The Chicago Tribune reports that a citizen who challenged referendum disclosure laws won his case in federal court. U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller ruled that two state laws requiring disclosures by groups advocating for or against a state or local referendum went too far in restricting free speech. He ruled in a case involving Town […]
Day: March 18, 2009
March 31 Special in NY-20
Lawyers who have worked for a campaign or PAC or party know the story line well. Someone offended by one of your client’s ads gets their lawyer to ask a station airing the ad to take it down, for some reason or another. The station manager gets involved, and before you know it the dispute is […]
Sole-Proprietor Lobbying Firms
According to Lobbyists.info’s Government Relations Alert, sole proprietorship lobbying firms apparently received non-compliance letters related to their failure to file the LD-203. Several sole-proprietor firms and organizations employing one lobbyist received letters of non-compliance for failure to complete both an organization filing and an individual lobbyist filing, based on comments submitted on the LD-203. […]