Chief Justice’s Workplace Conduct Group Takes Shape

A new working group to address inappropriate workplace conduct in the federal judiciary made its debut Jan. 12, weeks after explosive allegations of sexual harassment against Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski emerged.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. announced in his year-end report on the federal judiciary that he had asked the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, James C. Duff, to assemble the group.

“Events in recent months have illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, and events in the past few weeks have made clear that the ...