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A federal judge who taught at a university and was a board member of one of its research centers, also received $5,500 to teach a summer course at a resort location in Greece while presiding over a series of lawsuits against that same university during the same period and never disclosed her association with it.  The cases against the university were dismissed without being tried on the merits.

When the judge's connections with the defendant university were independently discovered by the plaintiff and the judge was asked to recuse herself, she responded : "There is no basis for the plaintiff's suggestion that [my] impartiality might reasonably be questioned by virtue of these . . . circumstances under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 455."  Subsequent complaints of judicial misconduct and appeals to compel the judge's recusal were similarly dismissed.

Those events are from the case of Carl Bernofsky v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund , Civil Action Nos. 95-358, 98-1557, 98-1792, and 98-2102, filed in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the Honorable Helen Ginger Berrigan presiding.  ( See video. )

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