Bench Memos

Ninth Circuit Disgrace

If you imagined that the Ninth Circuit couldn’t possibly disgrace itself further, chief judge (and Reagan appointee) Alex Kozinski has, alas, proved you very wrong—by, according to this LA Times article, posting pornographic, if not outright obscene, materials on his personal website. 

Update (9:43 p.m.):  A statement from the Ninth Circuit indicates that one of Judge Kozinski’s sons was responsible for posting “much [sic] of the items” reported by the LA Times.  That statement seems in tension with Kozinski’s own statements to the Times, but now that the relevant facts are in dispute, I withdraw my assessment of Kozinski’s conduct.  (I don’t intend to follow this matter closely, but may revisit it if/when the facts are clear.)

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