Your help is desperately needed. Please see the attached sign up sheet and send it in. You need only volunteer one night or you can do all 3, but your participation is invaluable and a great experience for you. Only half the needed scorers have signed up so far so please don't delay!
Mock Trial Orientation is scheduled for Wednesday, February 8, 2012 in Department 22 of VCSC.
Click here to download the Mock Trial Scorer Form!
We are committed to the advancement of the legal profession and the empowerment of the Latino community through advocacy and the promotion of equal justice.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
MABA Welcomes Dr. Frank Barajas & Dr. Jose Alamillo to February Meeting
CSUCI Professors, Dr. Frank Barajas and Dr. Jose Alamillo will discuss the Arizona Law which eliminates the teaching of ethnic studies in Arizona public schools. Many of us got to our professional positions and success because of ethnic studies.
Please come and learn about this critical issue for our community.
“The implementation of the Arizona law HB 2281 has now permitted the banning and elimination of the Mexican-American Studies Program at the Tucson School District. The use of selective discrimination did not eliminate the District’s African-American or Native-American Studies Programs. This Mexican-American Studies ban includes the outlawing of certain courses, books, authors and ideas that the state of Arizona and the Tucson School Board believe are dangerous and “un-American”. This book-banning and censorship is reminiscent of the repressive 1950′s McCarthyist period when any dissenting ideas, writers and books were black-listed. With the disbanding of Mexican-American Studies at the TUSD, students are now forbidden to voluntarily take courses that pertain to Chicano history.”
MABA's Meeting will be held:
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12 noon,
Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton
1000 Town Center Drive, Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California
805-485-1000
Please come and learn about this critical issue for our community.
“The implementation of the Arizona law HB 2281 has now permitted the banning and elimination of the Mexican-American Studies Program at the Tucson School District. The use of selective discrimination did not eliminate the District’s African-American or Native-American Studies Programs. This Mexican-American Studies ban includes the outlawing of certain courses, books, authors and ideas that the state of Arizona and the Tucson School Board believe are dangerous and “un-American”. This book-banning and censorship is reminiscent of the repressive 1950′s McCarthyist period when any dissenting ideas, writers and books were black-listed. With the disbanding of Mexican-American Studies at the TUSD, students are now forbidden to voluntarily take courses that pertain to Chicano history.”
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MABA's Meeting will be held:
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12 noon,
Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton
1000 Town Center Drive, Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California
805-485-1000
Monday, January 30, 2012
MABA Monthly Meeting - Feb. 3, 2012
MABA will welcome California State University Channel Islands Professors, Dr. Frank Barajas and Dr. Jose Alamillo to discuss the Arizona Law HB2281 - which eliminates the teaching of ethnic studies in Arizona public schools, at our February meeting.
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12 noon,
Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton
1000 Town Center Drive, Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California
805-485-1000
We will also discuss Rebeca Mendoza's requested endorsement, and further discuss the creation of a MABA Judicial Evaluations Committee.
For MABA members who would like to be included in the Facebook Directory,
Valentin Mendoza of Valentin Photography will take individual photos of members
at the end of the meeting.
This is a brown bag meeting - don't forget your lunch!
...and remember to bring your membership application, membership directory application, and your checkbook!
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12 noon,
Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton
1000 Town Center Drive, Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California
805-485-1000
We will also discuss Rebeca Mendoza's requested endorsement, and further discuss the creation of a MABA Judicial Evaluations Committee.
For MABA members who would like to be included in the Facebook Directory,
Valentin Mendoza of Valentin Photography will take individual photos of members
at the end of the meeting.
This is a brown bag meeting - don't forget your lunch!
...and remember to bring your membership application, membership directory application, and your checkbook!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
MABA Monthly Meeting - Jan. 6, 2012
MABA will be hosting its first brown-bag meeting of 2012 at noon on
Friday, January 6th, at the offices of
Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton
1000 Town Center Drive, Sixth Floor
Oxnard, California
805-485-1000
Elections will be held for the positions of President-Elect, Treasurer and Secretary.
Membership Applications will be available, and we encourage you to bring a friend!
You can also download an application by clicking here.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Education Foundation of the VC MABA, Inc. First Annual Scholarship Dinner
Thursday, December 1, 2011
5:30 p.m.
