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Civic & Charitable – Fundraising
Activities – Lesson Preview
- Judges may not use the prestige of judicial
office to raise funds for an organization. This is prohibited
by CJC
Canon 5(B)(2). (Opinion
86-18)
- Judges may participate in fundraising activity
that is not using the prestige of the judicial office to
raise money for an organization. (CJC
Canon 5(B)(2))
- Judges may waive the fee for performing
marriages but they may not designate that a donation be
made to a specific charitable organization. (Opinion
97-3)
- When imposing a sanction on a lawyer, a
judge may give the lawyer the option of making the contribution
to a local charity selected by the lawyer. The judge may
not designate the charity and the judge should advise the
lawyer that the contribution should not be made to an organization
which has a political agenda involving the legal system. (Opinion
99-10)
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