http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2012/01/tani-cantil-sakauye.html
We really didn’t want to give this article any traction because it’s B.S. Nonetheless, this author was going to get voted off the island if we didn’t cover the article.
We found a piece of music that sums up our position nicely.
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unionman575
January 11, 2012
It’s hammer time!
Elmy Kader
January 11, 2012
Hold on, wait a minute; I’m looking for the Violin now go-ahead…
Wendy Darling
January 11, 2012
Not just any violin, but the world’s smallest violin. And play on . . .
sharonkramer
January 11, 2012
She appears to have aged rapidly in the past year.
Also did you catch this?
“one of our most influential and powerful committees, the Advisory Committee on Accountability and Efficiency of the [Administrative Office of the Courts]”
From the press release regarding this committee, June 2011
Click to access nr19-11.pdf
“Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye today announced the appointment of Justice Richard D. Huffman, of the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, as chair of the Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Financial Accountability and Efficiency for the Judicial Branch.
Created in June 2010 by former Chief Justice Ronald M. George, the purpose of the committee is to promote transparency, accountability, efficiency, and understanding of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and the judicial branch”.
Wendy Darling
January 12, 2012
Posted Wednesday, January 11, from Legal Pad, the on-line blog of CalLaw, by Cheryl Miller:
As AB 1208 Nears Deadline, Cantil-Sakauye and Calderon Trade Swipes
[Cheryl Miller]
California’s recent spate of unseasonably warm weather has done nothing to thaw the icy relationship between Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and Assembly Majority Leader Charles Calderon.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board published Wednesday, the chief justice accused the Montebello Democrat of using his Trial Court Rights Act as “a hammer over my head for the last year.”
Read the full positing: http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/as-ab-1208-nears-deadline-cantil-sakauye-and-calderon-trade-swipes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+legalpad_feed+%28Legal+Pad%29
Long live the ACJ.
Wendy Darling
January 12, 2012
Published today, Thursday, January 12, from The Metropolitan-News Enterprise:
Large Majority of Presiding Judges Oppose AB1208, Council Member Says
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Presiding judges from 42 of California’s 58 trial courts have joined the chairman of the Trial Court Presiding Judge Advisory Committee in signing a letter in opposition to AB1208, which is being supported by the Los Angeles Superior Court.
The bill, which was introduced last year, must pass the Assembly by Jan. 31 or else it dies for this year under legislative rules.
Yolo Superior Court Presiding Judge David Rosenberg announced the “remarkable” response yesterday in a newsletter he sends to presiding judges across the state every week. The responses, however, primarily hale from the smaller counties across the state.
Read the entire article: http://www.metnews.com/
Long live the ACJ.
Wendy Darling
January 12, 2012
Published today, Thursday, January 12, from Courthouse News Service, by Maria Dinzeo:
California Judges Battle Over Bill to Weaken Central Bureaucracy
By MARIA DINZEO
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Judges from all around California are jumping into an intense lobbying battle over a piece of legislation that would send funds directly to trial courts while taking power away from the central bureaucracy.
Over the course of a few days, one Northern California judge has gathered signatures from 43 head judges who oppose the legislative measure. At the same time, leaders of some of the biggest courts in the state, such as Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco, have refused to sign.
Read the full article: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/12/43002.htm
Long live the ACJ.
sharonkramer
January 12, 2012
Wonder who in the judicial branch would be the person who would least like to see a fiscal accountability audit instigated by Calderon? It would have to be someone whose been around for a long time and in a leadership role, would be my thought. Want to place bets on any sudden retirements in the near future?
Res Ipsa Loquitor
January 13, 2012
Not too sure about retirements, but the general AOC operating mantra is blame runs downhill, and that is one reason accountability and transparency are nearly impossible to achieve.
I believe there are a lot of AOC people breaking out in cold sweats over this issue because they have lied to the JC Members, they have lied to the Legislature, and they have lied to the trial courts and they do not relish what will happen when 15 years of lies hits the Courthouse News Service.
If Tani is totally spineless she can lie and say “I never knew” but of course she did.
JusticeCalifornia
January 12, 2012
Here is what is pretty obvious.
If the biggest courts in the state are unhappy, things will have to change. Period. End of Story.
If everyone does not get real clear on that real soon, and put their heads together to come up with a workable solution, battle lines will be drawn, battles will be won and wars will be lost.
Clearly, the status quo is not working. Adjustments have to be made. They will be made. There may be a lot of denial and kicking and screaming, but they will be made. It is only a matter of time.
As judges tell litigants all the time– the parties will be a lot happier if they get reasonable and work things out together, than if they fight to the bitter end, trash everything along the way, and get a result no one likes.
And by the way. Now we can all see why the AOC has been and is so desperate to get control of who becomes presiding judge. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that a “you are either for us or against us, you better do what we say or else” dynamic is going down.
IMHO, the best thing Tani could do for her credibility and future is call a serious meeting and broker a deal.
Judicial Council Watcher
January 12, 2012
Welcome back JusticeCalifornia – you were missed.
Tani professes that Calderon won’t talk to her about the bill and the ACJ professes that Tani won’t talk with them about the bill. Brokering a deal is in the branch’s best interests and if Tani were the least bit politically savvy, this is what she would be doing. Instead, she is gunning for a respected legislator.
This is what we predict if AB1208 doesn’t pass.
1. The 50 million extra in the guv’s budget earmarked for the trial courts will be redirected by the council to CCMS because they had a one year pause *coughs*
2. The 125 million dollar trigger will be pulled when no taxes pass and the trial courts will eat all 125 million dollars with, of course, the largest courts taking the largest hit.
So it is really all about the influence all of you people wield with the legislature and the media.
unionman575
January 12, 2012
JC you nailed it: “So it is really all about the influence all of you people wield with the legislature and the media.”
That’s why so many of us get on plane and go up to SAC and SF in an effort to make some noise, and wield some influence.
It will take all of us beating down the AOC monster until it’s dead.
sharonkramer
January 14, 2012
“It will take all of us beating down the AOC monster until it’s dead”
Right, Unionman. I am giving two Internet radio interviews this week about conflicts of interest and SWOV at the helm of the CA judicial branch adversely impacting the Constitution and public health. One is a small one out of the midwest. The other is a big one out of the DC area. I will keep you posted.