The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics responds to written inquiries from New York state's approximately 3,600 judges and justices, as well as hundreds of judicial hearing officers, support magistrates, court attorney-referees, and judicial candidates (both judges and non-judges seeking election to judicial office). The committee interprets the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct (22 NYCRR Part 100) and, to the extent applicable, the Code of Judicial Conduct. The committee consists of 27 current and retired judges, and is co-chaired by former associate justice George D. Marlow of the Appellate Division and the Honorable Margaret Walsh, a justice of the Supreme Court.

Digest: A judge who appointed a receiver in a now-concluded case may not, either at the receiver's request or on his/her own initiative, intervene or support the receiver's petition for representation by the Attorney General's office in a civil lawsuit alleging the receiver committed fraud. However, if the AG's office contacts the judge concerning the receiver's application, the judge may properly respond to questions within his/her personal knowledge.

Rules: 22 NYCRR 100.2; 100.2(A); 100.2(C); Opinion 14-33.