Bias Issue Faces Judge in Monsanto Case

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/business/09seed.html?th

HICAGO, Jan. 8 - A federal judge now presiding over a price-fixing case involving the Monsanto Company did not disclose to the parties in the case that in 1997 and 1998 he was listed as a lawyer representing Monsanto in a case that covered some of the same issues, according to lawyers and court documents.

The absence of disclosure that the judge and his former law firm had business dealings with Monsanto in the 1990's has raised conflict of interest questions among some lawyers in the price-fixing case.
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Gosh, imagine that! A case involving business and a judge who forgot that he once worked for the plaintiff!!