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Va. legislature works on ambitious family law agenda today

Is family-court duty cruel & unusual punishment for judges who cuss out criminals?

November 18, 2016

<<According to the Tribune, Sacks “has long had a reputation for delivering strongly worded rebukes from the bench.” He was reassigned for four months to domestic relations court in 2004 for what the Tribune describes as his “profanity-punctuated lecture” during a sentencing hearing.>>

Judge's sarcasm was 'unwarranted and wholly inappropriate,' appeals court says

ABA Journal, OCT 18, 2016 

BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS

via lawyers Ron Nelson and Tom Valenti

Posted at 11:39 AM in Ethics, Family Court Reform, Jurisprudence, Law Practice | | Comments (0)

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