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...ethics code revision is clearly needed, and the best in the profession want to see it done ?and enforced. "Lawyering," suggests Eric Schnapper, a New York public interest attorney, "is within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very art of the lawyer is a sort of calculated disregard of the law or at least of ordinary notions of morality." Under the current code, he notes, only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free...
...Constitution authorizes Congress to make rules and regulations about disposition of property belonging to the U.S. Though there has never been a court ruling putting presidential papers in that category, a 1959 case involving Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover may be relevant. Rickover sought to bar M.B. Schnapper, a historian and editor of the Public Affairs Press in Washington, from publishing speeches Rickover had made. In effect, he was asserting a property right. The court of appeals ruled that any speeches related to Rickover's work as a Government official belonged to the public domain. Thus Schnapper won the right...
...Washington, M. B. Schnapper, editor of Public Affairs Press, wrote to Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson criticizing plans for a new stamp honoring that patriotic seamstress, Betsy Ross. There is no proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp...
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