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Law Blog - WSJ.com : Fifth Circuit Takes New Orleans Judge Thomas Porteous to Task

By Michael Krauss

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U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, of New Orleans, has been suspended for two years by the Fifth Circuit, the most serious discipline of a federal judge by his peers of which I am aware. The Wall St. Journal's Law Blog...

Full post as published by Point of Law on September 13, 2008 (boomark / email).

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