This weekend, Vice discovered an unusual, additional role for two FISC judges—stakeholder. According to 2013 financial disclosures obtained by the website, FISC Judge Susan Wright and FISC Judge Dennis Saylor each owned Verizon stock.(..)
There is an ethics law for federal judges that, among other things, requires judges to avoid cases where they have a financial stake or where they may act in bias.(..)
Vice‘s requests for comment to the direct judges went unanswered as expected, but legal ethicists speaking to the site recommended the best solution is simply steering clear of such gray situations in the first place.