The state Court of Appeals has ruled that removal from office was the proper punishment for a town and village justice accused of displaying injudicious temperament.
In an unsigned decision, the court found that the record compiled by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct against Alan Simon contained ample evidence that he engaged in “ethnic smearing and name-calling,” got into a physical altercation with a student court worker and “repeatedly displayed poor temperament” as justice of Spring Valley Village Court and Ramapo Town Court in Rockland County.
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