New York judges fixing cases for sex, and the brave New York State Attorney General A New York town justice Paul Lamson was sentenced to jail after accepting sexual favors from reportedly TEN female litigants in exchange for...
On Masterpiece Cakeshop, discretionary enforcement of the U.S. Constitution and the right of every individual to have their constitutional rights enforced I wrote today about two U.S. Supreme Court cases, which the court chose out of 8,000 petitions, 99% of which the court tosses (it decides ab...
New York partially upholds its right to underfund public schools - while suing the federal government to fund those same public schools. 10th Amendment, full speed After Donald Trump became President of the U.S., the so-called "resistance" swamped federal courts with various lawsuits against h...
Oneida County Judge Louis Gigliotti denied a civilly committed individual a right to pro se representation and to a change of counsel An attorney is supposedly in a "fiduciary" relationship (relationship of trust) with a client. And, if a client wants to get rid o...
The heavenly state of Hawaii bribed the shameless Ginsburg, and other judges of the U.S. Supreme Court to change the Immigration and Nationality Act - a call for reform of the U.S. Supreme Court and impeachment of its judges Back in February, 2017, I wrote about the interesting trip of SCOTUS judge Ruth Ginsburg to the State University of Hawaii - complete with s...
The discretionary US Supreme Court - via Gorsuch - announced that its job (as the US Constitution, Article III requires) is not to change statutory law, but only to apply it. What a fresh idea! The new SCOTUS judge Neil Gorsuch is lauded by the press for authoring the unanimous opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court claiming, among other...
A politically charged criminal contempt proceeding continues against a defense attorney for questioning the judge's integrity in a DWI trial - and an arrest warrant is issued. Time to take attorney regulation, and criminal contempt powers, from the hands of the judiciary In yet another case proving that regulation of the legal profession should be taken out of the hands of the judiciary, an attorney in Texas...
American men, and fathers, under the axe of a danger of fabricated sex abuse charges - at all times Here is an interesting (and eerie) case from Oregon. Prosecutors made a motion to recuse a judge from a sex abuse criminal case citing ...
Is it ethical for a prosecutor to solicit a guilty plea from an exonerated prisoner in order to save their ass and prevent the state from being sued? In Nevada, a man spent 29 years ON DEATH ROW - luckily, the state did not expedite his execution, as two recent cases with likely claims of ...
The super-Democratic California's double-take on for profit prisons - forced labor for the poor and lavish paid accomodations for the rich prisoners Oh, California, the land of the free! The state suing President Trump for its right to defy federal immigration law, including criminal fede...
Intimidation of lawyers to not represent unpopular clients now affects President's attorney? There have been interesting reports, from the point of view of independence of legal representation, in the context of legal representation ...
Federal Judge Margo Brodie strikes at an indigent civil rights litigant - again I recently wrote a blog about a federal #judgeMargoBrodie, a favorite of Senator Schumer, who dismissed, without disclosure of her conflict ...
New York Court system found 3 million dollars for summer retreats - oops, "seminars" - for judges, to teach them how to give people their "day in court" Ok, so New York state has an ever expanding "justice gap" where majority of New Yorkers cannot afford an attorney. For that reason...
Occupational licensing and the government as a con artist, or the myth of professional regulation as deterrent of self-serving professional misconduct My common topic on this blog is occupational regulation (including attorney regulation) and conceptual inconsistencies in such regulation by...
New survival tricks of law schools expose the sham of attorney regulation - a new suggestion, from a law school dean, to defy ABA authority to certify law schools: the end of attorney licensing is coming from money-hungry law schools? I wrote today a blog about a new trick a law school professor from Charlotte Law School that faces yanking of its license in August unless i...