By Avalon Zoppo | April 14, 2023
Court probes 95-year-old jurist's competency, alleged delays in issuing decisions.
By Cedra Mayfield | April 14, 2023
Opposing counsels' revised sanction recommendations range from no additional punishment to public reprimand and removal to office.
Daily Report Online | News|Update
By Mason Lawlor | April 13, 2023
Defendants dropped "slander of title" claim before hearing Wednesday.
By Charles Toutant | April 13, 2023
ACJC chair Virginia Long wrote that judges are free to alert counsel and litigants when they are unfamiliar with a particular legal issue. But this jurist's actions went a step farther, undermining public confidence in the judiciary, she wrote.
By Charles Toutant | April 12, 2023
"I wanted to come stop by if that's okay," the woman allegedly texted, to which the judge allegedly responded "Cool!" according to the complaint.
By Brian Lee | April 11, 2023
A non-lawyer town justice faced a total of seven charges but did not make any submissions, didn't respond to an administrator's sanction memorandum, nor did he appear for oral argument, according to the commission.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Elliott B. Jacobson | April 10, 2023
Going forward there is much Congress can do to ensure the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court, a former New York prosecutor writes. And it should start by enacting legislation banning the acceptance of gifts valued at more than some nominal amount, say $25, by Supreme Court justices.
By Cheryl Miller | April 10, 2023
The plaintiffs have moved to disqualify the judge in the case, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Joseph Quinn, alleging that he did not timely disclose that he and his spouse, First District Court of Appeal Justice Jim Humes, have ties to the Judicial Council, a defendant in the matter.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 7, 2023
A judge who has personal knowledge that another judge responded to a law enforcement agency's arrest announcement by publicly praising the agency for "solv[ing] this crime," and also knows that the arrested individual will likely be brought before the other judge for proceedings in the matter, must report the other judge to the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
By By Mark Sherman / The Associated Press | April 7, 2023
Describing Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow and his wife, Kathy, as "among our dearest friends," Thomas said in a statement that he was advised by colleagues on the nation's highest court and others in the federal judiciary that "this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable."
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