Monthly Archives: April 2012

Something for Everyone in this one.

April 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm

The weird thing about being a lawyer and an ethics professor is that bad news is great news for me. So today, when splashed across the New York Times was the headline, “Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle”, I was giddy for a split second. Then I felt guilty for […]

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Making a hard choice.

April 12, 2012 at 7:48 am

My entire ethics class is focused on learning how to make a difficult decision. Ethics education is not about teaching someone to have better morals, but about how someone can make decisions that align more closely with his or her own values. You see, I believe most people share a common set of values — […]

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More limits on tobacco advertising.

April 3, 2012 at 7:41 am

The government sure likes to keep tobacco lawyers busy. In yet another case involving the industry, a court recently ruled that the city of Worcester’s limit on tobacco advertising in windows is unconstitutional. The city had made it illegal for a store to display cigarette ads that show brand names in a store window. As […]

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