Copying Issue Raises Hurdle for Bush Pick
It’s nice to know that judges are people to be looked up to. They are models for us. They study issues and write decisions that guide us. Honest as the day is long, usually.
Seems like the fellow George W. appointed to be a judge on the Federal District Court in Washington employed a “poor work method.” That’s his excuse for copying a large portion of an article he “wrote” for a legal journal.
“Last year, a peer-reviewed legal journal, the Supreme Court Economic Review, issued a retraction of an article by Michael E. O’Neill in 2004. “Substantial portions” of the article, the editors wrote, were “appropriated without attribution” from a book review by another law professor. In addition, at least four articles by Mr. O’Neill in other publications contain passages that appear to have been lifted from other scholars’ works without quotation marks or attribution.”
“Long passages in the 2004 article are virtually identical to the book review, which was published in 2000 in the Virginia Law Review and was written by Anne C. Dailey, a law professor at the University of Connecticut.”
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Glenn Sugameli Says:July 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am
According to several reports, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), as part of the deal to fend off right-wing opposition to his Judiciary chairmanship, was forced to hire Michael O’Neill as Senate Judiciary Committee chief counsel. Sen. Specter later stated that O’Neill, as his chief counsel, knew about the insertion of language in the Patriot Act extension that allowed Bush to replace U.S. attorneys without Senate approval, and that O’Neill did not notify Specter, who opposed the language when he learned about it.
I have headed Earthjustice’s judicial nominations project since 2001.
For more see http://www.judgingtheenvironment.org/nominees/michael-o-neill.html
-Glenn Sugameli
Senior Legislative Counsel
Earthjustice
Washington, DC