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Ex-Magistrate Thomas McCormack of Cleveland; Judge Roy Bean Wannabee

 
FYI: Judge Roy Bean was a saloon keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde, County, Texas, who called himself “The Law West of the Pecos.” Judge Bean was also referred to as the “hanging judge.”
 
The state of Ohio presented Thomas Arthur McCormack with a law license in 1979 after he graduated from Case Western University Law School.
 
Disciplinary Counsel of the Ohio Supreme Court found Thomas guilty of the following misconduct during the time he was employed as a magistrate judge in Medina County.
 
For several years, Thomas was employed as a magistrate judge in the Medina County Court of Common Pleas, Domestic Relations Division. Unfortunately, magistrates are not elected and are merely appointed by judges and are therefore not accountable to the voters that pay their undeserved wages.
 
In one matter, Judge McCormack was assigned to hear the matter of Sejka v. Sejka that involved a post-decree motion to modify child support, along with 13 additional motions dealing with custody, child support, visitation and spousal support.
 
At four hearings in the Sejka matter, McCormack conducted himself in an impatient, undignified, and discourteous manner that was highly prejudicial to the administration of justice. After denying the litigants their right to a fair and impartial hearing, McCormack made the following statement:
 
“Here, here, I really don’t care. What you need to do now is take this up to my judge, okay, and explain to her how I did it all wrong. Six months from now when you get that hearing, we’ll see how I dealt with it, and if it doesn’t go well, you can spend the next two years taking it up to the Court of Appeals. You accuse
me of something like that ever again, Mr. Stafford, and I will hold you in contempt and it will cost you a lot of money to get out of jail * * * allow me to assure you ***.”
 
The record clearly proved that Judge McCormack conducted himself in an undignified and discourteous manner, treated the litigants and their counsel with disdain, permitted the guardian ad litem to lecture the parties on the record, terminated hearings before the parties had presented all their evidence and had made a record of their objections, acted on his own whims rather than inquiring into the best interests of the child, failed to resolve any of the matters pending before him for more than a year and a half, and failed to conduct hearings in a manner that would permit the judge assigned to the case to resolve those issues in his stead.
 
As a consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Ohio Supreme Court punished Thomas by gifting him with a complimentary stayed 1-year suspension of his law license. In truth, the comedians sitting on the Ohio Supreme Court didn’t mete out any meaningful punishment to Thomas.
 
As we speak (ca. February 2013) Thomas practices law at 18 Superior Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
 
 

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