
Career Highlights: Appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court commissioner, 2006; dependency court referee, 2002-06; delinquency court referee, 2001-02; as-needed referee, 1997-2001; sole practitioner, Santa Monica, 1993-2003; partner, Caidin Kalman & Marpet (now Caidin Kalman Hartman & Sampson,) Beverly Hills; deputy public defender, Los Angeles County, 1967-69
Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1966
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
MONTEREY PARK - Stephen C. Marpet was a dependency court referee in early 2006 when a case before him led to reverberations throughout California's home schooling community.
Amid allegations of abuse and neglect, counsel for a Lynwood couple's youngest children sought a court order requiring the parents to send the children to public or private school rather than home school them.
Marpet denied the... (continued)