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"Court disbars two attorneys involved in Demoulas family feud"

"Court disbars two attorneys involved in Demoulas family feud": The Boston Globe provides a news update that begins, "Two lawyers were disbarred today by the state's highest court, which ruled that the attorneys violated ethical rules when they tried to find evidence of bias against a former Superior Court judge who was then presiding over the bitter and costly family fight for control of the billion-dollar Demoulas supermarket company. In bluntly written rulings, Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall said the actions of former federal prosecutor Gary C. Crossen and Boston attorney Kevin P. Curry were unprecedented and were also clearly improper and unethical. The attorneys lured a law clerk of then Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez to Canada and New York with a false promise of a job."

And Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports that "Crossen, Curry disbarred by SJC."

Today's rulings of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts issued in In re Kevin P. Curry and In re Gary C. Crossen.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).