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By K.C. Johnson

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Duke has just announced a new batch of trustees, including a judge on the 4th circuit--Allyson Duncan (Duke Law '75). The appointment presumably will require a double recusal--not only will Duncan need to recuse herself from any and all lacrosse case appeals, but I would assume she'd have to recuse herself, within the BOT itself, from any and all discussions of the lacrosse case. She was a Bush nominee.Commenting on the DSK case in the Washington Post, Paul Farhi notes how the mainstream media has refused to name his accuser--even as she files a lawsuit against the New York Post. Alan Dershowitz (correctly) comments on the unfairness of this approach, and the article also (correctly) observes how, in an internet era, accusers' names can generally be easily found, making the anonymity policy even less defensible...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on July 06, 2011 (boomark / email).