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'Windfall Verdict' Wiped: 5th Circuit Undoes $124M Award Over Judge-Lawyer Friendship
2026-09-09 18:01 UTC by Law.comAvalon Zoppohttps://feeds.feedblitz.com/-/908486945/0/law/legal-news.jpgJudicial Ethics/Courts & Litigation/Federal Government/News

The Fifth Circuit said the magistrate judge did not share that she and the plaintiff's attorney had a personal friendship that spanned nearly 40 years and that the attorney had served as a groomsman in her wedding in 1989.

       

 

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