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Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK), whose top executive invested in the Oklahoma City Thunder, almost doubled its spending on the professional basketball team during the past four years buying tickets, luxury box seats and naming rights for the home ...
May 25, 2012 at 01:45 | Source: Bloomberg
What they say about economists - ask two for an opinion and get three responses - might also apply to the nearly 20 lawyers litigating a criminal case. In this case, the multitude of opinions is wrapped in contentious bickering and muddled facts.
May 26, 2012 at 08:53 | Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Parent leaders from around B.C. are in Coquitlam for the annual general meeting of the B.C. Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils (BCCPAC) this weekend. Resolutions to be debated Saturday call for: - Boards of education to establish one ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:45 | Source: The Vancouver Sun
The New York Times' Jerusalem bureau was embroiled in controversy two years ago when news broke that bureau chief Ethan Bronner had a son who enlisted in the Israeli army (Extra!, 4/10). As Bronner wraps up his tenure, a new conflict of interest has arisen ...
May 16, 2012 at 20:39 | Source: FAIR
A controversial geoengineering experiment to simulate the cooling effect of volcanoes has been cancelled due to concern over a perceived conflict of interest with some of the researchers. The experiment would have injected 150 litres of water ...
May 16, 2012 at 15:38 | Source: The Guardian
The Lompoc City Council was ready to provide preliminary thoughts on industrial zoning at Tuesday’s meeting but the question of a conflict of interest was raised after Mayor John Linn proposed a plan for consolidating two industrial zones and mentioned ...
May 17, 2012 at 07:02 | Source: Lompoc Record
MOBILE, Alabama -- A 2nd official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency testified today that he did not know that Bayou La Batre Mayor Stan Wright owned part of the land used to build houses form Hurricane Katrina victims. Randall Kinder ...
May 22, 2012 at 18:45 | Source: Everything Alabama Blog
Editor's note: This post is part of the Overheard on CNN.com series, a regular feature that examines interesting comments and thought-provoking conversations posted by the community. LZ Granderson's latest column asserts that politics on both ...
May 16, 2012 at 02:17 | Source: CNN (blog)
Lawyers generally cannot represent a client if a concurrent conflict of interest exists, says the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, an ethical roadmap adopted by the state Supreme Court. That includes situations in which there is “a significant ...
May 28, 2012 at 10:38 | Source: Cumberland County Sentinel
The longtime marriage between O.J. Simpson's former trial judge and Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson emerged Friday as a conflict-of-interest question in a new appeal seeking the ex-football star's release from prison. Simpson lawyer ...
May 19, 2012 at 08:54 | Source: Las Vegas Review Journal