By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 18, 2024
A Surrogate's Court judge is not required to remove a Public Administrator who has served for many years if an associate in the Public Administrator's law firm marries the child of a New York State judge.
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By Cedra Mayfield | April 18, 2024
"[T]he real reality is that my opponent remains on the ballot," said incumbent Henry County State Court Judge Stephen N. Knights Jr. "There was talk but no action."
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 17, 2024
(1) A town justice may not grant permission to the town court clerks to use the town court's courtroom to film for-profit training videos. (2) Whether some other person or entity may grant such permission raises legal and administrative questions we cannot answer.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 16, 2024
Where a not-for-profit entity engages in some activities clearly permissible for judges as well as some potentially controversial lobbying, advocacy and litigation activities, a judge may not participate in a voter registration drive organized by that entity.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 15, 2024
May a full-time judge (1) help distribute previously donated books for free to the public at community events, provided the judge does not personally participate in any book drives or other solicitations; and (2) volunteer to read the judge's own published books to children at a not-for profit "mobile bookstore"?
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By Brian Lee | April 15, 2024
The unanimous determination said it was also inappropriate for St. Lawrence County Court Judge Gregory Storie to have told lawyers that he would have accepted the defendant's guilty plea, despite the man appearing "catatonic."
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 14, 2024
May a full-time judge invest in a cannabis company which has an active state license to operate a retail dispensary in New York? May the judge's spouse and other relatives, who are neither judges nor employees of the Unified Court System, invest in, consult for, or be employed by a cannabis company?
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By Riley Brennan | April 12, 2024
The high court determined that Judge Robert P. Ruehlman, a retired judge sitting by assignment on the Jackson County Court of Common Pleas, General and Domestic Relations Division, was disqualified from presiding over "Jackson v. Ward," concluding that an objective observer would conclude that he was prejudiced against the litigant.
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By Riley Brennan | April 12, 2024
The high court determined an objective observer would conclude that Judge Robert P. Ruehlman was biased against the litigant.
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 11, 2024
On these facts, as candidates for a non-judicial office have made the judge's ethical obligations an issue in their election campaign and any attempt by the judge to correct the record will be readily perceived as partisan political activity, the judge must abstain from direct or indirect public comment on the situation.
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