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| September 26, 2011 | "Attorney General asked to weigh in on judges’ $235,000 benefits" | "California’s Attorney General is deciding whether the Commission on Judicial Performance can discipline San Luis Obispo County judges for giving themselves perks that total more than $235,000 a year, according to documents and sources familiar with the issue." | CalCoastNews.com |
| September 25, 2011 | "United States Supreme Court Asked to Review Alleged Corruption Within California Supreme Court" | "Lending significant support to calls for an examination of corruption in the California Supreme Court, a sharply-worded brief was filed with the United States Supreme Court, urging it to grant review. In that brief, Marina Del Ray-based legal scholar Dan Dydzak minced no words in accusing former Chief Justice Ronald George and attorneys from the San Francisco-based law firm of Howard Rice of egregious misconduct. Specifically, it is alleged that Howard Rice was instrumental in using the State Bar of California/State Bar Court as a vehicle to punish Dydzak for his role in exposing alleged corruption and improprieties at brokerage house Charles Schwab, an established client of Howard Rice." | The Leslie Brodie Report |
| July 27, 2011 | "Superior Court judge critical of the way funding is handed out" | "Judge Tia Fisher tells Warren Olney tonight on KCRW's "Which Way, L.A.?" that the Administrative Office of the Court has done a poor job divvying out funds throughout the state. Rather than focus on day-to-day operations, Fisher says the AOC has spent too much money on pet projects that were hatched by former Chief Justice Ronald George. Fisher, who is a Superior Court judge in Pomona, said the administrative office has been used to "reward and punish" judges." | LA Observed |
| March 22, 2011 | How To Disqualify Your State Superior Court Judge & Get A New Trial | Dr. Richard I Fine explains how citizens can disqualify a State judge who is "on the take". All 430 California Superior Court Judges in L A County can be disqualified by citizens who have been involved in litigation against the County of Los Angeles in the last two decades. If you lost your case and did not know your judge was getting money from the County, Richard Fine says you can "Null & Void" the Judge's Order and get a new trial. | Full Disclosure Network |
| March 17, 2011 | "American Heroes: Leslie Dutton and Richard I. Fine" | "These are the kind of heroes that will be the only reason our great Republic survives–if it does. The degree of personal sacrifice in this situation, in order root out the worst kind of political-judicial corruption, goes WAY beyond the call of duty…well, not really beyond the call of duty but certainly beyond the willingness of many of us to endure what appeared to be a permanent sentence of solitary confinement (and denial of medical treatment) for a 70-year-old Ph.D. of International Law and practicing attorney." | The Post & Email |
| March 15, 2011 | Crooked L.A. Judges Try to Slide Marina Del Rey Project By - Residents Await Courts To Stop Developers From "Sprucing" | "The Times forgot to mention this detail: The residents of Marina Del Rey vehemently oppose this method of "sprucing up." And they fought it in court - only to have the attorney representing them taken down by a judge being bribed by the County - the County is partner with the marina developer. Now L.A. judges (who have all accepted illegal bonuses from the County) are throwing around the follow up case like a hot potato." | L.A. Weekly |
| March 14, 2011 | "California Courts Panic As Five Judges Are Disqualified By Richard Fine's Actions" | | Sacramento Bee |
| March 14, 2011 | Work to begin on Marina del Rey apartment project | "Actor Kirk Douglas, who has been Epstein's partner in the marina since the 1960s, and Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America also are part of the joint venture that is developing Shores." | L.A. Times |
| March 14, 2011 | Supervisor Antonovich and Judges Terrified of Upset Citizens | "Baca has issued about 400 permits countywide, including many to judges and a few to elected officials, Bilowit said. They include county Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Assemblyman Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), according to county records." | Los Angeles Times |
| March 7, 2011 | "Richard I. Fine: County Influencing Judges With Double $ Benefits, Developers Pay To Play" | "Since September 2010, three other judges have refused to hear Fine's motion: Judge Yaffe abruptly resigned from office after refusing to hear the matter, Judge Ann Jones recused herself because she had discussed the matter with Yaffe, and Judge O'Brien refused a hearing but denied the motion. According to L A County Auditor's Records attached to Fine's Motion to Null and Void JudgeYaffe has taken over $850,000 in double benefits, payments from the County while sitting on cases where the County is involved as a party. Judge Berle has taken $637,000, and Judge O'Brien almost $300,000." | Full Disclosure Network |
| March 7, 2011 | "Did L.A. County & Marina Developers Commit Redevelopment Fraud In Pay-to-Play Scheme?" | "California Senate Bill SBX2-11, which the judges use to avoid prosecution for receiving illegal county payments, provides NO immunity for "obstruction of justice" for sitting on cases while receiving money from a party to the case; Canons of Judicial Ethics offer them no safe harbor either. (See Summary Items #6 and #7.) SBX2-11 also did not amend the California Constitution, thus judges remain in violation of Article VI, Section 19, which states that judges' income is limited to that provided by the State alone (with a few minor exceptions for educators, etc.)." | Full Disclosure Network |
| February 2, 2011 | L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe says Marina del Rey 'just needs to be polished' | Knabe said he has long been dissatisfied by the slow pace of redeveloping the marina. ... “The mandate for the Marina is to bring benefits … to LA County through the creation of a low-cost recreational and tourist destination,” David Barish wrote in a letter to the supervisors. The county’s proposal, he wrote, “moves the marina even further away from its intended purpose as ‘the people’s’ marina.” | Los Angeles Times |
| January 28, 2011 | "Cost of Courage: The Story of Richard I. Fine" (video) | "ABUSE OF POWER: Dr. Richard I Fine describes his battle with the California Justice System and why Judge David Yaffe jailed him indefinitely in solitary "coercive confinement" for civil contempt of Court. Features excerpts from FDN's interview with Fine on March 3, 2009, the day before he was jailed for refusing to obey Judge Yaffe's orders in protest of the Judicial Corruption in California." | YouTube (Full Disclosure Network channel) |
| December 28, 2010 | "Leslie Dutton's Videos Freed Richard Fine From Jail. But Who Can Stop Charles McCoy & Friends' $57,000 Bonuses?" | "Richard Fine challenged the judges' nasty enrichment scheme as illegal. It probably is, but it's abetted by the legislature and L.A. County Board of Supervisors." | L.A. Weekly |
