Judges Rule in Favor of Japanese Whalers – But Are They Impartial?
2/27/13 A US federal court has ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to cease interfering with the Japanese whaling at sea, making it possible for for Japanese whalers to continue legal action in the United States against the activists. The judges overturned the December 17, 2012 ruling by a district judge who had ruled that the piracy claim brought by the Japanese was unfounded. But are these judges unbiased?
Chief judge Alex Kozinski wrote that “you don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch” to be classified as pirates” and called the Sea Shepherd founder, Paul Watson, “eccentric” – yet he has admitted to posting pornographic material on his website.
The other two judges who ruled on this case are Judge Atsushi Wallace Tashima (born 1934) “the third Asian American and first Japanese American in the history of the United States to be appointed to a United States Court of Appeals”, and conservation conservative Judge Milan Smith Jr., who dissented on the need to use a different circuit judge but concurred on all other points.
Absolutely shocking is the vitriolic nature of chief judge Kozinski‘s written explanation of the ruling , in which he questions the impartiality of the district judge who dismissed Japan’s case last year). Kozinski writes:
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2013/02/27/judges-rule-in-favor-of-japanese-whalers-but-are-they-impartial/
Judge sounds like someone from the Scalia/Thomas school of justice....
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