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STEPHEN M. ST. JOHN
POST OFFICE BOX 449
ROCKEFELLER
CENTER
NEW YORK, NY 10185
TEL/FAX: 212 534 5024
26 July 2001
Thomas
K. Kahn, Clerk
United States Court of Appeals
11th Judicial Circuit
56 Forsyth Street NW
Atlanta, GA
30303 RE: Misc. No. 01-0030
In accordance with the provisions of the law as set forth in 28 United States Code paragraph 372(c)(10),
and in conformity with Rule 5 of the local rules of the Judicial Council of the Eleventh Circuit governing petitions for review
with respect to complaints of judicial misconduct or disability, I, the complainant, hereby petition this Judicial Council
for review of Chief Circuit Judge R. Lanier Anderson’s order of dismissal in which he finds the allegations of my complaint
against United States Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol “frivolous.” While I cannot dispute Judge Anderson’s
finding that Judge Cristol’s letter to the editor of the New York Times does not say that his investigations were undertaken
under the authority of the Federal Judiciary, nor was the writing and sending of the letter done under such authority, I respectfully
submit to the esteemed members of this Judicial Council that the focus of Judge Anderson’s reasoning only distracts
from proper consideration of the main thrust of my complaint. Lending the prestige of one’s judicial office has
a very broad meaning that is not limited to an expressed or implied assertion that one is acting as a judge in a particular
matter. Furthermore, it may be that Judge Anderson is not aware that the advise and consent relationship that exists
as policy between the author of a letter to the editor and the letters editor of the New York Times, in which both the identity
of the writer and the content of the letter are put under careful scrutiny, largely determines the editor’s attribution
of the letter writer and is such that it allows a federal judge who is a letter writer to exercise necessary restraint consistent
with proper restrictions prescribed for judges. Therefore I ask for each member’s vote per Rule 7 to place
this petition on the agenda of the next meeting of this Judicial Council.
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