The attorneys said the order to turn over any public statements they made on the judge shopping ruling 'will have a chilling effect' on their free speech rights.
Howard Koplowitz | hkoplowitz@al.comM. Christian King, one of the attorneys for two of the six lawyers who filed objections to Burke’s order -- Melody H. Eagan and Jeffrey P. Doss -- said his clients had objections on 1st Amendment grounds to the order “as their compliance will have a chilling effect on free speech rights.”
A three-judge panel comprised of administrative judges from Alabama’s three federal court districts found the attorneys “intentionally attempted to direct their cases to a judge they considered favorable and, in particular, to avoid Judge Burke.” “This Court’s order provides no explanation as to why this Court has ordered this extraordinary production, the relevancy to these proceedings, the legal justification for it, or whether the demand for this information is related in any way to the potential sanctions that this Court might impose,” he wrote.
McCoy, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, did not personally comment on the judge shopping allegations, Segall wrote, but he submitted an SPLC statement on the matter to Burke “for the purpose of avoiding delay.”
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