Judicial Ethics Opinions

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-112

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 22, 2020

    Where multiple high-profile, racially-charged incidents of police violence have resulted in ongoing or reasonably foreseeable litigation and intense local and national controversy, a judge may not participate in an initiative designed to promote trust and open dialogue between activists and police concerning those incidents.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-100

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 22, 2020

    Where a judge's first-degree relative has retained litigation counsel and sued a hospital, during the litigation, the judge must make full disclosure when the hospital appears before him/her.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-98

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 22, 2020

    Where a judge is being sued for acts allegedly undertaken in his/her former official capacity as a city attorney, during the representation, the judge is disqualified from matters involving the specific city attorney(s) who are personally involved in the judge's representation.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-96

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 13, 2020

    A part-time judge may serve on a county executive's working group to review training at the county police academy, where the group's membership is balanced and its goal is to help reduce and eliminate implicit bias.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-95

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 13, 2020

    A part-time judge may not serve as a business agent for a correction officers' union.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-90

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 9, 2020

    A judge may not oppose an elected federal official or candidate for non-judicial public office in an editorial opinion piece.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-89

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 9, 2020

    A judge may not mail congratulatory letters to a graduating high school class.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-84

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 7, 2020

    A full-time judge who formerly served as an assistant corporation counsel may participate in a panel discussion on legal careers for the law department's summer interns.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-83

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 7, 2020

    A Supreme Court candidate may write a letter asking voters to vote in a primary election for a judicial delegate who will support his/her nomination but must make clear that his/her endorsement of the delegate is for the purpose of furthering his/her own candidacy for Supreme Court.

  • New York Law Journal

    Judicial Ethics Opinion 20-81(B)

    By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 6, 2020

    A part-time judge asks if he/she may appear as a legal commentator/analyst on television or online streaming shows.

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