What Is Going On at the Office of Administrative Hearings?

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The California Office
of Administrative
Hearings

2349 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite
200
Sacramento, CA 95833-4231
(916) 263-0550
Fax (916) 263-0554

Ronald L. Diedrich Director and
Chief Administrative Law Judge
Linda Cabatic, Deputy Director
Jan Soto, Chief of Administration
Noah Valadez, Staff Services
Manager II
Kay Stubbings, Executive
Assistant

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General Jurisdiction Divisions

Sacramento
2349 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite
200
Sacramento, CA 95833-4231
(916) 263-0550
Fax (916) 263-0554
Calendar Fax (916) 376-6349
Jonathan Lew, Presiding
Administrative Law Judge

Los Angeles
320 West Fourth Street, Suite 630
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 576-7200
Fax (213) 576-7244
Located in: The Serra Building
Janis Rovner, Presiding
Administrative Law Judge
Michael Scarlett, Presiding
Administrative Law Judge

Oakland
1515 Clay Street, Suite 206
Oakland, CA 94612
Main: (510) 622-2722
Calendar Clerk:
(510) 622-1042
Fax (510) 622-2743
Michael Cohn, Presiding
Administrative Law Judge

San Diego
1350 Front Street, Suite 6022
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 525-4475
Fax (619) 525-4419
Located in: The San Diego State
Building
Alan R. Alvord, Presiding
Administrative Law Judge

Administrative Law Judges

Sacramento

Presiding Judge Jonathan Lew

Karen Brandt
Catherine B. Frink
Gary A. Geren
Judith Kopec
Ann E. Sarli
Stephen J. Smith
Dian Vorters
Robert Walker
Rebecca Westmore
Marilyn Woollard

Los Angeles
Presiding Judges Janice Rovner
Michael Scarlett

Nancy Beezy
Julie Cabos-Owen
Ralph B. Dash
Humberto Flores
Susan Formaker
Mark Harman
Daniel Juarez
Amy Lahr
Joseph Montoya
Deborah Myers
Vincent H. Nafarrete
Samuel D. Reyes
David B. Rosenman
Christopher Ruiz
Eric Sawyer
Erlinda Shrenger
H. Stuart Waxman

Oakland
Presiding Judge Michael Cohn

Mary-Margaret Anderson
Ruth S. Astle
M. Amanda Behe
David L. Benjamin
Melissa Crowell
Perry O. Johnson
Steven Owyang
Nancy Rasmussen
Cheryl Tompkin

San Diego
Presiding Judge Alan R. Alvord

H. James Ahler
Donald P. Cole
Roy W. Hewitt
Stephen E. Hjelt
Vallera Johnson
Greer D. Knopf
Mary Agnes
Matyszewski

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Special Education Divisions

Sacramento
2349 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite
200
Sacramento, CA 95833-4231

Laguna Hills (formerly Irvine)
23046 Avenida De La Carlota,
Suite 750
Laguna Hills, CA 92653

Van Nuys
15350 Sherman Way, Suite 300
Van Nuys, CA 91406

[Presiding Judge
Sacramento   Sherianne Laba
Laguna Hills   Timothy Newlove
Van Nuys        Ann F. MacMurray]

Administrative Law Judges

Sacramento

Suzanne B. Brown
Peter P. Castillo
Richard M. Clark
Gregory P. Cleveland
Suzanne Dugan
Rebecca Freie
Debra Huston
Deidre L. Johnson
Charles Marson
C. Trevor Skarda
Ralph J. Venturino

Laguna Hills

Presiding Judge Timothy
Newlove

Robert Helfand
Robert Iafe
Darrell Lepkowsky
Judith Pasewark
Susan Ruff

Van Nuys
Presiding Judge Ann F.
MacMurray

Richard T. Breen
Eileen M. Cohn
Glynda B. Gomez
Christine L. Harwell
Elsa H. Jones
Stella L. Owens-Murrell
Clara L. Slifkin

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ALJ biographical info

By trying harder to protect administrator Rick Werlin than to protect her own
client! She refused her client's pleas to reveal Werlin's many violations of law,
which included misdemeanors. Schulman didn't help anyone. Not only was
Schulman's client dismissed from employment, but Rick Werlin also lost his job.

3
Atty. Mark
Bresee
of Parham & Rajcic
(now working at
Orange County Office
of Education),
submitted a phony
document, prepared by
Rick Werlin, to OAH.

San Diego is not the only place where government
shows contempt for the law:

Click "Links" on site map for story about how governments in Washington State
love Judge Ottinger, but a state Commission on Judicial Conduct found improper
conduct.

The judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings received a TWO-WEEK
SUSPENSION for his antics in the Maura Larkins case.

Why wasn't the illegal decision thrown out?

Because that would bring into question ALL THE DECISIONS MADE BY THAT
JUDGE.

Better to keep illegal decisions than to rock the boat is the philosophy of the
OAH under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

Office of Administrative
Hearings (OAH)

Months earlier, the
true document
had been submitted to
PERB.

The unlawful February 2003 decision of ALJ James Ahler, Terry Olson, and
Barbara Abeyta regarding Maura Larkins (and exhibits) are public records.

They may be viewed by the public by making a request to the
Office of Administrative Hearings, Room 6022, 1350 Front Street,
San Diego, 92101
(619) 525-4475

Do Americans have a right to petition for redress
of grievances?

Not according to Commission members Judge James Ahler, Terry Olson, and
Barbara Abeyta, who dismissed Maura Larkins specifically for filing grievances
and a lawsuit!

1
In the
Larkins' case,
Judge Ahler claimed
that documents
accepted into
evidence and
recorded in his own
handwriting
did not exist.

2
In the Janice
Howes case,
Judge Knopf claimed that
documents that were
never produced as
evidence in the hearing,
and which Judge Knopf and
OAH attorney Margaret
Farrow refused to produce
in response to a subpoena,

did exist.
If so, why not
produce them?

It seems clear that OAH judges engaged in outright misrepresentation to give
dishonest and abusive administrators such as Rick Werlin whatever they want.

It appears that OAH administrative judges are far less honest and respectful of
the law than superior court judges. Where exactly do they find these OAH judges?

Attorney Elizabeth Schulman clearly agreed with them.

Where do all the documents go at OAH?

What is going on at the California Office of
Administrative Hearings?

How did Attorney Elizabeth Schulman manage to lose
the Maura Larkins case at OAH (Jan. 2003)?