A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, so terrorized lawyers that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hired two psychiatrists to sit in his court and observe without his knowledge what was described as a disturbing pattern of accusing lawyers of deceit and bad faith.
The discipline case against that judge, U.S. District Judge John H. McBryde, is one of the rare examples of formal discipline proceedings triggered solely on the basis of temperament.
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