A prominent Brooklyn federal judge lambasted Facebook and law firm Kirkland & Ellis for sending a junior associate to court to defend the social media company against allegations that it facilitated communication among terrorists.
“It is outrageous and irresponsible and insulting, and you’re not the person doing the insulting. It’s whoever sent you here,” Eastern District Judge Nicholas Garaufis told Kirkland associate Thomas Aulden Burcher-DuPont.
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