By Aruna Viswanatha
WSJ
May 15, 2018
Former prosecutor Gene Rossi learned to expect lectures and humiliation when he appeared before U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, who regularly ridiculed his arguments. But when Mr. Rossi returned several years ago from chemotherapy, Judge Ellis—after sternly summoning him to the bench—became tearful as he asked how Mr. Rossi was doing.
“For all his apparent seriousness and reprimanding and correcting and berating of attorneys, he has a heart of gold,” Mr. Rossi said recently. …