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Judicial ethics code applies to social networking, ABA panel says (access required)

POSTED: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 1:29 pm

BY: Pat Murphy, Dolan Media Newswires

Judges must follow the ethics rules governing social relationships and contacts when engaged in electronic social networking, an American Bar Association committee has made clear in a new ethics opinion.

Commission to consider judges’ recall signatures

POSTED: Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 at 9:45 am

BY: Associated Press

The Wisconsin Judicial Commission could decide Friday whether to take any action against 29 state circuit court judges who signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker.

State’s high court to consider treatment court rules (access required)

POSTED: Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 3:18 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

Treatment court judges serve as both enforcers of the law and collaborators with defendants; a unique dichotomy that can test ethical boundaries.

29 judges sign Walker recall petition

More than two dozen Wisconsin judges from 16 counties were among the tens of thousands of people who signed petitions to recall Gov. Scott Walker, according to a newspaper analysis.

Commission files complaint over choking incident (UPDATE) (access required)

POSTED: Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 3:42 pm

BY: Jack Zemlicka, jack.zemlicka@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Judicial Commission filed a formal complaint Friday against Justice David Prosser over his physical encounter with fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley last June.

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