Consider a recent, gutsy speech given to the Federal Circuit Judicial [*620] Conference by one of the nation’s leading scholars on judicial ethics, Professor Monroe Freedman: 

Frankly, I have had more than enough of judicial opinions that bear no relationship whatsoever to the cases that have been filed and argued before the judges. I am talking about judicial opinions that falsify the facts of the cases that have been argued, judicial opinions that make disingenuous use or omission of material authorities, judicial opinions that cover up these things with no-publication and no-citation rules. 37

Professor Freedman wrote a letter to me in which he stated that at the luncheon immediately. following his speech, a judge sitting next to him said (apropos of the passage above quoted), “you don’t know the half of it!” 38

CORRESPONDENCE: Self-Regulation of Judicial Misconduct Could Be Mis-Regulation, 89 Mich. L. Rev. 609, 619-620

37
M. Freedman, Speech to the Seventh Annual Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (May 24, 1989), reprinted in 128 F.R.D. 409, 439 (1989).

38
Letter from Monroe Freedman to Anthony D’Amato, Oct. 14, 1989 (quoted with the permission. of Professor Freedman).

CORRESPONDENCE: Self-Regulation of Judicial Misconduct Could Be Mis-Regulation, 89 Mich. L. Rev. 609, 619