Sentences with phrase «proposed ethics laws»

The former enforcers also say proposed ethics laws wouldn't have stopped most of this ooze coming from Albany.

I mean, we've proposed every ethics law imaginable.

I mean, we've proposed every ethics law imaginable,» Cuomo said in an interview on The Capitol Pressroom in July.

Earlier this year he said his administration had «proposed every ethics law imaginable» and «you can't legislate morality and you can't legislate intelligence.»

I mean, we've proposed every ethics law imaginable,» Cuomo said in an appearance on The Capitol Pressroom.

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For example, in a promising and controversial book published ten years ago, a group of Roman Catholic scholars proposed that Catholic sexual ethics stop centering on procreation, natural law and the physical contours of sexual acts and focus instead on the creative growth toward personal integration.

Good - government organizations are pushing the bill, too, after lawmakers and Cuomo did not agree to any ethics law changes in the state budget as initially proposed by the governor.

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.

Commission members, Cuomo and legislative leaders are negotiating to craft a new package of ethics laws that would include some parts of an anticorruption bill known as the Public Trust Act that the governor proposed after several corruption cases involving state lawmakers.

On ethics, Cuomo proposed requiring state lawmakers to seek an advisory opinion on any outside income and closing an election - law loophole that allows companies to skirt contribution maximums by forming an unlimited number of subsidiaries to channel donations.

Kolb had said earlier this week — after the Democrat - led Assembly rejected his proposed ethics - law changes — that he would seek to invite the prosecutor to Albany.

Also: The ethics laws that we proposed do apply to the executive, right... but the executive does not have many of the liberties that the Legislature does.

Six new ethics laws were proposed Friday, the deadline to get on the agenda for the legislature's Sept. 5 meeting.

He has proposed significant ethics reforms and led the charge to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick announces that he has proposed a revision to Erie County's ethics law that would require additional reporting from elected officials, improving transparency.

The Town Board is evaluating at least one proposed amendment to the ethics law, while the Ethics Board is reportedly preparing others for its consideration.

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.

The setting was a public hearing on proposed changes to various sections of the ethics law, including those covering political solicitation and the acceptance of gifts by town officers and employees.

The package is actually the third ethics reform proposal to come out in the wake of twin corruption scandals that have rocked Albany: Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to tighten anti-bribery laws while IDC Sen. Jeff Klein proposed a gigantic package that includes nearly every ethics proposal of the last decade.

Woodstock Town Board members and their critics on August 13 voiced clashing views on a proposed amendment to the local ethics law and, more pointedly, on recent actions by the Ethics Board, the volunteer panel that administers and enforces the statute.

Gov. Cuomo has previously called for early voting and automatic registration, but the Legislature has been so busy on ethics reform — sarcasm intended — that it has not had the time to propose any new voting laws.

The Senate, for instance, in its resolution regarding the version of the proposed 2017 - 18 state budget, they say the «Senate denies the Executive proposal to subject the legislature and the legislative ethics commission to the same freedom of information law provisions to which executive agencies are subject.

Li said the ideas proposed by Jones would be taken up by CB3's ethics, by - laws and procedures task force.

When the agenda turned to a related matter — proposed amendments to the ethics law, for which the board scheduled a public hearing on August 13 — Wilber announced that town attorney Rod Futerfas, citing a judicial precedent, had suggested that the board could proceed under the so - called Rule of Necessity.

Bharara's statement comes on the eve of Cuomo's sixth State of the State address, where he will once again propose reforms to the state's public ethics laws.

China imposes special tax rules and limitations on foreign law firms» new offices, and Indonesia is proposing a mandatory ethics exam for foreign lawyers practising there.

Recent ideas for reform have drawn on diverse sources, including the Carnegie Report, 6 as well as newly proposed recommendations for «best practices» in legal education7 and highly publicized accounts of changes in law school curricula at elite schools like Harvard.8 Like several earlier proposals, 9 these reform efforts concentrate on law schools» failure to deal systematically with training for legal practice, as well as on these schools» haphazard approach to teaching legal ethics.

Further, and despite the thoughtful arguments made against this position (see, e.g., Elaine Craig's article, «The Case For the Federation of Law Societies Rejecting Trinity Western University's Proposed Law Degree Program»), I think the Federation of Law Societies would have erred if they had concluded that a person holding a law degree from Trinity Western ought not to be admitted because their legal education did not satisfy the Federation's legal ethics requiremeLaw Societies Rejecting Trinity Western University's Proposed Law Degree Program»), I think the Federation of Law Societies would have erred if they had concluded that a person holding a law degree from Trinity Western ought not to be admitted because their legal education did not satisfy the Federation's legal ethics requiremeLaw Degree Program»), I think the Federation of Law Societies would have erred if they had concluded that a person holding a law degree from Trinity Western ought not to be admitted because their legal education did not satisfy the Federation's legal ethics requiremeLaw Societies would have erred if they had concluded that a person holding a law degree from Trinity Western ought not to be admitted because their legal education did not satisfy the Federation's legal ethics requiremelaw degree from Trinity Western ought not to be admitted because their legal education did not satisfy the Federation's legal ethics requirement.

In this column, I would like to propose one relatively simple thing that could be done in the short term, either alongside larger reform projects or in the absence of such projects: start publishing law society ethics opinions.

He is speaking of last week's ethics opinion, striking down a proposed employment agreement limiting the right of in - house lawyers at BASF Corp. to move to competitors, as reported today by the New Jersey Law Journal.

The purpose of the proposed changes to RPC's 1.18, 5.5, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 is to address ethics - related issues that have arisen from lawyers» use of new marketing services, such as law firm websites, blogs, social and professional networking sites, pay - per - click ads, pay - per - lead services, and online videos.

For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most important or urgent ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.

Insofar as section 15 (2) of the policy permits disclosures that might be permitted under American ethics rules but are not permitted under Canadian ethics rules, the proposed policy risks conflict with the existing law governing lawyers in our country and could create a messy situation for lawyers trying to determine how to conduct themselves in accordance with the law.

The ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 proposal and the NC State Bar proposed ethics opinion both represent important steps forward in clarifying the ethics of cloud computing, and it's encouraging to see both organizations take forward - looking positions on the use of technology in law firms.

The North Carolina State Bar published the revised version of its proposed ethics opinion on the use of SaaS in law practice management on April 21st, entitled, «Formal Ethics Opinion 6: Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property».

Below is the text from my letter to the NC Bar Ethics Committee regarding their proposed ethics opinion on the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) in law practice management.

I would like to respectfully offer comments on the North Carolina State Bar proposed ethics opinion FEO 6 regarding the use of SaaS in law practice management, entitled, «Formal Ethics Opinion 6: Subscribing to Software as a Service While Fulfilling the Duties of Confidentiality and Preservation of Client Property».

In the NPRM we proposed to allow covered entities to use or disclose protected health information without individual authorization — consistent with applicable law and ethics standards — based on a reasonable belief that use or disclosure of the protected health information was necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety of an individual or of the public.