ALBANY – Judges may be penalized for “lengthy, inexcusable” delays in making their rulings, but such misconduct must be determined based on the circumstances of the individual cases, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The 6-0 Court revisited its 1990 finding in Matter of Greenfield, 76 NY2d 293, in which it held that the Commission on Judicial Conduct lacked the jurisdiction to discipline a judge for failing to timely dispose of pending matters except where judges defied orders or falsified records.
