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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 29, 2021
Remittal of disqualification is a three-step process requiring full disclosure on the record of the basis for disqualification and the voluntary affirmative consent of the parties and their counsel. However, we no longer prohibit remittal of disqualification merely because a party is unrepresented. We hereby modify our prior opinions to abolish that requirement.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 26, 2021
A judge need not object to their spouse independently hosting a political fund-raiser for a candidate at the marital home, but the invitations must not refer to the judge and the judge must not appear or participate in the event.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 26, 2021
A judicial candidate may not attend or participate in a fund-raising event for a slate of judicial and non-judicial candidates where the candidate's name is displayed on the invitation.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 25, 2021
Upon a judicial association's filing of a disciplinary complaint against a District Attorney, its member and officer judges are not disqualified from matters in which the District Attorney appears.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 25, 2021
A judge is not disqualified when the assistant town attorney appears before the judge, even if the attorney obtains the party's endorsement and becomes a candidate for non-judicial office on the judge's slate.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 24, 2021
A town or village justice has discretion, based upon the totality of circumstances involving the law enforcement officer assigned to their court, to permit, or not, the officer to distribute a prosecutor's plea agreements in or adjacent to the court at the prosecution's request.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 24, 2021
There is no ethical incompatibility between foster parenthood and part-time judicial office.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 23, 2021
A judge may not send a letter describing the court's issuance of a bench warrant, where defense counsel has suggested the warrant was improper and could result in civil liability.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 23, 2021
May a full-time judge, who served as a referee in foreclosure before assuming the bench, continue to hold the monies in escrow pending a court order directing their release?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 22, 2021
May a multi-bench judge accept an award for domestic violence awareness month in their capacity as a treatment court judge, from a not-for-profit legal advocacy group that sometimes appears before the judge in family court?
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