Justice to Remain on Court Despite Probe

Alaska’s top judge relinquished his post amid an investigation into sexual harassment charges but will stay on the state’s five-member Supreme Court, officials said. The Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct gave Allen Compton a “private admonishment,” the least severe sanction it could issue. After investigating two incidents, occurring in 1995 and 1996, the commission now considers the case closed, said Marla Greenstein, the panel’s executive director. Compton was replaced as chief justice by Warren Matthews, who was elected to that post by his fellow justices, court officials said. One woman, a Stanford Law School graduate now working in Maine, still may file a civil lawsuit against Compton, according to her attorney.