Attorney Misconduct: Moral Turpitude, Dishonesty, Fraud, Corruption, or Concealment - California State Bar

Rules of Procedure of the State Bar of California Rule 2.7

"Disbarment or actual suspension is appropriate for an act of moral turpitude, dishonesty, fraud, corruption, or concealment of a material fact." 

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Whistleblower Divorce Attorney Edward Lyman Reveals Systemic Misconduct at Family Law Firm

Divorce and family law attorneys are often accused of misconduct. In this case, a whistleblower family law lawyer detailed attorney misconduct common with divorce lawyers throughout California. 

Lyman came forward when he observed a senior associate attorney at the Firm repeatedly violating the laws, rules, and regulations promulgated by the Legislature and State Bar of California that are designed to protect clients—and the public at large—from attorney misconduct.

Plaintiff Edward M. Lyman III, is a Private Attorney General authorized to act on behalf of the State of California to collect civil penalties for the government, himself, and the other aggrieved employees, against the Defendant law firm of Walzer Melcher LLP. Plaintiff also brings this action individually against all defendants for inter alia general, special, and punitive damages. Plaintiff alleges on the basis of personal knowledge and/or information and belief as follows:

 

Read our Special Report: Sacramento County Family Court Operates as RICO Racketeering Enterprise, Charge Whistleblowers.

Sacramento County Judges, Lawyers and Court Employees with Antisocial Personality Disorder: News You Can Use

CONSUMER PROTECTION NEWS YOU CAN USE: Do Sacramento County judges, lawyers and court employees exhibit the clinical symptoms of antisocial personality disorder? Many family court litigants allege they do.

From: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition DSM-5, Cluster B Personality Disorders: Antisocial Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths. File includes California Civil Jury Instruction 4001 "Mental Disorder" Explained, and Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy excerpts on Antisocial Personality Disorder and psychopaths, sociopaths distinguished.

 

Read our Special Report: Sacramento County Family Court Operates as RICO Racketeering Enterprise, Charge Whistleblowers.

Judge Matthew Gary Outraged at Supreme Court Same-Sex Marriage Ruling - SFCN Sunday Funnies - RoadDog Satire

Judge Matthew Gary to Speak on How Homos Harm Kids at Right-Wing Ideologue Evangelical Church 

Sunday Satire by RoadDog

The Right-Wing Evangelical Church in Fair Oaks next Sunday will host
a talk by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Matthew Gary.

In reaction to the recent US Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, controversial Sacramento Superior Court Judge Matthew Gary will give a talk next Sunday on the effects of homosexuality on children. 

"How the homos harm kids" is the title of a speech Gary will give at the Right-Wing Ideologue Evangelical Church in Fair Oaks, according to a press release from Gary's publicist and court clerk Christina Arcuri.

"The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is an outrage, and an outrage that will have far-ranging consequences," Gary is expected to rant. "The legalization of same-sex marriage will cause irreparable harm to countless children throughout the United States. As a family court judge, I am an unimpeachable authority on this subject," Gary will rightly point out. "These gay homos are criminalizing Christianity and the beliefs of Evangelicals and someone must make a stand."  

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Sacramento Superior Court Judges Violate State Law & Code of Judicial Ethics In Temporary Judge Conflict of Interest Disclosure Controversy

Sacramento Family Court reform advocates say the tattered flag that flies above the courthouse is emblematic of the systemic rule of law breakdown - including serial conflict of interest disclosure violations - which they assert has taken place in court proceedings.

Judges Fail To Make Conflict Disclosures: Systemic Legal Error Taints Countless Cases

UPDATE: Supreme Court Committee Confirms Temporary Judge Conflict Disclosure Violations

In hundreds of cases, Sacramento Family Court judges have failed to make critical conflict of interest disclosures required by state law and the Code of Judicial Ethics, according to a courthouse whistleblower. 

The disclosure omission is ongoing and infects additional cases each week. The legitimacy of orders and judgments in cases tainted by the error are subject to challenge by trial court set-aside motions or costly appellate court review.  

In most of the cases, one party is unrepresented and indigent - substantially reducing the chances that relief will be sought, but nonetheless requiring taxpayers to foot the bill in the event of subsequent proceedings due to the error. The potential public financial liability is significant. The current cost to taxpayers for a single appeal is between $8,500 and $25,500, according to recent appellate court decisions.

New court records leaked by a whistleblower and posted online exclusively by Sacramento Family Court News, including a conflict of interest disclosure filed by a civil court judge, and another filed by a federal judge, show that other Sacramento County Superior Court judges - and federal judges - do comply with conflict laws.

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Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee & Court Administrators Conceal Temporary Judge Status of Sexual Predator Family Law Attorney

Judge Pro Tem Attorney Gary Appelblatt Convicted of Sexual Battery Against Clients

Sacramento Bee Whitewashes Coverage

Sacramento Family Court News Exclusive

The criminal defense lawyer for Judge Pro Tem Gary 
Appelblatt argued that the alleged sexual battery by 
his client was consensual.

The first sexual battery victim of Sacramento Family Court Temporary Judge Gary Appelblatt contacted the Sheriff's Department on Feb. 17, five years ago today. 

The then-prominent Sacramento Bar Association Family Law Section attorney ultimately was charged with 13-criminal counts including sexual battery and penetration with a foreign object. The victims were Appelblatt's divorce clients and potential clients.