| December 20, 2010 | "L.A. Court 'Shake-Up' As Second Judge Steps Down in Richard Fine Contempt Case" | "This is the first time the conflict in law and practice has surfaced publicly and could pose Judicial staffing problems as illegal county payments continue to flow to all Los Angeles Judges." | TMC Net Legal |
| December 11, 2010 | "Developers Relent in 18-Month Jailing Of 70-Year-Old Attorney Richard I. Fine " | | Full Disclosure Network |
| November 21, 2010 | Are Judicial Double Benefits Constitutional? Judges To Rule on Judges' Benefits, Round II | This awkward court fight has judges pitted against judges. The Los Angeles Superior Court hired Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher one of the nation's most prestigious lawfirms to fight to overturn the previous decision in November 2008 that found the double benefits of $300 million paid to L A Judges since 1987 were illegal. And, L A County would not take no for an answer, they hired Jones-Day one of the largest lawfirms in the world to continue the fight to give double benefits to the highest paid judges in the nation. Apparently the costly court fees for retrying the case is not an issue. There appears to be unlimited funds for the top legal beagles. | Full Disclosure Network |
| November 11, 2010 | "A Fine Line in the Sand" | “I'm going to continue going forward with judicial reform and make sure that judges who receive this illegal money do not hear cases in the county,” Fine began in a recent interview with The Argonaut. | The Argonaut |
| October 18, 2010 | "LA Times Endorsements Ignore Judicial Crimes, Spark Debate" | "... experts ... are challenging Judicial Corruption and LA Times endorsements of California Judges who received retroactive criminal immunity from prosecution for crimes involving 'theft' and 'fraud'." | Full Disclosure Network |
| October 1, 2010 | "A Fine Mess" | "Is it reasonable to suppose that the hundreds of millions of dollars that state judges have received from Los Angeles County make it more difficult for lawyers there to win cases against the public sector? Frankly, I think it's something worth looking at." | California Lawyer Magazine |
| September 27, 2010 | "Richard Fine looks to next step in judicial crusade" | Actor Ed Asner counts himself among those who have followed and supported Fine's struggles. "It's amazing how few politicians in this city, county and state have stood up for him," the Valley Village resident said. "I think Mr. Fine's case is indicative of the heroism that is rampant in America now." | L.A. Daily News |
| September 26, 2010 | "Attorney's release ends LA saga" | | Korea Times |
| September 23, 2010 | Exclusive Video: Richard I Fine, Ph.D Reflects on 18 Months of "Coercive Confinement" & Court Corruption | | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 20, 2010 | "California Judge Releases Former U.S. Prosecutor from 'Coercive Confinement'" | Judge Yaffe: "By keeping him (Fine) incarcerated for 18 months, the court has deterred others from defying its orders to the extent that it is possible to do so given the facts of this case." | PR Newswire |
| September 18, 2010 | "Former taxpayer advocate attorney from Tarzana freed" | Richard Fine, 70, told the Daily News in a phone interview that his release from Men's Central Jail shows that "right will win over might." "This is really a great day for Los Angeles and for California," said Fine, a former Beverly Hills attorney who once worked for the U.S. Department of Justice. | DailyNews.com |
| September 18, 2010 | "Free at Last, Oh Lord, Free at Last -- Richard Fine Freed on Yom Kippur after 18 Months in Jail" | "Fine's case became a cause celebre for many like Leslie Dutton and her Full Disclosure Network which championed his cause nationwide while local media largely ignored it." | RonKayeLA.com |
| August 23, 2010 | "California Corruption & Politics" | "County District Attorney Steve Cooley is no stranger to public corruption. Now a candidate for the office of California Attorney General, he launched a massive investigation into political corruption in the tiny City of Bell California. Other corruption issues could overshadow Bell and his candidacy for Attorney General." | Full Disclosure Network |
| August 16, 2010 | "Presiding Judges Failed to Stop Corruption" | "Judge Yaffe has admitted in Court Testimony he was taking illegal payments from the County of Los Angeles while sitting on the bench where the County was a party to the case. (Marina Strand v. County of Los Angeles). Ironically seventeen months later, the Judge has now overruled his own order, admitting that he himself has committed "fraud upon the court" by filing papers referring to a non-existent court order and admitting he never intended to rule that Richard Fine did not have standing to disqualify him in the case." | Forbes |
| August 13, 2010 | "Third World.... New World Order Invades California Justice System" | "Now, seventeen months later, too much damage has been done for this legal battle to end nicely. It is now a far bigger issue than just the sanction or the Judge refusing to disclose his conflict. It is the judicial system that has been revealed as corrupt by their own filings." | Full Disclosure Network |
| August 9, 2010 | 'Civil Contempt of Court': A Life Sentence for 70-Yr-Old Attorney | "WHY IS FINE STILL IN JAIL? Judge Yaffe's admissions should cause his ruling and judgment to be "null and void," according to Richard Fine's court filings, while still in jail. Pat and Jerry Epstein, through their attorneys, filed papers in Judge Yaffe's Court opposing the release of Richard I. Fine. The Epsteins are Trustees of the Epstein Family Trust, developer-partners with Los Angeles County. Richard Fine was the attorney representing opponents of the development Del Rey Shores, a major apartment complex on County-owned property. EPSTEIN STATE BAR CONNECTION One attorney representing the Epsteins was Sheldon H. Sloan, who at the time was serving as president of the State Bar (2006) when disbarment proceedings against Fine began and during the time of the Marina Strand lawsuit." | PR Newswire |
| August 4, 2010 | "Judge David Yaffe to Retire Nov. 1" | "The judge said yesterday that he was unaware of a website maintained by Fine supporters that attempted to link his impending retirement to the case, which Yaffe said had nothing to do with the timing of his departure. " | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| July 19, 2010 | "L.A. Judge [Yaffe] Admits Fraud Upon the Courts" | "According to new documents filed just last week, Judge Yaffe has reversed his previous Minute Orders saying that, 'the Court never intended to find that Richard Fine did not have standing' to challenge him from sitting as Judge on the case." It was not until Richard Fine filed a "Fraud Upon The Court" action with the U.S. District Court and U.S. Supreme Court the that new documents appeared in the Court Docket " | Forbes |
| July 17, 2010 | Richard Fine to Get Hearing "This Week" | | Fox News "Freedom Watch" |
