Private Admonition of a Probate Judge (08/29/08).
08/29/2008
In one case, the judge permitted a litigant's attorney to engage in improper ex parte communications with the court and court staff and, in a separate case, failed to comply with the law when he granted that same attorney ex parte "emergency" relief in the absence of sworn pleadings or affidavits in support of the request. [Violation of Canons 2A and 3B(8) of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct.] Private Admonition of a Probate Judge (08/29/08).
