By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 14, 2024
A judge may not host an event at their home for a federal legislator to discuss national issues with interested community leaders, colleagues, friends, and neighbors.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Rahat N. Babar | March 14, 2024
"To those who share Mangi's background, the message is loud and clear: If you wish to serve your country, don't bother," writes Rahat N. Babar, a former judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Rahat N. Babar | March 14, 2024
"To those who share Mangi's background, the message is loud and clear: If you wish to serve your country, don't bother," writes Rahat N. Babar, a former judge on the Superior Court of New Jersey.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 13, 2024
(1) Where the town court clerk is involved in litigation against their relatives in another court, a town justice need not disclose or disqualify in matters involving the court clerk's attorney and the relatives' attorney, but must insulate the court clerk from such matters. (2) The insulation must continue until the representation completely ends, including payment of outstanding legal fees.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 12, 2024
A judge may accept a trade union's offer of a social dinner and overnight accommodations at the union's annual convention for the judge and their spouse, where the union and its members have not come, and are not likely to come, before the judge.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | March 12, 2024
"The initial report of the alleged misconduct in this case sounded much worse than what the actual evidence showed," the court held. "Judge Brumbach's plan was not evil in nature nor was it an attempted abuse of power for personal gain."
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 11, 2024
A judicial association may not consent to have its name listed as a client on a consultant's website.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 10, 2024
May a full-time judge donate $100 to sponsor an award at a local Independence Day parade organized by a not-for-profit civic entity, where the judge's connection will be announced at the end of the parade and the parade is a non-political, non-fund raising event?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 7, 2024
A judge need not insulate their law clerk from a custody proceeding merely because their law clerk's third-degree relative has a child in common with one of the parties, where the law clerk has no familial connection to any of the parties, witnesses, or subject child in the present proceeding. If the judge chooses to make a disclosure, the judge retains full discretion to preside and permit the law clerk to participate in the matter, whether or not the parties object.
By Charles Toutant | March 7, 2024
The remarks the judge made about the litigant's girlfriend were "discourteous and could reasonably be understood as respondent mocking an individual experiencing some unfortunate circumstances," the ACJC said.
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