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CJA's
December 16, 2009 draft statement
prepared for Senate Judiciary Committee's aborted 3rd hearing
on the Commission on Judicial Conduct & court-controlled attorney disciplinary
system
Referred-to Casefile Evidence
from 4 Lawsuits --
"The
record of these four lawsuits are perfect
'paper trails' establishing, prima facie, how New York state judges
and the federal courts, aided and abetted by New York's Attorney General,
obliterated ALL cognizable legal standards in fraudulent judicial decisions
that falsified and omitted the material facts and controlling law to protect
and perpetrate New York's verifiably corrupt
attorney disciplinary system and Commission on Judicial Conduct" (at p. 3)
p. 1: (1) Article 78
proceeding (commenced 1993 and ending in 1995 at US Supreme Court) vs
Appellate Division, 2nd Dept, Chairman & Chief Counsel of Grievance
Committee for 9th Judicial District, & Court-Appointed Referee --
Cert Petition, whose single question presented
is as to the unconstitutionality of NY's attorney disciplinary law
p. 2: (2) federal civil
rights action (commenced in 1994 and ending in 1998 at US Supreme
Court) vs Appellate Division, 2nd Dept, Chief counsel, chairman and members
of Grievance Committee for the 9th Judicial District, its court-appointed
referee, and the State Attorney General --
Cert Petition
[casefile]
p. 2: (3) Article 78 proceeding
(commenced in 1995) vs Commission on Judicial Conduct -- and not appealed --
Initiating Verified Petition;
Judiciary Law 44.1; [casefile]
p. 3: (4) Article 78 proceeding
(commenced
in 1999 and ending at NY Court of Appeals in 2002) vs Commission on
Judicial Conduct:
Initiating Verified
Petition;
Final Motion before NY Court
of Appeals
[casefile]
Illustrative Efforts of Outreach to
Legislative Leaders
p. 4:
CJA's
October 26, 2001 letter to then Senator David A. Paterson
-- "RE:
CJA's Request for Legislative Hearing/Investigation of the New York
State Commission on Judicial Conduct"
Ex. A:
inventory of transmittal
Ex. B: M.L.
Henry, Jr.'s January 16, 1987 judicial misconduct complaint
Ex. C:
Commission's acknowledgment & dismissal letters
CJA's
March 5, 2003 memo to Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committee chairs &
ranking members
-- "RE: Meeting with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman John A.
DeFrancisco, Monday, March 17th, at 10:30 a.m."
See, also
Searching for Champions - NYS
(for correspondence with other legislators and officials)
NY's then Chief
Judge Judith Kaye
p. 4:
CJA's March 6, 2007 Written Opposition Statement
to Senate Confirmation of Chief Judge Kaye -- detailing her knowledge
of & complicity in, the corruption of the Commission on Judicial Conduct
DLS' March 6, 2007 Written Opposition Statement to Senate
Confirmation of Chief Judge Kaye -- detailing
her knowledge of, & complicity in, the corruption of the court-controlled
attorney disciplinary system
click here for:
record of DLS' six attempted appeals to NY
Court of Appeals
CJA's
Public Interest Ads to Further Alert Public Officers
& Inform General
Public
p. 4: "Where
Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?"
The New York Times, October 26, 1994,
$16,770 paid ad (Op-Ed page)
reprinted in New York Law Journal,
November 1, 1994 (p. 9) for
an additional $2,280
"A Call
for Concerted Action"
New York Law Journal, $1,648 paid ad
November 20, 1996 (p. 3)
"Restraining
'Liars in the Courtroom' and on the Public Payroll"
New York Law Journal,
$3,077 paid ad
August 27, 1997 (pp. 3-4)
"Comm'n
Abandons Investigative Mandate"
New York
Law Journal, Letter to the Editor by Elena Sassower
August 14,
1995
"Judicial
Reforms"
New York
Daily News, Letter to the Editor by Elena Sassower
December 7,
2001
p. 5:
"Not Accountable to
the Public" --
1989 Report of
the New York State Comptroller Edward Regan, with his
press release
"Commission on Judicial Conduct Needs Oversight"
p. 15:
CJA's
transcription of question-answer at December 11, 2002 program:
"Judging the Judges: The NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct,
co-sponsored by NYS Bar Association & Fund for Modern Courts
pp. 14-15:
"Searching
for Champions - Bar Associations"
p. 15:
"Searching for Champions - Organizations - Fund for Modern Courts"
p. 16:
"Searching for Champions - NYS
- Office of Court Administration - Unified Court System
Office of Inspector General
Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law
Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the
Legal System
Record of CJA's
November 14, 2000 attorney misconduct complaint filed with First
Department Attorney Disciplinary Committee
CJA's November 14, 2000 complaint
to the Attorney Disciplinary Committee -- ATT: Thomas J.
