Tag Archives: consent
Jamie Lynn Grumet, Child Abuser
I thought the Time cover was photoshopped. Silly me. Continue reading →
Filed under U.S. Society
Tagged as abuse of power, child abuse, Time Magazine, consent, Jamie Lynn Grumet, Dr. Keith Ablow
The Ethics Verdict on the Homeless Hotspot Project
It was strange, and it seems undignified, but was using the homelesss as walking Wi-Fi connections wrong? Continue reading →
Unethical Plaintiffs in the Case Of the Shortened Penis
A greedy couple sued a surgeon for fast action that probably saved the husband’s life. True…he did have reason to be a little upset… Continue reading →
The Ethics of Interviewing Kids on Camera
In the wake of the WBBM incident, in which a four-year-old was interviewed on camera in the wake of a shooting and had his words unethically edited to change his meaning, journalistic ethics expert Al Thompkins reprinted his guidelines for interviewing juveniles on the Poynter site. I’m an admirer of Thompkins, but I found his guidelines almost as chilling as the distorted interview itself. Continue reading →
Filed under Business & Commercial, Family, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions
Tagged as Al Thompkins, bias, Chicago, conflicts of interest, consent, fairness, honesty, interview ethics, interviewing juveniles, journalistic ethics, live interviews, parental permission, Poynter Institute, The Golden Rule, WBBM
The Supreme Court Saves An Ethics Principle
Rescuing the states’ power to insist on more ethical conduct from their elected legislators, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that there was no Constitutional prohibition on state rules against legislators voting on issues in which they have a private, personal interests. Continue reading →
Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions
Tagged as appearance of impropriety, conflicts of interest, consent, Justice Scalia, legislators, Michael Carrigan, Nevada, reasonableness, Sparks, stae ethics regulations, the First Amendment, United States Supreme Court, waivers
Legal Ethics Train Wreck on “The Good Wife”
The most recent episode of “The Good Wife,” entitled “Getting Off” included a full-fledged ethics train wreck sparked by the firm’s habitually unethical adversary, the fecund Patti Nyholm. In the middle of representing the defendant hospital in a lawsuit brought by a Lockhart, Gardner and Bond, Nyholm is fired by her firm and removed from the case. With a twinkle in her eye, she approaches none other than the Lockhart firm to represent her in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against her former firm for discrimination and wrongful termination, on the theory that it fired her because she was pregnant. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Professions
Tagged as "Getting Off", "The Good Wife", ABA Model Rule 1.6, ABA Model Rule 1.7, ABA Model Rule 3.3, ABA Model Rule 8.3, Alicia Florrick, conflicts of interest, consent, duty of confidentiality, duty to report misconduct, Ethics Train Wreck, fraud on the court, Frievogel on Conflicts, Gardner and Bond, honesty, judicial incompetence, legal dramas, legal ethics, Lockhart, loyalty, Patti Nyholm, TV
Ethics Hero: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
It was widely assumed, including by me, that Republican governor Jan Brewer would sign this stunningly awful bill, which would allow any practice that could be called “religious” to be immune from community, cultural and professional norms of right and wrong unless they were explicitly illegal. She did not. Continue reading →
Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Heroes, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, Workplace
Tagged as abortion, Arizona, conscience clauses, consent, crime, disclosure, ethics, Eugene Volokh, free exercise of religion, Freedom of Religion, Gov. Brewer, legal ethics, medical ethics, morality, pharmacists, professional standards, religious practices, SB 1288
Consenting To Be Beaten
Using money to persuade the needy and desperate to harm themselves for the amusement of voyeurs and sadists is a depraved abuse of power. This is the basement floor of this category of misconduct, the lowest of the low. We should remember it, however, and the unethical values it stands for, when we see the latest TV reality show featuring has-been performers, hoarders or addicts embarrassing themselves for a pay-check and notoriety. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Health and Medicine, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, U.S. Society
Tagged as abuse of power, addicts, alcoholism, consent, consent to be harmed, cruelty, depravity, desperation, ethics, exploitation, Florida, G.W. Rolle, human dignity, Jeff Williams, Nadya Suleman, paid beatings, PETA, sadism, Shefights.net, Southern Legal Counsel, St. Petersburg, the homeless, TV reality shows, videos, voyeurism
Arizona’s Anti-Ethical Free Exercise of Religion Bill
Arizona is about to establish a law that elevates religion above ethics, when it should be the other way around. Continue reading →
Filed under Bioethics, Citizenship, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, U.S. Society, Workplace
Tagged as abortion, Arizona, conscience clauses, consent, crime, disclosure, ethics, Eugene Volokh, free exercise of religion, Freedom of Religion, Gov. Brewer, legal ethics, medical ethics, morality, pharmacists, professional standards, religious practices, SB 1288
Backtracking on Virtual World Ethics
Virtual world ethics are trickier than I thought. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Etiquette and manners, Gender and Sex, Popular Culture, The Internet
Tagged as analogies, avatars, consent, cruelty, Dungeons and Dragons, ethics etiquette, fairness, fantasy, games, intentional infliction of emotional distress, rape, Second Life, technology, theft, thought-crime, trust, video games, violence, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft
