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California Court Management Investigated
The KGTV 10News I-Team began inspecting the inner workings of California's court management system more than two years ago. Our entry includes six stories, highlighting our continued investigation of California's Administrative Office of the Courts, the court's governing body. We revealed how much California court leaders were willing to spend on routine court maintenance and alerted state leaders of our findings.
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Judge Sylvia James: Access Denied, Chief Judge Under fire
This series examines a chief judge who appears to be using her power and position to do as she pleases. WXYZ used FOIA extensively in their investigation which lead the city to put her on administrative leave as well as leading to inquiries and audits from the State Court Administrator, the Judicial Tenure Commission and a formal complaint containing 192 specific allegations.
Tags: judges; corruption; broadcast
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"Court ignores NY rules on filing documents"
Public access to court documents has been hampered in some areas of New York state. Instead of submitting documents to be formally filed, lawyers passed them "directly to judges' chambers." Consequently, the files never made it to the proper place to be accessible to the public.
Tags: Monroe County; Office of Court Administration; Monroe County Clerk; Monroe Country Courts
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DUI Series
This series is a comprehensive look at drunken driving in Colorado. It includes specific cases, recommendation of dealing with the problem, and current policies.
Tags: drunk driving; MADD; DUI; DWI; intoxication; accidents; vehicular homicide; Colorado Court Administrator's Office; Division of Behavioral Health;
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Court Officer Investigation
A four month Inside Edition hidden camera investigation exposed a culture among New York State Court Officers where drinking on the job was a regular occurrence and appeared to be acceptable conduct as it went unchecked for many years.
Tags: drinking on the job; Court officers; officer misconduct; court case; public intoxication; Court Administration;
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Smoke and Mirrors
"This four-part series documents the slow but complete transformation of the EPA from an agency legally bound to protect and improve the environment to an agency that used an array of political tricks to avoid its Congressional mandate. The series major findings are that the Bush administration appointed an administrator who would do its bidding on behalf of the corporate community; allowed important decisions to languish in the courts, thereby delaying the implementation of various regulations for years; developed a 'voluntary' anti-pollution program that actually rewards polluters; and ignored the science that underpins sound environmental policy."
Tags: EPA; pollution; Bush administration; environment; regulations; corporate control;
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Takeover: The Return of the Imerial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Since the 1970s and 80s a faction of the Republican party has been working to create a system that allows "the White House to wield enormous power, operating behind a veil of secrecy and unchecked by Congress or the courts. Today's administration is bringing this project to fruition."
Tags: politics; government; Watergate; checks and balance; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; executive power; Republican
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The War on Whistle-blowers
The American whistleblower courts was set up to protect whistleblowers from retaliation has instead been used to punish them. An examination of 3,600 court cases since 1994 showed that 97 percent of federal whistleblowers lost their cases
Tags: Teresa Chambers; Salon; salon.com; Bogdan Dzakovic; Federal Aviation Administration;
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Justice Capsized?
"An investigation of the U.S. Coast Guard's administrative law system, based on internal memos, interviews, the sworn statement of an agency judge and a computer data analysis of thousands of cases, suggests the system in stacked against the hundreds of civilian mariners whose charges of negligence or misconduct are handled by the courts each year. Documents and computer records show that Coast Guards leaders encourage judges to rule in the agency's favor, sometimes in violation of federal laws."
Tags: Coast Guard; justice; law system; mariners; seaman; seagoers
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The Saha Case Series
Debabrata Saha is a tenured engineering professor who has been at George Washington University since 1986. Yet, she is close to becoming the first tenured professor in the university's 185-year history to be fired. The newspaper investigates and tells of Saha's decade of problems with the department and administration, and follows Saha's lawsuit against the university, which is pending in federal court.
Tags: Tenured professor; revocation of tenure; tenure; university professors