Legal Ethics
A nonprofit advocating for law clerks has filed a misconduct complaint against Judge Sarah Merriam of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging she bullies and mistreats her staff. The complaint, based on accounts from former clerks, highlights a pattern of abusive behavior in her chambers. This marks the second such public complaint against her in four years.
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Three Supreme Court judges who convicted former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz delivered paid lectures in a course organized by the Madrid Bar Association, which acted as prosecution in the trial. The course started one day after the trial ended and overlapped with sentencing deliberations. The Bar Association has defended the practice as routine and transparent.