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for Champions - Organizations
The Fund for Modern Courts
1993
CJA's
October 27, 1993 letter to Elizabeth Hubbard,
Executive Director
1995
CJA's
May 18, 1995 fax
CJA's
August 22, 1995 letter to John Feerick, Chairman
SEE:
Judicial Discipline - NYS - Doris L. Sassower v. Commission
John
Feerick's August 28, 1995
letter
1996
CJA's
May 13, 1996 fax -- "RE: NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
1997
CJA's
May 5, 1997notice-challenge
RE: File of Article 78 proceeding, Doris L. Sassower v. Commission on
Judicial Conduct, N.Y. Co. Clerk #95-109141"
Ex. A-1: "Commission Abandons Investigative Mandate",
CJA's letter to editor, NYLJ, 8/14/95
Ex. A-2:
"A Call for Concerted Action", CJA's $1,648 ad, NYLJ,
11/20/96
Ex. B: CJA's 3-page analysis of the fraudulent judicial decision in
Doris L. Sassower v.
Commission, with annexed law: 22 NYCRR 7000.1
et seq., Judiciary
Law 44.1, NYS Constitution, Article VI, Sec. 22
CJA's
June 5, 1997 fax to Gary Brown, Executive Director -- "RE: The
public's rights"
CJA's
September 3, 1997 letter to Gary Brown -- "RE: Question #1 on the
November Ballot: NYS Constitutional Convention"
CJA's
December 31, 1997 letter to Gary Brown -- "RE: Protecting the Public
from Deficient Judicial Screening Processes and Vindicating its Rights
to Basic Information"
1998
CJA's
January 12, 1998 fax to Gary Brown -- "RE: Citizen Opposition and
Public's Rights to Basic Info"
2000
SEE:
Test
Case-State (Commission)-Supreme Court
CJA's
July 11, 2000 note to Barbara Reed, Deputy Director
September
5, 2000 letter from Barbara Reed and Steven Zeidman
CJA's November 1, 2000 letter to Steven Zeidman -- "RE: Vindicating
the Public's right to 'merit selection' of candidates to the Court of
Appeals"
CJA's
November 3, 2000 letter to Steven Zeidman -- "RE: CJA's October 16,
2000 report on the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination"
CJA's
November 17, 2000 letter to Steven Zeidman -- "RE: Soliciting the
Fund's Comment on CJA's October 16, 2000 and November 13, 2000 reports
on the corruption of the 'Merit Selection' Process to the New York Court
of Appeals"
2001
CJA's
February 16, 2001 letter to Steven Zeidman --"RE: Amicus and other
assistance in the appeal of the public interest Article 78 proceeding,
Elena Ruth Sassower, Coordinator of the Center for Judicial
Accountability, Inc., acting pro bono publico, against Commission on
Judicial Conduct of the State of New York (NY Co. #108551/99;
Appellate Division, First Dept. Cal #2000-5434)
SEE:
Test
Case-State (Commission)-Appellate Division
CJA's
May 9, 2001 letter to Steven Zeidman -- "RE: Amicus and other
assistance in the appeal of the public interest Article 78 proceeding,
Elena Ruth Sassower, Coordinator of the Center for Judicial
Accountability, Inc., acting pro bono publico, against Commission on
Judicial Conduct of the State of New York (NY Co. #108551/99;
Appellate Division, First Dept.: September 2001 Term)
2002
CJA's
public questions to the Fund at its December 11, 2002 program,
co-sponsored with the NYS Bar Association,
"Judging
the Judges: The NYS Commission on Judicial Conduct"
SEE:
Test Case-State (Commmission) - New York
Court of Appeals
"Public Offered Insight into Judicial Discipline",
New York Law Journal, December 12, 2002
"Judicial Oversight has its Limits", Albany Times Union,
December 12, 2002
2003
CJA's
January 23, 2003 e-mailed and faxed memo to Ken Jockers, Executive
Director, on "Developing a Legislative/Advocacy Agenda for 2003"
SEE:
Judicial Selection: NY- "Merit Selection" - NY
Court of Appeals-Read
CJA's September 16, 2003 memo to Ken Jockers
-- enclosing
CJA's September 10, 2003 letter to Constitution Project-Courts Initiative
--enclosing
CJA's June 16, 2003 memo
to Ralph Nader, Public Citizen, & Common Cause
SEE:
Paper Trail
to Jail in "Disruption of Congress" case
2004
cc: CJA's June 8, 2004
memo --
"RE: Your (On-Going)
Responsibility to 'Champion Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance
of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection' at Issue in the
'Disruption of Congress' case of
United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower..."
