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Missouri House of Representatives Passes HB 575, Imposing Residency Requirements and Banning Per-Signature Payments for Initiative...

BCLP on 3/28/2025

Today, the Missouri House of Representatives passed House Bill 575, which contains two new provisions applicable to statewide initiative petition circulators....more

Compliance Notes - Vol. 4, Issue 22

Nossaman LLP on 6/1/2023

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

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Bid to Review Dismissal of Challenge to Pay-To-Play Rule

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 2/27/2020

On January 13, 2020, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari to an appeal of a June 2019 order from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that dismissed an action seeking to invalidate certain...more

D.C. Circuit Upholds Federal Pay-to-Play Rule

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/28/2019

On June 18, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the court) dismissed a challenge to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) pay-to-play Rule 2030 (the rule) brought by the New York...more

NJ’s Gubernatorial Election – Public Matching Funds and the Role of Outside Money

Genova Burns LLC on 7/6/2017

On the same day that it was announced that Kim Guadagno and Phil Murphy both qualified for public matching funds in New Jersey’s 2017 gubernatorial election, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission issued a News...more

"DC Circuit Dismisses Challenge to SEC Rule 206(4)-5"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/1/2015

On August 25, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the D.C. District Court’s dismissal of a challenge to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pay-to-play Rule 206(4)-5 (the Rule) and...more

Financial Services Weekly News - August 2015 #4

Goodwin on 8/27/2015

Regulatory Developments - CFTC Issues Proposed Amendments to Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements for Cleared Swaps: On Aug. 19 the CFTC announced that it had voted to propose amendments to existing...more

DC Circuit Court Rejects Challenge to SEC Pay-to-Play Rule

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/27/2015

The DC Circuit Court has rejected an effort by the New York and Tennessee Republican Parties to set aside Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 206(4)-5. The 2010 SEC rule prohibits investment advisers from providing...more

"DC Circuit Unanimously Upholds Federal Contractor Contribution Ban"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 7/15/2015

On July 7, 2015, the federal circuit court for the District of Columbia sitting en banc issued a unanimous opinion upholding the federal contractor contribution ban against a constitutional challenge in the long-running case...more

D.C. Circuit Upholds 44-Year-Old Ban: The answer is still “no” for individual federal contractors wishing to contribute to federal...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/14/2015

On July 7, 2015, in Wagner v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the ban on individual federal contractor contributions to federal candidates and political...more

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