False Expense Reports, Sarcastic & Angry Tones, Crude Remarks Get Judges In Hot Water

This blog's never ending search for media reports on our robed members of the judicial branch of government getting themselves into hot water yields the following two stories:

• California: Los Angeles Times: Orange County judge is removed from bench (Kelly MacEachern is removed from her duties in Newport Beach after a judicial commission finds that she filed false expense claims for a legal conference. She plans to appeal).

• New York: ABA Journal (published by the American Bar Association): Frustrated Judge Reprimanded for Sarcastic Tone, ‘[*]sshole’ Remark (A New York state judge says he won’t fight a reprimand for speaking to litigants in a tone of voice deemed to be sarcastic, angry and scolding. He was also cited for telling staffers that a litigant was an “[*]sshole”). Go here for the findings of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct in this case.

For other posts on the questionable judgment exercised by some of the members of our esteemed judiciary, go here and go here. knuckleheaded judges zeta