Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-61

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-60

    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?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-59

    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?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-58

    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?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-57

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-56

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 5, 2024

    A full-time judge may serve on a nominating committee which reviews employment applications for a local Boy Scout Council, and makes recommendations to the Council's board of directors.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-55

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 4, 2024

    Where a judge has only a professional relationship with an attorney, and has no pre-existing relationship with the attorney's non-attorney child, what are the judge's ethical obligations after officiating at and attending the attorney's child's wedding?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-54

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | February 1, 2024

    (1) A judge's impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned based on (a) de minimis political contributions made more than two years ago or (b) the business and/or political activities of the judge's first-degree relative, where the relative has no direct or indirect involvement in the proceeding and no interests that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-53

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 31, 2024

    A full-time quasi-judicial official may not join a government advisory council that seeks to implement comprehensive domestic violence services to survivors who need assistance addressing child support, unless the council's membership includes representation from all participants in the adjudicative process.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 23-52

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | January 30, 2024

    May a full-time judge ethically purchase and renovate a building at the judge's sole personal expense, and donate it to a not-for-profit religious organization for which the judge is also the head minister?

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