Appeal of Lathrop

While I share my brothers’ distaste for the ramifications of the Water Resources Board’s March 1980 resolutions as they bear on the appearance of justice, the resolutions themselves and my review of the transcript of proceedings conducted before the Board in January 1981 convince me that notwithstanding the resolutions, “[t]he totality of the picture presented . . . does not display a predisposition immune to contrary evidence or persuasion.” Belsinger v. District of Columbia, 295 F. Supp. 159, 162-63 (D.D.C. 1969), rev’d on other grounds, 436 F.2d 214 (D.C. Cir. 1970). Surely it cannot…