The ethics opinion comes after a 2011 article by The Associated Press on the governor's use of state aircraft to fly home to Westchester.
In an ethics opinion issued last year, a New York lawyers' association concluded that even in the rare cases where state law allows disclosure, lawyers should be prevented from claiming a bounty because the prospect of financial gain would cloud their professional judgment.
Christensen and Fallin had requested the ethics opinion to clarify if he would be able to do the work.
But then he dug further and found an obscure 2010 ethics opinion that concluded Kansas' campaign finance law doesn't apply to judicial retention elections.
Justice Stephen Breyer, reportedly steeled in his resolve by an ethics opinion he privately commissioned, sat on the principal cases that challenged the constitutionality of the federal sentencing statute of which he was a principal draftsman.
13 Ethics opinion has been sought from research host organisations.
Ethics opinion was sought for each research host organisation participating and deemed not required.
The CADET trial and nested qualitative study was given a favourable ethics opinion by the South West Research Ethics Committee on behalf of the NHS National Research Ethics.
The North West Research Ethics Committee granted a favourable ethics opinion (07/MRE08/5), and 37 NHS Research Management and Governance organisations for the 88 practices approved the study.
Although some good has come from the involvement of bioethicists with the media, we should be careful in praising at least one particular characteristic of such engagement, namely the tendency to provide an instant expert ethics opinion.
In addition to investigating complaints and helping the Commission with needed research for ethics opinions, IEC staff also have an important role to play in preventing ethics problems before they happen.
