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Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
* To be said with an Australian accent: "That's not a tax bill. That's a tax bill." [ Tax Girl ] * Great, more competition for law school spots. [ TaxProf Blog ] * We first posted a clip of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski on the dating game four years ago . But since that clip is no longer available -- it was hosted on alex.kozinski.com -- visit Overlawyered instead. [ Overlawyered ] * More information...
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
"Free speech, public trust: There's the 1st Amendment, and there's good judgment; Officials need to keep both in mind." Saturday's edition of The Los Angeles Times contained this editorial discussing, among other things, Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski....
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
In connection with the Kozinski controversy, the L.A. Times quoted two legal experts, Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School, and Stephen Gillers of the New York University Law School. Both are quoted often in the L.A. Times as experts on legal issues. Prof. Gillers specializes in legal ethics. Since the time that Professors Levenson and Gillers [...]
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Wise Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles, California, has recused himself from an obscenity trial after sexually explicit photographs on his own Web site became public. The judge was presiding over a federal case against Los Angeles film maker Ira Isaacs, who is accused of selling and distributing obscene films involving bestiality and defecation, when a newspaper...
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Objective - Justice (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
If you ever wondered who to hire if you need a defense attorney, this may make the decision pretty easy. When the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit has decided to hire this guy you probably should as well. Congratulations Mark C. Holscher, you are likely to become the lawyer of the year. From How Appealing : Chief Judge Alex Kozinski has hired prominent criminal defense lawyer Mark C. Holscher, the...
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The fallout caused by the Judge Kozinski story in the L.A. Times has now led to another lawyer joining the fray. The Daily Journal is reporting (link unavailable) that Judge Kozinski has hired Kirkland & Ellis’s Mark Holscher to represent him in a pending judicial misconduct inquiry. Last week, per the instructions of Chief Justice John [...]
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Tech Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Computerworld has a good summary of of the developments in the story about Judge Kozinski and the case of the porn on his home server that was misconfigured to allow access from the web. You can read it here.
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Objective - Justice (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
I've had a couple of you email me asking where you can see some of the pictures that were on Judge Kozinski's web site. So here are a few. (Some pictures are seriously NSFW.) One of the reasons that I've decided to go ahead and post them is that it seems that Judge Kozinski has decided that blogs aren't just “ grandiloquent” and “self-indulgent " and may actually be a good way for people to honestly...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
From the New York Post story on Judge Kozinski's alleged personal porny website: 'Alex is not into porn - he is into funny - and sometimes funny has a sexual character,' [Kozinski's wife] wrote in a defense of her husband, posted on a Web site called patterico.com. In a phone interview, Tiffany confirmed that she wrote the statement but declined further comment, except to quote late New York Sen. Daniel...
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Abovethelaw.com (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
We have. So, barring major new developments, we're going to cut back on our coverage of the controversy surrounding Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit. As we suggested yesterday , the story is petering out anyway; but if you're still interested in following it, we refer you to Patterico's Pontifications , which has been offering excellent, wall-to-wall coverage. Before we take our leave...
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Daily News (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
A panel of East Coast-based federal judges has been assembled to oversee a misconduct probe into Judge Alex Kozinski, who declared a mistrial last week in an obscenity case he was presiding over after acknowledging he had posted sexually explicit material on his publicly accessible personal Web site.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
A panel of federal judges on the East Coast will handle the ethics investigation into the conduct of Judge Alex Kozinski, under scrutiny for posting sexually explicit material on his Web site.