A Pennsylvania Judge was removed from office for favoring persons appearing before him based on their religious beliefs. The evidence established that the Judge would pass out cards with religious poems on them to litigants whom he believed would accept the message, and on one occasion, he left the bench and physically embraced a Defendant as “brother in Christ.” In Judicial Inquiry & Review Board v. Fink, 532 A. 2d 358, 368 (Pa. 1987).

A Wisconsin Judge was publicly reprimanded by the Wisconsin Supreme Court for his intemperate expression of personal views concerning the character of a person who was not before him and for statements in his letter of apology that manifested a bias on the basis of socio-economic status. In the Matter of Michelson, 591 N.W.2d 843 (1999).

A concurring opinion, noting the need for intervention by the trial court in response to counsel's egregious gender bias, observed: "A judge should be vigilant in maintaining the integrity of the judicial system by putting a stop to an attorney's misconduct in a manner that lets the attorney know the remarks or conduct, or both, will not be tolerated." In Vitko v. Vitko, 524 N.W.2d 102, 105 (N. Dak. 1994).