| July 16, 2010 | "Richard Fine: 'Judge Yaffe Admits "Fraud Upon The Court" In Contempt Case '" | "Judge Yaffe deliberately made false statements in his March 27, 2008 Order that referenced and relied upon a March 18, 2008 Order that did not exist." | Full Disclosure Network |
| July 15, 2010 | "Calif. Chief Justice Steps Down, Shocking Judiciary" | "George sits on the Commission [for Judicial Performance] -- along with Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Jerry Brown and Second District Court of Appeal Justice Joan Dempsey Klein -- so George would be in the position of approving his own successor." | Law.com |
| July 13, 2010 | "Fraud Upon The U.S. Supreme Court Alleged" | | PR Newswire |
| July 11, 2010 | "Judge Under Fire To Retire? Contempt Case Heats Up: Judge Yaffe vs Richard I. Fine " | | Full Disclosure Network |
| May 31, 2010 | STATUS: Richard Fine's "Fight For Freedom Against U S Court Corruption And Indifference Of U S Supreme Court" | | Full Disclosure |
| May 24, 2010 | "Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime" | "'He's probably done more time than most burglars, robbers and dope dealers,' says Sterling Norris of the public-interest group Judicial Watch. Norris says Fine's confinement has gone on too long. Norris won a case in 2008 that found county payments to judges unconstitutional. The California Legislature swiftly passed a bill that enabled counties to continue paying the extra benefits. 'I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough,' Norris says. 'We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper.'" | CNN.com |
| May 23, 2010 | "RICHARD ConFINEment" | "In the last couple of months, L.A. County Jail released about 200 inmates before their terms were up because of budget shortages. A spokesman for the jail told me they sure could use Fine’s cell for real criminals." | CNN.com |
| May 16, 2010 | "California Judges Losing Ground In Fight To Save Their Illegal Payments" | "L A County and Superior Court Judges Association failed to respond in Judicial Watch case of Sturgeon vs County of L. A." | Full Disclosure Network |
| April 30, 2010 | "The Fine Pursuit of Exposing Corruption" | "We cannot sit idly by and allow the powers that be to silence the critical voices that give our nation its strength of character and that ensure our freedom." | American Thinker |
| April 28, 2010 | Richard Fine's "Fight For Freedom Against U S Court Corruption And Indifference Of U S Supreme Court" | | Full Disclosure |
| April 27, 2010 | "Richard I. Fine, Prisoner of Conscience" | "... the highest court of the land has refused to rectify a clear-cut case of judicial corruption in the state of California." | National Review |
| April 21, 2010 | "The Disastrous Rise of Misplaced Power - The Case of Richard I. Fine" | "My 8th hour Impact Class will be following this story closely over the next few weeks." | Teacher Lingo blog |
| April 20, 2010 | "Group gathers to urge freedom for taxpayer advocate Richard Fine" | "Chanting 'This is America, not Russia,' about 75 people gathered Tuesday morning outside the downtown Stanley Mosk Courthouse to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to free former taxpayer advocate attorney Richard I. Fine from jail. In Washington, D.C., about 50 people staged a similar protest on the steps of the high court, which is scheduled to meet Friday to decide whether Fine should be released." | Troy Anderson - L.A. Daily News |
| April 18, 2010 | Video: "Judge Seeks Legal Counsel While Protests Mount" | | Full Disclosure Network |
| April 18, 2010 | "Richard I. Fine's Judicial Lynching" | "The latest on SBX2-11 immunity is that it's not in the 'official Code' like the rest of the bill, Fine's friends and associates asking, 'Why are they hiding this pardon of over Ten Million Felonies from the public?' They further say the bill 'is an ex post facto law. Its immunity provisions will ultimately be repealed,' so complicit judges aren't off the hook." | Boston Chronicle |
| April 16, 2010 | Richard Fine Interview (3-part video) | (Also see interview of Leslie Dutton of Full Disclosure Network at same link.) | YouTube |
| April 14, 2010 | "Epic Corruption and the Whistle-blower" | "Sheriff LeRoy Baca was subject to term limits, but prior to his last election, he filed a lawsuit to get out from under term limits. The Superior Court judge ruled in his favor (surprise!). Term limits are a prevention against corruption. The lawsuit was approved by the County Supervisors who paid for it with the taxpayers’ money; the taxpayers had previously voted in term limits, but it was overturned for Sheriff Baca. Sheriff LeRoy Baca is up for re-election June 8, 2010. No one is running against him. He makes $268,000 a year in this position." | InfoWars.com |
| April 9, 2010 | "Supreme Court to hear Fine case" | "The fact the Supreme Court is involved in any way is a big deal," said Brooklyn Law School Professor Jayne Ressler, an expert in coercive confinement cases. "It certainly speaks volumes to the importance of this case, and it's quite intriguing." | Troy Anderson, Los Angeles Daily News |
| April 7, 2010 | California Justice System on Brink of Collapse | Video: Full-length jailhouse interview of Dr. Richard I. Fine | Full Disclosure Network |
| March 31, 2010 | "Abolish Unlimited-Term Coercive Confinement for Civil Contempt" | "[The judges ought] to leave Fine room to protect his principles and his privacy. Let the punishment fit the crime; let coercion fit its end." | Juridical Coherence - Legal Theory on Framework Issues |
| March 26, 2010 | Richard I Fine Torture Complaint Filed With United Nations | (video) | Full Disclosure Network - YouTube |
| March 13, 2010 | "Ethics Complaint Against Sheldon Sloan Referred To Special Counsel" | | Lawyers & Judges Whistleblowers Network |
| March 13, 2010 | "Ethics Complaint Against Sheldon Sloan Referred To Special Counsel" | (Sheldon Sloan was one of two State Bar Presidents behind Richard Fine's disbarment; Sheldon Sloan was working for developer Jerry B. Epstein at the same time, and at his behest.) | Lawyers & Judges Whistleblowers Network |
| March 10, 2010 | "Lawyer Richard Fine held in solitary for politics" | "If Fine was not a prisoner of political conscience a year ago, he certainly has become one." | Sacramento Bee |
| March 2, 2010 | "Attorney in Civil Contempt Case Marks One Year in Solitary 'Coercive Confinement' in L.A. County Jail" | "On March 4, 2010, Richard I Fine will mark one year in the L.A. County Jail. He accused Superior Court Judge David Yaffe of corruption for taking illegal payments from L.A. County in a case involving the County. ... Fine has been held in solitary "coercive confinement" and since January 5, 2010 without dentures, preventing his ability to chew." | Sacramento Bee |
| February 4, 2010 | Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit against LA County Sheriff for Denying Press Interview with Richard Fine | "The Full Disclosure Network and Mr. Fine have been highly critical of a “double dipping” scheme by Los Angeles County to compensate judges with benefits and perks they are already receiving from the state." | Judicial Watch |