Cahill/Chief Counsel --
"RE: Verified Complaint of Professional
Misconduct against the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the
Women's Bar Association of the State of New York; the New York State Trial
Lawyers Association; and the New York State Bar Association and the Culpable
Lawyers Acting on Their Behalf"
CJA's NOVEMBER 13, 2000
REPORT ON THE COMPLICITY OF THE BAR ASSOCIATIONS IN THE CORRUPTION
OF "MERIT SELECTION"
Exhibit A-1: City Bar President Evan Davis'
10/18/00 letter to Governor
Pataki, with accompanying 10/18/00 press release
Exhibit A-2: 10/19/00 front-page item, NYLJ
Exhibit A-3: CJA's 10/16/00 fax coversheet to City Bar Counsel
Exhibit A-4: CJA's 10/19/00 fax to City Bar Counsel
Exhibit A-5: 10/19/00 fax from City Bar Counsel
Exhibit A-6: 10/25/00 fax coversheet from City Bar Counsel,
enclosing member rosters
Exhibit A-7: 11/17/98 fax from City Bar Counsel with Executive
Committee membership
Exhibit B-1: State Bar President's October 24, 2000 letter to Gov. Pataki
with
accompanying "Guidelines for Evaluating
Qualifications of Judicial Candidates"
Exhibit B-2: State Bar's 10/24/00 "News Release"
Exhibit B-3: 10/25/00 NYLJ front page item on State Bar's ratings
Exhibit B-4: CJA's 10/25/00 fax to State Bar counsel
Exhibit B-5: State Bar membership list of its Executive Committee &
Judicial Selection Committee
Exhibit B-6: State bar President's 11/2/00 letter to NYS Senate
Judiciary Committee
Exhibit C-1: Women's Bar Association's 10/20/00 "Media Advisory"
Exhibit C-2: 10/23/00 NYLJ front-page item on Women's Bar ratings
Exhibit C-3: CJA's 10/23/00 letter to Women's Bar
Exhibit C-4: website of Women's Bar listing its officers & past
presidents
Exhibit D-1: 10/20/00 letter from President/NYS Trial Lawyers
Association to Gov. Pataki's counsel
Exhibit D-2: Trial Lawyers' October 20, 2000 "News Release"
Exhibit D-3: 10/24/00 NYLJ front-page item on Trial Lawyers' ratings
Exhibit D-4: CJA's 10/24/00 letter-fax to Trial Lawyers
Exhibit E: "Court of Appeals Nominees Grilled by Bar Groups",
10/17/00 front-page article, NYLJ
Exhibit F-1: Gov Pataki's 11/2/00 press release: "Governor Pataki
Nominates Graffeo to
Court of Appeals"
Exhibit F-2: "Pataki Selects Judge for Appeals Court He Sees as
Lenient", NYT, 11/3/00
Exhibit F-3: "Pataki Names Graffeo to Court of Appeals",
NYLJ, 11/3/00
Exhibit G: CJA's 6/20/00 letter to Cit Bar President Evan Davis
Exhibit H-1: CJA's 9/18/00 letter to Guy Miller Struve & P. Kevin
Castel
Exhibit H-2: 11/3/00 front-page item/NYLJ
Exhibit I-1: CJA's 11/19/98 letter to Chairman/NYS Bar's Judicial
Selection Committee
Exhibit I-2: CJA's 1/4/99 letter to State Bar President
Exhibit I-3: CJA's 2/17/99 letter to State Bar President
Exhibit I-4: February 18, 1999 letter from Counsel/NYS Bar
Exhibit J-1: "Where Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?"
Exhibit J-2: 6/1/95 letter to Chairman/State Bar Committee on
Professional Discipline
Exhibit J-3: 6/5/95 letter from Counsel/NYS Bar
Exhibit K: CJA's 11/19/98 letter to Co-Chair/Women's Bar Judiciary
Committee/
with fax coversheets to her
& her Co-Chair, and Women's Bar President
CJA's November 13, 2000 letter to Association of the Bar of
the City of New York.
CJA's November 13, 2000 letter to New York State Bar
Association.
CJA's November 13, 2000 letter to New York State Trial
Lawyers Association.
