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4 verbatim requirements from admin. order AO 2.21 - Establishing Policy Prohibiting Court Employees From Accepting Gifts (7/18/00) [Judicial].
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/ao/ao_2_21.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Conduct, a judicial officer or quasi-judicial officer may not accept gifts, favors, bequests or loans from lawyers or their firms if those lawyers or firms are likely to come before the judicial officer or quasi-judicial officer. • In addition, a judicial officer or quasi-judicial officer is prohibited from accepting gifts, favors, bequests or loans from clients of lawyers or their firms when the clients' interests have come or are likely to come before the judicial officer or quasi- judicial officer. -- 1 of 3 -- • In the ca se of any gift from any other source , if its value exceeds $100, the judge must rep ort its rece ipt in accordan ce with the ap plic able provisions of Canon 6 of the Code of Judicial Conduct. 4 . • Wh ile the Code of Judicial Conduct does not spec ific ally apply to judicial staff, which would include staff att orn eys, judicial assistants, bailiffs, and other court per sonnel, Canon 3C(2) provides that "A judge shall require staff, co urt of fic ials, and others subject to the judge 's dir ection and control to observe the standards of fid elity and diligenc e that apply to the judge ... . "
Conduct, a judicial officer or quasi-judicial officer may not accept gifts, favors, bequests or loans from lawyers or their firms if those lawyers or firms are likely to come before the judicial officer or quasi-judicial officer.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 8ad9fb6200cc140cd56da067b826ee9fcd86dcbd955f49ce5d64b4a103bc929a. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
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