Sentences with phrase «ethics law appears»
Ethics regulations do require lobbyists and clients to disclose business transactions with state officials, but the 2011 ethics law appears to exclude reporting any dealings with a public official's residence.
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Having surveyed thus briefly the nature of Old Testament law, and particularly those portions of the law having to do with ethics and morality, we may now ask: What appear to be the central theological presuppositions of the law in its dominant emphases and in the form in which it finally entered the canon?
Christian ethics must make this distinction, else we not only shall lose the Ten Commandments from Christianity but will be obliged to ascribe to Paul a disregard of the moral law at variance with the moral concern which appears on every page of his letters.
Since this obedience is obedience to a purely formal authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.
If this already compromised Moreland Commission on Corruption is not willing to investigate the second highest elected official in the executive branch for what appears to be a clear violations of the ethics laws, they should pack up and go home.»
Despite appearing jointly together, both Skelos and Silver are far apart on whether to allow public financing of campaigns to move forward, a coming flashpoint in the effort to overhaul campaign finance and ethics laws in the wake of two corruption scandals.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose administration already appears to be in the crosshairs of US Attorney Preet Bharara's office, needs to deliver tougher ethics laws if he wants to avoid having his legacy tarnished by Albany's ethics morass, reform advocates said.
«This appears to be a textbook violation of government ethics laws and regulations enacted to prevent the abuse of an employee's government position,» Cummings wrote.
A law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.
The written summons to appear before the five - member ethics panel illustrated a deficiency in the law, said McKenna at the meeting and in subsequent interviews, because it did not specify the nature of the complaint against him.
Provisions of Section 71 - 3 of the ethics law prohibit town officers or employees from representing any private interest before any town agency and from appearing before any agency except on their own behalf or that of the town.
In a June 26, 2013, letter to the Town Board, the Ethics Board concluded a nearly five - month investigation by finding that councilman Bill McKenna and councilwoman Cathy Magarelli had violated the local ethics law by appearing at an August 30, 2012, meeting of the Planning Board involving the proposed expansion of Cucina restaurant.
(1) StudentsFirst's complete disregard for Connecticut's ethics laws and the fact that Michelle Rhee's group appear to have engaged in a massive number of ethics violations
Although their ethics reports appear to be filled out incorrectly, in violation of Connecticut's ethics laws, it appears that ConnAD, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc., spent nearly $ 825,000 in their effort to pressure legislators to support Malloy's bill.
One explanation for the proposal's failures is that it appears to have been developed in conjunction with The Connecticut School Finance Project, a charter school advocacy front group that has been working closely — in violation of Connecticut's ethics laws — with Governor Dannel Malloy and his administration.
The number of corporate funded education reform and charter school front groups in Connecticut is popping up faster than the buds appear during a warm spring week and these groups seem virtually incapable of adhering to Connecticut's ethics and lobbying laws.
Here we go again... Yet another faux education advocacy group appears unwilling or unable to follow Connecticut's ethics laws.
The committee acknowledged that allowing law firms to pay the salaries of judicial law clerks would implicate judicial ethics rules that require judges to avoid impropriety and appear unbiased.
A pioneer in the marketing of legal services, Jim has lectured at law schools on ethics and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs to discuss personal injury law and lawyer advertising.
Lat questions why firms pay out these huge bonuses; as he points out, Supreme Court litigation is a narrow niche, it's not all that profitable and ethics rules bar Supreme Court clerks from appearing before the court for two years, by which time they may have left the law firm for other employment (most commonly, academia).