CJA's November 13, 2000 letter to Women's Bar Association of
the State of New York
CJA's OCTOBER 16, 2000 REPORT ON THE CORRUPTION OF "MERIT SELECTION"
BY THE NYS COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL NOMINATION
Exhibit A-1: "An Appeal to Fairness: Revisit the Court of
Appeals",
CJA's letter to the editor, NYPost, 12/28/98
Exhibit A-2: CJA's 3/26/99 ethics complaint to the NYS Ethics
Commission
Exhibit B: CJA's 9/15/99 ethics complaint/supplement to the NYS Ethics Commission
Exhibit C-1: CJA's 10/16/00 letter to NYS Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Exhibit C-2: Commission on Judicial Nomination's 10/4/000 report of recommendees
Exhibit D-1: CJA's 10/11/00 letter to Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Exhibit D-2: CJA's 10/11/00 letter to Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Exhibit D-3: 10/13/00 letter from Counsel/Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Exhibit E-1: 2/24/00 letter from Counsel/Commission on Judicial
Nomination,
enclosing Commission's 11/12/98 report of recommendees
Exhibit E-2: CJA's 3/12/99 letter to Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Exhibit F: CJA's 2/5/99 letter to Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Ex A-1: 11/25/98 letter from Counsel/Commission on Judicial
Nomination
Ex. A-2: CJA's 12/1/98 letter to Commission on Judicial Nomination
Ex. B: CJA's 12/16/98 letter to Senior Counsel/NYS Senate
Judiciary Committee
Ex. C: "An Appeal to Fairness: Revisit the Court of Appeals",
NY Post, 12/28/98
Ex. D: CJA's 1/13/99 letter to NYS Senate Judiciary
Committee/Clerk
Exhibit G-1: 4/26/99 letter of Exec.Director/NYS Committee on Open
Government
Exhibit G-2: CJA's 5/3/99 letter to Commission on Judicial Nomination
Exhibit H: CJA's 10/5/98 letter to Commission on Judicial Nomination
Ex. A: NYLJ notices, 9/15/98, 9/21/98
Ex. B-1: Commission on Judicial Nomination brochure
Ex. B-2-5: Commission on Judicial Nomination questionnaire
Ex. C: "Where Do You Go When Judges Break the Law?",
CJA's $16,770 ad, NYT,
10/26/94
Ex. D: "Restraining 'Liars in the Courtroom and on the Public
Payroll",
CJA's $3,077 ad, NYLJ, 8/27/97
Ex. E-1: "Commission Abandons Investigative Mandate", NYLJ,
8/14/95
Ex. E-2: "A Call for
Concerted Action", CJA's $1,648 ad, NYLJ, 11/20/96
Ex. F: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems",
CJA's letter to editor, NYT, 11/16/96
Exhibit I: CJA's 10/18/98 letter to Exec. Committee/City Bar
Exhibit J-1: "On Choosing Judges, Pataki Creates Problems",
letter to the editor, NYT, 11/16/96
Exhibit J-2: CJA's 6/12/96 letter to Counsel to Governor Pataki
Exhibit J-3: CJA's 6/11/96 letter to NYS Senate
Ex. A: CJA's April 18, 1996 letter to Counsel/Senate Judiciary Committee
Ex. D: "Commission Abandons Investigative Mandate", NYLJ,
8/14/95
Ex. F: CJA's 3-page analysis of decision in Doris L. Sassower
v. Commission
Ex. B: CJA's 4/29/96 letter to Counsel to Governor Pataki
Exhibit K: NYS Assembly Bill: 2/23/83
INVENTORY OF FILE FOLDER A: documents pertaining to
the Commission on Judicial Nomination's recommendation of Stephen
Crane as "well qualified" for appointment to the NY Court of Appeals
INVENTORY OF FILE FOLDER B: documents pertaining to
the Commission on Judicial Nomination's recommendation of Juanita
Bing Newton as "well qualified" for appointment to the NY Court of
Appeals
Attorney Disciplinary Committee's December 11, 2000 letter
CJA's February 26, 2001 letter to the Attorney Disciplinary
Committee - ATT: Thomas J. Cahill/Chief Counsel
-- "RE: CJA's November 14, 2000 complaint docketed as
#2000.3089: Association of the Bar of the City of New York;
#2000-2090: Women's Bar Association of the State of New York;
#2000-3091: New York State Trial Lawyers Association;
#2000.3157: New York State Bar Association"
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter
-- "RE: CJA's November 14, 2000 complaint
docketed as #2000.3089: Association of the Bar of the City of
New York; #2000-2090: Women's Bar Association of the State of
New York; #2000-3091: New York State Trial Lawyers Association;
#2000.3157: New York State Bar Association"
--
CJA's March 2, 2001 letter to Committee
to Promote Trust & Confidence in Legal System -- "RE: Placing CJA's November 13, 2000 Report
on the Agenda of The Upcoming Meeting of the Committee to Promote Public
Trust and Confidence in the Legal System"
--
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter to
Institute on Professionalism in the Law
-- "RE: Holding the Bar Associations and Their Culpable Lawyers to Account for
their Complicitous Role in the Corruption of 'Merit Selection' to the New York
Court of Appeals"
Attorney Disciplinary Committee's March 21, 2001 letter
Attorney Disciplinary Committee's April 3, 2001 letter
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