| December 20, 2009 | "Corruption Cancer Spreads to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals" | Following the announcement of an “unpublished” decision in a civil contempt of court case [against Richard Fine], a three Judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Reinhardt, Trott, Wardlaw) was described as having “succumbed to the cancer of corruption and the criminals in judicial robes.” | Full Disclosure Network |
| December 5, 2009 | Is There A "Shadow" Ninth Circuit? | | Full Disclosure Network |
| December 2, 2009 | "Judicial Recusal Ethics Dodged by Ninth Circuit" | "This action of a panel is unheard of. It violates due process because it is allowing Magistrate Judge Carla Woehrle and Judge John F. Walter to judge their own actions of denying the Writ of Habeas Corpus. This is a direct violation of the United States Supreme Court case of In re Murchison and hundreds of years of common law which hold that no man can judge his own actions. The Ninth Circuit is bound to follow the Supreme Court, they do not have a choice in the matter." | PR Newswire |
| November 30, 2009 | "L.A. County Judges to Lose Payments From County to Avoid Conflicts" | | Fox Business Network |
| November 28, 2009 | "County To Stop Payments For New Judges ... L A Supervisor Michael Antonovich" | "All new judges (appointed or elected) will not be receiving payments from the county." | Full Disclosure Network |
| November 24, 2009 | "Ninth Circuit Court Dodges Judicial Recusal Issue ...... Ignores Supreme Court Precedent In Richard Fine Case" | "This action, posted on the Federal Pacer website, did not have any Judicial signatures or names of Judicial officers who authorized such action." | Full Disclosure Network |
| November 22, 2009 | "U.S. Judges Refused to Recuse as Defendants" | "Court documents cited in the video allege that Federal Judge Magistrate Carla Woehrle and Judge John F. Walter not only failed to recuse themselves but dismissed the case that named them as defendants." | PR Newswire |
| November 16, 2009 | "Source of Court Corruption Revealed" | | PR Newswire |
| November 14, 2009 | "The Fight Against Illegal Judicial Benefits & Court Corruption" | The source of corruption? The Evil Triangle: Developers, Judges, Supervisors | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 30, 2009 | "L.A. TIMES REPORTER SNEAKED INTO L A CENTRAL MEN'S JAIL" | "Full Disclosure Network has made numerous formal requests for a personal interview with Richard Fine only to be told that Judge David Yaffe had forbidden anyone to interview him. ... No Order has been entered in either the U S District Court or The Ninth Circuit Court stopping the press from interviewing Richard I. Fine. So it would appear the two defendants in the case are interferring with the freedom of the press." | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 20, 2009 | "AG Jerry Brown: Did Governor & Legislature Wipe Away The Penal Code for Judges & Government Officials? ... SBX211 The Culprit?" | "Most notably three important paragraphs in SBX211 were missing from Government Code Sections 68220, 68221,68222. These paragraphs included the most critical and controversial part of the bill, being that California Judges and county government officials were given retroactive immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability for crimes committed prior to May 21, 2009. What the bill doesn't say is what happens to the crimes committed after May 21st 2009? Is criminal behavior for government officials now legal?" | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 15, 2009 | "The Day The Rule Of Law Died", by Richard I. Fine | "They have removed the right to have their decision questioned and reviewed by 'objective' decision makers. One has to question the underlying reasons for the removal of this right." | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 13, 2009 | "Volunteers Fight Court Courruption ... To Free Richard Fine" | "The video features Fred Sottile and Full Disclosure Host Leslie Dutton a with a description of how Richard Fine is representing himself "In Pro Per" writing the court documents using legal codes from memory in his jail cell. The difficult circumstances of this legal battle is described vividly by Sottile who sees the Judicial Corruption as a threat to the entire country." | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 9, 2009 | "Criminal Immunity For California Judges And Government Officials?" | Letter to Attorney General Jerry Brown asking for legal opinion on effect of "immunity" paragraph of SBX2-11 not being included in the Gov't Code; i.e., judges and supervisors have no immunity after all | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 4, 2009 | "Ninth Circuit Court STAYS Richard I Fine Disbarment Case Linking It To Judicial Bias Case" | The Order cited "a significant overlap between the discipline case and the issues raised by respondent's pending habeas petition" | PR Web |
| September 3, 2009 | "Missing Documents & Federal Court Rules" | "It’s happened far too many times for it all to be accidental. This is the third case … not the third document, but the third case ... in which documents that have been filed have not shown up on the docket. And in one other instance, the missing document was used to justify striking one of his pleadings for failure to follow a certain rule … except that he had and they knew it, but it was the only way to justify denying his habeas corpus petition." | Full Disclosure Network |
| September 3, 2009 | "Commissioner Shaw of the 9th. Circuit Court of Appeals Issues A Stay On Disbarment of Richard Fine" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| September 3, 2009 | "Missing Documents & Federal Court Rules" | "It’s happened far too many times for it all to be accidental. This is the third case … not the third document, but the third case ... in which documents that have been filed have not shown up on the docket. And in one other instance, the missing document was used to justify striking one of his pleadings for failure to follow a certain rule … except that he had and they knew it, but it was the only way to justify denying his habeas corpus petition." | Full Disclosure Network |
| August 13, 2009 | "Ninth Circuit Restores Appeal Rights to Richard I. Fine" | "Appellant is granted a certificate of appealability in the issue of whether [Judge Yaffe] should have recused himself." | Newswire |
| August 3, 2009 | "Judge tosses suit opposing payments to LA judges (following Sturgeon II hearing)" | "Justice James Richman of the 1st District Court of Appeal says the benefits are permitted under a state law passed in February." | Examiner |
| August 2, 2009 | "9-1-1 Call: From 70 Year Old Attorney Richard I Fine...Jailed After Attempt To Disqualify Judge" | "My recourse is to be in the Ninth Circuit, and that's where I have gone, and in a normal situation, when you make a motion in the Ninth Circuit and there's no opposition, your motion is granted immediately. And so that's the next problem that we have here is that I have the motion in the Ninth Circuit; there's been no opposition, and I've been sitting around waiting for almost a month now." | Full Disclosure Network |
