一群律师和退休法官警告称，美国治安法官和破产法官的社交生活可能会被寻求重新审理的败诉诉讼当事人不公平地逐一审视，与此同时，一家联邦上诉法院正在设法厘清法官必须披露多少关于他们与出庭律师之间友谊的信息。
A group of lawyers and retired judges are warning that the social lives of US magistrate and bankruptcy judges could be unfairly picked apart by losing litigants seeking a do-over, as a federal appeals court grapples with how much judges must reveal about their friendships with the lawyers who appear before them.