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The City of Orange’s new lobby law requires entities and individual lobbyists to register upon receiving compensation to lobby.  Lobbying includes influencing any legislative, quasi-judicial, or [...]

Following an initiative requiring disclosure of so called ‘dark money’ spending, the Maricopa County Superior Court has blocked implementation of the law, with a full decision on the merits [...]

A lawsuit challenging outside lobbying restrictions on officeholders passed as part of a 2018 initiative reached the 11th Circuit last Thursday, where the restrictions were upheld.   The law [...]

The Chicago Ethics Commission has recommended that the city’s ethics laws be strengthened to give the Inspector General jurisdiction over municipal political committees following allegations of [...]

The House Ethics Committee is considering whether to expand the pool of people who can use lawmaker’s legal expense funds to pay their legal costs connected to campaign and office activities to [...]