| July 20, 2009 | Judges Fight To Keep Illegal Benefits -- Superior Court vs. Superior Court" | "Claiming that the emergency provision inserted into the February 11, 2009 Budget Bill, known as SBX 2 11 had retroactively made the County’s payments to the Judges legal, it also provided for Judicial criminal immunity from prosecution and liability and to the County officials involved in the transfer of what has been estimated to be almost $300 million dollars over the past twenty years." | Full Disclosure Network |
| July 14, 2009 | "Chronology of Events Shown By Court Records Demonstrates LA Judges Targeted Richard I. Fine For Upholding California Constitution" | | Amreican Homeowners Resource Center |
| July 11, 2009 | "Should Federal Judges Woehrle & Walters Have Recused Themselves?" | " ... he describes a horror story scenario whereby legal malpractice lawsuits would result against the Federal Judges who were former criminal defense attorneys and their lawfirms ..." | Full Disclosure Network |
| July 6, 2009 | "Jail Cell 911 Call Raises More Alarm" | "[T]he Federal Magistrate Judge Carla Woerhle delayed action, issued court orders that were never acted upon and wrote a Report and Recommendation to deny Fine’s Writ of Habeas Corpus (request for immediate release from jail) without having ever read the petition. ... And Fine alleges that both Judges failed to disclose a serious conflict that should have precluded them from even hearing the case." | Full Disclosure Network |
| June 20, 2009 | LA Supervisors Sneaking $ Millions MORE To Judges? | "This could explain how the judicial double benefits were mysteriously appropriated in the amount of approximately $300 million to L.A. Superior Court Judges over the last 20 years." | Full Disclosure Network |
| June 14, 2009 | "Did L A Times Miss the Mark On Judicial Bias & Richard Fine?" | (Full Disclosure Network's Leslie Dutton's FANTASTIC interviews of members of Fine's support team makes judges' corruption CLEAR ) | Full Disclosure Network |
| June 8, 2009 | "Judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias" | So sayeth SCOTUS in today's decision on Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. | CBS News |
| June 8, 2009 | L.A. judges get new 25% bonus on their bonuses | "Los Angeles Superior Court judges made the right decision this week when they agreed to voluntarily cut their own pay, in a show of solidarity with court employees who are facing furloughs. But if judges are really serious about saving money and protecting courthouses from further cuts, they'll give up the $57,027 bonuses they receive from Los Angeles County." | Daily Breeze |
| June 7, 2009 | "Lawyer takes a stand from his cell" | "Fine was sentenced March 4 to stay in jail indefinitely until he relents and complies with a commissioner's orders to answer questions about his personal finances. But if anything, his days behind bars -- 96 and counting -- have strengthened the attorney's resolve in his battle against the Los Angeles judiciary." | Los Angeles Times |
| June 7, 2009 | "We attorneys live in an atmosphere of fear." | "Fine appears to be in a legal no man’s land, where he has been judged by Judges, whose partiality is questioned, under laws which are not defined, under opinions which are not published, and with reasoning which is not disclosed, in a system where decent persons are afraid to speak out." | Full Disclosure Network |
| June 5, 2009 | "Powerful Friends Support Judges’ Bid to Keep Illegal Benefits" | "The on-going controversy over the State's fiscal crisis promises to provide additional interest in the subject of double "Judicial benefits" when yet another court hearing is to be held on July 2, 2009 with specially appointed San Francisco Appellate Court Justice James A. Richman, who will preside in an LA Superior Court room. Judicial Watch is asking the court for injunctive relief to prevent LA County from making further payments to the Judges.At that time Sterling Norris will have an opportunity to raise the issue of Constitutionality of SBX211, granting Judges retroactive immunity for liability and criminal acts without public discussion or debate." | FamilySecurityMatters.org |
| June 2, 2009 | "Judges' extra pay undermines austerity plea" | "As it happens, the judges' bonuses cost Los Angeles County more than $20 million a year, just about what the one-day-a-month furlough plan would save and roughly 10% of the county government's budget deficit. Wouldn't it make much more sense for Los Angeles County to spend that money to keep the courts open and maintain the pay of court clerks and other ancillary staff rather than continue to fatten the judges' paychecks under dubious legal and political circumstances?" | Fresno Bee |
| June 1, 2009 | "Powerful Friends Support Judges On Illegal Benefits" | "Sterling Norris describes the behind-the-scenes court maneuvers conducted by the California Judiciary. An unprecedented move by the Superior Court to Intervene, asking for a re-hearing, is described by Norris as the Court is apparently determined to retain the illegal benefits, while serving as employees of the State of California." | Full Disclosure Network |
| May 29, 2009 | "Isn't There One Honorable Judge in California?" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| May 20, 2009 | "California's Tax Revolt - The Peasants Have Risen" | | JoshuaPundit |
| May 18, 2009 | "Cable TV Series: New Judicial Criminal Immunity Law Impact & U S Supreme Court Nomination" | "The Full Disclosure Network® is featuring an on-going special cable television and Internet video series entitled "Judicial Payments and Court Corruption" with the major players involved in exposing the unlawful taking of money by Superior Court Judges in California from County governments, above and beyond their lucrative state salaries of $200,000 plus." | WebWire |
| May 16, 2009 | "Financial Ties Raise Questions About SoCal Judges" - KNBC's Paul Moyer's piece on illegal payments to judges, including comments from Richard Fine, Sterling Norris and John Rizzo | | NBC Los Angeles |
| May 15, 2009 | "FISCAL CRISIS: Illegal Payments Create Law For Judicial Criminal & Liability Immunity: Nominees For US Supreme Court To Be Impacted?" | | Full Disclosure Network® |
| May 14, 2009 | Another contender to succeed Souter: California high court Justice Carlos Moreno. | | L.A. Times |
| May 13, 2009 | "Please Choose A Just Justice - Letter to President Obama from the Homeowners of America" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| May 11, 2009 | "The jailing of Richard I Fine, former U.S. Attorney" | | APFN |
| May 8, 2009 | "A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE - The Agony of Richard Fine" | "He has not committed a robbery, dealt drugs, hurt anybody - yet he languishes in a Los Angeles County jail cell because he had the courage to challenge the illegal payments by the county to its judges - currently $46,000 a year. He was vindicated by a California Court of Appeal, but that made no difference. Judge David Yaffee, who put him in jail, was one of the recipients of those illegal payments." | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| May 7, 2009 | USDC Magistrate Carla Woehrle strikes pleading filed by Richard Fine | "Magistrate Carle M. Woehrle ignored the fact that the defendants in this case, Los Angeles Sheriff Leroy Baca and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Yaffe, were holding Richard Fine a prisoner and denying him access to pen and paper, and denied his request to sign the document." | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| May 5, 2009 | “COERCIVE CONFINEMENT” Judicial Benefits and Court Corruption | | Full Disclosure Network |
