JUSTICE ARTHUR SCOTLAND: Court of Appeal Judges Use Highway Patrol as Personal Uber Security Service

Controversial 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Arthur Scotland makes a cameo at 2:15 of this news report. Read our special report on Scotland and the the ethically-challenged Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. 

WHISTLEBLOWER COURT OF APPEAL ATTORNEY CONFIRMS INSTITUTIONALIZED SOCIOECONOMIC BIAS IN APPELLATE COURTS IN BOTH CALIFORNIA ... AND THE DEEP SOUTH

"During my tenure as a research attorney at the Court of Appeal, I found pro se civil appeals often took two to three times longer to work up than if they had been presentedby competent counsel. In order to give these litigants a fair shake, I was forced to tease out of the jumble of disconnected facts and purported statements of law a coherent synopsis of what the litigant was really trying to say - and then do the exhaustive research necessary to resolve the issue.

"Many of my colleagues at the court were not so charitable. They simply washed their hands of the whole mess by citing the famous maxim that the failure to tender a coherent legal argument with appropriate citation to authority constitutes a forfeiture of the claim. I find such an approach morally problematic, for it destroys both the meritorious and the unmeritorious appeal with equal force, and tends to give the wealthy litigant who can afford counsel an unfair advantage over his or her poorer counterpart."

Many people are not aware that the court of appeal makes money off appeals:

In Sacramento, Third District Court of Appeal judges are hostile to pro per appeals, according to a whistleblower. If you don't have a lawyer, you are not welcome in the appellate court, court watchdogs allege.

This case originated in Louisiana's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Court watchdogs allege that virtually the same pro per and socioeconomic bias associated with courts in the Deep South also occurs in California. 

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

JUDGE MATTHEW GARY REPORTEDLY IN SIGHTS OF STATE JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT AGENCY FOR ILLEGAL JAILING OF FAMILY COURT PARENTS

UPDATE MAY 14, 2020: Judge Matthew Gary Prosecuted and Convicted by Commission on Judicial Performance.

Sacramento County Superior Court watchdogs assert that Judge Matthew Gary is under investigation by the Commission on Judicial Performance and California State Auditor for ordering the illegal imprisonment of self-represented court users. In a similar case, Contra Costa County Judge Bruce Mills  recently was charged with ethics violations by the CJP. Gary reportedly has delayed his own day of reckoning with help from 3rd District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Vance Raye, who has intervened to cover for Gary in the appellate court. 

• Disabled, self-represented parent jailed, financially ruined, and made homeless by Judge Matthew Gary.
• Whistleblower leaked courtroom security video of illegal in-court arrest ordered by Judge Matthew Gary. 
• Judge Matthew Gary articles catalog.

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

Justice Vance Raye & 3rd District Appellate Court Hostility to Free Speech Exposed, Again, in Reversal by California Supreme Court

Presiding Justice Vance Raye and the judges of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento have long expressed hostility to free speech and whistleblowers. Civil rights and court reform advocates refer to the court as a perpetual "dumpster fire" that routinely disregards clearly established constitutional rights.

From the California Supreme Court:

"The California Constitution states: "Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press." (Cal. Const., art. I, § 2, subd. (a).) It also guarantees the rights to "petition government for redress of grievances" and to "assemble freely to consult for the common good." (Id., art. I, § 3, subd. (a).) (3)...

...We do not agree with the Court of Appeal that the Moscone Act and section 1138.1, which are components of a state statutory system for regulating labor relations, and which are modeled on federal law, run afoul of the federal constitutional prohibition on content discrimination in speech regulations. On this basis, we reverse the Court of Appeal's judgment and remand the matter for further proceedings."

Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8. 

• Read our special report about Third District Court of Appeal controversy. 

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

3rd District Appellate Justice Cole Blease Targeted by Court Watchdogs for Role in Cover Up of Judge Matthew Gary Misconduct

The Family Court Accountability Coalition released this meme theme photo

of 3rd District Court of Appeal Justice Coleman Blease. The whistleblower

group contends that Blease effectively acts as an appellate court mole for, 

and helps cover up misconduct by trial court judges.

Sacramento Superior Court watchdogs have initiated a campaign to publicize what they allege is cronyism between judges who work at the Third District Court of Appeal and Sacramento Superior Court.

The group has catalogued personal, social, professional, and political connections between the two groups that they assert result in the appellate court effectively doctoring appeals to conceal judicial misconduct by trial court judges.

In March, 3rd District Justice Cole Blease dismissed an appeal that, among other allegations, documented criminal conduct by controversial Judge Matthew Gary. Court records show that Gary may have acted as an accessory after-the-fact to a criminal child abduction by the client of a local divorce attorney with ties to the controversial family court temporary judge program. The details are outlined in briefs from the case, which are catalogued and viewable at the Scribd document publishing website. 

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