Ethics

Kozinski Issues Unnecessary Apology

By Ed Brayton

Remember that ridiculous brouhaha over Judge Alex Kozinski having a private server that was inadequately protected, allowing those who knew how to look and went snooping to find - gasp! - a few emails he had sent on to friends that included dirty jokes? Well now a judicial council has admonished him for this and (presumably) forced him to issue a strained and unnecessary apology.

The judicial council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, assigned to look into allegations against 9th Circuit chief judge Alex Kozinski, issued its memorandum opinion this morning, admonishing him but concluding that no further action or punishment was warranted. By maintaining sexually explicit material on a personal web site and inadequately safeguarding against public access to it, Kozinski's actions were "judicially imprudent" in the view of the council, and amounted to "disregard of a serious risk of public embarrassment."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 05, 2009 (boomark / email).