| May 5, 2009 | "Richard Fine Files Federal Suit Against California State Bar and the State Bar Court; California's unconstitutional laws removes lawyer's livelihood if they accept cases involving institutional, political or judicial corruption" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 27, 2009 | "Judicial Benefits & Court Corruption" | | Internet exclusive - Full Disclosure® Video News |
| April 22, 2009 | "A Blogger's Desperate Call for Backup" | | OpEdNews.com |
| April 16, 2009 | "A Campaign To End Judicial Corruption" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 16, 2009 | "Corruption In Los Angeles - And In California; A Political Prisoner Languishes in Jail" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 15, 2009 | "Letter to the United States Congress: Investigate California's Judicial Corruption Mass Denial of Civil Rights" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 14, 2009 | "Judicial Branch Budget: $246 Million In Cuts And Loss of Judgeship Funding" | | California Judicial Council |
| April 14, 2009 | Abuse Suffered in L.A. County Jails | | Los Angeles Times |
| April 14, 2009 | "ACLU Releases Expert's Report On Nightmarish Conditions At Men's Central Jail In Los Angeles" | | ACLU.org |
| April 11, 2009 | "Lawyer jailed for contempt languishes" | | Daily News |
| April 11, 2009 | "U S Court Orders L A Sheriff To Decide On Release of Judicial Critic Attorney Held In Contempt by Judge Yaffe" | | WebWire |
| April 8, 2009 | "Judicial Critic Richard Fine Fights For Freedom: Sheriff Baca To Defend Judge Yaffee?" | | Full Disclosure Network |
| April 4, 2009 | "LA Court Transcript Reveals Judicial Immunity, Curious Proceedings, Conflict " | | Full Disclosure Network |
| March 27, 2009 | "Another Fine Man Rots In Jail – Due To Corrupt Courts" | | Hour of the Time blog |
| March 25, 2009 | "Corrupcion de Jueces en Los Angeles, CA" | | Univision |
| March 24, 2009 | "Gratuitously paying judges biases them: Caperton, Sturgeon, Fine" | | Judicial Coherence |
| March 19, 2009 | "911 Call From Attorney In Jail: Video Here (8 min)" | | Full Disclosure Network |
| March 19, 2009 | "Lawyer Sentenced to Indefinite Incarceration by Bribe-Taking Judge" | | MichaelWilliams blog |
| March 19, 2009 | "Counties give hefty extra pay to judges" | "... it was unclear whether Margolin would remain on retainer now that the bill was law. ... According to Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for Steinberg, the Judicial Counsel approached them about the possibility of doing a bill in December. “They first approached us wanting to set up a new system for judicial benefits for the entire state,” Trost said. “We pointed to our deficit and said ‘Now is not the time for that.’ ” ... “I don’t think it can legally be done,” Sterling Norris said. “You can’t immunize somebody after the fact. It has to be immunity from the time the crime went down.” | Capitol Weekly |
| March 18, 2009 | "Judicial Watch to L.A. Judges: It Ain't Over Yet" | "The county is expected to ask for summary judgment in Judicial Watch’s original Sturgeon case based on the new legislation, which authorizes counties to keep paying the benefits. Judicial Watch attorneys plan to seek summary judgment, too, saying the hastily crafted law is bogus and violates the Fourth District’s ruling outlawing the practice." | LegalPad, a CalLaw blog |
| March 18, 2009 | "Richard Fine Remains In Jail; Human Rights Violations Ensue" | | SupportRichardFine.com |
| March 17, 2009 | "The AIG Of Lof Angeles - The California Judges Cartel; Los Angeles County Loots Federal Stimulus Money to Give its Judges a 26% Illegal Bonus" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| March 16, 2009 | "JUDICIAL ABUSE IN CALIFORNIA - An Open Letter to President Obama to Report Fraud, Waste and Abuse of America's Economic Stimulus Funds " | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| March 13, 2009 | "We rule on judge pay" | "In October, a state appellate court judge (not, therefore, a recipient of this perk) ruled that it was unconstitutional for the county to give the judges these annual bonuses on top of their state-set salaries. It seemed like the end to this pay practice in Los Angeles County. But the budget passed by the California Legislature last month quietly included a rider that allowed the county to continue paying this perk." | Pasadena Star-News |
| March 9, 2009 | "Protesters support taxpayer advocate" | | Daily News |
| March 7, 2009 | "CALIFORNIA COURT SYSTEM GONE BAD - Judges make Illegal rulings in children's services, eminent domain, criminal and housing cases" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| March 5, 2009 | "Veteran attorney in L.A. held on contempt of court charges - Richard Fine, 69, was jailed after refusing to answer a judge's questions - ESCORTED AWAY BY THREE UNIFORMED AND SIX PLAINCLOTHES SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS" | Booking sheet reveals Fine taken into custody by Sheriff's WARRANT DETAIL (the most dangerous job in the department?) See form at http://sites.google.com/site/freerichardfine/Home/evidence | Los Angeles Times (Victoria Kim) |
| March 5, 2009 | "Pitchfork Rebellion: Where are the judge complaints? An attorney who bucks system jailed in LA." | | Washington Examiner |
| March 4, 2009 | "Atty Richard Fine, Imprisoned for Freedom Fighting" | | RestoreTheRepublic |
| March 4, 2009 | "Attorney Jailed In Attempt to Disqualify L.A. Judge For Taking Bribes" | | Full Disclosure Network |
| February 23, 2009 | "Outrage In California - Homeowners protest perks for judges" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| February 23, 2009 | Richard Fine's "Criminal Complaint and Request for Investigation of California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George, et al.," | "The reasons for now adding the California Supreme Court Justices in the charges are that they both acted and consented to illegally protect the personal interests of the judges and state and county employees, as well as their own personal interests as former Superior Court judges who had received county payments and not disclosed such." | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| February 20, 2009 | "L.A. court hires lobbyist to restore perks for judges" | "This is a pretty fine kettle of fish. L.A. County and the state are both in fiscal crises, and yet the county is paying a lobbyist $10,000 a month to lobby for enhanced benefits that will have to be borne by our cash-strapped state." | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| February 20, 2009 | Video of Richard Fine's explanation of unconstitutionality of Senate Bill SBx2-11, which the lobby of state public officials and judges passed, and why it was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on February 20, 2009. Fine explains why giving perks and immunity to California judges is illegal. | | Friends of AHRC |
