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Unlike disqualification under CCP 170.1 or 170.3, peremptory disqualification under CCP 170.6 does not void orders that the disqualified judge entered before the 170.6 affidavit was filed. Read More
Plaintiff waived/forfeited her right to disqualify the trial judge on the ground she had worked as an attorney for the defendant county within the last four years because plaintiff did not object or request the judge's disqualification in response to the judge's disclosure of her prior employment at the beginning of a hearing on the merits of plaintiff's petition for… Read More
A writ of error coram vobis will be issued by an appellate court (and the trial court may grant relief for error coram nobis) only on a showing that (1) some fact existed which, without any fault or negligence on the petitioner's part, was not presented to the court at the trial on the merits, and which if presented would… Read More
A temporary judge to whom the parties to this divorce proceeding had stipulated violated his ethical duties by failing to promptly disclose to wife that he had been employed, after first being appointed to this case, as a neutral in two new cases in which husband's lawyer was an attorney for one of the parties. Under the Code of Judicial… Read More
Defendant's 170.6 challenge was timely, even though it was filed after the challenged judge had heard and granted a temporary order removing minor from defendant’s custody. Read More
