Sacramento Divorce Attorneys and Family Law Lawyers Judge Pro Tem List Posted by Sacramento Family Court News

Sacramento Family Court Judge Pro Tem Attorney List Published by SFCN

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County of Sacramento Superior Court recruits private-sector lawyers to act as temporary judges, also known as judge pro tems, in Sacramento Family Court. 

Sacramento Family Court News has just published the list of private sector lawyers who work in family court and also hold the office of temporary judge. The list is posted at our special Judge Pro Tem page. Click here. A group of Sacramento Family Court watchdogs allege that the court operates a two-tiered justice system in which for-profit, private sector judge pro tem lawyers are rewarded with preferential treatment by full-time judges in exchange for their ostensibly "volunteer" service as temporary judges, while financially disadvantaged, unrepresented court users are treated as second-class citizens. 

Our ongoing coverage of the controversy is available on our Judge Pro Tems page, and by clicking the label judge pro tems. Among other charges, court reform advocates assert that temporary judge attorneys receive kickbacks in the form of rubber-stamped, favorable rulings from full-time judges at a statistically improbable rate, especially in cases where the opposing party is indigent and unrepresented. The preferential treatment deprives the public of the federally protected right to honest government services, a federal crime, court watchdogs charge.    

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