A federal appeals court will not disturb a ruling by a Northern District judge who questioned the “candor and honesty” of an attorney who leaked a settlement letter to a newspaper, but ultimately declined to sanction the lawyer or recuse himself from the case.
An appellate court “has no power to reverse a judge’s poor opinion of the skill or trustworthiness of a lawyer who has appeared before him or her,” a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled yesterday, dismissing an appeal by attorney Elmer R. Keach III, who challenged a decision by Northern District Judge Gary L. Sharpe.
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