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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-168

A full-time judge may serve on a bar association's internal nominating committee, to consider and recommend individuals who are seeking board and officer seats within the bar association.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-166

May a town justice sign a form acknowledging compliance with an Information Resources and Technology Acceptable Use Policy adopted by the town board, where the policy purports to impose new duties and penalties for non-compliance?
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-152

A judge has the discretion to determine whether or not to accept a guilty plea under the circumstances described.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-108

A full-time judge who underwent surgery at a not-for-profit hospital may not participate in a web program concerning performance of the hospital during the pandemic, pursuant to a comprehensive release which authorizes the program's use of the judge's name, likeness, picture, image, voice, personality, personal identification information and/or protected health information for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-22(A)

Remittal of disqualification is a three-step process requiring full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification and the voluntary affirmative consent of the parties and their counsel. However, we no longer prohibit remittal of disqualification merely because a party is unrepresented. We hereby modify our prior opinions to abolish that requirement.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-157/20-160

A judge need not object to their spouse independently hosting a political fund-raiser for a candidate at the marital home, but the invitations must not refer to the judge and the judge must not appear or participate in the event.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-133

A judicial candidate may not attend or participate in a fund-raising event for a slate of judicial and non-judicial candidates where the candidate's name is displayed on the invitation.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-161

Upon a judicial association's filing of a disciplinary complaint against a District Attorney, its member and officer judges are not disqualified from matters in which the District Attorney appears.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-159

A judge is not disqualified when the assistant town attorney appears before the judge, even if the attorney obtains the party's endorsement and becomes a candidate for non-judicial office on the judge's slate.
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New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-177

A town or village justice has discretion, based upon the totality of circumstances involving the law enforcement officer assigned to their court, to permit, or not, the officer to distribute a prosecutor's plea agreements in or adjacent to the court at the prosecution's request.
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