Judges and Judiciary
Aug. 28, 2014
No gift is too small to be prohibited, judicial ethics panel decides
Judges may not accept even trivial gifts from litigants or potential litigants, and they should probably not accept most gifts from lawyers, the state judicial ethics committee declared in a new opinion.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Judges may not accept even trivial gifts from litigants or potential litigants, according to a new judicial ethics opinion, and they should probably not accept most gifts from lawyers.
The opinion, released Tuesday by the state Supreme Court's special Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions, attempts to answer a recurrent, nagging question facing all judges.
"People don't k...
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