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Chief Justice Roberts assigns five Philadelphia judges for Kozinski ethics investigation

By Jason Siegel

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts named five Philadelphia judges to handle the ethics investigation of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Justice Alex Kozinski.

Kozinski requested that Roberts select a different circuit to investigate the complaint of judicial misconduct, which was based on allegations in the Los Angeles Times article, "9th Circuit?s Chief Judge Posted Sexually Explicit Matter On His Website."

Roberts transferred the case, In Re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct, to the Judicial Council of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.

Chief Judge Anthony Scirica selected himself to the five-member committee that will investigate the case. Scirca appointed to the committee 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Marjorie Rendell and Walter Stapleton, as well as Chief District Judges Harvey Bartle III (E.D. Pa.) and Garrett Brown Jr. (N.J.).

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).