Judicial Ethics

  • National Law Journal | News

    Federal Circuit's Judicial Council Upholds Judge Newman's Suspension

    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...."

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-164

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-163

    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?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-162

    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.

  • Daily Report Online | News

    Witnesses Take Stand During Judge's Ethics Hearing

    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.

  • Daily Business Review | News

    JQC Brings Multiple Charges Against Florida Judge

    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.

  • Daily Report Online | Live Coverage|News

    'I Pressed That Button': Judge's Activation of Panic Alarm Cited in Ethics Hearing

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-161

    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.

  • The Recorder | Commentary

    Federal Courts Should Do Judicial Ethics California-Style

    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.

  • New York Law Journal | News

    Colgate Professor Appointed to Return to NY Judicial Conduct Watchdog

    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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