"[A]ppelblatt invited the clients into his American River Drive law office and drew the blinds. He shooed out any visitors and locked the door. Then, testimony showed, the 57-year-old divorce lawyer moved the women over for physical exams on what the judge described as the attorney's 'convenient couch.' Some had their tops removed, and he reached into the pants of some of the other women...[Deputy District Attorney Keith Hill] said the lawyer's perversions took advantage of weakened victims who sought his professional services at 'terrible emotional' times in their lives," Sacramento Bee reporter Andy Furillo wrote in 2008. 

In 2008 and 2009 the Bee published four stories about the Appelblatt case - three with the byline of Furillo - a veteran reporter on the courthouse beat. None of the stories disclosed that Appelblatt held the Office of Temporary Judge. 

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Sacramento Divorce Lawyers and Family Law Attorneys: Family Court Sacramento - Sacramento County Bar Association Family Law Section Monopoly - Sunday Funnies

Bar Association Family Law Attorneys 

vs. The 70 Percent*

Sacramento Bar Association Family Law Section vs. the 70 Percent

Sunday Satire by RoadDog

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Divorce Attorneys Sacramento and Family Law Lawyers Family Court Child Custody / Visitation Orders Cause Unhappy Holidays

Illegal "No Contact" Child Custody & Visitation Orders Cause Mental and Emotional Trauma, Especially During Holidays, say Protest Organizers

Summer 2012 family court reform group protest. Among other issues, court reform advocates assert that "no contact" child custody orders issued by Sacramento Family Court judges are drafted intentionally to obstruct the oversight functions of the 3rd District Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court.

Child Custody/Visitation Issues: On Tuesday Nov. 20 two family court reform organizations will hold a rally across from the William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse. The groups seek to raise awareness of the mental and emotional trauma experienced during the holidays by parents who, due to family court child custody and visitation orders, have been denied contact with their own children. 

Court watchdogs have documented that family court judges routinely issue as punishment unlawful "no contact" orders which prohibit a parent from having any contact with their own children. The orders - issued without the legal grounds required by state law - effectively terminate all parental rights, and are intentionally worded so that any attempted appeal is futile, according to reform advocates. 

"Many parents throughout America get to spend a traditional day of feasting, socializing, fraternizing, watching football, etc., with their children, relatives and friends. Unfortunately, this is not true for everyone. Too many parents have been denied what many Americans get to enjoy every year, and take for granted - an opportunity to spend Thanksgiving Day with their children," said Robert Saunders of Fathers4Justice.

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Sacramento Divorce Attorney Charlotte Keeley Judge Pro Tem Target of Fathers4Justice & Family Court Watchdog Demonstration at Law Office

Family Court Parent and Fathers4Justice Hold Direct Action Demonstration at Law Office of Attorney and Temporary Judge Charlotte Keeley

Family Court Sacramento U.N. Takeover Update: Hit Music Video Gangnam Style Linked To Family Court Sacramento - Sunday Funnies

PSY Links Family Court Issues with Music Video Theme After Meeting with U.N. Secretary General

Sunday Satire by RoadDog

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday met with South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and record producer Park Jae-sang, commonly known by his stage name "PSY," to discuss the Sacramento Family Court scandal and the power of music to overcome intolerance.

As reported exclusively by Sacramento Family Court News, the United Nations last month declared the William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse a crime scene. A criminal indictment issued by the U.N. charged prominent Sacramento County Bar Association Family Law Section attorneys and several family court judges with violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with operating the court as an organized criminal enterprise. To read our original report on the United Nations courthouse takeover, click here.  

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Judge Laurie Earl Misconduct: SCBA Family Law Section Divorce Lawyers Notified Of Family Court Judge Matthew J. Gary Demotion - Public Left In Dark

Judge Laurie M. Earl Notifies Family Law Attorneys About Matthew Gary Demotion - Public Left Uninformed 

Judge Laurie M. Earl Sacramento Superior Court
Source: Sacramento Lawyer Magazine

As exclusively reported last month by Sacramento Family Court News, Family Court Judge Matthew J. Gary has been quietly demoted back to the rank-and-file. Gary's supervising judge title was stripped and given to Judge Jamie R. Roman.   

While family court attorneys were immediately notified of the leadership change through a lawyer-only LISTSERV, the public apparently was, and continues to be kept in the dark. The only publicly available clue about Gary's problems was an innocuous Sept. 7 order designating ADA judicial officers.  Instead of Gary, the ADA order signed by Sacramento County Superior Court Presiding Judge Laurie M. Earl listed Roman as the Family Court ADA Judicial Officer, a title that comes with the supervising judge designation. Judge Earl otherwise continues to conceal from non-lawyers the decision to replace Gary months before his term as supervising judge was scheduled to end, according to a court watchdog.

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Cecil & Cianci, Divorce Attorney Thomas Cecil, and Judge Pro Tem Lawyer Charlotte Keeley Targeted by Family Court Reform Group Direct Action Demonstration

Divorce Attorney Charlotte Keeley, Ex-Judge Thomas Cecil Law Offices Hit by Protests 

Family Law and Divorce Lawyers: Judge Acknowledges Draconian Family Court Conditions To Family Law Attorneys - Public Not Notified

Supervising Judge Matthew J. Gary Warns Family Court Problems Will Get Worse - Court Services To Be Slashed to "Core Functions"

In an address to the Sacramento County Bar Association Family Law Section, Family Court Judge Matthew Gary admitted that the conditions in Family Court continue to deteriorate, and are now worse than the conditions which last year led to national news coverage by the New York Times. 

Gary, the supervising family law and probate judge, spoke at the February family law luncheon held by and for family law attorneys. According to an account of the event in The Family Law Counselor, the newsletter of the Sacramento County Bar Association Family Law Section, Gary revealed that...

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