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Contacts | | This page includes links or down-loadable files,
training documents, notes, hand-outs, and other conference materials for class
or conference participants and anyone else who may be interested. If
you would like to post your ethics or presentation materials here,
please e-mail karl.thoennes@ujs.state.sd.us. Most Recent
Addition(s): October 2008, ethics session materials for the October
conference of the Oregon Association for Court Administration in Bend, Oregon.
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In October 2008 Peter Kiefer and Karl Thoennes will deliver a
session on ethics for court employees attending the Fall Conference of the
Oregon Association for Court Administration (OACA). The session may include
three scenarios and one or two PowerPoint segments:
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In May 2008, Supreme Court staff in Malaysia asked about penalty
or other consequence provisions in judicial conduct codes. It was a very
interesting question because while most codes describe required conduct and
principles in great detail, they usually provide much less detail on penalties
or consequences for violation. Rebecca Lamprecht, a University of South
Dakota intern with the 2nd Judicial Circuit in Sioux Falls, researched the 50
states in the US looking for penalty provisions in codes, statutes, or other
documents and assembled the attached summary. Our thanks to Rebecca for
her excellent work.
Survey of
Penalty Provisions, Codes of Judicial Conduct, USA 2008
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| On September 11, 2007, Judge Glen Severson and Court
Administrators Pat Garcia Duggan and Karl Thoennes will be delivering a
presentation on JAIL for Judges to a group of Wyoming judges. The following
materials may be helpful to conference participants:
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| JAIL for Judges: Court administrators Patricia
Garcia Duggan and Karl Thoennes delivered a presentation on the proposed constitutional amendment
in South Dakota in
2006 that would have stripped judges and others of personal legal immunity
for official actions (among other things). Presentation materials can be found at the links below, except for the
11-minute video published by "No on E" advocates; for a copy of
that video (DVD on CD) please e-mail karl.thoennes@ujs.state.sd.us.
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Court managers Peter Kiefer, Pam Harris, David Slayton,
and Karl Thoennes presented a proposed, draft revision to the Code of Ethics
for the National Association
for Court Management (NACM) at its conference in
February 2007 in New York. Copies of the draft code with commentary can
be found at
this link. Copies of the PowerPoint presentation (still also in
draft form) can be found at
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| Judge Timothy Baland and Karl Thoennes participated in a panel discussion and
delivered a presentation on
comparative judicial and court ethics codes at the World Ethics Forum in
April 2006 in Oxford, England. Judge
Baland's summary paper Measuring
Judicial Ethics is available here in Microsoft Word format (.doc).
A copy of the PowerPoint presentation Comparative
Judicial Ethics also available, although the file is about 9 MB so it
will take some time to download.
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