Sep. 30, 2026
Burns' rulings trace boundaries of fairness in government proceedings
Justice Gordon B. Burns. Photo courtesy of the Court of Appeal
Seventeen years before Justice Gordon B. Burns wrote that a Department of Motor Vehicles hearing officer can introduce evidence and still decide a case fairly, he made a similar argument to the California Supreme Court on behalf of the state.
In 2009, the high court was weighing whether to bar a government lawyer from advising an agency board in one matter while prosecuting another case before it. Burns, then a deputy solicitor general, urged the justices to reject the stricter rul...
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