Worth a Read (Judicial Ethics Edition)

So, apparently, this 81-year-old district judge took over a bankruptcy case from the bankruptcy judge to shield this, ahem, younger woman from a landlord looking to evict her. When the landlord's attorney asked why, the judge reportedly responded: "Because I said it." There appears to have been an ex parte communication between the debtor and the judge. Ahem. And the judicial council declined to impose sanctions. Check it out. Check out Judge Kozinski's scathing dissent.

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Judge Kozinski: "[Real] offered nothing at all to justify his actions--not a case, not a statute, not a bankruptcy treatise, not a law review article . . . not even a [blog]." Not even a blog?