Fellow Jones Day alumnus David Mills publishes a daily legal cartoon at his Courtoons blog, recently added to the blogroll under “Legal Humor Blogs.”
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Judge Kozinski’s “Dirty” Pictures May Not Be So Dirty
Remember the big “to do” about Judge Kozinski having posted material from an obscenity trial on his website? My prior coverage concentrated mainly on how this could affect his qualification to preside over the trial, and noted the interesting fact that Kozinski, an appellate judge, was presiding over a trial at all. There is another aspect to the media coverage that I did not give much thought to, and that is the way that the media painted the materials as sexually graphic and/or obscene. Considering the mischievousness that is usually attributed to Judge Kozinski, I figured that would be water off a duck’s back. And while it might have been…