{"id":60814,"date":"2025-04-15T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60814"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:43:37","slug":"nyc-formal-opinion-2025-1-a-government-lawyer-may-refuse-a-superiors-order-to-lie-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60814","title":{"rendered":"NYC Formal Opinion 2025-1: A government lawyer may refuse a superior\u2019s order to lie in court."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycbar.org\/reports\/formal-opinion-2025-1-ethical-responsibilities-of-lawyers-representing-government-officers-and-agencies\/\">NYC Bar Formal Opinion 2025-1<\/a>: A government lawyer may refuse a superior\u2019s order to lie in court.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;May&#8221; not &#8220;shall.&#8221;  So, what about the ethical duty to report the superior for requesting the lie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Bar Formal Opinion 2025-1: A government lawyer may refuse a superior\u2019s order to lie in court. &#8220;May&#8221; not &#8220;shall.&#8221; So, what about the ethical duty to report the superior for requesting the lie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60819,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions\/60819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}