NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Recusal First-degree Relative — Landlord-Tenant Opinion 13-46 Background: A full-time judge states that a particular agency of the county government is a tenant of the judge’s first-degree relative. The judge often presides over various ...

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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Recusal Law Clerk — Pending Prior Case Opinion 12-176 Background: The inquiring judge asked whether he should recuse himself in a negligence action because an attorney who represented one of the defendants prior to the ...

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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Recusal “So Order” Stipulations Opinion 12-25 Background: A judge disqualified himself from hearing matters where certain attorneys appear pursuant to an earlier opinion of the committee. However, the judge currently presides in a compliance ...

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A judge was not automatically required to recuse himself based on his prior consultation with an attorney who appeared as counsel in the case presently before him, the Florida Supreme Court’s judicial ethics committee has concluded in an advisory opinion. ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Recusal Codefendant’s Trial People v. Walker KA 12-00749 Appealed from Niagara County Court Background: The defendant pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted robbery. On appeal, he contended that County Court abused its discretion in denying his recusal ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Recusal Codefendant’s Trial People v. Walker KA 12-00749 Appealed from Niagara County Court Background: The defendant pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted robbery. On appeal, he contended that County Court abused its discretion in denying his recusal ...

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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Recusal Prior Action Against a Judge in Individual Capacity Opinion 10-209 Background: The inquiring judge asked if he was disqualified from hearing cases before an attorney who had represented a client in an action ...

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts used his annual year-end report to rebuff assertions by critics that some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have flouted their ethical obligations by deciding not to recuse themselves from certain cases. “I have complete ...

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NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Co-judges and Former Associates Recusal Opinion 10-135 Background: A self-represented plaintiff requested that a full-time judge recuse himself from a case because two attorneys in the law firm representing the defendant were the judge’s colleagues ...

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Retired Justice John Paul Stevens defended his former Supreme Court colleague Justice Clarence Thomas, who is under fire from some members of Congress who want Justice Thomas investigated on conflict-of-interest charges.

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As the debate heats up over what recusal standards, if any, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court should be bound by, there remains the related issue: When a justice recuses, the problematic possibility of a 4-4 tie is born.

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Justice Samuel Alito said he should have recused himself from considering a 2009 Supreme Court case involving federal penalties for televised profanity - a move that would have changed the outcome of the case.

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