San Bernardino County (San Bernardino)
Growing up during the civil war in Lebanon, one of Superior Court Judge Antoine F. Raphael’s earliest childhood memories is his mother returning home, happy for the first time in months, after speaking to a judge who allowed her to liquidate her family’s assets.
Raphael’s father, under whose name the assets were held, died in the war and many judges demanded a premium from his mother to sign off on the transfer, which she could ... (continued)