Focus (Forum & Focus)
Apr. 19, 2008
Ruling Ignores the Necessity of Impartiality in Government
Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - A recent 6th District decision dismissed longheld ideas about the necessity of impartiality and fairness of the justice system.
By John H. Sullivan
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"Not only is a government lawyer's neutrality essential to a fair outcome for the litigants in the case in which he is involved, it is essential to the proper function of the judicial process as a whole."
These words by Justice Stanley Mosk in his 1985 People ex rel. Clancy v. Superior Court decision have been a bea...
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