A group of Indian petitioners has asked a federal judge in California to locate and preserve the investigative file centered on a Montana judge who sent hundreds of inappropriate emails from his federal courthouse chambers. The court action is part of a larger effort to force the release of four years’ worth of emails from former Chief Montana U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull’s federal email account. According to a January report from the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States release, Cebull sent hundreds of emails “related to race, politics, religion, gender, sexual orientation and politically sensitive issues that were inappropriate for Judge Cebull to have sent from his federal email account.” [Read more here.]
Source: John S. Adams, Great Falls Tribune; 7.2.14
