Edward A. Friedland has been tapped as the district executive for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District. The former deputy district executive, Mr. Friedland has in the past served as court executive officer and assistant court administrator for the Clark County Courts in Nevada and executive deputy commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights, where he ran day-to-day operations and oversaw 200 employees in 14 offices throughout the state. He replaces Clifford P. Kirsch, who recently retired after serving as district executive since 1984. — Mark Hamblett
Judge Orders Investigation Of Terror Trial Juror’s Employer
Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has asked the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District to investigate a doctor and his medical group for their “outrageous” behavior in refusing to pay a $25,000-a-year employee while she served as a juror on the trial of accused U.S. embassy bomber Ahmed Ghailani. An angry Judge Kaplan on Tuesday criticized Dr. Barney Newman, the medical director of the Westmed Medical Group in Westchester County, for the group’s decision to limit the amount of pay for the juror to five days after it indicated to her she would be paid for the entire trial. Judge Kaplan said the actions of Dr. Newman and Westmed were “cavalier and, I choose the word very carefully, unpatriotic.” The judge noted that if each of the group’s 250 doctors contributed $100 each, the worker’s salary would be paid for the entire year, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
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