Sentences with phrase «before ethics committees»

We have successfully represented clients before ethics committees of associations and private boards.

As noted above, no one is hauling judges and senior partners before ethics committees on the grounds that such practices are «false and misleading;» lawyers who retain ghostwriters for their blogs should not be inconsistently held to a different standard.

Council minority leader Mike McQuillen tried to convince his fellow Councilors that any allegations against Clay should be brought before the ethics committee, but Council attorney Fred Biesecker said that was not necessary because there were no ethics violations against Clay.

The statement reads in full: «I have read from several media platforms that Speaker Yakubu Dogara using the House of Representatives has invited me to appear yet again before the ethics committee over two fresh petitions on absenteeism and poor Representation of my constituency and operating a foreign account.

It appears Ashley was not separately represented before the ethics committee.

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In that regard it is a pity that Conservative MPs on the ethics committee were apparently uninterested in hearing from Mr. Wright, but then there are still two questions on the order paper that the government side might deign to respond to before the House rises for the summer.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

«The only instance in which a complaint would not be handled by the ethics committee would be if a victim insisted for reasons of personal privacy that it not go before the committee.

The NYT reported that Silver had used an undisclosed amount of taxpayer cash to settle a claim made against Lopez before these two staffers» complaints were referred to the ethics committee.

It was feared the package, which included free flights, would constitute a breach of bidding regulations and the bid team decided to withdraw the offers before an investigation by the IOC's ethics committee reported back.

Former Fifa president Joao Havelange has resigned from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) days before an ethics hearing into his conduct.

The lawmakers had last week summoned US Envoy, Mr James Entwistle to appear before its ethics, priviledges and foreign affairs committee in futherance of allegations leveled against its three members who were on official programme in Cleveland, Ohio last April

The New York Democrat acknowledged his wrongdoing, but he campaigned in the days before the House vote for his colleagues to support a reprimand — a lesser punishment that would still require a House vote but not mandate a public dressing - down — on the basis that the ethics committee had not deemed his actions corrupt.

Sagay on Wednesday told press after the Senate resolved to summon him to appear before its committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions over comments credited to him by Punch Newspaper.

As House Democratic leaders reportedly are pushing Rep. Charlie Rangel to make a deal with the ethics committee before charges against him are unveiled Thursday, Gov. David Paterson said this morning he is fully behind the embattled Harlem congressman and his bid to retain the seat he had held since 1971.

The Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Na'Allah, on Wednesday had read Prof. Sagay's comment to his colleagues who subsequently resolved to summon the senior lawyer to appear before the committee on ethics, privileges and public petitions to explain his statement.

Sources with knowledge of Rangel's plans also said the 80 - year - old New York Democrat will ask the House ethics committee, which found him guilty of 11 ethics violations Nov. 16, for permission to speak to the full House before any sanction is carried out.

Washington (CNN)- Rep. Maxine Waters, D - California, called on the House ethics committee Monday to either schedule her trial before Congress completes this year's lame duck session or explain why it won't go forward.

Washington (CNN)- In a highly unusual move, every Republican member of the House ethics committee issued a statement Tuesday blasting the Democratic chairwoman for «stalling» on making a decision on whether to hold trials for New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel and California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters before November's election.

Most of Rangel's legislative success, including the historic ObamaCare bill, came when he was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 2007 to 2010, before he stepped down during the ethics probe.

Lopez, according to documents released Saturday, had been given an opportunity to testify before the Assembly ethics committee, but chose instead to send a letter from his attorney that refuted the accusations.

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D - Sunnyside) will face a trial before the House Ethics Committee to determine whether he violated ethics rules following a House panel's recent investigation.

The independent arm, which vets complaints before sending them to the ethics committee for action, was established after the House passed ethics rules in 2007 to clean up what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dubbed the «culture of corruption.»

«The only instance in which a complaint would not be handled by the ethics committee would be if a victim insisted for reasons of personal privacy that it not go before the committee,» Whyland said.

In the days before university ethics committees became ascendant, studies sometimes included subjects who had more than a passing acquaintance with the researchers yet were still treated in a manner that seems a bit shocking today.

The Tate said that its board had now pledged to seek permission before acquiring further artworks by trustees and had added an independent member to its ethics committee.

He has testified as an expert witness on the theology, ethics, science, and economics of climate change policy before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce; briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy; delivered a paper at a conference at the Vatican sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; and spoken at the 2008, 2009, and 2010 International Conferences on Climate Change and at colleges, churches, and other venues.

Thomas Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, spoke before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee specifically to the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet who are exploring issues related to judicial transparency and ethics.

Mr. Lowell has been counsel to the US House of Representatives twice, most recently when he was Chief Minority Counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and before that as special ethics counsel to the House Committee of Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee).

Professor Stephen Wigmore, chairman of the BTS's ethics committee, argues that the speed with which donors are matched to patients — sometimes in as little as a week — implies that prisoners are being selected for transplantation before execution.

Reviews all ethics complaints and requests for arbitration for potential hearings before the Professional Standards Committee.