Los Angeles, CA. On July 13, 2009 a Superior Court hearing was held on the Judicial Watch motion for Injunctive Relief in the Sturgeon vs County of Los Angeles case BC351286, a taxpayers lawsuit where in October 2008, the Fourth Appellate Court District decision found of Los Angeles County payments to the Judges of the Los Angeles Superior Court were illegal. The decision was upheld by the California Supreme Court when a petition for rehearing was denied to the Los Angeles Superior Court who had hired Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, one of the most powerful and influential legal firms in the country.
Specially appointed Appellate Court Judge James A. Richman from San Francisco presided on this July 13th hearing and after oral arguments, took the matter into submission. His decision on the Judicial Watch motion for an injunction is expected in 30 to 60 days.
The Full Disclosure Network® presents an eleven minute Video News Report on that hearing with interviews of the Judicial Watch attorneys Sterling Norris and Paul Orfanedes who describe what happened in the court room and the background of the case.
Claiming that the emergency provision inserted into the February 11, 2009 Budget Bill, known as SBX 2 11 had retroactively made the County’s payments to the Judges legal, it also provided for Judicial criminal immunity from prosecution and liability and to the County officials involved in the transfer of what has been estimated to be almost $300 million dollars over the past twenty years.
Full Disclosure Network® contacted the following Court officials to interview them on this matter but has been told that the Judges and their legal counsel do not want to be interviewed on this case.
- Judge Mary Wiss, President California Judges Association
- Michael Belote, Cal Advocates Lobbyist for CJA on SBX 2 11
- Judge Charles McCoy, Presiding Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court
- J. Frederick Bennett, L.A. Superior Court Legal Counsel
- Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (for Superior Court)
Here is a link to an exclusive video covering the issue of Sturgeon vs County of L.A. and the Judicial Watch taxpayers lawsuit. These videos are also featured on the Full Disclosure Network® website soon and is to be distributed to over 45 cable systems in California, and to cities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Manhattan, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C.
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American Patriot USA
Posted: 04:19 am [PST] on May 20 2010
Gordon Gekko said, "Greed is good" in the movie WALL STREET, after that the USA leadership took it as a sign that the Reign of Greed had just begun. They started plunder the wealth in the nation. The elites actually have castles and kingdom-sized properties.
New World Order started when Genesis was written as a manual for fleecing nations by perjuring nations and by usurping nations from within.
The controls that turn the wheels of today's Nazism America are inside the Trojan Horse. The Trojan Horse is the Federal Reserve Bank. The government is supposed to print the nation's money. A foreign enemy agent duped citizens and bribed Congressmen so that the enemy could set up shop inside a central bank and from inside it's walls, begin to enslave citizens through interest on every dollar printed. The enemy inside the Trojan Horse then demanded the government go to war so the enemy could fleece Americans by making citizens pay the bank to finance wars.
Desperate to put Americans into debt, the enemy inside the Trojan Horse lied and said a US ship was struck in the Gulf of Tonkin off the shores of Vietnam. An illegal war based on lies began. Protesters of the illegal war were shot and killed. Drugs were imported by the enemy inside the Trojan Horse who used drugs to make people forget they were being fleeced through a war based on lies. Their drugs are cheaper and dirtier and more efficient as are their military weapons which are both used to fleece citizens at home and abroad.
Attorney Fine is caught in the same battle as all people around the world are presently engaged in - the battle of good v evil. Evil is winning. The dark cloud that hangs over us all is getting bigger. We have to vigilantly protect each other now or we will be forced to suffer more physical and mental pain inflicted on us by the robber barons that reign over earth.
Be stronger in every way. Get organized and form cabals of our own to unite our talents. Then we can reverse the damage they've done to us all.
American Patriot USA
Posted: 04:17 am [PST] on May 20 2010
...the same group of criminal bankers who started WW2
American Patriot USA
Posted: 03:47 am [PST] on May 20 2010
Why am I not surprised that accused terrorists from foreign countries are getting much better treatment than a citizen of the USA who has spoken the truth about the Nazi leadership in the USA.
The USA is now a hybrid of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia and the same group of criminal bankers who started along with their political and corporate minions have become more richer powerful because they were never tried or punished for conspiring against nations of citizens. This is business as usual for these fascists in positions of power.
