Weightier Matter

[...] October 23, 2014—San Diego, CA—California Coalition for Families and Children, PBC, today announces filing of its Opening Brief with the Ninth [...]

[...] December 5, 2014—San Diego, CA—California Coalition for Families and Children today filed its “Opening Brief” with the United States Court of [...]

[...] California Coalition’s Opposition to Family Law Industry’s Omnibus Motion to Dismiss Complaint May [...]

[...] California Coalition’s Emergency Motion to Take Deposition to Family Court Lead Counsel Stephen D. Lucas [...]

[...] Judicial Election Guide San Diego 2014 Judicial Election Resource and Summary Reviews CCFC, Weightier Matter, and Partner Carpe Dicta Announce June 2014 Judicial Election Voter Resources December. [...]

[...] Weightier Matter is Joining with Carpe Dicta for a 2014 Judicial Election Voter’s Resource April 30, [...]

[...] . A good place to start is here: http://www.weightiermatter.com/help-reform-litigation/. Weightier Matter is our main resource and information platform and has dozens of articles, pleadings, [...]

[...] ;is not the person local county judges should be playing schoolyard bully toward.” says Weightier Matter Editor-In-Chief, Colbern Stuart. How voters will react to what looks to be clear criminal [...]

[...] this action seeks prospective relief to protect their exercise. 2. The Common Law History of Judicial Immunity is Weaker Than Prior Cases Acknowledge Family Court Judges Answering Brief In their [...]

[...] is asking the Court of Appeals to reexamine a critical 1986 case that extended broad judicial immunity to judges accused of wrongdoing in office.  Under the case–Ashelman v. Pope—county and state [...]

[...] out of his presiding over Stuart’s criminal action . . . are barred by the doctrine of judicial immunity” (3:9-10) and the FAC “fails to identify any acts of Judge Groch beyond those [...]

[...] a “zero tolerance” policy to further a civil conspiracy are not protected by judicial immunity.  The Court reasoned that Judge Ciavarella’s acts in participating in a [...]

[...] , kind or malicious, sensical or otherwise.  For family court judges, psychologists, and many others who also claim immunity, it seems, this is no fantasy [...]

[...] observations of California Family Courts, another version comes to mind: Q: How do you know a Family Court judge is a criminal? A: He’s wearing a robe. But it’s no joke for families caught in the [...]

[...] of AFCC 2013 Opening Session Think you’ve just discovered something terribly wrong in your Family Court case?   You’re not alone—in addition to the thousands of litigants nationwide who’ve [...]

[...] or two about child custody.  Yet regardless of whose … opinion … you prefer, in Family Court every custody evaluator, lawyer, judge, and litigant’s opinion seems to be different. [...]

[...] Coalition continued its wave of motions in Round Two of its Racketeering litigation against Family Courts, demanding to depose and call as a witness lead counsel for the Family Courts and San Diego [...]

[...] and applying research based on the real-world dilemmas faced by current family courts. The challenge is not just to recognize and incorporate the best science into [...]

[...] has reached the heights of disproportionate power for the psychologists not just in family courts but in all legal disputes in which a psychological matter is at issue. Judges buy the [...]

[...] , and institutions for funding, operation, and enforcement for their orders and decrees than Family Courts. As present defendants are recipients of federal financial assistance, they are subject to [...]

[...] Tort Claims Act to United States Attorney Laura Duffy for her failure to enforce federal civil rights laws preventing San Diego Family Courts and divorce industry professionals from violating [...]

[...] its campaign to pursue federal officers for failure to prevent Family Court racketeering and civil rights abuse.  In a letter delivered today to Senator Diane Feinstein, Senate Judiciary [...]

[...] Coalition’s commercial and my personal injury to achieve standing to assert both civil rights as well as competitive injury under federal statutes.  CCFC’s  [...]

[...] to the backwaters of a county courthouse, where vulnerable litigants become easy game in a civil rights vacuum. What We’re Suggesting Though the institutions that inflict these injuries on families [...]

[...] et al. v. San Diego County Bar Association et al., United States District Court, Southern District of California Case No. 13-cv-1944 which details the allegations [...]

[...] and divorce lawyers, the San Diego Superior Court filed a special motion asking the United States District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo to sanction parents bringing the lawsuit.  This is the [...]

[...] and civil rights “Kids for Cash” debacle.  The exhibit, initially filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California earlier this month, was made available to [...]

[...] of Appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The filing follows on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California’s dismissal of the case last [...]

[...] of the suffering of Family Court litigants, including the Family Justice Center Alliance, the San Diego City Attorney, the City of San Diego and its in-house Family Justice Center, the County Courts [...]

[...] Caters To Families. Even My 10 Year-Old Asked How Did That Bad Cat Get In Here” Beer in San Diego? Social Media Marketing Says “Not In My Backyard Buster!” San Diego is a national [...]

[...] Judge Thomas Whelan’s “Blistering” Opinion Against San Diego County, Polinsky, and Child Protective Services October 3, 2014–San Diego, CA–A United States [...]

[...] Complete Election Results from KFMB June 4, 2014–San Diego, CA–The June 3, 2014 judicial election results are in.  Incumbent Judge Ronald Prager [...]

[...] juggling act. Hon. Susan B. Carbon, Vice President, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Plymouth, NH David Hoffman, J.D., Immediate Past-Chair, ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, [...]

[...] Circuit.  In its Reply, California Coalition responds to the fourteen Answering Briefs of Family Court judges, psychologists, divorce lawyers, social workers, and others within the Domestic Dispute [...]

[...] Vigilance.  Prolific clinical psychologists, academics, lawyers, and experienced family court judges within the industry were invited to participate.  They produced nine articles, [...]

[...] actions—right or wrong, legal or illegal, kind or malicious, sensical or otherwise.  For family court judges, psychologists, and many others who also claim immunity, it seems, this is no fantasy at [...]

[...] is detailed in her August 4, 2014 letter to California Coalition’s President, Colbern Stuart.  Senator Feinstein references her letter to the Department of Justice and an [...]

[...] of City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, in initiating a retaliatory prosecution against Colbern Stuart, President of California Coalition, for his reporting of divorce court judges [...]

[...] of civil rights laws protecting families and children as a vulnerable class” says Colbern Stuart, President of California Coalition.  “Many people perceive equal protection to [...]

[...] the Domestic Dispute Industry to metastasize into a widespread public menace” says Colbern Stuart, President of California Coalition and author of the letter.  “Through the current [...]