Washington Poised to Join Numerous States Imposing Criminal Penalties for Assaulting Sports Officials

By Alan Goldberger (Editor’s Note: Shortly after this article was written, the proposed Washington state law failed to receive a hearing before the state Senate.) Several years ago, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. denied a motion to disqualify the Court on the ground of his Honor’s alleged bias. While Judge Boasberg aptly described plaintiffs’ articulated bases for their motion as lying “… somewhere between feeble and head scra