Aranoff v. Bryan

Petitioner, a judicial law clerk for the district and superior courts of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans Counties, seeks injunctive and declaratory relief enjoining all current Vermont district and superior judges from disciplining her for alleged violations of Canon 6 of the Law Clerk Code of Conduct, and declaring that Canon 6 is unconstitutional. We dismiss the petition.

The complaint states that petitioner’s supervisor, who is not a named defendant, has attempted to restrain her expression of personal and political beliefs under the authority of Canon 6. 2 Petitioner complains specifically…