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In Compliance: Holtzman Vogel's July 2024 Round-Up

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 8/2/2024

Holtzman Vogel attorneys wrote on the Supreme Court's landmark Loper Bright decision earlier this month. The Court overruled its 1984 decision in Chevron v. NRDC that introduced the so-called "Chevron deference" principle...more

In Compliance: June 2024 Round-Up

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 7/2/2024

In this month's In Compliance Round-Up, we cover the following topics: Supreme Court Holds Federal Anti-Corruption Law Prohibits State and Local Officials from Accepting Bribes, But Not Gratuities - Ethics Guidance Issued...more

In-Compliance Newsletter: March 2024 Round-up

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 3/28/2024

On March 15, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Lindke v. Freed and a per curiam opinion in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier addressing when a public official may prevent a person from commenting on the public...more

How State “Sore-Loser” Laws Make It Impossible For Trump To Run A Successful Third-Party Campaign If He Loses The Republican...

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 3/7/2023

Donald Trump and his allies have insisted that he can and should run as a third-party candidate in the general election if he fails to win the Republican nomination. The authors, practicing lawyers specializing in political...more

Top 10 First Amendment Cases of the Supreme Court Term

Carlton Fields on 6/30/2022

The Supreme Court term that ended today once again showed the power of the First Amendment to shape American life. The court invoked the First Amendment in cases regulating social media platforms, prayer at public schools,...more

UPDATE: FEC Candidate Loan Repayment Limitation Ruled Unconstitutional in Supreme Court Decision

Dickinson Wright on 5/20/2022

On May 16, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled that limiting the repayment of candidate loans to their own campaign to $250,000 (codified under 52 U.S.C. § 30116(j)) is unconstitutional. The Plaintiffs, Ted Cruz for...more

Recent Supreme Court ruling shakes up campaign finance law and leaves future restrictions in doubt

Hogan Lovells on 5/19/2022

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

SCOTUS Sides with Ted Cruz in FEC Loan Repayment Dispute

Wiley Rein LLP on 5/19/2022

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate, the case challenging the loan repayment prohibition in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA). The Court ruled 6-3 along familiar...more

Divided Court Supports Ted Cruz’s Campaign Debt Reimbursement but Denies Would-Be Citizen Chance to Correct Bureaucratic Error:...

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/18/2022

It is fair, I think, to say that a substantial majority of those who heard the argument in the case of Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate doubted that, irrespective of whatever they might think of Ted Cruz, it...more

Supreme Court Decides Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/17/2022

On May 16, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Election Comm’n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, No. 21-12, holding that the federal statute that prohibits repaying campaign-finance loans over $250,000 with money raised after...more

New Rules Regarding Repayment of Candidate Loans

Perkins Coie on 7/22/2021

Last month, a three-judge federal district court struck down as unconstitutional a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), which limited the amount of money a candidate’s authorized committee could...more

President Biden Issues Executive Order Seeking to Promote Voting Rights

Snell & Wilmer on 3/12/2021

On March 7, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order aiming to increase voters’ access to elections. The executive order serves as an “initial step” in President Biden’s plan to work with Congress to attempt to...more

Supreme Court Requires Donor Disclosure by 501(c) Organizations

Genova Burns LLC on 9/21/2018

Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United, spending by outside groups and non-political organizations has increased in federal elections. Many of these groups are organized as 501(c)(4) social-welfare...more

United States Supreme Court Upholds Campaign Ad Disclosure Requirement

Snell & Wilmer on 3/8/2017

In its recent four-word decision (“The judgment is affirmed.”) Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a campaign finance law requirement that donors backing certain campaign ads...more

Ban Still Stands on Political Contributions from Federal Government Contractors

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 1/21/2016

The Supreme Court denied certification, or refused to hear and reverse, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision on the ban that prohibits individual federal government contractors from making political contributions. The...more

Looking Back at Five Years of Citizens United

Genova Burns LLC on 2/28/2015

This month marked the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court handing down its decision in Citizens United v. FEC. More than perhaps most other recent Supreme Court decisions, Citizens United has remained in the public...more

"Developments Regarding Aggregate Contribution Limits"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/18/2014

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down the aggregate limits imposed on individual contributions under federal law, several jurisdictions also have taken steps to address...more

FEC Publishes Post-McCutcheon Revised Contribution Limits For 2013-2014

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/9/2014

The Federal Election Commission's revised federal contribution limits for 2013-2014 removed any reference to the biennial aggregate limit which was recently stuck down by the Supreme Court in McCutcheon v. FEC. ...more

Supreme Court Rewrites the Rules for Individual Campaign Contributions: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission

Mintz on 4/8/2014

On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered the McCutcheon decision, addressing the facial validity of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the “BCRA”). This case involved a...more

What Does McCutcheon Mean for Wisconsin Campaign Finance Law?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/7/2014

On April 2, the United States Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, 572 U.S. __ (2014). The case was closely watched because it presented the Court the opportunity to revisit the framework...more

U.S. Supreme Court Finds Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contribution are Unconstitutional

Bracewell LLP on 4/7/2014

On April 2, 2014, the United States Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that aggregate contribution limits, those limits placed on an individual’s overall direct contributions during a two-year election cycle, were...more

United States Supreme Court Invalidates Aggregate Contribution Limits In Federal Campaign Finance Law

Snell & Wilmer on 4/3/2014

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, invalidating federal statutory aggregate limits on the amount of money that an individual may contribute to all...more

Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision Invalidates Aggregate Limits

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 4/3/2014

Yesterday, in a five-to-four decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the aggregate limits restricting the total contributions individual donors could make to candidates, political action...more

Supreme Court Invalidates Federal Aggregate Limit on Campaign Contributions

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 4/3/2014

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of federal campaign contribution laws yesterday morning in McCutcheon v. Fed. Election Commission (No. 12-536). The Court’s 5-4 decision held that federal aggregate limits on...more

"Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Aggregate Limits on Campaign Contributions"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 4/3/2014

On April 2, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down the aggregate limits imposed on individual contributions under federal law. The 5-4 opinion held that the individual aggregate...more

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