Dinner and Program commence at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Courtyard Marriott Hotel
600 E. Esplanade Drive in Oxnard, CA
Please join the Ventura County Mexican American Bar Association, and members of your local legal community, at the Education Foundation of the VC MABA, Inc.'s First Annual Scholarship Dinner.
Honoring:
Retired Justice Carlos R. Moreno
Assemblymember Luis A. Alejo
Cecilia Isaac
Tickets $65.00 per person
Download your invitation here, and return the completed form with your check today!
To purchase tickets or for more information
Please contact: Renee Dehesa at rdehesa@nchc.com or 805.988.8324
Monday, November 7, 2011
Urgent Action Request
The
Ventura County Mexican American Bar Association would like to encourage local
attorneys to submit Reports on the Effects of Judicial Branch Budget Reductions
on Legal Practitioners, Their Clients, and Court Users to the Judicial Council
Office of California.
The Council is seeking reports of the impact this budget crisis is having - in human terms; detailing specific incidents, including, but not limited to the following
information:
Your submission should include enough information to enable the Judicial Council to aggregate similar stories and present a picture of the cumulative effects on the public:
1. The trial court at which the incident you are describing occurred;
2. The type of case you or your client brought before the court;
3. The specific reduction in programs or services that impacted you or your client; and,
4. The immediate, subsequent or residual effect that the reduction had on you and your client, and what that means in terms of access to and the delivery of justice.
5. Your contact information should the Judicial Council need to follow up with you on your submission.
It is not enough to say the lines are long, or that there is a backlog in processing judgments, but if that is the effect you are reporting, please articulate how that impact is felt by your client, what the result of it is on your client's life or well-being.
Please submit reports to:
Donna Hershkowitz
Assistant Director
Office of Governmental Affairs
Judicial Council of California - Administrative Office of the Courts
770 L Street, Suite 700
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: 916.323.3121
Fax: 916.323.4347
Friday, November 4, 2011
Public Notice: Ventura Superior Court Budget
Ventura Superior Court Budget Reduction Measures: Including Layoffs, Furloughs, Partial Court
Closures and Reduced Service Hours
Please refer to the
Court’s site for updated info. This
material was taken from their notices and may be subject to change.
·
CLOSURES:
o
The majority of the courtrooms and all clerks'
offices at all three courthouse locations will be closed on November 23, 2011,
December 23, 27, 28, 29 and 30, 2011 to mitigate the impact of additional
unpaid employee furlough days on court operations.
o
THESE ARE NOT COURT HOLIDAYS: These partial closure days are not court
holidays, so statutory deadlines will not be extended.
o Limited courtrooms will be open to hear
urgent matters.
o A courtroom will be open at the Juvenile
Justice Center for urgent juvenile matters.
o All Simi Valley courtrooms will be closed.
·
FILING:
o
Drop boxes are currently provided outside each
clerical office for filing papers or submitting payments. Documents placed in
the boxes by 5:00 p.m. are deemed deposited for filing that same business day.
Most cases already calendared for hearing will be rescheduled and the affected
parties notified by the court.
o The exterior walk-up window on the north
side of the Hall of Justice at the Government Center on 800 South Victoria Ave.
will be open between 8:00 am. And 6:45 p.m. for handling criminal/traffic
payments and collections payments only.
·
HOURS:
o
Effective Tuesday, January 3, 2012, the hours of
the Clerk's Office, Monday through Friday, shall be 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for
traffic, civil, small claims, family law, criminal, juvenile, probate and
records.
o
Phone hours will be from 8:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.,
and 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
o
The Walk-up Express Window at the main Ventura
Courthouse for Traffic and Collections payments only will remain open from 8:00
a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Monday through Friday.
NOTICE OF CHANGE IN PROCESSING OF CIVIL FILINGS
Effective October
11, 2011, case initiating papers, including complaints, applications and
petitions, application for renewal of judgment and clerk and court default
judgment packets (except for requests for entry of defaults) will be processed
in the Ventura clerk's office only.
Documents relating to Unlawful Detainers will be excluded.
A drop box is located directly outside of the clerks’ office and
documents placed in the box by 5:00 p.m. will be deemed deposited for filing
that same business day.
Contact:
Julie Camacho (Ventura) 805.654.2247 or Keri Griffith (East County)
805.582.8076
For more information, please refer to the Public Notices:
Partial Court Closures November and December 2011
Reduction in Operating Hours for 2012
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