Send the judges, state courts, appellate & Supreme Court Justices tickets to the movie!
Our first book read cover to cover and it exposes everything… not fiction! This is the real thing. If the movie is anything like the book – suggest your entire neighborhood see this flick so they’ll begin to understand just why the economy has not recovered. Continue reading
By Scott E Stafne of Stafne Trumbull, LLC
In search of Continuing Legal Education credits I wandered into a different world last Thursday and Friday at the American Conference Institute’s Residential Mortgage & Regulatory Conference, Dallas, TX. The people at the conference, mostly lawyers for institutions seeking to eject people from their homes, were clearly human beings; Mostly youngish (under 55). Except for a token two-person panel representing home owners and a group of judges, most of the speakers seemed to agree that there was little need for meaningful judicial involvement in throwing home owners out of their homes. Indeed, many appeared indignant that families would not simply march Continue reading
Judicial misconduct is a touchy subject.
But what else do you call it when judges violate their own canons and participate in unethical decisions that may create financial gains in their investment portfolios?
While this post deals with the failure of the judiciary to sua sponte recuse themselves when they know there is more than an appearance of impropriety, it also raises the question of what potential benefit they may received as a result of their decisions – and is that taken into consideration at any time during the case? Continue reading
Deadly Clear 