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The American Bar Association model code for judicial ethics also proscribes most gifts. The Pennsylvania code covering judicial conduct is silent on the issue of gifts, although state law requires financial disclosure. (Scranton Times, PA)
Today's Business Calendar Apr 10, 2007
Attorney Frederic K. Upton, of counsel to Upton & Hatfield, LLP, and a member of the NH Advisory Committee of Judicial Ethics, will receive the 2007 Frank Rowe Kenison Award at the dinner, and Attorney Joceline D. Champagne, coordinator of the Low Income Taxpayer Project at the NH Pro Bono Referral Program, will receive the Robert E. Kirby Award. For more information, visit online www. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
2005 DEPOSITION: Lawyer links judge to scheme Apr 8, 2007
Also, if the allegation against Mosley is true, the judge violated judicial ethics, she said. "You can't falsify documents to a court, and, if a judge had any kind of role in a plan to do that, that is going to be a breach of his ethical responsibilities in that it could be a crime," Rosenbluth said. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
Chief justice nominee sails through hearing Apr 7, 2007
An advocate of creating a mentor system in which more senior judges would assist junior colleagues, Rogers also said it's time to update the canons of judicial ethics and provide judges with "a more formal resource" to get answers to ethics-related questions. Rogers said she had been unaware of the controversial practice of "super-sealing" cases, in which lawsuits were deemed so secret that their existence could not even be confirmed, until the Judicial Department issued a directive banning it. (Journal Inquirer, CT)
Chief justice nominee responds to questions about Sullivan Apr 6, 2007
Sullivan, who retired in April 2006 and took senior judge status, was later suspended for 15 days for violating judicial ethics codes. The controversy led to the creation of two task forces, one by Rell and the other by acting Chief Justice David M. Borden. (Newsday -- State)
State panel admonishes judge Apr 5, 2007
The commission found that State Supreme Court Justice Marion T. McNulty, 56, ran afoul of judicial ethics rules in 2003, 2005 and 2006 with her "open and extensive" fundraising activities for Decision, Women in Commerce and Professions, a Port Jefferson-based networking group she joined in 1987. The commission's determination, which McNulty has agreed to not challenge, said the judge "should have recognized that her highly visible participation in the fundraising activities, as well as her... (Newsday)
Panel backs filing change for judgeships Mar 31, 2007
Justice Mark Gibbons said if the filing deadline were moved up to January, the court would modify the canons of judicial ethics and prevent candidates who did not draw any opponents from soliciting campaign contributions. In last year's election, 60 percent of judicial candidates ran without opposition, he said. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
High Court Advocate Ken Starr Is Justices' Summer Employer Mar 27, 2007
Mark Goodman, director of the Student Press Law Center, which filed a brief on the side of the student, says the justices' employment by Pepperdine "certainly raises questions about the appearance of conflict." Two judicial ethics experts contacted by Legal Times, however, say the facts are not grounds for recusal ... One judicial ethics expert points to a 1985 decision by Judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals ordering a federal trial judge to recuse in a pending trial... (Law.com)
Federal Judges' Travel Info Slow to Appear, Group Says Mar 22, 2007
WASHINGTON A new requirement that promptly tell the public about their expense-paid trips has so far produced no disclosures, a judicial ethics watchdog group said Wednesday ... Doug Kendall, executive director of the Community Rights Counsel, the judicial ethics watchdog group, said he scoured nearly 200 federal court Web sites without finding any reports of travel ... The new reporting requirements were intended to increase public confidence in judges' integrity and ward off proposals in... (Fox News -- Politics)
Kennedy Recuses From Antitrust Case Involving Son's Company Mar 21, 2007
Northwestern University judicial ethics expert Steven Lubet says that in such a situation the judge must recuse only if the relative is "known by the judge to have an interest" that would be substantially affected by the outcome of the case. Typically, if a relative of a judge is a salaried employee of a company in a case that falls short of life-or-death importance for that company, recusal is not required, Lubet says. (Law.com)
Mobile judge faces ethics charges; suspended pending outcome Mar 12, 2007
Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas has been suspended on judicial ethics charges accusing him of using his position improperly to help family and friends in trouble with the law. Alabama's Judicial Inquiry Commission cited Thomas with 15 violations of the state's canons of judicial ethics. (Shoals TimesDaily)
