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Workshop features Q&A April 30 - May 6, 2008 • Vol. 18 Issue 17 with development execs from the major studios. Editor-in-Chief Amazing Networking Opportunity! Jessica Koslow [email protected] Two people from the last class now have shows in Active Development! Managing Editor Yuri Shimoda 6 2-day workshop is $175 - reserve a seat now! [email protected] Workshop runs Sat. May 17th and 18th. Film Editor Jessica Koslow Call 818.681.1311 for more info. [email protected] Or visit our web site. Art Director Alance Ward http://animationwriters.tripod.com/ Editorial Interns Sasha Ali, Jeff Bachman, 10 20 22 Michael Lee, Lauren Rosenblum INSIDE Contributing Writers Robert Axelrod, Leslie Barrie, Lori Bartlett, 4 WOODEN NICKELS Elsy Benitez, Sarah Bennett, China Bialos, 4 ON THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE Bourbon With Brendan, Michael Buzzelli, Alexander L. 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CROSS INTO THE BLUE ON THE COVER: Kristen Eck and Garrett Nolan Credit: Leslie Nolan, courtesy of PlanJam contents 4 | Campus Circle [APRIL 30 - MAY 6 ’08] Students wooden nickels | BY JOE HORTON Free on Sunday JURIST PRUDENCE Voting for Superior Court Judges A RELATIVELY NONDESCRIPT NOTICE judges appointed when deemed “not appeared in the L.A. Times last week: an qualified” may be made public. All Vintage endorsement list for 17 judicial offices on the appointments must be made within a Los Angeles Superior Court. On June 3, six yearly time frame of the seat becoming judges will be on the ballot due to a specious available, and on the occasions when the Fashion write-in campaign to unseat them, one will run JNE does not have enough time to review a against a challenger, and 10 other offices will candidate, the governor cannot appoint a open due to retirements. judge to that office. Expo All of this will go on quite under the radar In such instances, an open election fills for most citizens as they focus on the the seat. Superior Court judges are retained presidential race, state legislative offices or for six-year terms and are automatically re- what’s for dinner. Yet the makeup of the judges elected if no one challenges them. May 10-11 on the Superior Court, the nation’s largest trial Not infrequently, however, sitting court, and the means by which they are judges will time their retirements to fall Joe Horton Santa Monica appointed are essential matters for all An- inside of the mandatory 90-day re- gelinos to understand. quirement for the JNE Commission at the Civic Most often, the governor appoints judges end of a yearly cycle, thereby removing the Olson, a bagel shop owner in Manhattan to fill vacancies based on the required rec- power of appointment from a politically Beach. Olson was admitted to the Bar in 1989, Auditorium ommendations of the Commission on Judicial unfriendly governor. but had not been a practicing attorney in years Nominees Evaluation. Known commonly as What complicates matters is that without a and refused to meet with the Los Angeles the JNE (“Jenny”) Commission, volunteer screening process by the governor, the County Bar Association, who deemed her not Main St. at Pico $10 examiners are given 90 days to investigate, governor’s staff and the significant JNE qualified. $2 off Reg Adm with ad interview and ultimately render a private Commission vetting process, voters are left to Responding to widespread outrage, Gov. recommendation to the governor falling fill the new offices, often armed with limited Schwarzenegger immediately reappointed Sat 10-6, Sun 11-5 between “exceptionally well-qualified,” “well- advice and ignorant of recommendations from Janavs to another opening on the Superior Early Buy Sat: 9-10:30 $20 qualified,”“qualified” and “not qualified.” local bar associations and newspapers. Here, in Court, saying, “This unfortunate result should The examination process is intense – these open elections, the quality of applicants not rob California of a fine jurist.” Many had 707-793-0773 CC prospective judges supply a lengthy application can vary widely, and potential judges run with speculated that Janavs’ loss was due to her with 50 to 75 references, lists of hundreds of disparate records and levels of experience foreign name on the ballot. attorneys that practice in their respective while pandering to voters who may see their This is my plea: if you haven’t seen the counties and, ultimately, submit to a personal names for the first time as they open a ballot. recommendations by the relevant bar as- interview. The minimum standard for all trial Take the curious case of Dzintra Janavs, a sociations or read the endorsements in the judges is 10 years with the State Bar as- 20-year Superior Court veteran, rated as paper, please leave the judicial section of your sociation. exceptionally well-qualified and endorsed by ballot blank. There’s no shame or harm in that. The governor may appoint judges as he the local sheriff and district attorney, who was Understand how important you are in the law sees fit; however, the recommendations of any unseated in the 2006 election by Lynn Diane and order of this state. ON THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE ANTONIO’S A Weekly Report on Campaign ’08 MOTHER’S DAY AND BY JOE HORTON “DIA DE LAS MADRES” THE BUCK STOPS HERE 10-point victory, she raised $3 million John McCain, meanwhile, has crisscrossed CELEBRATION! overnight. Such funds are desperately needed, the nation holding fundraisers to fill his coffers Consider the money thrown around in both as she has suffered increasingly dramatic debts for his continuing “primary” campaign. Democratic and Republican camps. Barack on the campaign trail. He finished March with a personal record There will be two Mother’s Day celebrations Obama raised $41 million in March alone, most of She famously loaned her campaign $5 of $15.2 million raised, but lags badly behind here at Antonio’s! There is the one on the 10th of May, which it from smaller, repeat donors under the $2,300 million in January, but ultimately ended March both Democratic candidates who have bene- is celebrated in Mexico. We celebrate that day limit for personal contributions in the primary $800,000 in debt. Estimates suggest that her fited from a highly energized electorate keen to here with a special menu, cards and goodies, as season.