The picture is Jim King at a cdcbaa program. Gone four and a half years now. We still miss him. Happy Birthday Jim. You can read his oral history here. My favorite part is when he was telling about being in a group that got sworn in at the Supreme Court and meeting briefly with Justice Alito afterwards.
“I told [Alito] the story about having read all of his decisions and having had – my friend having seen his comment during the Marrama argument and then finally seeing his dissent. And I told him, ‘I gotta tell you, from a consumer bankruptcy attorney standpoint, you got it, you really understood it. You got the issue, you understood it, and I think you got it right. And I want to thank you.’”
“And he said to me, this little shit from Glendale, California, ‘Oh my gosh, counsel, you made my day.’ Well, I’ll tell you, that ran a chill up and down my spine, brought tears to my eyes. For a Supreme Court justice to say that to me, pretty good.”