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Information about Judge David Chaffee - California Superior Court - Orange County Judge David Chaffee - California Superior Court - Orange County Santa Ana, California Phone:     Fax: http://www.cjp.ca.gov/ Trademember: Judicial misconduct complaints Rank: No ranking. Summary: Do you have information on David Chaffee? Please click Comments to share your information and file a complaint with the California State Commission on Judicial Performance Other Information: • One lawyer reported that Chaffee did not want a paraplegic to appear at his own trial before a jury. The insurance lawyers were fighting prevent the jury from seeing the victim. • At another case involving Palacio del Mar Homeowners Association (PDM), Chaffee manipulated the case and prevented the the homeowners from presenting evidence and witnesses. He coached the Peters & Freedman lawyer Jeffrey Pratt , suppressed evidence, put the false allegations by Peters & Freedman lawyers into his rulings as if they were the facts, used his discretationery powers against the homeowner and in favor of Peters & Freedman lawyers, and after ruling in favor of Peters & Freedman awarded them hundreds of thousands of dollars for their "legal fees". Complaints have been filed with the California State Commission on Judicial Performance• Other homeowners, their lawyers, and lawyers acting as plaintiffs in their own homeowner association cases reported similar judicial misconduct by Judge Chaffee. • Chaffee was a defendant in a RICO case See: 10 Judges Hit With RICO Lawsuit - Los Angeles Daily Journal - December 21, 1999

3. Judge David Chaffee - California Superior Court - Orange County     CHAFFEE, DAVID R., JUDGE, SUPERIOR COURT. Orange County. Appointment: Newly created position January 8, 1997, by Governor Wilson. Judge, Municipal Court, Orange County Harbor Judicial District, appointed January 4, 1994 by Governor Wilson. Past Employment: Deputy and Senior Deputy County Counsel, Orange County, 1978-94, specialties: probate, tax litigation, and environmental and land use litigation. Deputy Attorney General, California State Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Los Angeles, 1974-78. Admitted to California Bar, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court, Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California. Education: J.D. (1973) Loyola University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. Law Review Associate Editor, St. Thomas More Society. (1970) University of Arizona School of Law, Tucson, Arizona. B.A. (History) (1969) Long Beach State University, Long Beach, CA. Blue Key, Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society), varsity crew. Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, CA. Born March 6, 1948, Long Beach, CA. Married, L. Delaine Sanders, Protestant, Republican. Enjoys reading, walking, camping, and sailing. Memberships: 1994__California Judges Association (Executive Board, 1995-96). 1978 Orange County Bar Association. Board of Trustees, Devil Pups Inc., 1999-. Publications: "Litigating Ownership Disputes in Probate," Orange County Trial Lawyers Association Journal, January/February, 1985, "The Erosion of Citizenship" 5 Loyola Law Review 589 (August 1972). Assignments: Civil Panel - 1998-2004, Criminal Panel - 1997; Mental Health/Probate 1997-1998; Harbor Court 2004-. Posted Dec 27 2006 9:17PM CET     Username withheld , California   2. David Chaffee coaches Jeffrey Pratt, a lawyer from Peters & Freedman     . Overwatering and destroying homes Homes in Palacio del Mar Homeowners Association in San Clemente are built on heavily carved , unstable hillsides. The City of San Clemente did not require a drainage system in this development and the developer did not put in a sprinkler system. Palacio board members, however, put in a massive sprinkler system and damaged several homes. They were sued numerous times but they look upon these lawsuits as a sport. They lie in court, misappropriate corporate funds, violate the CCRs and laws and keep on watering these unstable hillsides creating damage to the homes. They use Peters & Freedman to change CCRs, help them to hide books and records, run elections, help create false records on enemies, and sue targeted homeowners. Margaret Nicholson is an 82 year old grandmother, a long time board member from another association. She reported the following after observing Jeffrey Pratt , a lawyer from Peters & Freedman, before Judge David Chaffee in the Orange County Superior Court, " I couldn't believe what they did in court. The judge was acting like he was a buddy for the association. He coached Pratt till he gave him the right answer he was looking for. He wasn't listening to the homeowners. He had his mind set up before the homeowners went up to testify." Another lawyer for the homeower reported, " Pratt kept going down the list of evidence code and Chaffee kept letting him parrot it all and stopped him when he hit the right one." Posted Aug 30 2003 7:43AM CEST     Username withheld San Juan Capistrano, California   1. RICO case filed against Judge David Chaffee     Los Angeles Daily Journal Tuesday, December 21, 1999 10 Judges Hit With RICO Lawsuit - Judge David Chaffee is sued by a lawyer AHRC Notes: Mr Putman dismissed this RICO case. Several lawyers have told us that they get blacklisted going up against the clique. Posted Jan 20 2003 9:13PM CET     Username withheld San Juan Capistrano, California

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