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Monday, December 22, 2008
Courts - Still more on "McDonald's sanctioned in strip-search case"
Updating this Nov. 15th ILB entry on a Kentucky case, ramifications from the McDonald's case appear to be impacting a bar race.
A lengthy story today by Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal is headed "Bar association candidate accused of ethics violation." The report begins:
Just as the Kentucky Bar Association's president was stripped of some of her powers for inappropriate conduct last week, a candidate for another bar office was being accused of ethics violations.Bar elections are normally polite affairs. But in what bar leaders say is an extraordinary and unprecedented attack, a Louisville attorney has questioned the honesty and integrity of a candidate for vice president of the 15,000-member organization.
Historically, the vice president eventually becomes president of the bar.
The accusations against attorney Margaret "Maggie" Keane come not from her opponent in the bar race, Scott Madden of Manchester, but from her adversary in the fiercely contested McDonald's strip search lawsuit, Ann Oldfather.
In a letter sent to about 600 lawyers last week, Oldfather alleges that Keane knowingly misled the court in that case, when she said all documents concerning prior strip searches at McDonald's stores had been turned over to the plaintiff's legal team.
In fact, Oldfather says in her Dec. 15 letter, it was later discovered that about a week before she insisted there were no such materials, Keane had been sent "the exact documents she denied having."
"Had we simply accepted Ms. Keane's representations as an officer of the court ... critically important documents would never have been produced ... and the outcome of the case could well have been different," Oldfather says in the letter.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 22, 2008 08:27 AM
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