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• JUDGE PATRICIA KERR KARASOV, Fourth Judicial District
  
  SUPREME COURT OPINION issued 11/16/2011
  ORAL ARGUMENT BEFORE SUPREME COURT held on June 28, 2011
  
  Panel's Findings of Fact, Conclusions and Recommendations for Sanctions3/3/2011
  Formal Complaint & Response filed with the Supreme Court 10/5/2010
  
  PUBLIC HEARING held on January 4, 2011 - January 6, 2011
  FACTFINDING PANEL
  Judge Lawrence Collins - Presiding Officer, Kenneth R. White and Vivian Jenkins Nelsen

• JUDGE THOMAS G. ARMSTRONG, Tenth Judicial District
  
  Hearing Panel's Findings and Recommendations 10/31/2011
  Formal Complaint & Response filed with the Supreme Court 1/20/2011
  
  PUBLIC HEARING held on June 8 and 9, 2011
  FACTFINDING PANEL
  Judge Paul A. Nelson-Presiding Officer, David T. Schultz, and Prof. Paula O'Loughlin
  
  
  
• JUDGE GREGORY G. GALLER, Tenth Judicial District
  
  SUPREME COURT OPINION issued 11/9/2011
  ORAL ARGUMENT BEFORE SUPREME COURT held on August 24, 2011
  
  Hearing Panel's Order 4/13/2011
  Formal Complaint & Response filed with the Supreme Court 1/25/2011
  
  PUBLIC HEARING held on April 11, 2011
  FACTFINDING PANEL
  Judge Gordon W. Shumaker-Presiding Officer, Thomas J. LaVelle, and Timothy J. Gephart
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

• Supreme Court Revises Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct 12/18/2008
  Effective July 1, 2009
  
  
• Supreme Court Promulgates Amendments to the Rules of the Board on Judicial Standards 3/31/09
  Effective July 1, 2009
  
  

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