.gbip::beforecontent:url(https://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/images/silhouette_96.png)@media (min-resolution:1.25dppx),(-o-min-device-pixel-ratio:5/4),(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:1.25),(min-device-pixel-ratio:1.25).gbii::beforecontent:url(https://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/images/silhouette_27.png).gbip::before
BooksHigher EducationLawPolitical Law
Arent Fox counsels a various group of candidates and political committees, firms, trade associations, ideological teams, governments, and worldwide clients on a broad array of election legal guidelines, ethics, campaign finance laws, lobbying, and nonprofit tax compliance. Myriad legal guidelines and laws govern the financing of U.S. elections, together with complex prohibitions and limitations on who could give, how much could also be given, detailed submitting and disclosure necessities, and other circumstances. While the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United presents alternatives for businesses and other organizations in search of to take part extra immediately in electoral politics, it additionally poses numerous authorized compliance and political issues warranting careful attention. And whereas the Citizens United choice de-regulates campaign exercise to some extent, there has been a seeming explosion in state, county and municipal “pay-to-play” legal guidelines in recent years. These legal guidelines, which regulate political exercise by companies doing business with governmental entities, together with federal rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for those persons subject to their regulation, carry serious penalties for non-compliance and impose an extra regulatory dimension requiring cautious legal analysis and planning for clients who are considering political exercise.
With explicit expertise in Arizona’s regulation governing initiative, referendum, and recall, we not solely actively draft ballot measure language and put together petitions on behalf of shoppers, but also defend and prosecute challenges to initiatives, referenda, … Read More
View More Political legislation