Ninth Circuit Takes Stock After Post-Kozinski Listening Tour

The California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit conducted extensive outreach and carried out changes aimed at improving its workplace environment following harassment allegations that forced out one of its judges, a report by the court showed.

A committee appointed by Circuit Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas and led by Judge M. Margaret McKeown spent 18 months and reached out to 6,000 former and current circuit employees and law clerks following allegations that longtime Judge Alex Kozinski sexually harassed staff.

The revelations jolted the judiciary into the #MeToo maelstrom, and prompted a nationwide examination of judiciary workplace culture ...