Maybe the time has come for the Justices of the highest court in the land to voluntarily agree to participate in the same Code of Ethics which govern the rest of the federal court system.

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Dr Greg Gardner, deputy chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance also welcomed the High Court's decision.

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But Luttig is seen as much more controversial, both because of his record of written opinions and because he ran Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearing in 1991 after he'd been confirmed as a judge on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and that's raised some questions among legal ethics experts.

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Today, following the Ethics in Government Act as required by the Ethics in Government Act, and with the authorization of the court supervising independent counsels, the Office of Independent Counsel submitted a referral to the House of Representatives containing substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for impeachment of the president of the United States.

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They are of course already required to do so under the Supreme Court's Brady decision, and doing so ought to be a matter of basic legal ethics.

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In the report, FIFA ethics court judge Hans-Joachim Eckert wrote that the bribes amounted to millions of dollars' worth of "commission payments" from ISL Group, an agency that marketed media rights for Switzerland-based FIFA before going bankrupt in 2001.

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