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H.R. 1 – Disclosures, Disclaimers, and FEC Certifications: What Corporations, Non-Profits, and Trade Associations Need to Know
Political and Controversial Activity in the Workplace [More with McGlinchey Ep. 11]
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Supreme Court Preview: NRSC v. FEC - On June 30, 2025, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear what may be the most significant campaign finance case since Citizens United freed corporate entities to spend...more
Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance Maine: A federal judge struck down Maine’s 2024 voter-approved law capping contributions to super PACs at $5,000 and requiring disclosure of all donors contributing to independent...more
Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance California: The City of Oxnard, California’s 2020 campaign finance limitations violate the First Amendment because the provisions—which appear to target a political outsider—are not...more
Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday, November 18, 2024, to hear a challenge based on constitutional free speech protections to a voter-approved measure in Alaska that requires...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - We read the news, cut through the noise and provide you the notes. Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic...more
Last December, I wrote about AB 83 (Lee & Kalra), which would enact the "Get Foreign Money Out of California Elections Act". The California Political Reform Act already forbids a foreign government or foreign principal...more
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) was unconstitutional. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) challenged the law as unconstitutional following his...more
Late yesterday, the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey held that a century-old statute “does not ban any entity from making independent expenditures” in New Jersey. The decision comes just in time for...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes, and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
Welcome to Volume 1, Issue 9 of Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes, and court cases involving campaign finance,...more
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia published an opinion, on August 3, 2018, in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The opinion holds...more
We all know to avoid the topic of politics with family and friends at the holidays, but in recent months, American companies and the CEOs who lead them have spoken publicly on social and political issues like never before....more
In recent weeks, America’s CEOs have spoken out on social issues like never before, placing the business community firmly within the national debate. Likewise, companies are feeling internal and external pressures to...more
Last week, PublicCEO ran Part 1 of this article that explored the relationship between free speech and campaign finance laws, Super PACs and their influence on campaign finance, and how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens...more