Justinian Lane
Can you imagine if this were a trial lawyer group?
Hopefully at least some of the pending legislation to ban these "educational" trips will be enacted.
WASHINGTON - A federal judge has resigned from the board of a corporate-funded group that provides free seminars and trips to judges after a judicial ethics panel recommended he quit. Two other judges remain on the board, either unaware of the ethics advice or unconcerned by it.
U.S. District Judge Andre Davis of Baltimore said he resigned from the board of the Montana-based Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment soon after he received a private opinion from the federal judiciary’s Codes of Conduct Committee.
The panel concluded, Davis said, that "there was, shall we say, tension between one or more of the canons that applied to federal judges and the appearance of a judge, federal judge, as a member of the board of directors" of the foundation.Davis was one of three judges who left the foundation’s board in the spring of 2005. The other two were Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Judge Jane Roth of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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