SEE:
Paper Trail
to Jail in "Disruption of Congress" case
cc: JA's June 9, 2004 memo --
"RE: Your (On-Going)
Responsibility to 'Champion Basic Citizen Rights -- and the Vital Importance
of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection' at Issue in the
'Disruption of Congress' case of
United States of America v. Elena Ruth Sassower..."
cc: CJA's June
10, 2004 draft memo of law on the
unconstitutionality of the "disruption of
Congress" statute
2007
CJA's June 20, 2007 memo to Dennis Hawkins, Executive Director & Denise
Kronstadt, Director of Advocacy -- "RE: Championing Judicial Independence
at the U.S. Supreme Court by Amicus Curiae Support for Cert
Petition in 'Disruption of Congress Case"
cc: CJA's
June 22, 2007 memo
-- "RE: Championing Basic Citizen Rights, the Vital
Importance of Citizen Participation in Federal Judicial Selection, and
Fundamental Judicial Accountability by Your Amicus Curiae Support
for U.S. Supreme Court Review of the Cert Petition in the 'Disruption of
Congress' Case"
CJA's July 2, 2007 memo to Justice at Stake Campaign Partners --
"RE: 'Working to Keep Our Courts Fair and Impartial' -- As Empirically
Tested by the 'Disruption of Congress' Case"
CJA's
August 24, 2007 memo to Justice at
Stake Campaign & Its Campaign Partners --
"RE: Championing Judicial Independence
at the U.S. Supreme Court by your amicus
curiae support for the filed and
docketed cert petition in the 'disruption of
Congress' case"
SEE:
"Disruption of Congress" - US Supreme
Court
(see 8/17/07 cert petition)
2009
CJA's September 24, 2009 memo to, inter alia, Fund for Modern Courts --
"RE: Building Dialogue & Scholarship: 'Merit Selection' to the
New York Court of Appeals"
SEE:
Judicial Selection - NYS: "Merit Selection"-NY Court of
Appeals
CJA's September 21, 2009 Comment
to the Commission on Judicial Nomination's Proposed Revised Rules
Exhibit A-1:
“Merit
System For Choosing Judges Isn’t A Cure-all”,
NYT,
1/28/79
Exhibit A-2: “Cuomo Clashes With
Committee Over Judgeships: Asks Panel to
Disregard Law on Nominations”, NYT,
12/20/82
Exhibit
A-3: “The Dispute Over Selections for Court of Appeals”,
NYT,
12/27/82
Exhibit
A-4(a): “The Campaign for Governor is Over: What’s on Trial
Is
How Best to Pick Judges”, NYT, 12/29/82, editorial
Exhibit A-4(b): “Judges Are Better Elected Than Selected”,
NYT, 1/11/83,
letter to the editor by Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink
Exhibit A-5: “Cuomo Requests
Greater Leeway To Select Judges:
Seeks Revised Procedure for Top Court in State”,
NYT, 12/30/82
Exhibit A-6: “Picking of Judges
Assailed by Cuomo: Wants More
Options in Filling Appeals Court Vacancies”,
NYT, 8/15/83
Exhibit A-7: “Judge Selection for New York’s High
Court: The System
Works”, NYT, 8/30/83, letter to the editor by Senate
Minority Leader Manfred Orenstein
Exhibit A-8: “Cuomo Gets Names For
Top Court Job: He Criticizes
Lack of Diversity in List of 7 for Chief Judge”,
NYT, 12/2/84
Exhibit A-9: “Challenge for Cuomo: Picking Judges”,
NYT, 12/7/84
Exhibit A-10: “How Manhattan Stole the Judiciary”,
NYLJ, 12/9/93,
by Appellate Division Justice William C. Thompson
Exhibit
B-1: “Court of Appeals Candidates Are Named”,
NYLJ, 12/3/02
Exhibit B-2: “Few Appellate Judges Apply for Wesley’s
Seat”, NYLJ,
9/18/03
Exhibit
B-3: “Model for Selecting Top Court Judges
Reveals Its Flaws”,
NYLJ, 11/13/03
Exhibit
C: “Semi-Secret Court of Appeals Nominations Draws
Criticism”,
NYLJ,
11/2/00
Exhibit D-1: May 10, 1978 letter from Assemblyman Charles
Henderson
to Governor Hugh Carey, from legislative bill jacket,
Chapter 156, Laws of 1978
Exhibit
D-2: Election Flyer: “On Tuesday, November 8, 1977 For
Better
Courts Vote YES on Court Reform Amendments”
Exhibit
E-1: “Wider Selection Urged for Governor”, NYLJ,
12/23/82,
letter to the editor by Supreme Court Justice James J. Leff
Exhibit
E-2: “Changes Needed In Judicial Selection”, NYLJ,
11/30/82,
letter to the editor by Acting Supreme Court Justice Walter
M. Schackman
CJA's November 23, 2009 memo to, inter alia, Fund for Modern Courts --
"RE: Building Dialogue & Scholarship: 'Merit Selection' to the
New York Court of Appeals"
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