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Mon Oct 12, 2015, 12:38 PM Oct 2015

For a high court justice, Eakin displays a low-brow sense of humor: Good read

By Eric Heyl
Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, 5:15 p.m.
Updated 12 hours ago

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Taken on a case-by-case basis, many emails that J. Michael Eakin has sent and received prove the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice is unafraid to challenge conventional standards of good taste and decency.

Eakin is the second justice in a year to become ensnared in the ribald email scandal that originated in embattled state Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office. Seamus McCaffrey resigned last October because of revelations he exchanged more than 200 sexually explicit emails with AG Office staffers.

In fairness to Eakin, there is no evidence that he sent or received the offensive emails at work when he should have been earning his $203,000 salary. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, which detailed the contents of about 15 of the correspondences, they were traced to a private Eakin email account.

No one accesses private email accounts on the job, right?

More at link:

Read more: http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/9198435-74/eakin-email-features#ixzz3oN8xP9db

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