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The Judge Who Required Lawyers to Call Each Other "Doctor" in Court

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Reprimanded by the Texas judicial authorities for that, it turns out (thanks to Bill Dyer for pointing this out). From the Texas Monthly (1982):

State district judge Jerry McAfee of Houston was publicly reprimanded by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for issuing courtroom rules requiring attorneys to address each other as "Doctor."