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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-04

Subject to certain limitations, a full-time judge may share with the head of a children's services agency the judge's observations of agency operations and procedures used when removing children from their homes.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-03

A full-time judge who previously served as a supervising Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and then as the Chief ALJ with the Board of Parole Revocation Bureau (1) must disqualify from the criminal matters of individuals for whom a revocation proceeding was commenced or pending during the judge's tenure, but (2) may preside over the criminal matters of defendants for whom a revocation proceeding was commenced after the judge's tenure, provided the judge can be fair and impartial.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-02

The Committee cannot address legal/administrative issues relating to the court system's vaccination policies, such as whether a judge may delay vaccination beyond the deadline after denial of their exemption request and use various categories of leave during the judge's chosen delay period.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-01

May a part-time judge offer training and consultation to local city, town, and village governments regarding appropriate responses to "1st and 2nd Amendment audits"?
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-189

A part-time judge may not maintain concurrent civilian employment as a dispatcher with the State University of New York police in the same county where the judge presides.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-188

May a full-time judge serve as a class representative in a federal court action against a multi-national corporation?
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-185

A judge who is a community college trustee may attend a conference solely sponsored by a non-political, not-for-profit organization of college trustees, notwithstanding the conference's designation as a national legislative summit. However, the judge must not meet with federal legislators in connection with the conference, where such meetings will be seen as lobbying efforts in support of the organization's legislative agenda.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-184

A town justice (1) must not serve as an animal control officer, even in another municipality, but (2) may serve as a volunteer firefighter or fire police, provided these roles do not involve peace officer or police officer status.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-183

A village justice may consent to the village's proposed requirement that the village court clerk punch in on a time clock, as other village employees do.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-182

A judge may co-chair a committee to educate the judiciary on implicit bias through a volunteer court observation project, and may meet as a group with other participating judges and committee members to receive feedback from the volunteer observers, but may not meet privately with volunteer observers to discuss their feedback on the judge's own court sessions.
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