However, Robert Stern, a former chief attorney for the state Fair Political Practices Commission and now affiliated with the independent California Commission on Campaign Financing, said a code of ethics should be adopted by the Legislature that goes beyond conflict of interest to cover such things ...
•MN-Gov: Tom Emmer’s legal team, over the weekend, pulled a large number of frivolous challenges: 2,600 of them, all from Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Between this token act of perceptions-management, and signals from Emmer attorney (and ex-state supreme court chief justice) Eric Magn...
“His honesty and code of ethics are impeccable,” said producer Brian Grazer (“Apollo 13”), who recounts the time that he screened one of his movies for Meyer, who was bold enough to tell Grazer, “I think it’s really good, but it bored me.” Meyer, Grazer added, “is a very...
Now they are, in this documentary produced by the Baptist Center for Ethics. The stories of missionaries from various denominations, including those of the Rev. Paul and Margaret Griebel of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, are included. I look forward to learning more about these brave souls...
1980--Lewis defeated Beverly Nestande in a bitter primary for the Assembly seat left open by her former husband, Assemblyman Bruce Nestande. The county Republican Central Committee’s ethics panel ruled that Lewis had violated the party’s code of ethics by implying in a campaign mailer that...
Jackson’s attorney, William Powell Jr., who was at her side during the news conference praised Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner for making “a courageous decision” to drop charges against his client. “My only criticism is that it was not made sooner, back when the case began...
Ethics experts said they knew of no instance in which a judge had been disciplined for non-disclosure. As their financial disclosure forms have come under increased scrutiny in recent years, federal judges have balked at making them publicly available, as required by law. They have cited security...
The trial opened in early July with a surprise twist as defense attorney Bradley Holmes admitted that Thomas had killed Montoya, but argued that they engaged in consensual sex. The tactic was designed to keep Thomas off death row. If he had avoided the special circumstances crime of rape, Tho...
Key dates of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas’ effort to win confirmation by the Senate. June 27: Thurgood Marshall, the only black to ever serve on the Supreme Court, announces his retirement. July 1: President Bush, in Kennebunkport, Me., nominates Clarence Thomas, 43, a federal ap...
administrative abilities. When he arrived, the agency was the subject of a General Accounting Office report alleging mismanagement. “He totally turned around the management and reputation EEOC had . . . ,” said Fred W. Alvarez, a San Francisco labor attorney who served under Thomas at the ...