Is Corporate Political Disclosure Leveling Off? Crunching the latest...
For years, the Center for Political Accountability’s annual CPA-Zicklin Index of corporate political practices has touted marked year-over-year increases in corporate political disclosure practices....
View ArticleSt. Petersburg Passes Anti-Super PAC Ordinance, Hoping to Set Up...
The City of St. Petersburg, Florida yesterday passed an ordinance designed to take the question of “Super PACs” to the Supreme Court for the first time. The ordinance, which we discussed in detail...
View ArticlePolitical Law Potpourri—The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018
While the din over a possible government shutdown dominated the headlines, political law played a supporting role in the recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act (Pub. L. No. 115-141). The...
View ArticleNew Tactic Emerges in Fight to Compel Companies to Disclose So-Called “Dark...
A new corporate political disclosure trend is coming. For years, those advocating increased corporate political disclosure have looked for ways to force companies to publicly reveal the names and...
View ArticleNew Jersey, Colorado Join Growing List of States Regulating “Dark Money”
So-called “dark money” — political contributions and spending by groups that do not have to disclose their donors — continues to draw the attention of state legislators, with Colorado and New Jersey...
View ArticleNew Jersey “Dark Money” Disclosure Law Permanently Enjoined
Last year, we blogged about a new and highly restrictive disclosure law in New Jersey that took aim at so-called “dark money” spending by nonprofit and political organizations. In response to a series...
View ArticleInteracting with the Government During the Pandemic: Compliance Blind Spots...
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are reverberating in every sector of the global economy, from life sciences to transportation, retail to manufacturing, financial services to sports and...
View ArticleHouse COVID 3.0 Legislation Would Ban Federal Lobbying and Impose Permanent...
The countless lobbyists urging Congress to include relief for their clients in the third coronavirus legislative package (“COVID 3.0”) currently pending in Congress may soon be unemployed, at least if...
View ArticleRanking of Companies on PoliticalDisclosure Now Expanded to Russell 1000
The CPA-Zicklin Index, which ranks companies’ political disclosure practices, has issued a newreport ranking companies in the Russell 1000 Index. This is a significant expansion of the Index,which...
View ArticleTips for Responding To Corporate Political Disclosure Shareholder Proposals
The contentious 2020 election cycle, debate over hot-button issues, including the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and increased investor focus on ESG...
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