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15 Feb 2017, 11:30 pm
A 2015 report commissioned by the National Milk Producers Federation and produced by Texas A&M University researchers found that a total loss of the industry’s immigrant workforce would result in a 90-percent surge in retail milk prices. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 6:25 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying “Records Show How Air Force Nominee Skirted Lobbying Restrictions” by Patrick Malone (Center for Public Integrity) for Politico “Nations Turn to Lobbyists Amid Trump Upheaval” by Megan Wilson for The Hill New Mexico: “Strange Bedfellows: How four Capitol couples negotiate love, lobbying, and legislating” by Matt Grubbs for Santa Fe Reporter Campaign Finance Alaska: “After Alaska Lawmaker’s Fundraising Controversy, Senate Considers Tighter… [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 6:42 am by Jim Sedor
Colorado – Colorado Ethics Commission Tells Aurora Councilwoman to Follow State Ethics Rules Because of JobDenver Post – Jon Murray | Published: 1/23/2017 The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission said a state employee who also serves as an Aurora City Council member should follow Amendment 41 rather than her city’s less-stringent gift rules. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger Jason B. Supplee
First, the Texas Real Estate Commission, or TREC, website at trec.texas.gov is your home base. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 6:57 am by Joy Waltemath
Though his boss did not ask him to report the matter to authorities, he decided to do so, first sending a letter to the Texas Supreme Court and then filing a disciplinary complaint with the state commission on judicial conduct. [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 6:00 am by eputsche
“Tyson Foods is putting profits over not only ethical standards, but state and federal laws. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 6:28 am by Alexandra Vernis
This month, the Texas Ethics Commission adopted a new rule adjusting the compensation and reimbursement threshold for lobbyists. [read post]
28 Dec 2016, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Cardozo School of LawSpeakers:Josh Blackman, South Texas College of Law Houston Khiara M. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 8:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Along that same vector, the Texas Indigent Defense Commission's Legislative Appropriations Request asked the state to pay for half the total indigent-defense cost in the next budget, up from 12 percent in the last one, rising to cover the full cost in six years. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 12:51 pm by Michael Grossman
Eschewing the grand American tradition of hauling themselves up to wealth and fame by their bootstraps, they elected to take a shorter, more ingenious, far more ethically-reprehensible route. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 2:11 pm
How an M&M foreign policy can rescue America from Obama & Hillary’s Kumbaya World” June Teufel Dreyer Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami and Former Commissioner of the Congressionally Mandated U.S-China Economic and Security Commission Larry Catá Backer W. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 3:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Among the ethical questions such arrangements could raise, the most basic is that a defendant could simply buy his way out of punishment for a crime. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 4:18 am by INFORRM
Wassom published the first in-depth study of the legal implications of augmented reality (Augmented Reality Law, Privacy, and Ethics). [read post]
13 Nov 2016, 7:35 am by Legal Profession Prof
A recent decision of the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct orders a reprimand and education requirements of a justice of the peace. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 9:45 am by John Jascob
Although he received a $117,000 whistleblower bounty from the state of Texas, a New York court dismissed his qui tam suit there, in part because he violated the attorney ethics rules by unnecessarily including privileged information in his complaint. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 8:48 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a living process that requires employer and other health plans, health insurers, health care providers and healthcare clearinghouses to recurrently reevaluate their HIPAA enterprise risk and timely act to mitigate security threats to electronic (ePHI) and other  protected health information and other HIPAA compliance concerns on an ongoing basis. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 6:48 am by Jim Sedor
New York – JCOPE Releases Draft Lobbying, Funding RegulationsAlbany Times Union – Chris Bragg | Published: 10/13/2016 The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) proposed new regulations for lobbying in New York. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 6:38 am by Jim Sedor
” by Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns, and Maggie Haberman for New York Times California: “State Watchdog Unveils Online Complaint System” by Taryn Luna for Sacramento Bee Missouri: “Amendment 2 Could Bring Campaign Donation Limits Back to Missouri” by Jason Rosenbaum for KWMU Texas: “Texas Ethics Commission Ends 4-Year Probe into Empower Texans” by Sean Collins Walsh for Austin American-Statesman Wisconsin:… [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 6:35 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying “Trump Transition Team and GOP Lobbyists Are Inching Toward Mutual Acceptance” by Catherine Ho for Washington Post “Lobbyists Test Post-Crisis Rules for Boards” by Theo Francis and Brody Mullins (Wall Street Journal) for Investor Relations Alabama: “Gifts to Teachers Worth More Than $25 Can Be OK, Ethics Commission Says” by Mike Cason for AL.com Campaign Finance “Tight Governors’ Races Loosen Political Purse Strings” by… [read post]