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A Remedy for Lack of Ethics Training and Advice?
Body: How important is ethics training? According to Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Connick v. ... the difference between life and death. In this case, ethics training involved training regarding the requirements of Brady v. ... to a defendant. This is one of the most difficult ethics requirements there is. It goes against everything else lawyers learn in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Legislative Immunity: The Courts Are Wrong to Not Distinguish Ethics Enforcement from Prosecution and Civil Suits
... in the legislative immunity cases relating to government ethics is how little they attempt to distinguish cases outside the ethics field from these cases in the ethics field. Is government ethics no ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Council Approval to Bring a Matter to a County Ethics Commission
Body: Here's an odd ethics program rule. According to an article last week in the Advocate-Messenger , the Boyle County, KY ethics commission, which has jurisdiction over all the municipalities in the ... town council vote on whether a matter may be referred to the ethics commission. In this instance, a Junction City council member ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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EC Members and Ethics Advice
Body: Is it too much to ask that an ethics commission member lead the way, set an example, with respect to the single most important aspect of a government ethics program: ethics advice? According to an article last week in ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Discussing Ethics Reform Behind Closed Doors in Luzerne County, PA
... hold an executive session tomorrow to discuss changes to its ethics code. The editorial says it would be wrong to hold an executive session. ... for litigation." Why, you ask, would a discussion of ethics reforms lead to litigation? Because the county attorney "maintains ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Obama's First-Day Executive Orders on Ethics and Transparency. Mayors Take Note.
... an administration, with two executive orders on government ethics and transparency. It sends an important message to governments at all levels that even in the midst of economic crisis and war, ethics is a number one priority. One executive order, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Patricia Salkin's Local Government Ethics Blogs
... Patricia Salkin has been writing about local government ethics issues in land use cases. And since December 2008, she has been writing occasional local government ethics posts for the International Municipal Lawyers Association Local ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Involving Criminal Authorities Extends the Run of an Ethics Drama
... and two counts of conflict of interest under the town's ethics code (there is no ethics commission; instead, violations are misdemeanors, which are prosecuted, ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Two Calls for Ethics Commission Resignations
... of the Committee of Seventy's criticism of the Philadelphia ethics board assumed the truth of the Committee's portrayal of the city's ... it turns out that it misrepresented the law, saying that the ethics board was unethically employing a loophole, when the ethics board's ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Miscellany
Body: The Politicization of Officials Selecting Ethics Commission Members People should not be political footballs, and ethics commission members even moreso. But that's what can happen when ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
