By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 21, 2024
May a part-time judge who is also employed with a school district be a member of the Classified Employees Association and United Teachers unions, given that these unions are active in politics?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 20, 2024
A full-time judge may not participate in a local bar association's phone bank event where members of the public call in with legal questions.
By Marianna Wharry | February 20, 2024
"In recommending disbarment, the Commission asserted that the scope and magnitude of Doud's ethical failures were 'unequaled in the Commission's collective experience,' and this case proved the most egregious and extensive trust violation and misappropriation/commingling case to ever come before it," the order said.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 19, 2024
On the facts presented, the inquiring administrative judge has full discretion to determine whether there is a substantial likelihood that a part-time judge has committed a substantial violation of the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct and, if so, what action is appropriate under the circumstances.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 18, 2024
(1) A judge may not serve as the director of environment and legislation for a not-for-profit organization which seeks to promote scuba-diving. (2) Although the judge may engage in certain public advocacy activities where the judge has a clear and direct personal interest at stake, the judge may not spearhead the organization's efforts to protest a planned discharge of substances into a local waterway.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 16, 2024
Candidates for Texas judge were asked about the usefulness of the transparency law, and responses were generally positive. But some were not.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 15, 2024
May a part-time village justice permit a part-time village court clerk to also serve as a part-time assistant village clerk, performing ministerial functions in the village's finance department?
By Cheryl Miller | February 15, 2024
A State Bar Court judge had concluded that former Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge John Laettner's misconduct is unlikely to reoccur.
By Charles Toutant | February 13, 2024
Mercer County Presiding Civil Judge Douglas Hurd's answer takes exception to the ACJC's assertion that he "abused the power and prestige of his judicial office for the benefit of his secretary by permitting her to work remotely."
By Charles Toutant | February 13, 2024
"If, in fact, the judiciary is looking to whack the judge—I can't say it's not going on—I would be disappointed. I would be surprised. But I would not be stunned," ethics expert Marc Garfinkle said.
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