The party Tuesday night is billed as a Victory Celebration for Alison L. Asti, judge-elect to the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. It is also a fundraiser, with tickets starting at $150 per person and topping out at $1,000 for a VIP sponsorship. Such an event is not barred by Maryland law, but a post-election fundraising soiree is unusual for a state judicial candidate. Asti and party organizers are adamant, however, that guests will not be buying influence over a judge 13 days before she is sworn in.
In February 2007, the American Bar Association, in the first comprehensive revision of its Model Code of Judicial Conduct since 1990, adopted a new Model Code. The new Code was prepared by an ABA Joint Commission created in 2003. This article describes the processes leading to the Commission's creation, composition, and operation. The significant format changes from the previous Code are explained. A major portion of the article is devoted to an analysis and brief explanation of some of the proposed changes from the previous Code, with a focus only on principal changes and substantive additions and deletions.
(This article originally ran in The Daily Record, Kansas City, MO, another Dolan Media publication.) The final complete draft of proposed revisions to the American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct is posted on the association's Web site.
The final complete draft of proposed revisions to the American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct is posted on the association's Web site. As the nation heard from Chief Justice John Roberts, judges are society's legal referees. They apply the rules that permit us to rely on expectations of behavior by individuals and institutions of commerce and government and to resolve our differences in halls of justice rather than in the arenas of gladiators, said Mark Harrison, chair of the ABA Joint Commission on Evaluation of the Model Code of Judicial Conduct.
A complete preliminary draft of revisions to the American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct is posted on the ABA Web site with an invitation for comment. The code addresses issues of judicial integrity, impartiality and independence and the public's confidence that it can rely on those qualities in the men and women who preside over our courts, said Mark I. Harrison, chair of the ABA Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct. These are complex issues, and while our posted draft represents a majority view on each point, we had disagreements on various points along the way. We have identified those issues and others about which we still have questions in our report and are especially hopeful for comment on them, although we welcome comment on any provi...
(2) The judge knows that the judge, the judge's spouse or domestic partner, or a person within the third degree of relationship to either of them, or the spouse or domestic partner of such a person is: (a) a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, general partner, managing member, or trustee of a party; (b) acting as a lawyer in the proceeding; (c) a person who has more than a de minimis interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding; or (d) likely to be a material witness in the proceeding. Except for situations in which a judge participates in the management of such a legal or equitable interest, or the interest could be substantially affected by the outcome of a proceeding before a judge, it does not include: ( 1 ) an interest in the individual holdings wi...
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