On that unredacted form, Kacsmaryk reported owning about $2.9 million in stock in the Florida-based supermarket company Publix.
Federal judges are only required to report financial holdings in ranges, and don’t have to provide exact figures.
One possible source of the Publix stock Kacsmaryk reported in 2017 is the judge’s grandmother.
In 2020 and 2021, less than 4% of officials required to file judicial financial disclosures requested redaction, according to reports from the Administrative Office of the US Courts.
In any case, experts said, the judge’s redacted report prevents transparency that litigants deserve.