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Daily Report Online

Witnesses Take Stand During Judge's Ethics Hearing

"During your time being employed at the clerk's office with Judge Peterson, has she ever gone over with or trained you on the Uniform Rules of the Probate Court?," asked Judicial Qualifications Commission Director Courtney Veal.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

JQC Brings Multiple Charges Against Florida Judge

"The Jacobs case illustrates the perils of an improvident and incendiary campaign strategy," said Anthony V. Alfieri, the director of the Center for Ethics and Public Service at the University of Miami School of Law.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

'I Pressed That Button': Judge's Activation of Panic Alarm Cited in Ethics Hearing

"When I pressed that button, I sat there and just waited and finally a deputy came," testified Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-161

A judge may purchase a sponsor-level ticket to a bar association's fund-raising dinner and be publicly listed as a "sponsor" of the event.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Federal Courts Should Do Judicial Ethics California-Style

Systems already exist that could be extended or borrowed to address the risks that arise from exempting the nation's highest court from rules that apply to every other state and federal judge, according to Nanci Nishimura of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy and David Carrillo of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Colgate Professor Appointed to Return to NY Judicial Conduct Watchdog

Nina M. Moore, the director of Colgate University's Forum on Race and Public Policy, has written a book on criminal justice and is working on another about SCOTUS and affirmative action.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-160

On the facts presented, a judge may not participate in a public demonstration against gun violence.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-159

A full-time judge may participate, without compensation, in an interview for a documentary about the life and career of a now-deceased judge who served as the inquirer's mentor.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY's Top Court Hears Arguments in Appeal of Ousted Upstate Judge Who Pointed Gun at Black Defendant

The justice's lawyer—opposing the recommendation of the state judicial conduct commission—said the offense merited at most a censure.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Meet the Judges' Gatekeepers: See Who Serves on the JNC of Georgia

Click through the slideshow to meet the current gatekeepers who make up the Judicial Nominating Commission of Georgia.
1 minute read

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