Searching for Champions - Academia
(Building Honest Scholarship)

PROFESSOR CHARLES GARDNER GEYH
(formerly at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)
(now at Indiana University School of Law)

1998

on November 21, 1998, Professor Geyh received, in-hand, the following primary-source, documentary evidence at the University of Southern California Law School Symposium, "Judicial Independence & Accountability" -- in substantiation of CJA's published article, "Without Merit: The Empty Promise of Judicial Discipline", The Long Term View (Massachusetts School of Law), also given to him, in-hand:
       
        (1) Supreme Court submissions in Sassower v.  Mangano:
               (cert petition, supplemental brief, petition for rehearing,
                  & impeachment complaint against the Supreme Court Justices) 

        (2)   CJA's statement for inclusion in the record of the House Judiciary Committee's June 11, 1998 "Oversight Hearing of the Administration and Operation of the Federal Judiiciary", with accompanying compendium of documents annexed thereto

Professor Geyh’ s November 23, 1998 letter

cc:  CJA's December 2, 1998 letter to Citizens for Independent Courts Executive Director Virginia Sloan --
"Citizen Participation in a 'Citizens' Organization"

      SEE:  Citizens for Independent Courts-Constitution Project

CJA’s faxed and mailed December 9, 1998 letter --
"CJA's document-supported critique"
           Ex. A:  Professor Geyh's November 23, 1998 letter,
                        with photocopy of envelope
           Ex. B:  CJA's December 2, 1998 letter to Sloan

        SEE: Test Cases-Federal (Mangano)
             SEE:  Citizens for Independent Courts

CJA’s superseding faxed and mailed December 9, 1998 letter to Professor Geyh, with December 10th coverletter --
"Retraction and Apology"

Professor Geyh’s mailed December 9, 1998 letter to CJA, postmarked December 11, 1998

2008

CJA's April 21, 2008 letter to Professor Geyh --
"Building Evidence-Based Scholarship on Federal Judicial Discipline (& Selection) -- CJA's March 6, 2008 letter to the Chief Justice & Accompanying Critique of the Breyer Committee Report

cc:  CJA's Law Day-May 1, 2008 memo to The Constitution Project-Courts Initiative --
"Confronting Evidence: the Corruption of Federal Judicial Discipline:
          (1) CJA's March 6, 2008 Critique of the Breyer Committee Report & Letter to the Chief Justice; and
          (2) CJA's April 18, 2008 Comments to the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct on the Proposed Revision to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges"

cc:   CJA's May 2, 2008 memo to American Judicature Society --
"Confronting Evidence: The Corruption of Federal Judicial Discipline:
          (1) CJA's March 6, 2008 Critique of the Breyer Committee Report & Letter to the Chief Justice; and
          (2) CJA's April 18, 2008 Comments to the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct on the Proposed Revision to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges"

cc:  CJA's May 5, 2008 memo to American Bar Association --
"Confronting Evidence: The Corruption of Federal Judicial Discipline:
         (1) CJA's March 6, 2008 Critique of the Breyer Committee Report & Letter to the Chief Justice; and
         (2) CJA's April 18, 2008 Comments to the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct on the Proposed Revision to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges"

cc:   May 12, 2008 e-mail from American Judicature Society --
"Confronting Evidence: The Corruption of Federal Judicial Discipline"

cc:  CJA's May 30, 2008 memo to American Judicature Society --
"Serving Congress and the Public by Critical Scholarship:
        (1) Federal Judicial Pay Raises; &
        (2) Breyer Committee Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 

cc:  CJA's May 30, 2008 letter to Justice at Stake Campaign --
"Serving Congress and the Public by Critical Scholarship:
        (1) Federal Judicial Pay Raises; &
        (2) Breyer Committee Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 
    
cc:  CJA's May 30, 2008 memo to Constitution Project  --
"Serving Congress and the Public by Critical Scholarship:
        (1) Federal Judicial Pay Raises; &
        (2) Breyer Committee Report on the Implementation of the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980     
 

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SUBSEQUENT TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS:

2009
December 10, 2009 Courts Subcommittee Hearing: 
"Examining the State of Judicial Recusals
after Capterton v. A.T. Massey"
(Serial #111-118)
VIDEO

2017
February 14, 2017 Courts Subcommittee Hearing:
"Judicial Transparency and Ethics"
(Serial #115-1)
VIDEO


2019
June 21, 2019 Courts Subcommittee Hearing:
"The Federal Judiciary in the 21st Century:
Ideas for Promoting Ethics, Transparency and Accountability"
(Serial #116-29) 
VIDEO 

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"Can the Rule of Law Survive Judicial Politics"
2012 Indiana University School of Law

2019 "Considering Reconsidering Judicial Independence"

"Judicial Independence at Twilight"
2021 Case Western Reserve Law Review

 

"The Architecture of Judicial Ethics"

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