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Searching for Champions (Correspondence)
NYS
Office of Court Administration
SEE also,
Correspondence with Chief Judge Kaye
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Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman
CJA's January 30, 1998
letter to Chief Administrative Judge Lippman #1-- "RE: Reconsideration
and Withdrawal of OCA Waiver to Court of Claims Judge Andrew O'Rourke and
Informational Requests"
--Ex
A CJA's Jan 27, 1998 letter to OCA Deputy Counsel John Eiseman
--Ex
B Gov Pataki's Dec 12, 1997 press release on O'Rourke's
nomination to Court of Claims
--Ex
C Secs. 211 & 212 of Retirement & Social Security Law
--Ex
D Jan 27, 1998 letter from Senators Leichter & Dollinger to
Chief Administrative Judge Lippmann
--Ex
E articles on O'Rourke
CJA's January 30, 1998
letter to Chief Administrative Judge Lippman #2-- "RE: Reconsideration
and Withdrawal of OCA Waiver to Court of Claims Judge Andrew O'Rourke and
Informational Requests"
CJA's August 17, 2000 memo to
Chief Administrative Judge Lippman -- "RE: CJA's August 3,
2000 judicial misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Kaye"
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CJA's FOIL CORRESPONDENCE
with OCA
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Special Inspector General for Fiduciary Appointments
Sherrill Spatz
Test Cases - State (Commission)
CJA's April 24, 2000 letter to Special Inspector General for Fiduciary
Appointments --
"RE: CJA's upcoming formal presentation on the active complicity of the
NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct in political patronage in fiduciary
appointments"
CJA's April 27, 2000 letter to Special Inspector General --
"RE: The Breakdown of Enforcing Mechanisms and Safeguards to Protect the
Public from Patronage in Fiduciary Appointments"
(indicated copies to Former Surrogate Bertram Gelfand, George
Sassower)
CJA's July 10, 2000 letter to staff/Special Inspector General --"RE:
CONFIRMATION OF TOMORROW'S MEETING"
CJA's August 17, 2000 memo to Special Inspector General
Spatz -- "RE: CJA's August 3, 2000 judicial misconduct
complaint against Chief Judge Kaye"
CJA's December 11, 2001 letter to Special Inspector General
-- "RE: 'Judicial Reforms': Letter to the Editor, Daily News, December
7, 2001"
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Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the
Legal System
August 17, 2000 letter from Patricia Bucklin,
Director/Office of Public Affairs/OCA
CJA's
September 7, 2000 letter to Glenn Lau-Kee, Esq., Committee member
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"RE: Chief Judge Kaye's Committee to Promote Public Trust and
Confidence in the Legal System"
CJA's September 7, 2000 letter
to Barry Kamins, Esq., Committee member -- "RE: Promoting Public
Trust and Confidence: (1) Scheduling a meeting to discuss the organized
bar's responsibility to confront readily-verifiable evidence of the
corruption of the processes of judicial selection, discipline, and
attorney discipline; (2) Amicus and legal assistance in Elena
Ruth Sassower, Coordinator of the Center for Judicial Accountability,
Inc, acting pro bono publico v. Commission on Judicial Conduct of the
State of New York (NY Co. #99-108551)"
CJA's March 2, 2001 letter to Counsel
Patricia Bucklin -- "RE: Placing CJA's November 13, 2000 Report
on the Agenda of The Upcoming Meeting of the Committee to Promote Public
Trust and Confidence in the Legal System"
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter to Counsel
Bucklin
May 9, 2001 letter from Committee Co-Chair
Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Frazee
CJA's December 22, 2003 letter
to Counsel Wendy Deer -- "RE: The 'Viability' of the Committee
to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System -- and the empirical
evidentiary basis for its implied claim in its May 1999 report (at p. 33) that
'errant attorneys and judges are accountable"
(indicated copy to John Eiseman, OCA Records Access Officer)
January 8, 2004
transmittal ltr to John Eiseman -- "RE: Requests for Documents Relating to:
(1) Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System; and
(2) Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law"
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Committee on the Profession and
the Courts
Test Cases - Federal (Mangano)
CJA's March 13,
1996 letter to Antonio Galvao, Assistant
Deputy Counsel -- "RE: Opposition to Craco Report"
(indicated copies to Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman Helene
Weinstein, Louis Craco, Esq., Dean Burnele Venable Powell, ABA Center for
Professional Responsibility, Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (Hofstra
University School of Law), Stein Institute of Law and Ethics (Fordham University
School of Law))
March 19, 1996 letter
from Antonio Galvao, Assistant Deputy Counsel
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Institute on Professionalism in the Law
CJA's March 7, 2001 letter to Chairman Louis Craco
-- "RE: Holding the Bar Associations and Their Culpable Lawyers to Account for
their Complicitous Role in the Corruption of 'Merit Selection' to the New York
Court of Appeals"
(indicated copies to Committee to Promote Public Trust and
Confidence in the Legal System & First Dept. Disciplinary Committee)
SEE:
Judicial Selection- NY - Merit Selection to NY
Court of Appeals: Victoria Graffeo
March 21, 2001 letter from Institute
Counsel Antonio Galvao
CJA's December 22, 2003
letter to Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, Counsel -- "RE:
Being True to the March 3, 1999 Administrative Order that
Created the Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law"
(indicated copy to John Eiseman, OCA Records Access Officer)
January
8, 2004 transmittal ltr to John Eiseman -- "RE: Requests for
Documents Relating to: (1) Committee to Promote Public Trust and
Confidence in the Legal System; and (2) Judicial Institute on
Professionalism in the Law"
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SEE also,
Chief Judge Kaye's Commission to Promote
Public Confidence in Judicial Elections
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