Day: March 11, 2008

TV Ad Disclaimers

Tonight is all about disclaimers, so that’s our focus. SEIU COPE ran ads supporting Barack Obama for President.  SEIU COPE’s full name, Service Employees International Union Committee on Public Education, is a mouthful, so I can see why they would want to abbreviate it both in the spoken and written required disclaimers, as they did […]

Billboard Disclaimers

Disclaimers are everywhere in campaign finance law.  Leave them off and you run serious risk of a complaint and fine.  Skeptic’s Eye notes one recent case where pre-probable cause and probable cause conciliation failed to conclude the matter.    The case is also an interesting data point for respondents considering “rolling the dice” to “see what a […]