A judge who overturned a $72 million verdict against Boeing disclosed he bought and sold Boeing stock while hearing the case
A judge who overturned a $72 million verdict against Boeing disclosed he bought and sold Boeing stock while hearing the case
A judge who threw out a $72 million verdict against Boeing said the case wasn't impacted by a financial advisor's trades of Boeing stock last year.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5493122
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am I the only one who thinks this is a nothingburger? clickbait, even.
There's a million things wrong with the US legal system but a judge's wife basically just using the wrong kind of IRA for a couple months and correcting it immediately when noticed, long before it goes public, is not that.
Unless he's totally lying and the reporters didn't catch wind, but this seems pretty straightforward
yes not that a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but also yes they should be disbarred & restricted. these people need to be held to x10000 times higher standard
Like, I’m sorry, judges and elected officials should be completely barred from having investments, full stop.
disbarred? why?
Recused from that case, and any future involving boeing, yeah, sure, its probably not legally required under current law, but to eliminate the possibility of bias or perceived bias, sure, I'm 100% on board.
But there is no evidence, even circumstantial, presented in that article that this was malicious, or even that he could have reasonably profited from his role as judge here, given that he found out about the purchase and sold it so early in the case.
to be fair, in a better society, bumping him from being a judge to doing some other relevant job, wouldn't jeopardize his well being and standard of living (which is surely exorbitant now in capitalist USA), so I'd be more on board with it, but it still seems silly to fire a judge over such a simple oversight, easily corrected, in his wife's finances
to be fair, in a better society,
that's the approach i'm taking, judges with unambiguous separation from all financial instruments is the only acceptable basis to have a judiciary in a society that has financial instruments. just soapboxing this case doesn't offend me particularly lol