If they are not stopped and punished they will do worse.
Susan Bye-Walsh Tehachapi
Posted: 10:58 am [PST] on April 29 2010
Why do we not see this on the news? What about the newspapers? I read one every day and had never seen mention of this.
Ray Bay Area
Posted: 10:20 pm [PST] on April 01 2010
The level of corruption in the San Francisco Superior Court is amazing; anyone having information is welcome to email me. I will be mounting a full public campaign to remove certain of those Judges through the election process. Email: in.re.sf.superior.court@gmail.com
Truth Seeker Location unknown
Posted: 09:23 am [PST] on January 24 2010
@ Courtwatch. Please work with Leslie Dutton on a report NAMING NAMES. We deserve the right to know the names of these Judges. All 2000 of them. We deserve the right to know, from top to bottom, who came up with the sudden SBX211 "Bill/Law" to make these payments legal. Every one of them.
It's extremely interesting that Marin County and San Diego County are now undergoing "audits" for Court Corruption, but Los Angeles, which is where THIS part of the corruption started has been left out. Los Angeles is the center of the septic system of Court Corruption, and the law makers as well. (Some who's spouses are Judges)
It appears that our Government is just really a large mafia. Why is Madoff in jail if these Judges aren't? They have done the exact same thing, but it's worse. He was at least caught, and stopped. There is no stopping the Government.
Leslie, please do a report, naming names of all the ones involved from top to bottom. Who drafted SBX 211, who supported it, and who is getting the payments. All 2000 names.
courtwatch Marin County
Posted: 08:03 pm [PST] on January 21 2010
For those of you who are interested in the Richard Fine issues, the statistics about the judicial perks he was complaining about can be found in the Judicial Council's December 15, 2009 report entitled "Historical Analysis of Disparities in Judicial Benefits". The key statistics are in attachment D, pages D-9 to D-14. In 2008, CA counties paid a total of $30,388,289 in "supplemental judicial benefits" to their judges, above and beyond their state salaries and benefits.$23,482,932 of this total $30.3 million was paid by Los Angeles County, to Los Angeles County judges. The report does not state how much each judge receives per capita, but it states that Los Angeles County has 436 judges-- that comes out to each LA judge receiving approximately $53,860 from LA County. Richard Fine challenged the LA judges, stating that those receiving these hefty benefits from LA County should not be hearing cases involving LA County. He also claimed the payments were illegal. In 2008, a court of appeal agreed that the payments were illegal.(Sturgeon v. County of Los Angeles (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 630.) According to the Judicial Council report (page 4), in response to the Sturgeon case, "the judicial branch sought legislation, Senate Bill X2 11".
The legislation, commonly known as SBX 211, was pushed through on an emergency basis. It allows judges to continue to receive these extra benefits, and also provides RETROACTIVE IMMUNITY from prosecution to counties paying the benefits, and judges receiving the benefits.
In other words, CA judges were taking the county benefits in violation of the law. When this was made public, the CA judiciary got emergency legislation passed, allowing them to continue to receive their benefits (while courts are being closed due to "budget constraints"), and also allowing them to escape prosecution. Meanwhile, the lawyer who had been challenging the LA bench for taking these hefty illegal perks for years, was disbarred and sent to jail, where he has been held in solitary confinement for almost a year.
The legality of SBX 211 has subsequently been challenged -- something the language of the legislation itself anticipated.
If you think this report on judicial benefits is interesting, check out the report issued the same day (12/15/09), by the CA Judicial Council's "Commission on Impartial Courts" recommending that judges be allowed to take campaign contributions from those who appear before them (although 75% of the public, and over 25% of judges, believe such contributions affect the outcome of cases), and also recommending AGAINST the implementation of Judicial Performance Evaluations--which consultants to the Judicial Council have repeatedly,strongly recommended.
Eve R. Ybody anywhere USA
Posted: 09:26 pm [PST] on December 16 2009
Look close at judge Thomas Trent Lewis's cases. You want to see true corruption? There you go...
mary beverly hills
Posted: 07:33 pm [PST] on December 16 2009
judges are corrupt
Ray Finn Oakland
Posted: 10:44 pm [PST] on December 05 2009
unethical conducts and corruption are prevalent in California court system