Boies Backs Ex-Bankruptcy Judge ‘Immunity’ in Relationship Suit

Litigation surrounding a former Texas bankruptcy judge’s once-secret relationship with a local attorney should be dismissed, despite “appearance issues,” top litigator David Boies said.

Boies on Thursday filed papers asking a federal court to toss the case against his client, former judge David R. Jones, which was brought by the onetime CEO of a petroleum barge company that filed for bankruptcy before Jones four years ago.

The motion to dismiss is the latest development in the scandal related to Jones and his longstanding romantic relationship with Elizabeth Freeman. She was Jones’ former clerk and a onetime bankruptcy partner at Jackson ...