Ever sent an email to the wrong person?  What about sending one to maybe the wrong-est person you could send it to?

There is an interesting story in the Omaha newspaper about just such an event: 

[L]ast week . . . an official with the Nebraska State Bar Association sent an email to bar officials, praising how the organization’s attorneys had handled the “ill conceived and uninformed” questions asked by the Nebraska Supreme Court about the proposed rule change.

The problem? The email was inadvertently sent, as well, to the top judge on the court, Chief Justice Mike Heavican.

Ouch.

The email was not only embarrassing, but such contact outside a courtroom with a judge is improper and can force a judge to excuse himself from ruling on a case.  The email was sent by Omaha attorney Warren Whitted Jr., an immediate past president of the bar, just after the high court heard oral arguments Sept. 30. The case involved whether lawyers should continue to be required to join the bar, the state’s lawyers’ association.