By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 25, 2024
A part-time town justice may not serve as counsel to the town planning board in the town where the judge sits.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 22, 2024
A part-time judge may serve as administrator of the assigned counsel program in a different county from the county where the judge presides.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 21, 2024
May a part-time judge who is also employed with a school district be a member of the Classified Employees Association and United Teachers unions, given that these unions are active in politics?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 20, 2024
A full-time judge may not participate in a local bar association's phone bank event where members of the public call in with legal questions.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 19, 2024
On the facts presented, the inquiring administrative judge has full discretion to determine whether there is a substantial likelihood that a part-time judge has committed a substantial violation of the Rules Governing Judicial Conduct and, if so, what action is appropriate under the circumstances.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 18, 2024
(1) A judge may not serve as the director of environment and legislation for a not-for-profit organization which seeks to promote scuba-diving. (2) Although the judge may engage in certain public advocacy activities where the judge has a clear and direct personal interest at stake, the judge may not spearhead the organization's efforts to protest a planned discharge of substances into a local waterway.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 15, 2024
May a part-time village justice permit a part-time village court clerk to also serve as a part-time assistant village clerk, performing ministerial functions in the village's finance department?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 8, 2024
May a full-time judge write law review or law journal articles summarizing the current state of New York case law and developments therein? If so, may a judge identify future issues in the development of case law?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 7, 2024
May a judge purchase a ticket to a bar association event where entry to the event must be made by a donation to a not-for-profit charity?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 6, 2024
A town justice may provide armed security services at a restricted federal facility outside the jurisdiction where the judge presides, where the facility is not open to the public and the position does not involve police or peace officer status and is not authorized to make arrests.
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