The Nevada Supreme Court reversed the Judicial Discipline Commission's decision to censure Las Vegas Municipal Judge George Assad for a 2003 incident where Assad detained a woman who was not a party to a case. The Supremes ruled censure was not appropriate in this case because Assad's conduct was not "willful." (Review-Journal)Yesterday we reported on 9th Circuit Judge Kozinski's hosting a public website with explicit photographs. Since then, Judge Kozinksi has ordered an ethical investigation to look into his actions. (WSJ Law Blog)
A Raleigh, NC man was convicted of violating the Mann Act for convincing a Western Carolina woman to travel to Las Vegas and engage in prostitution. (Asheville Citizen Times)
Congratulations to Mark Ricciardi, a partner in the Las Vegas office of Fisher & Phillips, on being named as one of America's Leading Business Lawyers by Chambers USA. (dBusiness News)
Several consumers contacted by Las Vegas-based Unified Services testified in U.S. District Judge Brian Sandoval's courtroom Thursday, claiming the telemarketing company withdrew money from their bank accounts before delivering services or after ignoring cancellation requests. (Review-Journal)
Justice Kozinski was Cowed? How “obscene” were the videos the judge recused himself from the case over?
ReplyDeleteJudge for yourself. USLaw.com has gathered images form the videos the government claims are criminally obscene:
USA vs. Ira Isaacs art images
Um . . . I'm just a legal secretary, but why would a Circuit Judge be labelled "Justice"? He's not on a state Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court. So I'm pretty sure it's Judge Kozinski.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, I'm inclined to agree. I think the pictures on the website he hosted/his son hosted are humor-based (and some are hilarious--I like the Catholic priest series). None of the pictures seem focused on the "prurient interest".
But then again, I'm not a well-heeled journalist. I'm just a bitchy blogger with too many opinions.
Amen blogonaut. this is seriously a case where the media is blatantly distorting the truth. "beastiality themed" content? you have got to be kidding me.
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