The judicial misconduct complaint against Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski over the sexually explicit material found on his family Web pages has been resolved with a public admonishment but no discipline imposed on the judge.

The 11-judge judicial council of the Third Circuit, which was specially assigned to hear the case, issued a unanimous 41-page opinion in In re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct that said Kozinski had solved the problem himself by removing the explicit material and promising to destroy it.

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