Second District Court of Appeals
During the time that 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Victoria M. Chavez and her co-panelists were weighing whether they and more than 3,000 of their active duty and retired peers were entitled to salaries and benefits withheld by the state of California in the aftermath of the Great Recession, nary a single judge asked Chavez for a heads-up about how they might rule.
In fact, "I think people bent over backwards to no... (continued)