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1. Nevada Legislative Immunity Decision Comes Down -- A Bit Too Far For My Taste

   ... article on the decision, which says that the ethics commission plans to appeal the decision. Despite its finding against the state ethics commission's jurisdiction over state legislators, there is good news for ...

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

2. Problems Arising from a Bribery Case in Jefferson Parish, LA

   ... Body:  Several interesting issues arise from a recent ethics case in Jefferson Parish, a suburb of New Orleans with about 430,000 ... The first issue is whether this e-mail constitutes an ethics violation. Jefferson Parish prohibits contractors from knowingly ...

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

3. The Public's Right to a Public-Interested Representative

   ... County (NV) district court, Carrigan v. Commission on Ethics of the State of Nevada (attached; see below), a city council member ... without any need, I believe, for any rights stated in the bill of rights to be applied. In fact, the court's argument here is effectively ...

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

4. The Carrigan Oral Argument: How to Deal with Vagueness

   ... Supreme Court in the Carrigan v. Nevada Commission on Ethics case, which I have been following over the past year, was the last ... 'Where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question, he is to withdraw. 'The private interests,' what does that ...

   Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 5 comments

5. A Miscellany

   Body:  Legal Disciplinary Proceeding as Ethics Enforcement Forum Occasionally, government ethics enforcement spills out from ethics and criminal proceedings into other ...

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

6. Truth Is Too Slippery, and Too Precious, A Thing to Enforce

   Body:  The biggest thing missing from ethics codes is lying. Everyone agrees that a government official or employee who lies lacks integrity, but ethics codes almost never prohibit this. It isn't that lying is okay, it's ...

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

7. Creating and Denying Conflicts of Interest in Harlingen, Texas

   Body:  In researching a recent ethics complaint in Harlingen, Texas (pop. 67,000), I came across some ... 2 ) Harlingen's Ethics Program Is Greatly in Need of Reform Oh, by the way, according to Harlingen's ethics code, the city ... Attachment Size harlingen tx.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...

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

8. Officials Soliciting Charitable Contributions from People Doing Business with Local Government

   ... doing business before them is unethical conduct too many ethics codes allow, often expressly. Miami-Dade County has in its ethics code what appears at first to be a very reasonable exception to the ...

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

9. Citizens and the Advisory Opinion Process

   ... the advisory opinion provision and comments in the City Ethics Model Code Project. On the one hand, advisory opinions are ... with the requestor's conduct, which I think is why most ethics codes limit requests to city officials and employees, although, ...

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

10. The Importance of Being Readable

    ... One of the most serious problems with municipal ethics codes is their unreadability. Few of those who write them seem to ... How to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents ( www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf ). With a preface by Warren Buffett and an introduction by ...

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

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