Comment #: MN135
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
Mulrooney was appointed by Dayton, after being recommended by a judicial selection committee that is overwhelmingly skewed to corporate interests. He had an underwhelming career prior to applying to be a district court judge. My experience is that he makes decisions designed to facilitate injustice at the hands of corrupt private and government interests. The only logical explanation for this is he was contacted in advance of any decisions by representatives of multi-billion dollar corporate interests with incentives to make rulings of benefit to them. His rulings were exceedingly biased and, and only logical if he was being paid to make them by corporate heavyweights. Minnesota needs judicial reform, and since 90% of our judges are appointed, and then run uncontested because of the revenge they would inflict on any attorney who lost to them, in the courtroom, it is essential to get the corporate special interest people off the judicial nominating committee. https://mn.gov/governor/appointments/judicialappointments/commissionjudicialselection.jsp

Comment #: MN107
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
Timothy Mulrooney, As family court “referee” has presided over a few cases where he showed lack of judgement, and is suspected of being paid off to fund his personal life and special needs son. Case 1- “father,” is divorced from his former wife,”mother.” They were the parents of two children, a girl 14 years old and a boy who16 years old. During the last stages of the marriage, mother was having an affair with another man. After joint physical custody failed, both mother and father moved for sole physical custody. During this period of litigation, both had psychological evaluations by multiple evaluators. These evaluators determined that father was normal and there was no indication of psychological or emotional problems. Father introduced evidence of several credible witnesses that he was a well adjusted parent who was a good and loving father who was concerned about the emotional and physical health of his children. However, the guardian ad litem and an untrained social worker testified that father was unsuitable as a parent primarily because he was openly critical of the court and legal process. Father spent over $200,000 in litigation costs and for attorney fees and had to file for bankruptcy. The court awarded sole custody of both children to mother and sharply restricted father’s contact with his children. Father was especially concerned about his son because mother was forcing him to take drugs to control what she claimed was ADHD.

When his daughter was 13 – 14 old, she became dissatisfied with mother’s treatment of her, mother’s tirades against father, and decided she wanted to be in father’s custody. She wrote and submitted letters and then a sworn affidavit to Referee Mulrooney expressing her preference to live with father and be in his custody. But Referee Mulrooney, refused to consider the girl’s letters and affidavit and refused to interview her to hear her preference. The referee even ruled that father was a “frivolous litigant” because of his persistent efforts concerning his children and refused to allow him to even file court pleadings without permission. Referee Mulrooney refused to hold an evidentiary hearing on father’s allegations of physical and emotional harm of his children. Finally, the girl chose to leave mother’s home and reside with father in defiance of mother’s threats and court orders. Now the girl is residing with father who under court orders must pay substantial child support to mother for the care of his daughter.

Mulroney is literally asleep on the bench during appearances, perhaps due to his special needs son who doesn’t sleep either.

Comment #: MN43
Rating:Not Rated
Comments:
Family court judge. He seemed better than some but it was obvious that he was afraid of appeal and ruled accordingly. Biased towards giving primary custody to mother before even hearing case.