By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 19, 2024
A judge may host an informal event at the courthouse, with light refreshments, to thank and recognize the not-for-profit entities that participate in the court's community service program by permitting defendants to satisfy their community service requirements as part of a negotiated sentence.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 18, 2024
Where a court-sponsored committee on racial equality in the courts has been directed to interact with the local community and develop projects that highlight local history, judges on the committee may publicly support an effort to rename a local geographic feature that currently bears a racially offensive name, but must not assume a leadership role in the effort or use judicial or court resources to file the name change application with federal authorities.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 17, 2024
After a judge's adult child has been convicted and sentenced, a judge may attend and participate in the child's subsequent parole hearing, provided they do so in the obvious role of a parent and without reference to their judicial status or otherwise invoking the prestige of judicial office.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 14, 2024
A judge may not host an event at their home for a federal legislator to discuss national issues with interested community leaders, colleagues, friends, and neighbors.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 13, 2024
(1) Where the town court clerk is involved in litigation against their relatives in another court, a town justice need not disclose or disqualify in matters involving the court clerk's attorney and the relatives' attorney, but must insulate the court clerk from such matters. (2) The insulation must continue until the representation completely ends, including payment of outstanding legal fees.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 12, 2024
A judge may accept a trade union's offer of a social dinner and overnight accommodations at the union's annual convention for the judge and their spouse, where the union and its members have not come, and are not likely to come, before the judge.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 11, 2024
A judicial association may not consent to have its name listed as a client on a consultant's website.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 10, 2024
May a full-time judge donate $100 to sponsor an award at a local Independence Day parade organized by a not-for-profit civic entity, where the judge's connection will be announced at the end of the parade and the parade is a non-political, non-fund raising event?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 7, 2024
A judge need not insulate their law clerk from a custody proceeding merely because their law clerk's third-degree relative has a child in common with one of the parties, where the law clerk has no familial connection to any of the parties, witnesses, or subject child in the present proceeding. If the judge chooses to make a disclosure, the judge retains full discretion to preside and permit the law clerk to participate in the matter, whether or not the parties object.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | March 6, 2024
An elected judge may make a charitable donation by check payable to a not-for-profit charitable organization in memory of the deceased relative of a district leader of a local political party, but may not send the contribution to the district leader for collection.
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