The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a civil trial judgment should be overturned because the judge issued an order in the case after negotiating with the plaintiffs' law firm about a job upon his upcoming retirement. New Jersey's Appellate Division had denied the defendant a new trial, finding that Gerald Escala, then the presiding judge of Bergen County's General Equity Part, showed neither bias nor an appearance of impropriety by signing a "ministerial" order.
November 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a civil trial judgment should be overturned because the judge issued an order in the case after negotiating with the plaintiffs’ law firm about a job upon his upcoming retirement.
The controversy is timely because New Jersey’s rules of judicial conduct are under review in light of the American Bar Association’s recent revisions to the Model Code of Judicial Conduct.
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