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Judges and Judiciary

Nov. 5, 2001

Balance of Power

I'm not sure. Was it a surfeit of pedestrian cases? Or the anticipation of a hot summer that never materialized? I was about to succumb to a miasma of torpor when I got the telephone call. It was from Superior Court Judge Judy Chirlin, here on one of her recent trips to America. Her words dissolved the lassitude, "We are going to Prague."

2nd Appellate District, Division 6

Arthur Gilbert

Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963

Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.

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I'm not sure. Was it a surfeit of pedestrian cases? Or the anticipation of a hot summer that never materialized? I was about to succumb to a miasma of torpor when I got the telephone call. It was from Superior Court Judge Judy Chirlin, here on one of her recent trips to America. Her words dissolved the lassitude, "We are going to Prague."

Peripatetic Judy has toured such well-known places in Eastern Europe as Karsnod...

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