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The DOMA Opinion

…The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The case is Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. Linda Greenhouse had some interesting comments about it in the NYT a…

Conflict of Interest

…American Economics Association took a big step forward this past weekend at their annual meeting in Chicago, when they voted to adopt a code of ethics to address conflicts of…

Doing the honorable thing

…in what has to be an idea hatched after a 4th Martini at Chilkoot Charlie’s, Governor Palin’s attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the ethics claim she filed against…

Who is minding this store?

…not subject to the same ethics rules as government employees even when they are collocated and work side by side with federal employees and perform similar functions.” The paragraph goes…