Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-24

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | June 22, 2021

    On these facts, a judge may not participate in an interview with a local news station regarding the experiences of the judge's first-degree relative at a local nursing home.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-214

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | June 21, 2021

    A part-time judge who is an ordained minister, and who is legally permitted to solemnize marriages in that capacity, may establish a for-profit business to solemnize marriages as an ordained minister and advertise such business, provided there is no use, mention or connection to the judge's judicial status.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-208

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | June 21, 2021

    Where a publicly traded company's sole purpose is the sale of medicinal and recreational marijuana and other cannabis-related products, a judge may not invest in the company if it is operating in the United States in violation of federal law.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-55

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | June 1, 2021

    May a judge serve on a committee to investigate sexual harassment claims against an individual who is a member of the same worldwide not-for-profit service organization?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-43

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | June 1, 2021

    May a part-time justice serve on the board of a local human rights commission?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-39

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 28, 2021

    What are the judge's ethical obligations if the judge's law clerk's second degree relative obtains employment with a local law firm as an attorney?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-35

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 28, 2021

    A judge may attend a sporting event or concert in a luxury box as a guest of the judge's spouse, where use of the luxury box seats is a benefit incident to the spouse's employment as officer of a company that is unlikely to come before the judge, and could not reasonably be perceived as intended to influence the judge in the performance of judicial duties.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-33

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 27, 2021

    May a newly appointed part-time judge request that all of the cases pending in the court to which the judge was appointed to be transfer to other jurisdictions?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-25

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 27, 2021

    A full-time judge may assist a bar association with its application for recognition of 501(c)(3) tax exemption status by providing guidance on the narrative description of the bar association's activities on IRS Form 1023, provided the application is filed by the association's attorney.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 21-16(A)

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | May 26, 2021

    Where a judge's law clerk previously served as law clerk to a recently retired judge, and that ex-judge is now employed as an attorney in a government law office if the ex-judge does not appear, the judge may preside and need not insulate the law clerk or disclose the prior employment in matters involving that government law office.

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