By Avalon Zoppo | September 20, 2023
"We all would prefer a different outcome for our friend and colleague," the council wrote. "However, we have a solemn obligation...."
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 19, 2023
(1) A judge must report an attorney who, on learning that a non-party would only honor a judicial subpoena, personally signed a subpoena above the judge's name and served it on the non-party. However, reporting may wait until the conclusion of the case.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 18, 2023
May a full-time judge, who has independently written and published a bench book, sell copies of that book to the supervising judge of another court in the Unified Court System for distribution to judges in that court?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 17, 2023
(1) Once a judge's first-degree non-lawyer relative, a college student, accepts an internship with a private law firm, the judge must disclose the relationship when the law firm appears before the judge and determine whether the relative has or had any involvement with the case. If the relative is or was involved in the case, the judge is disqualified, subject to remittal if the judge's relative will remain permanently absent from the courtroom. Otherwise, if the relative had no involvement, the judge may preside after disclosure, provided the judge can be fair and impartial.
By Cedra Mayfield | September 15, 2023
"During your time being employed at the clerk's office with Judge Peterson, has she ever gone over with or trained you on the Uniform Rules of the Probate Court?," asked Judicial Qualifications Commission Director Courtney Veal.
By Michael A. Mora | September 15, 2023
"The Jacobs case illustrates the perils of an improvident and incendiary campaign strategy," said Anthony V. Alfieri, the director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at the University of Miami School of Law.
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By Cedra Mayfield | September 15, 2023
"When I pressed that button, I sat there and just waited and finally a deputy came," testified Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 14, 2023
A judge may purchase a sponsor-level ticket to a bar association's fund-raising dinner and be publicly listed as a "sponsor" of the event.
By Nanci E. Nishimura and David A. Carrillo | September 14, 2023
Systems already exist that could be extended or borrowed to address the risks that arise from exempting the nation's highest court from rules that apply to every other state and federal judge, according to Nanci Nishimura of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy and David Carrillo of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law.
By Brian Lee | September 14, 2023
Nina M. Moore, the director of Colgate University's Forum on Race and Public Policy, has written a book on criminal justice and is working on another about SCOTUS and affirmative action.
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