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Nov. 19, 2010

Samuel McAdam

Judge Samuel McAdam gave up his successful labor defense practice for public service, which he performs with empathy even in the hardest family law cases.

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Yolo County (Woodland) Superior Court

By Fiona Smith

Daily Journal Staff Writer

WOODLAND - A 20-year-old woman caught in the middle of a bitter family dispute recently gave court testimony urging the judge not to grant her parents custody of her younger brother and sister. She was scared to death to say this in front of her parents, she said, but she did not want her siblings' lives scarred the way hers was by abusive drug addicts.

That sort of raw testimony is not uncommon in Judge Samu... (continued)

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