CRC Investigative Research Report: Appellate Judges' Financial Conflicts of
Interest
The Washington Post printed
a frontpage story on the startling results of CRC
investigative research indicating that in 1997 at least
eight federal judges -- including some of the most
prominent appellate judges in the nation -- ruled on the
merits in at least 17 federal appeals in which they had a
disqualifying conflict of interest. The results of the
research are detailed in a CRC investigative research report. The Post on the same day ran an editorial decrying the
problems indicated by CRC's research and urging action by
the judiciary to eliminate the appearance of impropriety
created by these illegal conflicts. For more commentary
on CRC's Report, click here.
CRC's report triggered
APBnews.com, an internet news service, to request copies
of every judge's financial disclosure report for 1998,
with the intention of posting these disclosures on the
internet. In a decision that the Washington Post termed
"audacious" and "laughable, the Judiciary
decided to violate federal disclosure laws by refusing to
comply with the ABPnews request. On March 14, 2000, the
Judiciary recognized its error and decided to release the
financial disclosure reports. For commentary on the
APBnews.com requests, click here.
Judges Ruled on
Firms in Their Portfolios
Washington Post,
Sept. 13, 1999 at A1
Also published in dozens of major newspapers
across the country
Federal Judges Found to have Stock Conflicts
San Francisco
Chronicle
Judges' Financial
Disclosures Washington
Post-Editorial
Sept. 13, 1999
at A26
Editorials also ran in the Akron Beacon Journal and
San Antonio Express-News
Study: Eight federal judges had conflict of
interest
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