Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-168

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 25, 2023

    Where a judge has been sued in the judge's former official capacity as a nonjudicial public official: (1) If the judge is being represented by the county attorney's office: (a) During the representation, the judge is disqualified, subject to remittal, from matters involving the specific county attorney who is undertaking the representation. (b) After the representation concludes, the judge may preside in matters involving that attorney, provided the judge can be fair and impartial. Disclosure of the former attorney/client relationship is discretionary. (c) Both during and after the representation, the judge has no obligation to disclose or recuse with respect to other county attorneys who have no involvement in representing the judge.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-167

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 24, 2023

    When a town justice learns that the court clerk and the clerk's children served as paid witnesses for a local attorney's clients on a limited number of occasions, and have since stopped at the advice of the judge, must the judge take any further action with respect to the court clerk's conduct?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-166

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 21, 2023

    Where a part-time attorney judge unknowingly arraigned a defendant who was a complaining witness against one of the judge's clients in an unrelated case, but then, on discovering the conflict, immediately transferred the matter to the co-judge and notified all parties, the judge need not take any further action.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-165

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 20, 2023

    A full-time judge who participated in writing a screenplay before assuming judicial office (1) may be credited by name as a writer in the ensuing fictional film, notwithstanding that the judge's contributions were based on the judge's prior unsuccessful efforts to seek judicial office and other experiences but (2) may not participate in a question and answer session following the screening of the film, even in an academic setting.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-164

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 19, 2023

    (1) A judge must report an attorney who, on learning that a non-party would only honor a judicial subpoena, personally signed a subpoena above the judge's name and served it on the non-party. However, reporting may wait until the conclusion of the case.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-163

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 18, 2023

    May a full-time judge, who has independently written and published a bench book, sell copies of that book to the supervising judge of another court in the Unified Court System for distribution to judges in that court?

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-162

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 17, 2023

    (1) Once a judge's first-degree non-lawyer relative, a college student, accepts an internship with a private law firm, the judge must disclose the relationship when the law firm appears before the judge and determine whether the relative has or had any involvement with the case. If the relative is or was involved in the case, the judge is disqualified, subject to remittal if the judge's relative will remain permanently absent from the courtroom. Otherwise, if the relative had no involvement, the judge may preside after disclosure, provided the judge can be fair and impartial.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-161

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 14, 2023

    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.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-160

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 13, 2023

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

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 22-159

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | September 12, 2023

    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.

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