LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; SEDGWICK CMS, CASSANDRA ETTER, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIACASSANDRA ETTER, Applicant,vs.LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT; SEDGWICK CMS, Defendant(s).Case No. ADJ6465967OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING REMOVAL AND DECISION AFTER REMOVAL Applicant’s attorney, George J. Savin, Jr. (Savin), has filed a timely, verified petition for removal, requesting that the appeals board reverse the Order dated July 29, 2009, wherein the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) denied his Petition to Be Relieved as Attorney of Record and stated: “Request for atty. Dismissal denied. A/A petition has been considered as well as applicant’s State Bar complaint. Petition denied.” Savin contends that “applicant’s conduct is certainly so outrageous as to prohibit effective representation.” We have not received a response from applicant. Applicant, while employed as a teacher from August 2007 through April 29, 2008, claims to have sustained an industrial injury to various body parts including her psyche. The Application for Adjudication of Claim states that the injury occurred as follows: “Student rattling door handle & pounding door refusing to identify himself or promptly follow instructions.” On May 14, 2009, after her deposition was taken, applicant wrote an ex parte letter to the WCJ, stating in part: “I believe it is important for you to be informed of my concern based solely on the statement from my attorney who raised the issue of your ethnicity’ thereby insinuating that it may be a factor affecting the outcome of my case. If this is true as it might be if I were placed in 1This refers to a letter dated April 11, 2009, that is not in the WCAB file. , a similar situation, I am requesting that you consider transferring my case without prejudice to a culturally different judge.”2 On May 22, 2009, Savin wrote to applicant, stating: “I am surprised and offended by your lett
