of Appeal was vindicated by the Commission on Judicial Performance. After undertaking its investigation, the CJP reached stipulated findings with former Presiding Justice Vance Raye that he failed to do his job. On his administrative watch, civil appeals languished for years, juvenile cases did not receive p...

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