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Judge Hill and the Appearance of Impropriety [Updated]

| January 5, 2013

[Judge Belinda] Hill con­firmed Tues­day that she will leave the bench in the new year to work as Anderson’s first assis­tant.” Hous­ton Chron­i­cle, 11 Decem­ber 2012. Yet, I have learned, almost four weeks later Judge Hill is still on the bench, still hear­ing felony cases, still mak­ing calls that affect the lives of peo­ple being prosecuted […]

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Batty People Need Lawyers Too

| January 5, 2013

This morn­ing Lisa Sime­one (TSA News) brings us  word of a TSA law­suit that con­tin­ues in the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the Cen­tral Dis­trict of Cal­i­for­nia: [Nadine Hays] was arrested, hand­cuffed, strip-searched, and jailed after the TSA decided she was too uppity.…Prosecutors later charged her with bat­tery. The charge was dis­missed. Hays is suing the TSA. […]

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