Today is another day you will find Yahara Lisa Gutierrez’ courtroom empty and devoid of legal activity. All those families living in legal limbo, clamoring, waiting, crying in frustration, scratching the walls, pounding the table, screaming that they need their family law cases heard, just got screwed again today by Yahara Lisa Gutierrez of the 65th Judicial District Court. Gutierrez has been cited in recently filed legal pleadings as being a “do-nothing, absentee judge…” But that doesn’t stop Gutierrez from continuing to shirk her duties while cashing her paycheck. One of Gutierrez’ staffers said this morning that Gutierrez cancelled her uncontested docket for today because Gutierrez is in “training.” Training for what? Training on how to generate orders dumping her workload on another court? (See previous blog on Gutierrez with attachment of her signed order transferring her cases to the 171st effective her first day in office.) The El Paso taxpayer has to pay to “train” Gutierrez while she continues to screw them, and hard, by not hearing their cases. Gutierrez promised the voters that she would tend to their languishing family law cases. Gutierrez said she knew the families were suffering and she would end their misery if they would just give her their vote. And the families gave Gutierrez their vote. And Gutierrez then put on her taxpayer paid for silk robe and kicked the suffering families’ cases to another court.
In the private sector, an employee who takes money for work she has not done would be considered a thief and promptly dismissed. In the private sector, an employee who promises to perform certain duties to get the job and then refuses to do them once hired, would be considered a fraud, a liar, and promptly dismissed.

If you want/need a divorce, child support to feed your children, restraining orders, custody of your children settled, visitation issues heard, good luck when it comes to Yahara Lisa Gutierrez. She is up for re-election in less than three years. You will then have an opportunity to shove her order dumping her cases in her face. Maybe one of these days, the El Paso Times will see the importance of what is going on and do a story. That however, would require intelligence, initiative and a sense of responsibility toward its readers and the community it “serves.”–Keep in mind that the El Paso Times is one of the highest users of my blog.