By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 26, 2021
The Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics cannot comment on past conduct.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 25, 2021
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.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 25, 2021
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.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 17, 2021
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.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 14, 2021
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?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 14, 2021
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.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 13, 2021
A judge with personal knowledge that an attorney knowingly assisted a client in effectuating a transfer of disputed real estate under false pretenses must report the misconduct to the appropriate grievance committee.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 13, 2021
A full-time judge may not serve on the advisory board of the Center for Court Innovation, given that the Center regularly provides program alternatives to detention and incarceration for criminal defendants.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 12, 2021
Once the judge's law clerk's first-degree relative retires and terminates their prior business and financial relationship with a law firm, the judge need not insulate the law clerk from new matters involving that law firm.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 12, 2021
Where a new full-time judge was previously a law firm partner and took a loan from the firm's 401(k) profit sharing plan, the judge may remain in the plan temporarily in order to pay back the loan and receive the plan's annual employer matching contribution based on the judge's prior legal work and earnings.
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