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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Prior Non-Judicial Public Role
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Prior Non-Judicial Public Role – Letter – Anonymous Use Opinion 15-65 Background: The inquiring judge became aware a letter he wrote and signed decades ago, in his capacity as a non-judicial public official, is being circulated for political purposes to oppose an individual’s current election campaign. […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-23
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Part-time Law Professor School Clinic Program Opinion 15-23 Background: The inquiring full-time judge is employed part-time as an adjunct professor at a law school which has established a clinical program, organized as a separate legal entity from the law school, and approved for certain fiduciary appointments. The legal clinic’s […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-42
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Sharing a Judge’s Family’s Experience Not-For-Profit Summer Camp Opinion 15-42 Background: The inquiring part-time judge has children who have attended a not-for-profit religious organization’s summer camp for many years. He asks if he may, at the organization’s request, meet with families who are considering sending their children to the […[...]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-19
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Former Law Firm Judge’s Name on Letterhead Opinion 15-19 Background: The inquiring judge, who ceased practicing law on becoming a full-time judge, has become aware that his former law firm may still be using his name in some of its printed materials including the firm’s letterhead. The judge had […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-20
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Part-Time Judge Employment with Law Enforcement Functions Opinion 15-20 Background: A part-time town justice asks if he may accept employment as the County Emergency Medical Services coordinator in the county where the judge presides. He would be responsible for planning, promoting and implementing county emergency medical services and for […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-48
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Magistrates’ Association Public Resolution – Justice Court Funding Opinion 15-48 Background: A part-time judge, who is an officer of a magistrates’ association, asks if the association may publicly support a resolution titled “increase justice court funding.” The resolution calls for amending the General Municipal Law to increase the amount [&hel[...]
Committee on Judicial Ethics – Ethics Opinion 1058
NYS Committee on Judicial Ethics Choice of Law Immigration Practice Ethics Opinion 1058 Background: The inquiring attorney was recently admitted to practice in New York but plans to reside and practice solely in Illinois and will engage in a practice limited to immigration law. Opinion: The committee stated that if a lawyer is admitted solely […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-60
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Fundraiser Honoree – Mitigating the Use of the Judge’s Name Opinion 15-60 Background: The inquiring judge had initially agreed to be one of multiple honorees at a fundraiser for a school the judge attended before college. The invitations sent out had the judge’s name on them as one […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-32
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Judge as Shareholder in Cooperative Housing Corporation Tax Proceedings Opinion 15-32 Background: The inquiring judge, who presides in tax certiorari cases, says he lives, as a shareholder, in a multiple dwelling owned by a cooperative housing corporation. He is not on the corporation’s board of directors, but has nonetheless […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-62 Amended
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Judge’s Spouse as Principal in LLC Rent to a Partisan Political Organization Opinion 15-62 Amended Background: A full-time judge’s spouse has a principle interest in a limited liability company which owns an apartment building. The spouse wishes to rent the storefront to a partisan political organization. The Judge has […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-16
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Impartiality Village Justice – Village Police Officers Opinion 15-16 Background: A village justice asked if he may preside in cases in which village police officers appear as they are both employees of the village. The justice has no social relationship with the police officers. Opinion: The committee concluded that […]
Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Opinion 15-21
NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics County Executive Using Judge’s Name – Touting Public Transit System Opinion 15-21 Background: The inquiring judge learned that the county executive wishes to mention during an upcoming state of the county address that the judge uses a county-run public transit system and the judge finds the service to be […]
Case Digests
- Second Circuit – Class certification: Arkansas Teachers Retirement System V. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- Fourth Department – Show-up identification: People v. Waggoner
- Fourth Department – Association: Victory Village Tenants Assoc. v. Evergreen Communities, et al.
- Second Circuit – In personam jurisdiction: Kaplan v. Bank Saderat PLC
- Fourth Department – Labor Law: Verdugo v. Fox Building Group
- Fourth Department – Out-of-possession landlord: Truax v. M.D. Meyer’s Properties
- Fourth Department – Discovery: Sylvester v. Sanders
- Fourth Department – Out-of-possession landlord: Smith v. Marshall Farms Group, et al.
- Second Circuit – Supervised release: United States v. Francis
- Fourth Department – Court of Claims: Santiago v. State of New York
- Fourth Department – Peremptory challenge: People v. Santiago
- Fourth Department – Negligence: Scime v. Hale Northeastern
Law News
- NY ethics panel says judges can join NRA
- Harter Secrest & Emery LLP names partner-in-charge of Buffalo office
- Banned professor sues SUNY Fredonia leaders
- Hochul signs law requiring unemployment insurance information from employers
- Appeals court cancels fine against Rochester nursing home
- Deal reached to protect reproductive health care rights at Jefferson County jail
- $1.5M settlement reached in fatal shooting by Canandaigua police officer
- Orleans County lawsuit against Genesee County threatens STAMP development
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