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Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 15, 2021

The federal judiciary is reviewing its conflict screening process following a Wall Street Journal report that 131 judges failed to recuse themselves from cases involving companies in which they or their family members owned stock, Reuters reports. According to a memo from U.S. District Judge Roslynn Mauskopf, who serves as director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, committee staff for the Judicial Conference, the judiciary's policymaking body, will be directed to eview the judiciary's processes to submit recommendations on ways to "clarify or improve" the conflict screening process. Mauskopf also reiterated the importance of complying with existing financial conflict of interest policies.