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1. Prestige of Office Provisions

   ... should be sought. In any event, it's worth looking at how a Baltimore prestige of office matter was handled. According to ... the money doesn't mean she should be able to determine how it is spent. According to the article, the same thing happened with a ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

2. Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

   ... products poor and, therefore, buys from another company. How many people ever leave their city or county due to a poor government ethics ... In other words, once a local government acknowledges how damaging the exit of citizens is and how difficult the exit of officials ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

3. The Temptations of Asset Forfeiture

   ... Body:  It's been six years since I last wrote about how asset forfeiture is a serious temptation to engage in ethical misconduct. ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

4. Ethics in Congress II - The Principles of Legislative Ethics and the Appearance Standard

   ... to the suggestion that his conduct should be judged by how it appeared. He insisted that only he could judge his own motives." If a legislator is the only judge of his motives and his conduct, how can he be held accountable for what he does? And if someone else is to ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

5. Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind II - Individualistic vs. Sociocentric Societies

   ... distinction also lies behind the problem of seeing how harmful ethical misconduct is. We easily understand harm done to ... Founding Fathers to buttress our arguments. We don't talk of how our actions today would cause them agony and possibly lead them to take ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

6. CA Appellate Court Protects EC Legal Advice on the Basis of Privilege

   ... regulations governing ethics complaints. Here's how the court's logic goes: 1. State Evidence Code section 954, confers ... legal opinion letter about the validity of the appeal and how the council should deal with it. In other words, the council was acting in ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

7. Model Code: Section #100 Subsection #1- Conflict of Interest

   ... and to not act where there is such a conflict, no matter how impartial they feel they can be. What matters is not whether one can still ... they should at least be included by reference. Please say how your municipality deals with this problem, or how you think it should be ...

   donmc - 2006-11-24 14:52 - 0 comments

8. Willful Ignorance by Government Attorneys

   ... cert. denied, 426 U.S. 951 (1976)). Roiphe looks at how the Rules of Professional Conduct deal with willful ignorance. Model Rule ... (Rules 1.1 and 1.3) themselves impose an obligation to know. How can you effectively advise a client if you don't know the facts? The ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

9. A Miscellany

   ... Ethics Commission Members with Political Conflicts How close a political relationship with the subject of an ethics complaint ... Springs, who has had a complaint filed against him. How divorced from politics should ethics commission members be? It would be ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

10. A City Land Sale That Requires a Broader Investigation

    ... a business relationship tend to help each other out. That is how what happened here appears to many people. The Relevant Ethics ... merchants association president and counsel, asking about how the transaction came to be, who was involved in it and in what manner, why ...

    Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments

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