| February 18, 2009 | "Lawmakers Pass Bill [SBx2-11] to Keep Local Benefits for Trial Judges" | Richard I. Fine, a Beverly Hills attorney who was not involved in Sturgeon but has long attacked the benefits, said it was “outrageous that they can pass a bill that will remove the basic rights of over 10 million residents of Los Angeles County within days and will further the corruption that has occurred in this county while they cannot pass a budget in months. Fine, who called upon the governor to veto the bill, said he thought it was unconstitutional because it does not explicitly define the benefits as “compensation,” delegates to the counties the authority to decide if and when the benefits terminate, and impermissibly permits counties to create monetary incentives for candidates to seek judgeships, which he said is exclusively a state function. Los Angeles Superior Court spokesman Alan Parachini said the court, which hired lobbyist and former Assemblyman Burt Margolin at the rate of $10,000 per month to seek legislation undoing Sturgeon, said the court thought it was appropriate to “work with the [California Judges Association] and the county to cure the legislative defect” identified by the Court of Appeal.” | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| February 13, 2009 | "A Fine Day To Be Disbarred" | | National Law Journal - LegalPad blog |
| February 12, 2009 | "Supreme Court Orders Disbarment of Attorney Richard I. Fine" | | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| February 10, 2009 | "Request [To U.S. Dept. of Justice] For Criminal Investigation for Violation of the Implied Right of Honest Services By California Judges - Judicial corruption is driving the current economic crisis and making Americans homeless" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| February 5, 2009 | "Attorney Richard Fine files suit against judges" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| February 4, 2009 | "Proposal to Allow Supplemental Judicial Benefits Program Stalls" | "following a ruling by First District Court of Appeal Justice James Richman—who was specially assigned as the trial judge in the case—that the benefits were legal, the Fourth District’s Div. One held in October that the payments violate Art. VI, Sec. 19 of the California Constitution" | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| February 1, 2009 | "While budget is being negotiated, other bills [like SBx2-11] sneak in" | "It happens every time the Legislature draws close to closing a budget deal. As lawmakers scramble to approve a final package, special interests pressure them to attach "sneaker bills" -- legislation aimed at benefiting certain constituencies. Also known as trailer bills or gut- and-amend legislation, sneaker bills do not go through the normal hearing process. They have not been analyzed for their potential impacts on the state budget or policy. They are being snuck through because a full public airing likely would result in their demise or in bad publicity for their authors." | Modesto Bee |
| February 1, 2009 | "Bizarre Contempt Case Shows Unconstitutional L.A. County Payments To Los Angeles Judges Result in Illegal Decisions" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| January 26, 2009 | "Are Local Judges Serving Two Masters?" | | Paul Moyer - NBC News Los Angeles |
| January 24, 2009 | "Contempt ruling the latest blow against veteran lawyer" | "He's studied international law in at least three countries, prosecuted antitrust cases for the U.S. Department of Justice and acted as special counsel hired to investigate a Los Angeles mayor in the 1970s. He sued OPEC for price-fixing, the district attorney's office for failing to distribute child support funds and the state for failing to pass a budget -- bringing the state government to a temporary but unprecedented standstill." | Los Angeles Times |
| January 7, 2009 | "LA County Payments to LA Superior Court Judges Cost Taxpayers Almost $1 Billion Dollars and Denied Constitutional Rights to the People of LA County | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| December 29, 2008 | "Calif. Supreme Court Won't Take Up Judge Perks" | "California Chief Justice Ronald George has criticized some counties' provisions for extra benefits, but has never tried to block it." | Law.com |
| December 26, 2008 | "California Judges to Lose Perks; Some May Leave State" | "The benefits package includes travel and professional development allowances that judges can take in cash, as well as additional contributions to retirement accounts. Some California judges have threatened to leave the state if the perks are cut." | JD Journal |
| December 18, 2008 | "Events Relating to Los Angeles Superior Court Judges Retaliating Against Richard I. Fine" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| December 18, 2008 | "Judge Violates Mandatory Disclosure Requirements - Judge David Yaffe has not been reporting income he receives from Los Angeles County on Form 700" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| November 25, 2008 | Terms of the 'deal' between judges and the legislature, as revealed by Assn of Southern California Defense Counsel in amicus re Sterling v. County of Los Angeles | "[T]he California Legislature promised its continued support of local judicial benefits in return for judges' support of the 1997 Trial Court Funding Act and of the 1998 Trial Court Unification Act. Thus, it is fundamentally unfair for those benefits now to be stripped away, particularly when the Legislature has stated expressly that they must be continued." | ASCDC (Assn of Southern California Defense Counsel) |
| November 13, 2008 | "Richard I. Fine Files Complaint With FBI To Investigate Retaliation Against Him For Exposing And Prosecuting Unconstitutional Payments By L.A. County To L.A. County Judges" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| October 19, 2008 | "Court shoots down judicial perks" | | CorruptUSJudicialSystem.org |
| October 15, 2008 | "California Court of Appeal Rules that Extra Compensation for Los Angeles County Judges Violates California Constitution - Decision Would Cut Compensation and Save Taxpayers $21 Million a Year" | "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption and judicial abuse, announced today that a California Court of Appeal ruled on October 10th that a scheme by Los Angeles County to pay superior court judges in the county approximately $21 million annually in perks and supplemental benefits on top of what they already receive from the state violates the California State Constitution. For example, in 2007 Los Angeles County provided the judges with cash allowances equal to 19% of the salary they received from the state. Judges were allowed to ... keep the cash as taxable income." | Judicial Watch |
