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Sordid Backgrounds of Pennsylvania Judges

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Updated May 31, 2017

When former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane received a campaign contribution from billionaire, twice convicted mobster Louis DeNaples,  she returned it.  But that did not stop the media in Pennsylvania from heavily reporting on it.   The media further made a huge deal that District Attorney Stephen Zappala also got  donations from DeNaples, resulting in his withdrawing from his candidacy for Pennsylvania Attorney General last year. 

However, Pennsylvania media outlets did not seem to have a problem with seven Appellate judges who also have donations from … Continue Reading ››

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Is Pennsylvania Government Run by the Mafia…Or is this just Non-Compliance with EEOC? Judge for Yourself!

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DISTURBING AND DISCRIMINATORY "LACK OF DIVERSITY" IN KEY POSITIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNMENT

 LOOK WHO HOLDS   ALL THESE KEY OFFICIAL POSITIONS NOW OR JUST PREVIOUSLY..would it be odd if all these names were all Asian, Jewish or some other ethnicity? It does not look like it is Russia that is the "deep state" ...it appears it more like John Podesta and friends! There are a lot positions here that the citizens depend upon for ethics and law enforcement of public officials.  With the history of Italians and organized crime,  and the massive amount of public corruption in this state, especially from its … Continue Reading ››
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Why Hurry When You Are Getting Paid by the Hour?

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The unregulated,  unlimited ability of attorneys to charge their clients by the hour, for as many hours a week as possible,  is nothing more than an incentive to prolong cases. This is an abomination in this country.  The members of every bar association have used this to trap litigants in the court  system until they extort as much of their assets as possible.  There is no motivation for any attorney to ever expedite a case quickly, and in fact the current system has the exact opposite objective.  Judges never issue sanctions against attorneys, as these attorneys are the ones that put them in office to begin with, by funding their judicial campaigns.

The most egregious behavior is no doubt in the family courts.  Unsuspecting families think they are coming to a safe haven to resolve their family issues,  and hire a lawyer. The truth is the lawyers on either side only work for each other- prolonging the case  to bill as much as possible.  The hourly fees range from $200 to $1000 per hour.  And in my experience- the rate at which you pay has nothing to do with the quality of the legal work. It has to do with how much influence the law firm has on the judge.  Most of the time, the law firm has contributed to the judge's electoral campaign and this is how the outcome of the case will end.

If you enter the courts without an attorney i.e. pro se.. you will receive no justice at all.  In fact, I requested statistics on the outcome of pro se litigants vs represented litigants- and the Administration of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) claimed they had no such statistics. I also requested the length of family court litigation in comparison to other civil cases- and they claimed they did not have that information either.

Senator Stewart Greenleaf, who is an attorney, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years, almost exclusively from law firms.  He also has been the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee for about 25 years.  He  has been contributing greatly to the complete  lack of court reform in this State.

 

SOLUTIONS

I have seen cases that are intentionally dragged out by attorneys for five years, ten years and even 20 years.  If the incentive of the hourly fees were removed this would stop.  This can be done by not only capping hourly fees, but by limiting the amount of charges they can invoice  per week.  Not only must their hourly fees be capped, but a threshold for the length of time before they are assessed punative fines, needs to be set.  For example, any case that goes beyond 18 months, needs to be reviewed by a panel of non--bar associated citizens.  If there is any intentional expansion of the case, both the judge and the law firms should be fined in the thousands for such conduct.

Other solutions are to tax the falsely proclaimed "non-profit" bar associations to support the court system, as the fees just to file have become prohibitive.. The U.S. Constitution provides for equal treatment under the law, and we have anything but that.. what we have are profiteering attorneys who all belong to the same club, and for decades have been robbing Americans blind.   They have precluded  too many people from benefiting from any of the statutes of our U.S. and State Constitutions.

A massive change that needs to be made  is to bring the entire Judicial Branch back under compliance with the Open Meeting Laws, to which every other agency and branch of our government is subject.  Since 1978, the lawyers have been making their own rules,  to the point of completely obstructing justice and out and out stealing people's assets.  This has to stop, and the only way that it will is to make it clear to the new governor and the newly elected senators and representatives that we will not tolerate this any more.

Everyone needs to demand that the General Assembly address these issues and provide restitution for all the people that have been harmed by these lawyers.  All bar members must be prohibited from serving  on the judiciary committee, and it is just insane at how long this has been allowed to continue, and it continues because people do not speak up.. they wait for everyone else to do it. Copy this and send it to the Senators and Representatives in your State.. no matter what State you are in.. because there is no justice anywhere in America today.

 

 

 

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Wants Less Gamesmanship by Lawyers

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scotusSpeaking in soft but plain words, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., used his year-end report on Thursday night to urge lawyers who practice in federal courts to take steps to help improve the efficiency, and reduce the cost, of trying cases.  Roberts also added some strong encouragement for judges who preside over federal civil trials to take greater control of the management of cases, rather than leaving the process to the tactics of the competing lawyers.

To draw contrasts with the goals he was promoting, the Chief Justice brought … Continue Reading ››