Judges and Judiciary,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jul. 25, 2018
Few options for addressing judicial harassment
Judges are constitutional officers with great authority to determine how allegations against them are investigated at least initially.
It took six months last year for Justice Conrad Rushing to leave the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose after an initial review into allegations he had harassed employees and engaged in other workplace misconduct.
The court has not disclosed when the alleged misconduct was first disclosed but Rushing’s case points to a problem facing courts dealing with accusations of harassment: Judges aren’t employees who can be summarily pl...
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