Posted on 07/16/2009 2:26:31 PM PDT by kristinn
The following letter was confirmed to me by Mr. Greenberg with the following statement:
"The letter was sent to Senators Sessions, Hatch, Grassley, Graham and Coburn. It was also sent to Cong. Peter King (R) NY. The story is being covered extensively by the photo blogs, the trade publications and the NY Times. No politician has responded. The NY Times quotes attributed to me are accurate and therefore I assume that the quotes of my adversary Mr. Fairhurst are accurate as well."
Text of the letter:
I am an attorney in NYC who represented White House Photographer Chris Usher in litigation against Corbis, a privately held company wholly owned by Bill Gates. The case principally concerned lost Presidential and campaign photography during the 2000 Bush v. Gore Campaign and the US Supreme Court case related thereto.We won at the trial level in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York but the award to the victorious plaintiff was absurdly low.
We appealed to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals where the award was inexplicably upheld. The New York Times reported on this high profile case today, please see:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/behind-6/
It was revealed therein by opposing counsel hat Judge Sotomayor and Mr. Gates’ counsel have known and (possibly worked with) each other for decades. Such relationship was never disclosed to me as plaintiff’s attorney by the Court. No opportunity for us to request that Judge Sotomayor recuse herself was afforded as this information was never disclosed.
The appearance of impropriety is astounding as Judge Sotomayor could have recused herself and we could have had another Appeals Panel within days.
Please contact me so that this apparently unethical judicial behavior is brought to the attention of the judiciary committee immediately.
Edward C. Greenberg, Esq.
contact info redacted
POW
They could find a few dozen bodies buried in her backyard and she’d still be confirmed. The Dems are too corrupt to care and the Repubs are too wimpy to fight back.
After the way the Republicans were talking about her today, Sotomayor could have killed Judge Crater and she’d still be confirmed.
It won’t matter.
Excellent! Let’s hope this liberal stink fills the hearing room until everyone runs from her gasping for breath.
Sorry, but a judge knowing an attorney for decades is hardly unethical and certainly isn’t a “bombshell”.
Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
I though the lousy liar was through but this, on a legal basis, this could be trouble.
Big trouble.
I’d love to hear the wise Latina ‘splain this one.
As if ethics mattered to the Marxist party at all.
Is this meltdown that Graham was talking about...
Hope it’s true.
Bump
Yep. It reminds me of Edwin Edwards old line, "The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."
The Dems will vote to confirm her even if she is caught in bed with any combination of dead and live boys and girls.
That’s bad, really bad. But I think the Republicans are in on the plans to turn this country into an Oligarchy. Either they are in on it or they fear for their lives. Either way, the end result is the same. Graham wouldn’t vote no if Sotomayer ripped the heads off of kitten for the fun of it.
The issue is disclosure. She failed to disclose a friendship and prior working relationship.
brave person to go volunarily before the left’s firing squad.
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