N.Y. Judges Advised Not to Link Recusals to Pay Dispute Mar 9, 2007
The New York court system's Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics has concluded that judges should not recuse themselves from cases where state legislators or members of their firms are representing parties before them solely because of the "long-standing issue of judicial salary increases pending before the Legislature." ... The judicial ethics committee, in concluding judges should not recuse themselves because the Legislature is considering the "long-standing issue" of pay raises, resolved... (Law.com)
Rell's Choice Hastily Made Mar 3, 2007
Tainted by Sullivan's actions, which the judicial review council later deemed to be a violation of judicial ethics, Zarella's nomination was withdrawn, giving the Republican governor one of her few political setbacks. Sullivan apologized to the committee for his actions last week without conceding he had violated judicial ethics. (FOX61, CT)
Zarella says high court isn't dysfunctional Mar 3, 2007
Sullivan, who now hears some cases as a retired justice, was suspended in November for 15 days after the state Judicial Review Council determined he violated the judicial ethics code. He is appealing that decision. (Newsday -- State)
Change how we select judges Feb 27, 2007
If approved, the judge served for life or until retirement, absent any crime or other violation of judicial ethics. Of course, when that system was proposed to the citizenry of the state, they cried bloody murder and the concept was abandoned. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Ontario judge to face review over alleged ethical breach Feb 23, 2007
"If a judge's rulings with respect to recusal are allowed to become the subject of investigations into judicial ethics and the basis for discipline or removal from office, this will encourage litigation tactics of intimidation which will undermine the security and independence of the judiciary and encourage judge-shopping," the submission warns ... "What is clear is that the trends in thinking about judicial ethics and standards of judicial conduct have evolved to recognize and embrace the... (Globe and Mail -- National)
Lindau Retiring from The Pilot Feb 23, 2007
This series involved interviews with a number of people connected with the case and reviewed judicial ethics and law-enforcement issues pertaining to civil rights violations. Lindau won another first place press award for spot news writing. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Attorney challenges plan because arbiter still is defendant in civil-rights case Feb 12, 2007
The judicial ethics complaint by Mrs. Ghawji against Fields, and the events that led to the filing of the civil-rights complaint against the judge, were prompted by the circumstances, rulings and decisions of the divorce case. "To reiterate, how can she rule when the parties involved, including the children whose custody she will decide, have sued her for violations of law and ethics?" Klayman asked in his letter to Bers, which was copied to the federal judge handling the civil-rights complaint. (WorldNetDaily)
Judicial Watchdog Resigns Over ABA Panel's Change to Ethics Rules Feb 7, 2007
Accusing an American Bar Association panel of secretly watering down judicial ethics rules, the administrator of the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct has resigned in protest from an ABA advisory council ... "It is important for judges to be held to the highest of standards, and an 'appearance of impropriety' standard is an important component of that," Cynthia Gray, director of the group's Center for Judicial Ethics, said in an interview yesterday. (Law.com)
A.B.A. Panel Would Weaken Code Governing Judges’ Conduct Feb 7, 2007 Broward judge faces ethics charges Feb 7, 2007 Local judge attends seminar Feb 1, 2007 COUNCILMEN'S FEUD DISRUPTS ELMA BOARD MEETING Feb 1, 2007 Rell will look outside Court for chief justice; won't ask Boyle to reconsider leaving Jan 27, 2007 Divorce case links husband to threats against sons, terror groups Jan 25, 2007 Judge takes witness stand in conduct hearing Jan 23, 2007 Civil-rights lawsuit alleges Memphis court violated constitutional rights Jan 15, 2007 Daily Debriefing Jan 11, 2007 Judicial Salaries at Top of Court Administrator's Agenda Jan 9, 2007 Woman protecting sons from Islam charges divorce court rules broken Jan 9, 2007 Politics, special interests crimp... Jan 2, 2007 Politicians might benefit from these promises Jan 1, 2007
Individual states often look to the model code as a template for their own judicial ethics codes, violation of which can lead to punishment as severe as removal from the bench ... Cynthia Gray, the director of the Center for Judicial Ethics of the American Judicature Society, a nonpartisan group promoting judicial independence and integrity, questioned the commission;s strategy. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
Embattled Volusia judge quits Feb 7, 2007
