By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 28, 2021
A judge may accept or reject plea dispositions but, in doing so, may not adopt a broad policy that omits individualized determinations.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 27, 2021
May a judge permit their court attorney, a former assistant district attorney, to work on certain criminal cases that originated in the District Attorney's office during the court attorney's tenure? In one instance, the court attorney made a single appearance in the case, while in the other, the court attorney had absolutely no involvement.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 27, 2021
A judge, whose spouse had brought a now-settled personal injury action on behalf of their minor child against a city municipality and its education agency must make full disclosure in cases where the municipality or any of its agencies is a party for two years from the date the court signs the settlement order. However, the judge need not disclose in mental hygiene hearings where a city hospital is represented exclusively by outside counsel.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 22, 2021
Subject to generally applicable limitations on campaign speech and conduct, a judicial candidate may permit their campaign committee to establish a Twitter account for campaign purposes and use it to "follow" the judge's election opponent and/or other candidates on Twitter during the window period.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 22, 2021
May a full-time judge serve on a municipal community board?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 21, 2021
(1) A judge may solicit other judges to join, or renew their memberships in, a local bar association, but may not similarly solicit attorneys or other non-judges. (2) A full-time judge may not serve on the board of directors of a not-for-profit senior housing development that is likely to regularly engage in adversarial litigation in any court.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 21, 2021
A judge need not disqualify from matters involving an attorney acquaintance, merely because the attorney is the child of the judge's spouse's deceased former spouse, where the judge's spouse and the attorney treat each other as acquaintances rather than family.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 20, 2021
A judge may not provide a biographical video for use in a not-for-profit organization's social media campaign, where the required release and the overall context create an impression that the judge's video will be used to promote the organization and its gala fund-raising event.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 20, 2021
Provided a judicial candidate determines they will receive fair value for the expenditure, the candidate may permit their campaign committee to purchase subscriptions during the window period to a web-based service that (1) provides information on potential donors for use by the candidate's campaign committee for a flat monthly fee and/or (2) allows the judge's campaign committee to communicate live with voters by telephone or text for a flat per-call fee.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | July 19, 2021
A full-time judge who worked for an insurance company more than a decade ago and has a pension benefit associated with that company is disqualified when that former employer appears as an insurer of a party in a lawsuit pending before the judge. However, the disqualification is subject to remittal.
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