No. 24-6012

Cyrus Hazari v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al.

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2024-11-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights disability-discrimination due-process judicial-ethics judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct
Latest Conference: 2025-04-04 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. How must judicial legitimacy be restored when judicial ethics are ignored and deprecated by systemic policy of courts in California, while judicial immunity provides a runway to unchecked and long-term invidious discrimination against the disabled litigant that predictably leads to serious and irreparable injuries without any mechanism for relief or correction? When judicial ethics holds no potency and no force by intent of the California judiciary, is strict scrutiny required to prevent these prohibited acts against the disabled litigant? Under these facts, what place should human rights have in the California courts and under the canons of judicial ethics? Should human rights be integral to standards of scrutiny applicable to the disabled litigant in the course of jurisprudence?

2. May a judge who recuses himself from a case after a party's challenge to disqualify him, and thus admits to the appearance of impropriety, then resume presiding in the case at his whim at a later time and while the party is still litigating the same case? May such a judge, by resuming presiding in that case, evade the intended protections of the California Code of Judicial Ethics, and then personally deny a timely challenge under California Code of Civil Procedure 170.6 by the plaintiff? Under such a fact pattern, how must the conflict between California Code of Civil Procedure 1875, and Canon 3B(1) of California's Judicial Ethics, and the admission of the appearance impropriety under the same judicial ethics, be resolved? Do the facts indicate collusion between the defendants and the judge?

3. Is judicial ethics a public relations fraud upon the People that is used by the courts to manipulatively hold the public trust by making the appearance that judicial candor and propriety will control jurisdiction and the proceedings and the rulings by a court, while in reality, there is absolutely no potency or effect provided by canons of judicial ethics in thwarting prohibited or egregious judicial conduct that the courts themselves permit to rise even to criminal proportions? Do higher courts in California ensure that judicial ethics have no legitimacy and offer no protections to litigants and to justice? Does the California Supreme court directly annihilate judicial ethics by precedent, and are the preemption of such precedents that nullify judicial ethics demonstrated by these facts? Should any precedent in conflict with judicial ethics be required to expressly address or distinguish the effects and the invocation of judicial ethics?

4. May a judge who is challenged for violation of judicial ethics personally rule upon the challenge, and how should compliance with judicial ethics be determined amidst the fraternity of judges when the subject is the disabled litigant?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether judicial ethics can be restored when systemic discrimination against disabled litigants occurs despite judicial immunity and potential constitutional violations

Docket Entries

2025-04-07
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-03-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/4/2025.
2025-02-15
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-01-21
Petition DENIED.
2025-01-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2025.
2024-07-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 23, 2024)

Attorneys

Cyrus Hazari
Cyrus Hazari — Petitioner