Committee On Judicial Ethics

May 27, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a newly appointed part-time judge request that all of the cases pending in the court to which the judge was appointed to be transfer to other jurisdictions?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

May 27, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A full-time judge may assist a bar association with its application for recognition of 501(c)(3) tax exemption status by providing guidance on the narrative description of the bar association's activities on IRS Form 1023, provided the application is filed by the association's attorney.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

6 minute read

May 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Where a judge's law clerk previously served as law clerk to a recently retired judge, and that ex-judge is now employed as an attorney in a government law office if the ex-judge does not appear, the judge may preside and need not insulate the law clerk or disclose the prior employment in matters involving that government law office.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

May 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics cannot comment on past conduct.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

1 minute read

May 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge who believes that the statutory obligation to provide a reason for discretionary recusal is unconstitutional may act in accordance with a legal determination made by the judge on the record, but may not conceal the true basis of the judge's ruling.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

8 minute read

May 25, 2021 | New York Law Journal

On these facts, a full-time judge may not participate in a proposed not-for-profit corporation that would be exclusively controlled by the judge's family and would feature the judge as its sole compensated lecturer with a sliding scale of fees.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

May 20, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct cannot comment on whether Part 8 of the Rules of the Chief Judge precludes a county jury board from appointing or reappointing a jury commissioner whose spouse has assumed full-time judicial office within the same county.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

May 19, 2021 | New York Law Journal

During the pendency of a proceeding brought by the judge on behalf of the judge's minor child, the judge is disqualified (subject to remittal) from matters involving the adverse party or parties, and their counsel. Once the proceeding terminates, disclosure is required in lieu of outright disqualification for a period of two years for those same parties and attorneys.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

7 minute read

May 19, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge may preside in a criminal case that arose during the judge's tenure at the District Attorney's office, where the matter was handled exclusively and personally by the District Attorney and the judge had no involvement with the file whatsoever.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

May 18, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge is disqualified, subject to remittal, from matters involving an attorney who joined a highly publicized and controversial lawsuit challenging certain employment actions taken by the judge's close relative.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read