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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-35

A judge may attend a sporting event or concert in a luxury box as a guest of the judge's spouse, where use of the luxury box seats is a benefit incident to the spouse's employment as officer of a company that is unlikely to come before the judge, and could not reasonably be perceived as intended to influence the judge in the performance of judicial duties.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-33

May a newly appointed part-time judge request that all of the cases pending in the court to which the judge was appointed to be transfer to other jurisdictions?
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-25

A full-time judge may assist a bar association with its application for recognition of 501(c)(3) tax exemption status by providing guidance on the narrative description of the bar association's activities on IRS Form 1023, provided the application is filed by the association's attorney.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-16(A)

Where a judge's law clerk previously served as law clerk to a recently retired judge, and that ex-judge is now employed as an attorney in a government law office if the ex-judge does not appear, the judge may preside and need not insulate the law clerk or disclose the prior employment in matters involving that government law office.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-10

The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics cannot comment on past conduct.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-02

A judge who believes that the statutory obligation to provide a reason for discretionary recusal is unconstitutional may act in accordance with a legal determination made by the judge on the record, but may not conceal the true basis of the judge's ruling.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-200

On these facts, a full-time judge may not participate in a proposed not-for-profit corporation that would be exclusively controlled by the judge's family and would feature the judge as its sole compensated lecturer with a sliding scale of fees.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-14

Where the judge's spouse's law firm has no involvement whatsoever in the case before the judge and will not share in the legal fees, the judge is not disqualified merely because the judge is aware that one of the litigants is also a current or former client of the judge's spouse's law firm in other matters.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-06

May a judge preside in matters involving an attorney who is the sibling of the judge's close personal friend, where that attorney is merely an "acquaintance" under Opinion 11-125?
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-01

A town justice, who serves as village attorney for a village which is wholly encompassed within the town where the justice presides, may not continue as town justice and village attorney where the town court would be expected to hear all cases arising out of the village.
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