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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 23, 2024
(1) A judge who previously served as General Counsel to the District Attorney is disqualified from presiding over any matter that the judge knows he/she was personally involved in or supervised in any way as an attorney, even minimally.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 22, 2024
May a full-time judge participate as a presenter or panel member at a public high school's Global Citizenship Day, a non-fundraising event?
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 21, 2024
A judge may be honored at a non-fund-raising event held by a not-for-profit organization, even where the entity will recognize the judge for prior assistance in fund-raising before the judge assumed judicial office.
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.
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.
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.
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"?
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?
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.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 10, 2024
May a judicial association honor an elected official at a non-fund-raising event for their role in increasing diversity in the judiciary, provided the event is not political?
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