Efforts at mediation in Justice J. Michael Eakin’s disciplinary case stalled early last week, according to key parties in the matter.

The Court of Judicial Discipline appointed attorney Richard Sprague as a third-party mediator after Eakin and the Judicial Conduct Board—the prosecutor in his ethics case—asked the court to help them reach a settlement, but Sprague said Monday he cannot carry out mediation under the court’s strict guidelines.

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