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Judicial Forum July 16, 2010

Mark Baumann — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:40:16 +0000

The Judicial Forum will be held on July 16, 2010 from 11:45 to 1:15. The PDN and Sequim Gazette will be present and the forum will be recorded.

Steve Methner is not available as a moderator, so if someone has a suggestion, please contact President, Will Payne.

After the forum, the evaluation forms for prosecutor and judicial candidates will be mailed to only dues paid members for 2010 as of July 16, 2010. So, if you have not paid, please do so to Cliff Tassie. The evaluations will be mailed with a SASE envelope to return the evaluations to CCBA and the results will be blind. Past President, Carol Mortensen, President, Will Payne and 2011 President, Chris Koenig will tally the results and provide it to the members.

Please RSVP so a correct amount of food may be ordered for those who attend.

Change in court schedule: dependencies and Juvy case

Mark Baumann — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:21:59 +0000

Per Ms. Clevenger, Court Administrator: CHINS/YAR moves to Wednesday at 0830 as of March 1; Juvenile Dependency Calendar moves to Wednesday at 0900 as of March 1; Juvenile Offender Calendar moves to 0900 Thursday as of March 1.

Changes to local rules

Mark Baumann — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:05:03 +0000

On June 29, 2009, the Clallam County Superior Court implemented changes to LCR 77(k), and LCR 94(f) (with Exhibit A), and Administrative rule 0.3, and added Administrative Rule 0.5, 0.6, 0.7

Of particular note for family law practictioners, LCR 94(f) makes substantial changes to the settlement conference procedures, and imposes heavy financial santcions for failing to comply with the rule. For example, settlement conference briefs are now mandatory using the required form, and if filed late incur mandatory sanctions of $250-$500. Failing to appear at a settlement conference, without court permission, yields a mandatory sanction of $250.

Administrative rule 0.7 requires all pleadings to be in at least 12 point type.

Local rules may be found at www.courts.wa.gov

Judicial Candidate Forum, Court of Appeals

Mark Baumann — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:35:48 +0000

The Clallam County Bar Association is holding a judicial candidate forum for the candidates for Washington State Court of Appeals Division II, District 2.
Attorney Tim Ford is challenging the incumbent Judge J. Robin Hunt for a seat on the court.
Both candidates will be present to discuss their judicial philosophy and to answer questions put to them by the moderator.
The event will be held Friday, June 20, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at the Port Angeles City Council Chambers.
The public is invited to attend.
For further information about the candidates: www.reelectjudgehunt.com and www.timford2008.com
Patrick M. Irwin, President
Clallam County Bar Association
360-457-3327

Judge rotation lunch meeting

Mark Baumann — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:01:14 +0000

There will be a brown bag luncheon at noon tomorrow (March 5, 2008) at the courthouse. This will be to discuss the judge rotation calendar.

Brooke Taylor sworn as Judge

Mark Baumann — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:02:14 +0000

(Click to enlarge photo) To an overflowing crowd in Clallam County’s Courtroom 1, Brooke Taylor was sworn in by Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, as Clallam County’s new, and third, Superior Court judge on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. Present at the ceremony were numerous dignitaries including Washington Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Charles W. Johnson, Supreme Court Justices Susan Owens, Mary Fairhurst and Debra L. Stephens, Washington Court of Appeal judges David Armstrong and Robin Hunt, Jefferson County Superior Court judge Craddock Verser, Jefferson County District Court Judge Mark Huth (ret), Kitsap County Superior Court judges Anna Laurie, Karen Connely, Leonard Costello, James Roper, and Leonard Kruse (ret.), United States District Court Judge Robert Bryan.

Clallam County officials present included Clallam County Superior Court Judges Ken Williams and George Wood, Clallam County Superior Court Family Court Commissioner William Knebes, Clallam County Commissioners Steve Tharinger and Mike Dougherty as well as the Clallam County Superior Court Clerk, Barbara Christiansen and County Administrator Jim Jones, Jr.

Also present was Stanley Bastian, President of the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors, WSBA Executive Director Paula Littlewood, former WSBA Board of Governer Presidents Ronald Ward and Dick Manning, former member of the WSBA Board of Governors Marcine Anderson, Superior Court Clerks Linde Clevenger and Diane Ralston, former Superior Court Clerk and campaign manager Eddie Beck, members of Judge Talyor’s former law firm, Platt, Irwin (and formerly Taylor), many of Clallam County’s lawyers, and numerous family, friends and supporters of Brooke Taylor.

Mark Baumann

Brooke Taylor wins Judicial election

Mark Baumann — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:59:48 +0000

The primary election is over and Brooke Taylor will be the new Clallam County Superior Court judge. By statute, any judge who wins more than 50% of a primary election will be the only candidate appearing on the fall general election. Mr. Taylor won 53% of the election, therefore his name will be the only one appearing on the ballot.

ClallamCountyBar.com says congratulations to Mr. Taylor, and offers a hearty congratulations to Brent Basden, Curtis Johnson and Craig Miller for making the effort to keep our democracy robust.

Judicial primary election results

Mark Baumann — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:26:34 +0000

The County’s first report of results (all candidates and positions) can be seen here

As of 8:09 p.m. on 8/21/07, the unofficial tally’s are:

Brooke Taylor – 52.75% with 7,032 votes
Brent Basden - 22.73% with 3,031 votes
Curtis Johnson - 13.34% with 1,779
Craig Miller – 11.18% with 1,490 votes

If Brooke Taylor maintains more than 50% of the vote, state law mandates
that he will be the only candidate placed on the general election ballot. The next count will be Friday August 24th by 4:30 p.m.. The election results will be final and certified on September 5th.

Bar Poll results

Mark Baumann — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:26:11 +0000

The Bar Association’s poll results for judicial candidates are in. Results based on 9 measures with a grading scale of 1-5 for each measure are as follows:

4.7 Brooke Taylor
3.7 Brent Basden
3.1 Curtis Johnson
3.1 Craig Miller

Click here to see a table of the result details: bar-poll-results-table.htm

This summer marks an historic election for Clallam County’s newly created position for a third Superior Court Judge (position #3). This position was authorized by an act of the state legislature last year. The first ballot will be in the primary election (August 21, 2007 this year) Unless one candidate obtains 51% or more of the vote, the top two candidates will run off in the November election.