The charges carried a possible punishment of removal from office, if the accusations that he violated judicial ethics rules were proven ... DeLaroche's resignation stemmed from charges lodged last July that accused him of breaching judicial ethics in handling five traffic tickets in 2005 and 2006, some of which were assigned to other judges. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
That she violated judicial ethics in July 2003 when she refused to release a jailed inmate who was dying of AIDS, despite recommendations of prosecutors and defense lawyers. Sandra Perlman and Bruce Raticoff, veteran public defenders who battled Alem;n during the 2006 murder trial, greeted the news of the charges with relief. (The Miami Herald)
The seminar addressed topics such as judicial ethics, criminal jurisdiction and venue, search warrants, traffic laws/commercial driver's licenses, civil jurisdiction and venue, small claims versus justice court, legal research, contempt, inquests, emergency protective orders, family violence, peace bonds, juvenile law, school issues, contracts, landlord-tenant issues, rules of evidence, and civil and criminal mock trials. This is an on-line publication of The Brenham Banner-Press P.O. Box 585... (Brenham Banner, TX)
In a letter dated Nov. 17, 2006, from the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics Office of Court Administration in New York City, and released by Polak at the meeting, Associate Justice of the New York State Appellate Division, 1st Department George D. Marlow and retired New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas P. Flaherty stated to Pierce that "in (a) joint opinion this committee advised that a town justice should not preside over any case in which an attorney representing a party is also a... (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
The Judicial Review Council determined late last year that Sullivan's actions violated the canon of judicial ethics. As Democratic legislative leaders made it clear they would not consider Zarella's nomination before the 2006 session ended on May 3, Zarella removed his own name from consideration for that year. (Journal Inquirer, CT)
Mrs. Ghawji earlier had filed a judicial ethics complaint against the judge over the issues. Related special offers. (WorldNetDaily)
Vitek said Spitzer didn't fail to decide on civil cases in a timely manner because of laziness or carelessness, but because he is "obsessive-compulsive about getting things right ---- obsessive-compulsive to a fault."It makes him ill-suited for a civil assignment (as a judge)," the attorney said.Four of the eight counts Spitzer faces come from civil cases over which he presided. Some of the civil accusations were discussed at Monday's hearing.Three more counts involve his actions during criminal... (North County Times)
Mrs. Ghawji, who earlier filed a judicial ethics complaint against the judge alleging her concerns about terrorism have been excluded from the trial improperly, has confirmed that her husband also has told her he would be glad if their two teen sons, Louis and Takek, would blow themselves up for Allah. She's also alleged her husband has defined their sons' futures as being "good Muslims or dead.". (WorldNetDaily)
The Dartmouth Online. Thursday, January 11, 2007. (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
They were displeased by proposals to create an inspector general as a check on judicial ethics and discipline and to bar judges from citing foreign law, among other things. Does Duff expect these issues to fade in the Democratic Congress. (Law.com)
Judicial ethics complaints are being filed against a Tennessee judge by a woman battling her Muslim husband in a divorce case she fears could leave her teen sons at the mercy of violent Islamic jihadists and a lawyer who was asked to take notes in the case ... The statement from that office alleged Judge Donna Fields of Circuit Court in Shelby County for the state's 13th Judicial District "grossly violated" the Canons of Judicial Ethics. (WorldNetDaily)
As judicial reform also seeks to punish lawyers for corruption and to establish a judicial ethics committee, comprised of the Supreme Court, the Justice Ministry and the Korean Bar Association, to supervise situations of judicial ethics across the nation. The reforms would see five high courts establish appellate divisions to reduce the workload of the Supreme Court. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Rob Simmons, who narrowly lost his 2nd Congressional District re-election effort, should resolve to rent and repeatedly watch the movie Titanic" before accepting the job of state GOP chairman.New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., whose Democratic gubernatorial campaign ended with an overwhelming loss to Jodi Rell, might promise to find a less daunting challenge next time. Say, ending the Iraq war, for instance. Ned Lamont, the Greenwich millionaire who defeated Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic... (New Haven Register, CT)
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