Sen. Edward Meyer, D-Guilford, wanted to get to the bottom of an unseemly 2002 confrontation between Judge John Redmond Downey, a recent candidate for the state Appellate Court, and Greenwich family lawyer Jill H. Blomberg.

After Downey’s Aug. 21 confirmation hearing was unexpectedly interrupted over an immigration law controversy – one that led to Downey withdrawing as a candidate – Meyers called Blomberg’s senior partner, Samuel V. Schoonmaker III, of Schoonmaker, George & Colin.