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Cut The Sugar Tax: CLARIFICATION
Washington Post Editorial
A July 28 editorial decried the practice of judges' attending seminars paid for by groups with ideological views on environmental and other areas of the law. The article described one instance in which Judge Stephen Williams of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, after attending such a seminar, voted to reverse an opinion he had earlier issued. The editorial was factually accurate but may have carried implications not intended and not supported by the facts. The seminar Judge Williams attended was not paid for by anyone with an interest in the case pending before him. Readers may also have assumed that the former chief judge of the D.C. Circuit, Abner Mikva, in discussing two judges who adopted positions advocated at such seminars, was referring to Judge Williams, which Judge Mikva says is not the case. Finally, Judge Williams should have been contacted before the editorial was published, and the article should have explained his position that the seminar had no bearing on his handling of the case in question. Return To Reed's Letter
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