The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | February 27, 2023
"The question that this case asks is, 'What are the permissible restraints on First Amendment expression for judges and what are the rationales for those restraints?'" said ethics expert Ellen Brotman of BrotmanLaw.
By Allison Dunn | February 27, 2023
"Article 30 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights protects a prosecutor's right to decide whether to prosecute a defendant and for which offenses; a court may not impede the exercise of that right by imposing an additional requirement on the prosecution before it can refile the charges," Justice Frank M. Gaziano wrote on behalf of the SJC in Friday's opinion.
By Cedra Mayfield | February 27, 2023
Middle Georgia Judicial Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge Robert S. Reeves must submit witness lists, evidence and charge-dispositive motions over the coming months in connection with a 58-count judicial misconduct investigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | February 24, 2023
The Judicial Conduct Board accused the judge of violating seven rules of judicial conduct, as well as violating an article of the state Constitution.
By Chris O'Malley | February 24, 2023
"If the government's position were to prevail, a staggering number of federal agencies would have the unfettered ability to invade client confidences with an administrative subpoena," said Susanna McDonald, the Association of Corporate Counsel's chief legal officer.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Belluck and Robert H. Tembeckjian | February 23, 2023
Rather than set an example as one might expect of the nation's highest court on such an important issue, the nine justices of the Supreme Court continue to trail all others, unable to agree on a code of conduct for themselves, the chair and the administrator of the New York State Commission on Judicial Ethics write.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Aleeza Furman | February 22, 2023
Here are the new officers poised with leading investigations and prosecutions of misconduct in cases involving Pennsylvania judges.
By Colleen Murphy | February 22, 2023
A New Jersey judge who continued as administrator of a client's estate for 13 years after rising to the bench filed an answer to the ethics complaint charging her with violating three canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct.
By Cedra Mayfield | February 22, 2023
"None of the conduct actually proven was prejudicial to the administration of justice," Coomer's defense counsel argued. "Failure to establish this element means that Judge Coomer must not be sanctioned."
By Michael A. Mora | February 21, 2023
An attorney opposing the Am Law 100 firm called the state appellate court ruling a "constitutional crisis playing itself out in real time."
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