With student interns, no less. Sigh.
He was censured in 2014 for having sex with his intern and a practicing attorney, according to the Commission on Judicial Performance, an oversight board that investigates judicial misconduct. He was also reprimanded for failing to disqualify himself from a case involving a longtime friend.
“Engaging in sexual intercourse in the courthouse is the height of irresponsible and improper behavior by a judge,” the commission wrote in its decision to censure.
Both women were students of Steiner’s when he was an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s law school.