FLORIDA
Story
reports that the Dade County Bar Association’s Judicial Campaign
Practices Commission issued an opinion regarding
a comment made by a judicial candidate about the incumbent judge’s
work practices. The challenger claimed the incumbent judge was not a
"full time time" because he served as the administrative
judge for the court. Bar Association: Candidate
violated canon of ethics, Miami Herald, June 29, 2006. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/14925322.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_local
MARYLAND
Story
reports that the state's Judicial Campaign Conduct Committee has
issued an opinion against a challenger's advertisements. According
to the committee, the ads and other material were designed in a way to give the impression the
candidate was already a
judge. Ethics panel calls judicial candidate's signs misleading,
Baltimore Sun, July 4, 2006. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.judge04jul04,0,1102594.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
Article
describes tone of judicial campaigns as "too strident" and
describes the state's Judicial Campaign Oversight Committee. Details
the organization and the hopes of the Committee that candidates will
take the "high road". Editorial also notes a letter sent
by the Committee the previous week expressing concern over election
ads.
Six
circuit court judge challenger candidates cold on pledging to
ethical code, The Daily Record (Baltimore, MD), June 12, 2006. Click
here for article
TENNESSEE
Articles
reports that the state's Bar Association is urging candidates not to
answer a questionnaire circulating that asks their views on social
and political issues. Also lists the candidates that have signed the
Tennessee
Fair Judicial Campaign Code of Conduct.
Fowler
criticizes judicial hopefuls’ ‘conduct code’, Chattanooga
Times Free Press, June 21, 2006.
http://epaper.wehco.com/WebChannel/ShowStory.asp?Path=ChatTFPress/2006/06/21&ID=Ar00903
Group
surveys judges on abortion, gay marriage, Associated Press, June
21, 2006.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060621/NEWS01/606210416/1006/NEWS01
