In Re Barr’s Empirical Analysis

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25 state decisions

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1. “Arguments in other jurisdictions that constitutional and statutory provisions for the discipline of judges were vague or overbroad have been consistently rejected on the ground that the Code of Judicial Conduct furnished sufficient specification of the judicial conduct which warrants disciplinary action. ... Statutes and constitutional provisions which define in similarly broad terms the grounds for removal of judges from office have been upheld in In re Lowery, 999 S.W.2d 639 (Tex.Rev.Trib.1998, pet.denied); Napolitano v. Ward, 317 F.Supp. 79 (N.D.Ill.1970) ("for cause"); Keiser v. Bell, 332 F.Supp. 608 (E.D.Pa.1971); Halleck v. Berliner, 427 F.Supp. 1225 (D.D.C.1977); In re Nowell, 293 N.C. 235 , 237 S.E.2d 246 (1977); Nicholson v. Judicial Retirement and Removal Comm., 562 S.W.2d 306 (Ky.1978); and In re Gillard, 271 N.W.2d 785 (Minn.1978). In light of these decisions, we find no merit in Respondent's contention that the standards he was found to have violated are unconstitutionally vague. While the Canons challenged in this matter may proscribe some speech and conduct which, for other persons in other circumstances, could not be constitutionally proscribed, Respondent's contention that they are unconstitutionally overbroad must be and is rejected. It is well established that judges, in company with other public servants, must suffer from time to time such limits on these rights as are appropriate to the exercise in given situations of their official duties or functions. I”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Disciplinary Action Against McGuire · Judicial Conduct Commission v. McGuire

2. “willful or persistent conduct that is clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of [the judge's] duties or casts public discredit upon the *Page 729 judiciary or administration of justice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Rose

3. “a statement of objections to the report of the special master, setting forth all objections to the report and all reasons in opposition to the findings as sufficient grounds for removal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Rose