Judges' Junkets
While researching its 1998 Takings
Project report, CRC discovered that corporations and
foundations were paying to bring judges to resort
locations to hear lectures that emphasize property rights
at the same time they are bankrolling a wave of property
rights cases in federal courts, often before these same judges.
For the past three years, CRC has been advocating change in judicial ethics
rules that would prohibit seminars that are in essence "junkets for
judges." Read on to learn more about Judges' Junkets.
To read CRC's report Nothing for Free: How Private Judicial
Seminars Are Undermining Environmental Protections and Breaking
the Public's Trust, click here.
To read about how CRC's work uncovered
the nondisclosure of junkets for judges, click here.
To see how CRC's work uncovered judges' conflicts
of interest, click here.
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