Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-105

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 21, 2021

    Is it ethically permissible to accept and decide a "universal motion" from the District Attorney to dismiss certain specified marijuana charges, pursuant to a change in the Penal Law, "in lieu of requiring the submission of a written disposition for every arrest?"

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-103

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 14, 2021

    May a full-time judge serve on the board of councilors for a private law school in another state?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-102

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 11, 2021

    Must a sitting judge resign from both part-time judicial positions currently held on announcing candidacy for an elective non-judicial position?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-101

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 8, 2021

    A town justice whose spouse is the mayor of a village within the town 
is disqualified, without the possibility of remittal, in matters where the judge's spouse is expected to testify or is a named party.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-100

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 5, 2021

    The Rules Governing Judicial Conduct do not preclude two part-time lawyer judges who preside in the same court from representing two potentially adverse parties in a proceeding before a full-time judge in another court.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-99

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 4, 2021

    A judge may not monitor police communications on police scanners or police scanner apps for the purpose of learning who has been arrested in the judge's jurisdiction and will likely come before the judge's court, as such activity deliberately and purposefully exposes the judge to ex parte information about pending or impending cases in the judge's court, exclusively from a law enforcement perspective.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-98

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 3, 2021

    On these facts, a full-time judge need not report the described financial transactions under Section 100.4(H)(2). The judge should consult the Unified Court System's Ethics Commission concerning whether and how to report them under Part 40.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-97

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 2, 2021

    The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics declined to comment on the appropriate scope of disclosure of a recusing judge under Judiciary Law § 9, as this is a legal question beyond its jurisdiction.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-96

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | November 1, 2021

    May a full-time judge provide, at the request of a lawyer representing the estate of a former client the judge knew professionally for many years, a "family tree affidavit" to be submitted in Surrogate's Court?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-95

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 29, 2021

    May a judge attend, as a guest of the judge's prosecutor spouse, the purely social aspects of a multi-day annual prosecutors' conference, located in another part of the state?

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