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GARDINER'S MOTION TO DISMISS

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INQUIRY CONCERNING JUDGE(And David Bogenschutz is the lawyer)"The Chair, who presides of the investigative panel, or some other member of the Commission, unilaterally and without apparent authority, disqualified Commission members Russell, Judge Backman and Judge Gehl. They did not seek disqualification or removal. Backman and Gehl are judges and Russell is a practicing lawyer. The disqualified or removed members are all members of the Florida Bar. Additionally, they are all Broward County residents, and the only Broward County residents on the JQC ...Gardiner was deprived of an investigative panel, contrary to the Rules, of her peers. Two of the three disqualified or removed investigative panel members were judges. With the disqualification or removal of Judges Backman and Gehl, Gardiner?s peers (fellow judges) on the investigative panel were reduced from the constitutionally mandated forty-four (44%) percent to thirty-three percent (33%) ...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).