Committee On Judicial Ethics

June 15, 2022 | New York Law Journal

May a part-time city judge simultaneously serve as an assistant county attorney handling child welfare matters?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

June 14, 2022 | New York Law Journal

An appointed judge whose second-degree relative is presently incarcerated or on parole for a sex offense may preside in other sex offense cases, provided the judge can be fair and impartial, and need not make any disclosure to the parties.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

7 minute read

June 13, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Where a judge has learned in the course of the judge's official judicial duties that another court may have the current address information of an individual who has failed to pay outstanding fines, and the judge has made a good-faith legal determination concerning the lawfulness of issuing a new or amended bench warrant for the individual's arrest for non-payment of outstanding fines using the new address, the judge may contact the other court and request the defendant's address as information of public record.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

June 12, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A part-time attorney judge may not represent a police benevolent association, whether in a non-adjoining town in the same county or in a village in another county, as an appearance of impropriety would be created, based on a perception that the judge is too closely aligned with law enforcement interests.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

June 09, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Judges may attend a conference co-sponsored by a non-political, not-for-profit charitable and educational organization as well as by the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

7 minute read

June 08, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A village justice should not permit a local police officer to simultaneously serve in dual roles as the court security officer and as a prosecutor/witness at the same court session.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

June 07, 2022 | New York Law Journal

May a village justice provide the village clerk a list of summonses issued for the month, to be presented to a village board of trustees?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

June 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Where a judge reported to court administrators that a part-time attorney judge inappropriately appeared as a prosecutor, and was advised that the District Administrative Judge has addressed the matter, the judge need not take any further action.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

June 05, 2022 | New York Law Journal

May a court attorney-referee report a litigant to the DA's office for perjury?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

June 02, 2022 | New York Law Journal

A full-time judge may not serve as an advisory board member of a recovery center and youth clubhouse affiliated with a CASA program, for which the inquiring judge makes referrals as the county-wide substance abuse treatment court.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read