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Judge who overturned verdict against Boeing bought and sold Boeing stock

A judge who threw out a $72 million verdict against Boeing said the case wasn't impacted by a financial advisor's trades of Boeing stock last year.

In 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges had broken an ethics law by not recusing themselves in cases in which they or their family members bought or held stock. Bill Hodes, a retired law professor who focused on legal ethics, said as long as the trades were accidental, quickly fixed, and not repeated, he didn't think it was more than a technical violation. A federal judge in Seattle who just threw out a $72 million verdict against Boeing disclosed that he bought and sold between $1,000 and $15,000 of the company's stock last year while he was overseeing the case, records show.

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