| October 14, 2008 | "C.A. Holds Local Judges’ Extra Benefits Unconstitutional" | Los Angeles County’s payment of benefits to Los Angeles Superior Court judges, over and above those given all superior court judges under state law, violates the California Constitution, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled Friday. First District Court of Appeal Justice James Richman, who was specially assigned to the case, ruled last year that the benefits, which have been paid since the late 1980s, were legal. But Justice Patricia Benke, writing Friday for the Court of Appeal, said the payments violate Art. VI, Sec. 19 of the Constitution, which requires that the Legislature “prescribe compensation for judges of courts of record.” Because the Legislature cannot delegate that authority to the county, Benke said, “the practice of the county...of providing Los Angeles County superior court judges with employment benefits, in addition to the compensation prescribed by the Legislature, is not permissible.” | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| July 17, 2008 | "Marina del Rey: Supervisors rescind approvals of 544-unit Shores project on Via Marina after court finds EIR flaw" | | Argonaut Newspaper |
| May 5, 2008 | "Attorney Richard Fine - Resume and some of his unique cases with societal impact" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| May 5, 2008 | "Richard Fine Files Federal Suit Against California State Bar and the State Bar Court - California's unconstitutional laws removes lawyer's livelihood if they accept cases involving institutional, political or judicial corruption" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 29, 2008 | "AHRC Editors Ask Congress To Request Investigation By Dept of Justice - Focus is on homeowner association lawyers and judges" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 28, 2008 | "Appalling And Atrocious Acts By The Califoria Courts" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| April 14, 2008 | "Judicial And Administrative Officers' Full Disclosure Law - Proposed Law To Require Justices, Judges and Other Judicial and Administrative Officers to Disclose Conflicts of Interests" | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| March 29, 2008 | AHRC lodges complaint with U.S. Attorney General Mukasey re "Violations of U.S. Law by Judicial Officers and Employees of the Superior Court of the State of California" | | Scribd |
| March 25, 2008 | "Legislative, Judicial and Corporate Fraud" | | YourHub |
| January 31, 2008 | "Taxpayer advocate Richard Fine faces disbarment" | | National Law Journal - Legal Pad blog |
| January 29, 2008 | "Crusading Lawyer Finds Himself in a Fine Mess - Attorney faces disbarment and charges of moral turpitude | | TulaneLink |
| December 18, 2007 | "Judge Violates Mandatory Disclosure Requirements - Judge David Yaffe has not been reporting income he receives from Los Angeles County on Form 700 " | | AHRC (American Homeowners Resource Center) |
| November 2, 2007 | "Judge Denies Motion to Stay Discipline Order Against Richard Fine" | | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| October 30, 2007 | "Richard I. Fine Asks State Bar Court to Reinstate Right to Practice" | | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| October 26, 2007 | "State Bar Court Judge Recommends Disbarment of Richard I. Fine" | | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| October 24, 2005 | "Marina del Rey redevelopment leads to lawsuits" | Richard I. Fine, a taxpayer advocate attorney who represents the Coalition to Save the Marina and the Marina Tenants Association, says the boat owners allege county officials have used an ordinance to inspect boats for unseaworthiness, issue citations and allow lessees to unfairly oust them. | San Diego Union-Tribune |
| June 26, 2002 | "Attorney [Says] Payment To Judges [Is] History's Largest Corruption" | | DailyNews thru FreeLibrary |
| June 17, 2002 | "Local Judges’ Benefit Package Targeted in Federal Civil Rights Suit" | "The latest suit attacks what has long been a sore point with judges in other counties—the 'MegaFlex' benefits, payable in cash or in the form of insurance products—which increase the compensation of Los Angeles Superior Court judges by about $30,000 per year. ... Chief Justice Ronald M. George, in a question-and-answer session at the California Judges Association’s 2000 annual meeting in San Diego, criticized the disparity created by such local benefits George suggested on that occasion that the payments may be invalid, since the state Constitution requires that the Legislature establish the 'compensation,' not merely the salaries, of judges." | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| June 5, 2001 | "Yaffe Fails to List Receipt of Free Legal Services on Form Filed With FPPC" | | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| May 31, 2001 | "To the Commission on Judicial Performance: Take a Look at This One" | re Judge Yaffe | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| May 29, 2001 | "Judge Says Two Streets That Cross Each Other Are the ‘Same Street’" | Judge Yaffe rules in favor of County of Los Angeles | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| May 21, 2001 | "Judge David P. Yaffe — Perched on a Throne in ‘Wonderland’" | "From what I’ve observed, Yaffe does, to his credit, read the briefs. And he has a substantial quantum of law memorized. To his discredit, however, he’s a nasty and arrogant SOB... And I’ve observed Yaffe’s quirks. Chief among the quirks is that he indulges in a fantasy of infallibility. He decides cases on bases not advanced by the parties, but conjured up by himself, and does not permit an opportunity to brief the propositions he’s interjected. After all, a proposition spawned by David P. Yaffe could not possibly be wrong. My negative perception of this jurist, I have found, is shared by others." | Metropolitan News-Enterprise |
| August 20, 2000 | "L.A. County Lets Judges Draw Duplicate Benefits and Perks" | Los Angeles County judges now receive $22,400 in cash from the county for health and insurance benefits, even though they are fully covered by the state. There are no strings attached to how judges spend that money. "If they wanted to go to Vegas on it they could," says Los Angeles County spokeswoman Judy Hammond. | Los Angeles Times |
| September 1, 1997 | "Special Report: Landmark Court Funding Bill Passes" | "The bill provides stable funding to permit us to avoid the sorry spectacle of having to return once again to the Legislature for emergency funding to keep the courthouse doors open. ... Trial court funding has been the Judicial Council’s first and foremost priority ... Our direction is now firmly set, and the state stands ready to assume full responsibility for funding the trial courts." | Courtinfo.ca.gov |
| December 26, 1996 | "Lawyer Keeps His Eye on Budgets -- Including O.C.'s " | "Attorney Richard I. Fine devotes most of his time these days to battling the government -- or as he puts it, making sure elected leaders spend public money for its intended purposes... 'When the government learns not to take the money anymore, when they stop misappropriating the funds,' he said, '[my] business will fall off.'" | Los Angeles Times |