Commission enters multiple default orders, adopts settlements and sanctions several process servers
Summary
The Judicial Branch Certification Commission entered defaults, adopted settlements and issued final disciplinary orders — including permanent denials or revocations and fines — in multiple process-server cases during the meeting.
The Judicial Branch Certification Commission addressed a series of enforcement matters, entering default orders where respondents failed to appear, adopting settlement agreements, and imposing sanctions including permanent denials or revocations and monetary fines.
Staff moved the commission to enter defaults for agenda items 6(a) through 6(d) after respondents did not appear; the commission voted to enter defaults. The commission then adopted agreed final orders the staff presented (Roman numeral 7) for respondents who had agreed to the violations and sanctions recommended by the complaint-review committee.
The commission adopted settlement agreements (Roman numeral 8, items 8(a) through 8(d)) and moved to issue final orders for respondents who did not appear. In one matter staff corrected the requested relief to reflect that a respondent's certification had already expired; because the respondent failed to renew, staff requested a permanent refusal to renew certification and a $1,250 fine, and the commission adopted the requested relief by voice vote.
In the matters involving Gabriel Hasbun (Cause Nos. 0635 and 0638) the commission found the respondent admitted facts and issued final orders: permanent revocation of certification and a combined $2,700 fine payable within one year. The respondent stated he wished to retain his certification if possible and said he had responded to staff previously; commissioners discussed that the record reflected admissions and that the sanction was within commission discretion.
In Cause No. 0695 (respondent Evelyn Bravo), staff moved for a default order; the commission adopted a final order reprimanding the respondent and assessing a $250 fine payable within six months.
These actions were largely procedural with limited debate; the commission repeatedly relied on business-record affidavits to document notice where respondents did not appear and applied the sanction matrix and prior decisions in setting penalties.
