By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 28, 2023
A town judge should not accompany town board members and/or engineers to visit property owners and provide information about a project that benefits the judge's outside employer.
By Committee on Judicial Ethic | March 27, 2023
May a full-time judge attend an overseas educational trip as the guest of a not-for-profit entity that does not appear in the judge's court?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 11, 2023
May a village justice provide the village mayor with a monthly list of the number of cases that have been tried or dismissed by the court each month, for publication in the village board's monthly newsletter?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 10, 2023
May a part-time judge serve on the steering committee of a compensation fund to determine eligibility and make distributions for certain defined categories of victims and/or survivors of an attack that took place on the premises of the judge's outside employer?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 9, 2023
(1) Where a judge's remaining unexpended campaign funds after conclusion of the window period are more than de minimis, but unusual circumstances make it significantly impracticable to return those funds pro rata to contributors, the judge may donate the entire amount to a not-for-profit entity that operates a childcare program at any courthouse of the Unified Court System for children of litigants in that court, with instructions that the funds be used for that purpose. (2) Unexpended campaign funds may not be used to commission a historical plaque for the courthouse.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 8, 2023
A part-time town justice may simultaneously serve as the chief administrative law judge for a town code administrative bureau in the same town.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 5, 2023
A JHO who presided over a contract dispute between a construction manager and a subcontractor (1) need not advise building residents of an apparent variance from specifications in the installation of certain bathroom stall doors and (2) may not direct the attorneys to investigate whether this variance presents a potential safety issue.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 4, 2023
A full-time judge may meet with a commercial television producer and their creative team to discuss a possible television show involving the criminal justice system, even if the meeting could result in an employment offer or business opportunity which the judge cannot commence without resigning from judicial office.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 3, 2023
May a full-time judge serve as the trust protector of a supplemental needs trust for the judge's fourth-degree relative by marriage?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 2, 2023
A full-time judge may teach a law school clinic that will research and draft proposed legislation to create civil liability for encouraging, assisting or facilitating racially motivated crimes. A judge may also propose such legislation to legislators.
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