An Illinois attorney must pay a $9,000 fine and opposing counsel fees, and write apology letters to six women after he filed an unsealed exhibit that included their nude or partially nude photographs and nonredacted personal identifying information, a federal judge ruled last week.

U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis for the Northern District of Illinois said S. Randolph Kretchmar, an attorney based in a Chicago suburb, acted in bad faith and did not acknowledge the seriousness or harm of his misconduct when he submitted the unredacted cellphone data as an exhibit in an underlying case alleging sexual abuse, according to her opinion and order published Wednesday.