Committee On Judicial Ethics

February 04, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a judge make a charitable donation to a 501(c)(3) living history farm for educational agricultural programming and participate in a not-for-profit fund-raising drive for cancer research?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

February 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Must a judge, upon being sworn in as Surrogate, resign from his/her current position as trustee of the local community college?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read

February 03, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Whether or not a judge may hold two part-time judicial positions in the same municipal court is a legal question beyond this Committee's jurisdiction.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

February 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Provided the Surrogate can be fair and impartial, they need not disqualify in matters involving the Public Administrator's office merely because they relieved the PA of certain duties.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

February 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A part-time judge may serve on a subcommittee concerning the establishment of a county-wide centralized arraignment part.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

5 minute read

February 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

An appellate division justice who learns that a law firm's website features screen shots and video of the court's oral arguments, in which the court's justices are visible and readily identifiable, must ask the law firm to remove them.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

6 minute read

February 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A full-time judge may consult with an attorney regarding the judge's possible medical malpractice case, even if the attorney regularly appears before the judge.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

4 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

A judge is not disqualified from presiding over an action merely because the judge knows that the unrepresented defendant has, in a completely unrelated legal matter, retained the judge's sibling as counsel.

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

3 minute read

January 29, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Where a judge's law firm represents a non-supervisory assistant public defender at a real estate closing, may the judge thereafter preside in matters where that attorney or others from the same public defender's office appear, once the matter is concluded?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

3 minute read

January 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

May a full-time judge serve on the general board of a religious denomination, which has "primary authority with regard to non-ecclesiastical policies and plans" of the denomination?

By Committee on Judicial Ethics

2 minute read