Judge John Doyle of Los Angeles; incompetent ignoramus

The state of California provided John Porter Doyle with a law license in 1978 after he graduated from the University of California Hastings School of Law.

Former Gov. Gray Davis was duped into appointing Johnny as a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in 2001. Johnny didn’t receive the appointment because he was the most qualified attorney in the greater Los Angeles area. He received it because he had proven to be a reliable lackey for the local political hacks.

FYI: This isn’t the first article written about Johnny. A prior story can be viewed by visiting the URL at the end of this article.

In one matter, Johnny was assigned to preside over a legal malpractice case filed by Westwood family law attorney Douglas A. Bagby against Pasadena lawyer Joseph. D. Davis.

Davis ignorantly failed to respond to a motion for a default judgment due to his failure to file a respond to the lawsuit and subsequently a default judgment was entered against Davis.

 In furtherance of an ongoing effort to prove that he’s a Incompetent Ignoramus, Johnny reversed the default against Davis and granted his petition to compel arbitration. The order to compel arbitration came after Johnny declared from the bench:

“No judge in history has ever just ordered arbitration.”

Davis’ argument for seeking relief from the default judgment was “ignorance of the law,” an argument that Johnny readily agreed with given his well-documented ignorance of law and overall incompetence.

Subsequently, attorney Bagby appealed Johnny’s asinine ruling to Division Four of the Court of Appeals. In its reversal of Johnny’s ruling, the Court stated in part:

• Relief is precluded where a mistake “is simply the result of professional incompetence, general ignorance of the law, or unjustifiable negligence in discovering the law.”
• “Davis had the burden to show he exercised ordinary care under the circumstances to avoid entry of his default….He did not.”
• “Here, Davis’s course of conduct was well below the standard of professional competence….He failed to file an answer to the complaint after Bagby announced his intention to seek Davis’ default unless he answered the complaint by August 28.”

And finally the Appellate Court stated:

• “As one trained in the law, Davis is charged with knowledge both of the limits of his own professional competence as an attorney and the means to enlarge his understanding.”
• “His inexcusable negligence as an attorney must be imputed to him as a client.”

Of course Johnny doesn’t much give a damn how many times his ignorant rulings are overturned by the Court of Appeals because he knows for a fact that no California judge has ever been removed from the bench for being an ignoramus.

And lastly, Johnny clearly isn’t concerned about the additional costs incurred by the taxpayers as a direct result of his gross incompetence in this case.

As we speak (ca. November 2018), Johnny continues to sit as a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles, California.

Judge John Doyle of Los Angeles; convicted drunk

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