NY Top Judge's Intervention In Critic's Case Alarms Ethicist

New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore likely violated state judicial ethics rules by intervening in the disciplinary case of a longtime critic who had threatened to smear her, experts told Law360, even as her Monday resignation casts uncertainty over the probe.

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