“Fortunately, it's rare for an investigation of a judge to get this far, and it's certainly rare to have this serious of allegations with regard to the sexual misconduct, and it's certainly rare to have discipline the result of which is you don't get to serve out your term of office,” White said. Penny White, a University of Tennessee law school professor who specializes in judicial ethics, said the case illustrates that “a judge is a judge 24-7."
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The judicial board will hand over the case to Tennessee's Board of Professional Responsibility, which oversees attorneys, for possible further action.Ī voicemail left with Young's office seeking comment was not immediately returned. 31 after losing his Republican primary election in May. Young's 30-day suspension begins Tuesday and his term ends Aug. In the other case, he didn't recuse himself and ruled that the husband could adopt one of his wife's children.
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An appeals court disqualified him from the opioid case, voiding his default judgment that would have sent the case directly to trial over how much to award the plaintiffs in damages. The unusual two-count suspension came down from the Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct, which this week found that Judge Jonathan Lee Young had mishandled both cases. In the other, a judicial oversight panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a married woman with an adoption case before him. In one, his out-of-court comments were deemed improper enough to void a prominent ruling he made against an opioid company. A judicial oversight panel has suspended a Tennessee judge for the rest of his term, citing two very different types of indiscretion in handling cases. The body of the PTI lawmaker was handed over to his family for burial only after Judicial Magistrate Naukar Abbas allowed it.NASHVILLE, Tenn.
The doctors said that Liaquat was dead when he was brought to the hospital. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader was found unconscious at his home in Khudad Colony and shifted to a private hospital in a critical condition. On June 9, Pakistan's former Member of the National Assembly (MNA) and popular television host Amir Liaquat, 49, passed away in Karachi under mysterious circumstances. She requested the court to allow her to become an intervenor in the petition. She said she wanted to become a necessary party in the petition as she wanted to know the cause of death of her spouse. Syeda Dania Shah, a widow of the late PTI MNA, filed an application in the Sindh High Court last week for becoming intervenors in the petition of Hussain's children against the exhumation of their father's body and autopsy orders. He said another judicial magistrate, on an application of a counsel, allowed the exhumation of the body and ordered the constitution of a medical board for the purpose, which was without jurisdiction.Ī division bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Iqbal Kalhoro, inquired the petitioner's counsel why the autopsy of the deceased should not have been conducted as it was a legal matter, instead of a matter of family emotions.
The counsel for Hussain's children submitted that the judicial magistrate had conducted an external examination on the body and allowed burial after completing all codal formalities. The petitioners Ahmed Amir and Dua-e-Amir, children of the late lawmaker, submitted in the petition that their father died on June 9 and they were allowed to bury him after obtaining permission from a judicial magistrate, as legal heirs did not want to conduct an autopsy of the deceased to ascertain his cause of death, the News International reported. Notably, Liaquat Hussain's children had obtained a stay order against a judicial magistrate's order with regard to the exhumation of their father's body to ascertain his cause of death, the News International reported. The two-judge bench, headed by Pakistani Justice Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar, heard the plea and disposed of the plea after the parties in the case reached a consensus.Īt the outset of today's hearing, Justice Iqbal Kalhoro directed the complainants to approach a sessions court against the orders of the judicial magistrate as the high court cannot be approached in this case directly. The high court, however, had suspended the orders and sought arguments on the plea from the parties. Hussain's children, Ahmed Aamir and Dua Aamir had filed a plea against the exhumation orders passed by the East judicial magistrate and sought its nullification, terming it an un-Islamic act and without the consent of the family, the News International reported.
The Sindh High Court on Thursday disposed of the petition seeking the autopsy and exhumation of televangelist and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain.