The Justice Department’s bankruptcy division lost a fight to stop Jackson Walker LLP from deposing its regional chief and several other ranking government attorneys about a relationship between a former judge and attorney.
The Texas law firm can depose Kevin M. Epstein, who leads the US Trustee’s Texas offices, as well as several other high-ranking members of the regional offices about whether they knew of the romance, Judge Eduardo V. Rodriguez of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas said in an opinion Wednesday.
The relationship between former Houston bankruptcy judge David R. Jones and Elizabeth Freeman, ...
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