In a rare decision involving judicial ethics, the Supreme Court set a new standard for evaluating the behavior of Judges in NJ. This case dealt with two specific issues: According to the NJ Supreme Court, this disciplinary case raised two questions: (1) What the appropriate standard should be to measure whether a judge’s personal behavior presents an appearance of impropriety; and, (2) Whether Respondents -- two sitting judges in Passaic County -- violated that standard by r