QUESTION: If a Judge and his wife purchase a non-legal related business, can the Judge list his name as an owner of the business in newspaper and telephone advertising?
WE ANSWER: No.
A Judge may manage and participate in a business closely held by the Judge or members of the Judge's family, Canon 4(D)3(a), so long as it is a non-legal related business (as in the instant case) and not engaged in proceedings that would ordinarily come before the Judge. Canon...
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