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The Court Commissioner decided to postpone the trial to a later date.

Trials & Litigation More Zoom issues in court hearings: Doc joins from operating room, defendant is naked from at least the waist up     Dr. Scott Green joined a Zoom hearing from an operating room. Image from video hosted by the Sacramento Bee. Zoom court hearings continue to produce some unusual videos of participants who ignore decorum or carry on with activities they wouldn’t try in a courtroom. In California, a traffic court defendant, Dr. Scott Green, appeared for a hearing dressed in...

California medical board to investigate after plastic surgeon appeared at a virtual trial from an operating theatre

Photo: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Zoom-ification of our daily lives—i.e., the blending of the private and the personal, enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that jams every aspect of ourselves into a single fuzzily buffered video window—has created some unquestionably strange moments over the last year or so. That’s rarely truer than in the intersection between streaming video and the court system, as the self-seriousness of the American legal apparatus coll...

DYS denies plea to keep rehab center open By Melanie Yingst - myingst@aimmediamidwest.com TROY — This week, Miami County Juvenile and Probate Court Judge Scott Altenburger appealed once again to the Department of Youth Services (DYS) to reconsider the department’s decision to shut the doors of the West Central Juvenile Rehabilitation Center. The 32-bed facility, which opened in 1992, had an operating budget of $1.8 million and was fully funded by DYS. The center provided rehabilitative serv...