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Lawyers Are Getting on More Corporate Boards

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The Vieur Sanctions Act Is a Forward Looking Statute

The report included Judge Newman's conduct thwarting the committee's investigation cannot go unpunished and cannot be met with a minor sanction that a life tenure judge might ignore. The Fifth Circuit Judicial Council ordered a one year suspension just this year but said only in so far as it is remedial rather than punitive. Nobody thinks that a year or cases will help cure the problems that the committee perceives.

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