Wednesday, February 19, 2020

California Judiciaries Publicly Defined Jury Duty As A Job; Now They Don't Want To Talk About It

I wrote a June 21st, 2019 Fox and Hounds Daily article demanding jury duty reform: the pay and the mileage rates must increase immediately. The article had a link (URL) to the California Judiciary jury duty web page. As of June 16, 2019, that CA Judiciary web page itself embedded a YouTube vid clearly defining jury duty as a job. We'll learn more about this vid shortly. This means that the California Judiciary - including California Supreme Court Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye - defines jury duty as a job. California government legislature employees, led by registered lawyer license owner Lorena Gonzalez, defined jurors as employees when they formally invented AB 5. Additionally, the basic IRS definition of a job alone covers jury duty. Therefore, as employees, CA jurors must receive highest-prevailing minimum wage, for all hours they work as jurors.
Compare today’s version of the CA Judiciary jury duty web page with the June 16th, 2019 version of that exact same web page. The California Judiciary web page included the YouTube vid, at least through June 16, 2019. The jury duty YouTube vid completely vanished from the page, sometime between June 17, 2019 and July 30, 2019. It turns out that the vid itself

also disappeared from YouTube, for some unknown reason. However, this vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fa7qiIP1pg
completely and perfectly clones the now missing YouTube vid. The vid content clearly and completely defines jury duty as a job. The CA Judiciary publicly defined jury duty as a job, because it placed the vid in its jury duty web page - certainly through June 16, 2019. Even better - soon after the Fox and Hounds article went live, the California Judiciary linked that article in its official Newslinks page. Some time later, however, the CA Judiciary mysteriously deleted the article from the official CA Judiciary Newslinks page.
By the way, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye has personal knowledge of jury duty. She even said it’s a privilege. With a straight face.

The Los Angeles County Judiciary also loved embedding the jury duty vid in its jury duty web page, until it mysteriously changed its judiciary mind. Compare today’s version of the Los Angeles County jury duty web page, with the March 16, 2019 version of that web page. Somehow, this jury duty vid


that defined jury duty as a job clearly disappeared from that web page. This second jury duty vid itself mysteriously disappeared from YouTube itself in a similar way. However, this vid


again completely and perfectly clones the second, equally vanished YouTube jury duty vid. All three of these vids




had and / or have the same content. Note that Los Angeles County Chief Judge Daniel Buckley himself co-starred in all three of these vids. Based on their vid starring roles, both Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Judge Buckley need to answer questions about jury duty. In separate YouTube vids, they both freely spoke about jury duty. Therefore, they have complete freedom, and responsibility, to answer these questions.

All California Judiciary and Los Angeles County Judiciary employees involved in the CA / Los Angeles County Judiciary web page edits described above need to explain

who decided to edit these specific government web pages

when these decisions happened

the reasons for the edits

the exact dates of the edits

and

who approved the edits

immediately. If at least one government employee had any involvement in the disappearances of at least one of the now-missing YouTube vids described above, all information about the disappearances must become public. Immediately. The fact that these judiciaries embedded this vid content in their jury duty web pages proves that they defined and declared jury duty as a job. As statements, their declarations still express their opinions and beliefs on this issue. Those opinions and beliefs will change only when those judiciaries publicly announce those changes. Of course, these changes would raise many new questions. Until then, they only removed their declarations from public visibility.

Starting in late 2017, jury duty law became a serious, important area of law. Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel independently defined jury duty as a job, in a YouTube vid still freely available. This means that the U.S. Federal government defines jury duty as a job. Through a staffer, Judge Fogel stated that he just doesn’t want to say anything else about jury duty.

American jurors might want to somehow . . . preserve the relevant L.A. County jury duty vid, because its content seems to randomly, and mysteriously, disappear from YouTube. They might want to preserve the vid co-starring Judge Fogel, and the vid starring Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye, as well, before their content disappears in a similar way. These preservations must happen in strictly legal ways, of course . . .