Jeffrey R. Finigan

Judge Finigan was a direct calendar trial judge in our plaintiff-side civil employment. I think he is conservative, but he does try to do the right thing and was ready to call out and overrule weak arguments by the defense. He is a bit overworked and so his calendar is slow, but courteous overall.

Jeffrey Finigan completely failed to use the broad judicial mandate given to him by the law to stop a systemic injustice being inflicted on a largely minority, lower income community by allowing a sexually violent predator to be placed in a community and neighborhood on the same block as two schools and within a mile of several other youth organizations. I listened in on the hearing and he completely used the "law" as an excuse, vs using his role given to him by the Law to stop yet another abuse and injustice on East Palo Alto. This SVP could've been placed in many other situations, not dumped in a community that is lower income and of color. His reasoning and rationale looked more like trying to off load a problem. This was shameful.