The Court of Judicial Discipline has issued a stay in former Justice J. Michael Eakin’s ethics case on the eve of a pretrial conference that had been scheduled for Wednesday. Eakin retired last week with trial looming March 29 on charges that he violated four ethics canons by exchanging offensive emails.
The court’s one-page order stayed all proceedings in the case “to permit further consideration of the stipulated facts” submitted by Eakin and the Judicial Conduct Board last week.
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