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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-53

An appellate judge may not speak at a victim impact panel in a county within the judge's jurisdiction.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-52

A judge who was a supervising assistant district attorney while the district attorney's office investigated allegations of professional misconduct by an attorney colleague, but who was not involved in investigating or referring the attorney for discipline, is not disqualified from matters in which the attorney appears unless the judge believes he/she cannot be fair and impartial in those cases.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-51

A town justice may permit a town employee, who is paid out of both the judicial budget and the town budget and is expressly subject to the town justice's supervision and control, to transport court funds to the bank for deposit, notwithstanding that the employee is also tasked with depositing other town funds into other bank accounts.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-50

A judge presiding in a drug treatment court may engage in ex parte communications with the court's resource coordinator. If the content involves outside information obtained from a non-court source, then notice should be given to the defense attorney. Otherwise there is no need to disclose the content of those communications to court participants.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-48

Opinion 24-48 A part-time judge may serve (1) as an officer and director of a local cooperative extension association, provided the association does not operate any programs to which the court may make referrals; (2) on a not-for-profit endowment advisory committee which awards grants to a variety of not-for-profit community groups.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-47

A county magistrates association may honor a county court judge and a sheriff's department captain by presenting them with plaques and dinner certificates in recognition of their service to the association.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-46

(1) Subject to generally applicable limitations, a judge may attend meetings of not-for-profit civic or charitable organizations to discuss the judge's experience on the bench and may invite attendees to observe the court in session. (2) A judge who is not a candidate for election or re-election to judicial office within the applicable window period may not purchase media advertisements for the judge's upcoming speaking engagements. (3) A judge may not record a public service announcement for a local radio station about a plea-by-mail program for parking tickets in the judge's court.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-45

A part-time town justice may also serve as appointed village treasurer of a village within the town.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-44

During the applicable window period, a village justice who is a judicial candidate may (1) use the title "Judge" in campaign materials and (2) use a domain name such as "judge[surname].com" for his/her campaign website.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 24-43

Where a judge's cousin is an employee of a residential holding company and one of several non-lawyers who regularly appear as the company's agent in eviction proceedings, the judge (1) must disqualify in matters involving the judge's cousin but (2) may preside in eviction proceedings brought by other agents of the residential holding company, provided the judge is satisfied that his/her cousin is not likely to be a material witness and the judge can be fair and impartial.
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