How could they do it? Racial cracks, naked pictures head year's list of judicial lows
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The National Law Journal presents its third annual compendium of lamentable judicial behavior, and there was plenty to choose from even after excluding alcoholim, ticket-fixing, and judges imprisoned for various felonies.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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California board accuses judge and angers critics; watchdogs say a written dissent is misconduct
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Many colleagues have defended Presiding Judge of California's First Appellate District J. Anthony Kline, under investigation by the California Commission on Judicial Performance and whose only infraction is a 1997 dissent in Morrow v. Hood Communicatiions. Kline was unwilling to adhere to a state court precedent allowing stipulated reversals, a settlement device only present in California and one which he believed destroyed judicial institutions. Critics were appalled at the use of the commission to chastise a judge for something he has written that represents a well-reasoned view.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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In Hawaii: a princess, a legacy, a scandal; the hydra-headed Bishop Estate case goes criminal
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Criminal charges involving Hawaii's Bishop Trust, set up by the great-granddaughter of King Kamehameha I to educate Hawaiian children, include using trustees using trust money for personal expenses such as bar bills and partying at sex clubs, as well as first-degree theft in the form of kickbacks. A court-appointed special master's report termed the estate's investment performance poor, called for stronger conflict-of-interest rules, and suggested charging the trustees personally for such activities as lobbying against federal laws.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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