Hunter Biden Judge, Defying a 'Rubber Stamp,' Jumps Into the Spotlight
Judge Maryellen Noreika was not an especially high-profile figure in the small legal community in the nation’s second-smallest state. That’s changed.
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Judge Maryellen Noreika was not an especially high-profile figure in the small legal community in the nation’s second-smallest state. That’s changed.
WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas said he was advised he didn’t have to disclose private jet flights and luxury vacations paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow because, although a close
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Monday asked Texas billionaire Harlan Crow to voluntarily provide a detailed accounting of the gifts he has provided to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as well as information about Georgia properties that the prominent Republican donor purchased from Thomas and his relatives.
In January 2005, though, the court declined to hear an appeal from an architecture firm that wanted more than $25 million from Trammell Crow Residential Co. for allegedly misusing copyrighted building designs.
Judge Pauline Newman, 95, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, is fighting an investigation by colleagues who allege she can no longer carry out her duties.