Sentences with phrase «in ethics cases»

In this episode, Megan Zavieh explains what it takes to reinvent your law practice when you're feeling stuck, and how TBD Law inspired her and gave her the confidence to reinvent her own practice with a new business model for helping self - represented litigants in ethics cases.
Self - represented lawyers in ethics cases are totally isolated.
He added that a partner at his firm is «representing a politician in an ethics case» outside of the state but «in the region.»

Not exact matches

Sessions told Jackson Lee he had been instructed by Justice Department ethics advisers to remain uninvolved in the Senate campaign, and he said the department «will evaluate every case as to whether or not it should be investigated.»
But it is precisely for this reason that Samoa Air makes for a good case to use in ethics training and education.
But my interest in this case has to do with the ethics of leadership, and I think the events described above provide for a good case - study of such.
But one major change in ransomware has taken place in recent months - and it is a devastating and scary one: Criminals are no longer adhering to their prior «code of ethics,» and, in many cases, even when ransoms are paid, attackers do not return access to files to their rightful owners.
In other cases, we'll simply see that people generally fail to understand the economics — and the ethics — of insurance.
In the worst cases, whistleblowers claim they were fired after reporting violations to the bank's ethics hotline or trying to alert supervisors to illegal behavior.
And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:
All the nonsense about marrying one's pets is an absurd diversionary tactic that I can only assume you engage in because you can not win an honest discussion on the ethics of the issue and / or the scriptural case for your view.
Evangelicals have regularly approved and applied this principle of conditional obedience in the case of preaching and personal ethics.
So I speak as someone who has struggled with, and in some cases regretted, her decisions at the ballot box, and who recognizes no single political party boasts a consistent pro-life ethic, just as no single political party embodies the teachings of Jesus or the values of his Kingdom.
As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.
In these cases, the ethics of justice make two demands: that the negative impact on the environment and on certain people will be offset by a clear benefit to the larger society, and that individuals and communities suffering adverse effects are offered a means of redress and are duly compensated.
Nevertheless, as in the case of priests, artists and perhaps even true politicians, more is required from the physician than merely a paid service, namely his own person and his ethics, which is part of his work.
And Singer is drawn to the difficult, sometimes sensational cases in applied ethics.
Although I dunk that Gewirth's proposal is subject to the criticism of nonteleological ethics I suggested summarily near the outset, anything approaching a decisive resolution of this issue in favor of teleological ethics will require nothing less than a more or less complete case for a metaphysical proposal.
They want to «explore how that affirmation in the case of both celibate and non-celibate relationships might be more fully articulated in our theological ethics and better communicated in our pastoral and missional practice...» (para 63) The Bishops note that this has implications for straight relationships too.
In the case of the deep ecologists, Christians can recognize that in many instances a Christian environmental ethic — often called stewardship — has been shallow rather than deeIn the case of the deep ecologists, Christians can recognize that in many instances a Christian environmental ethic — often called stewardship — has been shallow rather than deein many instances a Christian environmental ethic — often called stewardship — has been shallow rather than deep.
Second, pragmatism, like all interest theories of ethics, has no way of escaping the subjectivism which grounds all value ultimately on subjective feeling, nor is this any less the case because of the objective methods that pragmatism supports for the judgment of whether our actions will in fact produce the values that we think they will.
Periodically every two to four years the people are wrought and brought to extremes of anger and vindictiveness and defensiveness the likes of which would shame their otherwise day to day decent and workmanlike business and bourgeois (and in some cases sheer techno - bureaucratic) ethic.
In most cases some teaching in the Bible, in Christian ethics and (or) in comparative religion has been instituteIn most cases some teaching in the Bible, in Christian ethics and (or) in comparative religion has been institutein the Bible, in Christian ethics and (or) in comparative religion has been institutein Christian ethics and (or) in comparative religion has been institutein comparative religion has been instituted.
In these real cases, were the attending physicians being faithful to their calling, even to the classical minimum medical ethic of «Do no harm»?
But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.
Is it not the case that nations are in their very nature fated to throw themselves at one another in a grim game of power to which the principles of ethics are no more relevant than to the death battle of prehistoric mastodons?
According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).
Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else - and that is broadly the case in our public mindset - then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded.
Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any role to play in the law?
Who better to talk about the possibility of following God's law in all cases or the viability of situation ethics?
Thus informed by both his Stoic ethic and his long experience in trying to thwart terrorist violence while helping the West understand it, my friend Yigal Carmon has come to precisely the same conclusion as Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis: Islam must develop and propagate an Islamic case against terrorist violence.
In the case of the relation to socialism of Christian social ethics and Christian church bodies, however, it is probably true that history should be remembered and reflected upon, precisely because the impulses that moved it are not just in the past but very much present stilIn the case of the relation to socialism of Christian social ethics and Christian church bodies, however, it is probably true that history should be remembered and reflected upon, precisely because the impulses that moved it are not just in the past but very much present stilin the past but very much present still.
In that case, presumably, social ethics has been the intellectual activity through which Christians have tried to figure out the moral problems of contemporary society.
Schweitzer was firmly convinced that one of the shortcomings of all world religions is that they regard ethics as ultimately separated from spirituality, as is the general rule in Eastern religions, or as myopically identified with the total meaning of religion, as is the case generally in the West.
In the case of Kesub Chandra Sen and P.C.Majumdar, Jesus Christ as the revelation of the Divine Humanity of Sonship was decisive for their faith and ethics and sought to redefine traditional Hinduism both religion and community in the light of JesuIn the case of Kesub Chandra Sen and P.C.Majumdar, Jesus Christ as the revelation of the Divine Humanity of Sonship was decisive for their faith and ethics and sought to redefine traditional Hinduism both religion and community in the light of Jesuin the light of Jesus.
On the ethics of this kind of journalism, Brock notes that his various movement employers (in this case, the Spectator) cared only about the political effect of his work, not its accuracy.
For instance, why not send out reprints of a case study that concludes with an agonizing problem in medical ethics about whether to prolong life or let die.
The case will be heard by UEFA's control, ethics and disciplinary body on May 19, the day after the Europa League final in Basel.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Tuesday said he would be willing to discuss «additional changes» to the state's ethics and transparency laws after the guilty verdict in the corruption case of Joe Percoco, a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
US Senate designee Gary Berntsen is the latest in what I expect will be a long line of Republicans to pressure his Democratic target — in this case, Sen. Chuck Schumer — to turn his back on Rep. Charlie Rangel following news of the ethics charges being brought against him.
(Recall that the AG's office actually doesn't have subpoena power in corruption cases until the governor specifically refers a case to his office, which is why Andrew Cuomo couldn't compel testimony in the Troopergate case, but former Chief Judge Judith Kaye — working as Cuomo's request on the ethics charges lodged against Gov. David Paterson — can do so).
The impossibility of comparison may exist in some cases, but incommensurability fails to justify the ethics behind the ranking of values in policy matters; without compromise, the valuation of equal human welfare ought to be the chief concern in politics.
Two female employees at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who were punished following their testimony in a sexual harassment investigation have not been contacted by the ethics commission that was asked more than a month ago by Cuomo to conduct an expedited review of the case.
«The Joe Percoco corruption trial is now the Todd Howe show — and a case study in how Albany's lobbyists, their clients and administration officials frequently maneuver around the state's under - enforced ethics and disclosure laws.»
In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign nationaIn a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign nationain July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.
Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.
Two female employees at the state Division of Criminal Justice Services who were punished following their testimony in a sexual harassment investigation have not been contacted by the ethics commission that was asked more than a month ago by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to conduct an expedited review of the case.
Grandeau says despite the rampant corruption, all of the cases against lawmakers in recent years have stemmed from federal prosecutions, not state ethics authorities.
He's also called for ethics reform in the aftermath of several public corruption cases, including one involving Cuomo's former aide Joe Percoco.
In the end, Ruedrich admitted wrongdoing and settled the ethics case by paying $ 12,000 in civil fineIn the end, Ruedrich admitted wrongdoing and settled the ethics case by paying $ 12,000 in civil finein civil fines.
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