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Nothing for Free
Newspaper Stories
The release of Nothing for Free generated
many newspaper stories all across the country. Below
is a complete list of the newspapers stories that the report
has garnered, divided into two categories listed below, The
Release of Nothing for Free and Editorials
and Opinion Pieces.
A. The
Release of Nothing for Free
1. USA Today
- "Advocacy groups pay for judges' seminars" by
Jim Drinkard, page 6A, Tuesday,
July 25, 2000
- The following newspapers via newswire
picked up this article:
a. The Detroit News
2. The Washington Post - "Report
Links Environmental Rulings, Judges' Free Trips" by
George
Lardner Jr., page A21, Tuesday,
July 25, 2000
3. Chicago Tribune - "Activists shine
light on junkets for judges" by Glen Elsasser, page
4, Section
1, Tuesday, July 25, 2000
4. Chicago Sun-Times - "Group urges
ban on junkets for judges" by Lynn Sweet, page 16,
Tuesday,
July 25, 2000
5. The Atlanta Constitution- "Group
suggests judges swayed by corporate-backed seminars; Environmental
cases cited as troubling" by Rob O'Dell, page A3, Tuesday,
July 25, 2000
6. The Times-Picayune - "Group slams judicial
trips: New database details U.S. judges' travels" by
Pamela Coyle, page A1, Saturday,
August 5, 2000
7. The News Journal - "Judge Roth criticized
for anti-green rulings" by Carl Weiser, Tuesday, July
25, 2000
8. The New York Times - "Lawyers for Ecuador
Indians See U.S. Judge Linked to Texaco" by
Andrew C. Revkin, page A6, Sunday,
September 3, 2000
- The following newspaper via newswire
picked up this article:
a. Houston Chronicle
9. Corporate Legal Times - "Supreme Court Will
Hear Nondelegation Issue; A Near-Dormant
Doctrine Springs to Life" by
Debbi Mack, page 92, October 2000
10. The American Lawyer - "No FREE Lunch?"
by Paul Braverman, page 38, September 2000
11. Palm Beach Daily Business Review - "Have
gavel, will travel: Report puts spotlight on federal
judges who
accept all-expense-paid trips, but do these private seminars
improperly influence
them?" by Julie
Kay, page A10, Friday, August 4, 2000
12. Palm Beach Daily Business Review - "Walking
a fine line: Judges are encouraged to go on the
road, but funding of
trips stirs debate" by Jonathan Ringel, page A13, Friday,
August 4, 2000
- The following newspapers
via newswire picked up this article:
a. Legal Times
b. The Recorder
c. Daily Report
13. The Recorder - "Liberal Watchdog
Group Dings Judges for Travel" by Jonathan Ringel,
page 3, Tuesday, July
25, 2000
B. Editorials and
Opinion Pieces
Editorials
1. The New York Times - "A Threat to Judicial
Ethics", page A30, Friday, September 15, 2000
2. USA Today - "Just say no to judge junkets",
page 14A, Tuesday, May 1, 2001
3. The Washington Post - "A Blot on Judicial
Ethics", page A24, Friday, July 28, 2000
4. The Washington Post - "Mr. Rehnquist on
Junkets", page B6, Sunday, May 20, 2001
5. Boston Sunday Globe - "Judicial Junketeering",
page F6, Sunday, September 24, 2000
6. The Atlanta Constitution - "Congress must
overrule judges' unethical junkets", page A22, Friday,
September 22, 2000
7. The Star-Ledger - "The judicial jet set",
Monday, May 21, 2001
8. The San Diego Union-Tribune - "The junketeers:
Judges, port commissioners flying too high",
page B12, Saturday, August 12, 2000
9. The San Diego Union-Tribune - "Influencing
judges: don't lift the ban on speaking fees", page
B10, Saturday, September 16, 2000
10. The Plain Dealer - page 11B, Saturday, July
29, 2000
11. San Antonio Express-News - "Federal judges'
junkets leave bad bench marks", page 2G,
Sunday, July 9, 2000
12. The Buffalo News - "Judges who travel",
page H-2, Sunday, May 20, 2001
13. Orlando Sentinel - "Poor judgment: Our
position - Judges should steer clear of trips paid for by
special interests",
page A10, Wednesday, May 16, 2001
14. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "Injudicious
junkets", page A15, Monday, July 31, 2000
15. The Tampa Tribune - "The pay and perks
and federal judges", page 6, Tuesday, October 3,
2000
16. The Press-Enterprise - "A circuit court
they aren't", Monday, July 10, 2000
17. The News & Observer - "Buying favor
with the judges", page 23A, Wednesday, September 20,
2000
18. The Des Moines Register - "Free lunch for
judges: Some jet off to vacation resorts - at the
expense of advocacy
groups", page 13A, Thursday, July 13, 2000
19. The Des Moines Register - "Freebies for
federal judges", page 10A, Saturday, April 21, 2001
20. The Salt Lake Tribune - "A Blot on Judicial
Ethics", page A6, Saturday, July 29, 2000
21. The Ledger - "End Junkets for Judges",
page A10, Tuesday, September 26, 2000
22. Bangor Daily News - "Junkets
for judges", page A6, Monday, April 23, 2001
23. The Columbian - "Contempt of Court:
Federal judges shouldn't go on paid junkets" by Michael
Zuzel for the editorial
board, page C6, Thursday, May 17, 2001
24. The Pantagraph - "'Do as I say,
not as I do' doesn't cut it from judges", page A14,
Saturday,
May 19, 2001
25. Missoulian - "Judges shouldn't accept junkets",
Monday, July 31, 2000
26. Lewiston Morning Tribune - "Rehnquist
defends judges' right to paid speech", page 10A,
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Opinion
- The New York Times - "The Wooing of Our
Judges," August 28, 2000
- The Plain Dealer - "Federal Judges Don't
Have It So Rough," September 30, 2000
- The Courier-Journal - "Funding of judicial
seminars raises questions," August 6, 2000
- Miami Daily Business Review - Injudicious journeys,"
August 7, 2000
- Legal Times - "Don't Play Around With Judges,"
July 31, 2000
- Fulton County Daily Report - "Seminars Enable
Big Business to Influence Judges," August 4, 2000
Various newswires also ran stories on junkets
for judges. Listed below are newspapers that carried
Associated Press and other wire stories:
1. Montana AP - "Report:
Bozeman foundation helps bring anti-environmental rulings",
Friday, July
28, 2000
2. Indiana AP - "Non-profit
group: Lozano among nation's top 'junketing judges'",
Wednesday, July 26,
2000
3. Copley News Service - "Assignment
Illinois" by Dori Meinert, Wednesday, July 26, 2000
4. Kentucky AP - "Two from
Kentucky singled out in report criticizing 'junketing judges'"
by Charles Wolfe,
Tuesday, July 25, 2000
To view a list of radio stories
that ran about Nothing for Free and junkets for judges,
click here.
To view a list of television
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for judges, click here.
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