Show Biz Meets the Law
Today the New York Times printed an op-ed article with the headline The End of the Financial World as We Know It.
It tells the story of how a gentleman by the name of Harry Markopolos, a savvy expert on the workings of the stock market and hedge funds, an investor himself, and having nothing…
Appellate judges in the United States occasionally hear criminal cases at the District Court level when they have free time on their calendar, and by chance Chief Justice of the Ninth Circuit Alex Kozinski was randomly given United States vs. Ira Isaacs, a pornography case which will be based on Miller vs. California (1973), which…
Now that their season is over, law professor Brian Fitzpatrick wrote an opinion piece appearing in the L.A. Times concerning the fact that during their last term the right-of-center Supreme Court had reversed or vacated the left-of-center Ninth Circuit 19 times out of the 22 cases it reviewed, and concluded that the appeals court might…
I have witnessed many cases of court ordered assessments of children by means of a 730 evaluation by a court appointed clinical psychologist.
There are cases, too, where an MMPI-2 personality test is brought in as proof that a father, or mother, is a fitting person to have un-monitored association with a child, their own,…
My desolate friend Idelle, another pro per/pro se, has sent out an SOS to her many supporters, of whom I certainly am one. If you live in the Los Angeles area, come on down on Friday (don’t expect media attention though, they’re very uninterested in this burning situation).
Her story in Family Court, much longer…
Fast Company Magazine is a magazine for fast rising business executives. They did us all a service in their July issue no. 96, by running a feature for business executives about a little known 71 year old professor emeritus from the University of British Columbia named Robert Hare. The FBI and the British justice system…
Judge Lloyd Jeffrey Wiatt 1943-2005
Sad to read about his death. He had a connection to showbiz, his brother Jim Wiatt is the CEO of The William Morris Agency, the leading and oldest of them all.
He was a former deputy D.A., he fought in Vietnam for four years, he had his pilot license, owned…
LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT
Here we have the lower courts in Los Angeles. Again, a well run and informative site. As a pro per (or as a pro se) you are encouraged to use it!
Los Angeles Superior Court
Here are the Federal Court Rules here in California
Central District of California, Local Rules
JUDGES
Judges rule our lives. They are closer than Gods to us, at least from a practical point of view. So read this to gain a better understanding of the role they play, and how they got there – in California anyway, and I didn’t write this.
“A judge oversees everything in the courtroom. A…