{"id":1687,"date":"2024-07-05T21:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/municipal-judge-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-employees-at-holiday-party-vulgar-posts-on-social-media\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:16:39","slug":"municipal-judge-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-employees-at-holiday-party-vulgar-posts-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/municipal-judge-accused-of-inappropriately-touching-employees-at-holiday-party-vulgar-posts-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipal Judge Accused of &#8216;Inappropriately Touching&#8217; Employees at Holiday Party, Vulgar Posts on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A formal complaint was filed this week\u00a0by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct against an Elizabeth Municipal Court judge,\u00a0alleging that he inappropriately touched three female employees of the Rahway Municipal Court, among other claims involving social media.<\/p>\n<p>At the Union County Municipal Court Judge\u2019s Association holiday party on Dec. 14, Elizabeth Municipal Judge Richard Obuch allegedly became intoxicated within 45 minutes of arriving at the gathering and then inappropriately touched the female Rahway Municipal Court employees, <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/399\/115088\/RichardObuch.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the complaint<\/a>. In count one, the complaint alleged that Obuch also allegedly made inappropriate, sexually suggestive remarks to the women.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formal complaint was filed this week\u00a0by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct against an Elizabeth Municipal Court judge,\u00a0alleging that he inappropriately touched three female employees of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[334,676,2371,2373,423,410,2368,2372,2376,571,2374,2375],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accused","tag-employees","tag-holiday","tag-inappropriately","tag-judge","tag-media","tag-municipal","tag-party","tag-posts","tag-social","tag-touching","tag-vulgar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}