ID # 1824367 c/o Men\u2019s Central Jail
441 Bauchet Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
RichardIFine@gmail.com

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
95 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Enclosed herewith is a copy of a November 28, 2009 article from Full Disclosure Network reporting Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich\u2019s salient remarks of November 23rd at a meeting of the L.A. County Lincoln Club.

When asked about the continuing public concern that the County\u2019s payments created a \u201cconflict\u201d for judges and whether that conflict was going to be resolved, Mr. Antonovich replied that no \u201cnew\u201d judge (appointed or elected) will be receiving the payments. In so doing, Supervisor Antonovich has admitted that judges were being paid by the County and that the practice has been stopped.

This article concerning Supervisor Antonovich\u2019s statement is relevant to this case
because it shows that LA county is stopping the payments which do not have
immunity under SBX2-11, which gave retroactive immunity for payments made
prior to May 21,2009 and did not give immunity for payments which it allowed
after such date. Those payments are presently being challenged as
unconstitutional, and an injunction is being sought to stop them in the continuing
case of Sturgeon v. the County of Los Angeles, which is presently on appeal in the
California Court of Appeal where the Second Appellate District (serving Los
Angeles County) has recused itself.

RICHARD I. FINE
RIF/mlm
cc:

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, a long-time elected member of the
Board of Supervisors in the County of Los Angeles explained to the members of a prominent Republican organization on
November 23, 2009 that the practice of providing extra payments to Superior Court Judges will be ending with the new Judges.

described the judicial payments that had been ruled illegal as having been legalized on February 20, 2009 by special state legislation. He explained that the practice had been statewide in most California counties. The video report is available at the URL:http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Report_Antonovich.php

From his L.A. County Central Men's Jail cell, anti-trust attorney Richard I Fine gave his reaction to the Antonovich statement, available at:http://www.fulldisclosure.net/news/2009/11/county-to-stop-payments-for-new-judgesl.html. Fine remains in solitary "coercive confinement" following his attempt to disqualify Judge Yaffe for not disclosing to litigants in his courtroom receipt of payments from the County .