“O-O-H Child”: Local bloggers make OC legal news

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Judge David Carter

Federal District Judge David O. Carter of Santa Ana: " 'Childish conduct by both parties,' he judged."

We aren’t going to dwell on this development — we’re not unfeeling monsters, after all — but given its role in the history of the relevant events The Orange Juice Blog really ought to mark a significant event in the blog wars in our fair county.   Andrew Galvin has the story out at the Irvine, Long Beach, Huntington Beach and Brea Register — and that’s all this correspondent plans to say about it for today.  (Of course, as I write, “today” ends in two minutes.)

Be as nice about this in the comments as you can, folks.  We wish we could set the bar higher than that, but we have come to know you all pretty well by now.  Do what you believe you must.


About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)