Sentences with phrase «from ethics panels»

Psychologists need approval from ethics panels before conducting experiments and and usually those involved are volunteers and afterwards they fully debriefed.

He is the third commissioner to resign from the ethics panel in less than year.

Not exact matches

A state ethics panel, acting on a complaint from Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan, ruled in May 2007 that Katz's contact with Corzine during negotiations did not violate the governor's code of conduct.

Franken resigned after a Senate ethics panel looked into accusations from eight women who said he had groped and forcibly kissed them.

The issue first came to light in a leaked memorandum from the independent enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections, Risa Sugarman, a position formed in 2014 following an ethics agreement in the budget and the shuttering of the Moreland Commission, a panel formed to investigate corruption in the Legislature.

Now, almost two months later, Panepinto will not reveal whether he has received notification from JCOPE, the panel that investigates charges of ethics violations.

The little known and underfunded Republican challenger for Governor in New York has been getting a boost from incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo's troubles over alleged interference in an ethics panel.

Good - government group Common Cause this morning called for a public vote on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's future as leader of the Democratic conference as fallout from the release of an ethics panel report on Vito Lopez continues.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

The ethics pledge envisions a reinvigorated ethics commission with sweeping jurisdiction and subpoena power, comprehensive annual financial disclosure requirements and the creation of a panel to recommend limits on campaign contributions from individuals and organizations that solicit or obtain state business.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

«The ethics panel approved nearly four dozen subpoenas for documents and testimony from House members, officers and aides.

Last night, NY1 reported that an ethics panel advised Mayor Bill de Blasio not to solicit donations to his political nonprofit group from anyone with matters pending before the city.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio's political nonprofit group sought to convince a judge here on Wednesday that it should not be compelled to respond to a subpoena from a state ethics panel.

Formal advisory opinions are required to be made public, though the 2011 law that created the ethics watchdog panel prevents it from releasing informal advisory opinions, which are issued by JCOPE's staff.

While the number of calls from David to JCOPE is not overwhelming, the timing of several calls made 16 months ago raises questions about the frequency of contact between the governor's office and the state's independent ethics panel, especially at a time when former aides and supporters of Cuomo were in the crosshairs of a U.S. Justice Department investigation.

The ethics panel's chairman, Dan Horwitz, emerged from a closed - door executive session to announce the applications from three of the groups had only been received in the last day, and said the commission needed more time to determine whether they should receive the exemptions under source of funding regulations.

In addition to the dysfunction and dormancy of some local ethics boards, there are concerns facing active ones as well, including requirements that prohibit the panels from taking action without a written, signed complaint.

Cuomo's office sought to exert influence over the panel, seeking to direct or block subpoenas from the commission in order to get state lawmakers to agree to an ethics package.

Published reports in the New York Post and New York Daily News say US Attorney Preet Bharara has subpoenaed records from a state ethics panel created by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature.

Interference from the governor's office has been the subject of an inquiry by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, related to the governor's decision to close down an ethics panel called the Moreland Commission charged with investigating public corruption.

The active members are Allison Dodd West, who recused herself from the case involving the Town Board members — a fifth seat on the panel was vacant at the time — and Neil Ratner, a relatively recent addition to the ethics unit.

Even as he rigged creation of a state ethics commission to prevent the panel from examining his personal dealings.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

The city's ethics panel on Thursday reinforced existing rules on the use of Twitter and other social media accounts by elected officials — including barring them from using the accounts...

The document's shortcomings, they said, included its failure to specify the subsections of the ethics law that Magarelli allegedly violated and the panel's determination that McKenna and Magarelli should «refrain from intercepting (sic) meetings of other boards.»

That is the conclusion of a report released today from a panel organized by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), which assesses the ethics questions surrounding the controversial technique called mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy.

The proposed clinical trial, in which researchers would use CRISPR to engineer immune cells to fight cancer, won approval from the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a panel that has traditionally vetted the safety and ethics of gene therapy trials funded by the U.S. government and others.

Weightman's conclusions differ markedly, however, from those of other countries such as Germany, where an ethics panel has recommended shutting all plants by 2021, Italy, where new plant construction is on indefinite hold, and the United States, where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has deemed it too early to make any firm conclusions.

The EPA ethics rules that bar scientists with grants from serving on these committees also prohibit panel members from industry from working on issues affecting their companies, says the current chair of the BOSC, Deborah Swackhamer, a University of Minnesota professor of science, technology and public policy.

The creation of embryos with genetic material from three people has received the green light from an independent UK ethics panel.

While the research experience is the primary component, the program also provides comprehensive training such as interactive ethics course and professional development training exercises including the preparation of personal career documents, interactions with researchers from both industry and nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, interactive panel discussions, and seminar series to prepare you for future endeavors.

Mathews was part of a panel discussion on Monday on recommendations from the Hinxton Group, a US - British team that addresses ethics in science.

As this article, «Ethics Crusaders Crush SuperLawyers» (Law.com 7/24/06) reports, on July 19, the New Jersey ethics panel ruled that lawyers are prohibited from advertising their inclusion in the SuperLawyer publications and taking part in the selection process.

Bob Ambrogi: The other point I took away from that that was really critical was the ethics panels emphasis on the lawyer's duty to maintain confidentiality.

Impeachment push from Burnam continues as ethics panel awaits response from embattled judge Fort Worth Star Telegram Feb 21, 2009

In this panel, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, August 9, Rocket Lawyer Head of Attorney Services Matt Kaufman will lead a discussion on how to navigate social media while keeping your legal ethics intact.

While an ethics or arbitration hearing panel would make the decision, it seems clear from your situation that the change in cooperative compensation made by the listing broker after you submitted the purchase offer would not change the amount you were already entitled to in this transaction.

While arbitration awards may, at times, involve significant sums of money, they differ from the decisions rendered by ethics hearing panels in two significant ways.

NOTE: Applicant acknowledges that if accepted as a member and he / she subsequently resigns from the Association or otherwise causes membership to terminate with an ethics complaint pending, the Board of Directors may condition renewal of membership upon applicant's certification that he / she will submit to the pending ethics proceeding and will abide by the decision of the hearing panel.