Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jackson Walker LLP, and a former bankruptcy judge won their bid to dismiss a suit alleging they all conspired to keep the ex-judge’s relationship with an attorney under wraps.
Finding that courts must “resist the temptation to bend existing frameworks to bring a vexing case to a palatable resolution,” Chief Judge Alia Moses of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Friday dismissed the case. But she emphasized that she did so with “consternation” and that she wasn’t pleased with that result.
The ruling is a major win for the firms, ex-judge ...
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