The Tawdry Tale Of Justice Lori Douglas Comes To An End
This story, which started off with a bang -- or rather banging, memorialized in nude photos -- ends with a whimper.
The real lesson of Lori Douglas may be that even those who breathe rarified judicial air aren’t immune to the awesome power of sex pictures and the web.
— Christie Blatchford, a columnist for the National Post of Canada, summarizing the scandal over a Canadian judge’s nude photos that dragged on for over four years and cost Canadian taxpayers more than $3 million. The ethics case against Justice Douglas was recently resolved through a settlement providing that the Canadian Judicial Council will drop its investigation and Justice Douglas will resign in May 2015 — a deal that will allow her to receive retirement benefits based on 10 years of judicial service.