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What Does the FCC's Equal-Time Rule Actually Say? The rules state that if a station gives free airtime to one candidate, it has to offer an equivalent amount of free time to all candidates. When it comes to campaign ads, though, stations just have to offer candidates the opportunity to buy time at the same rates they offer their most favored advertisers.
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Current Political Campaign Contribution Limits If you decide to contribute to a political candidate, you should know that the Federal Campaign Finance Law places legal limits on how much and what you can give. Representatives of the candidate's campaign committee should be aware of these laws and inform you of them.
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Buckley v Valeo The United States Supreme Court's decision in Buckley v Valeo in 1976 was a case which upheld federal laws that set limitations on contributions to campaigns, and also stated that this money was a form of protected free speech. Buckley v Valeo created a main obstacle to effectively reforming campaign finance laws.
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Political Campaigns For an organization to be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3), it cannot “participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements) any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” What is political campaign activity?
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- The Newspaper Advertising Act (45 Pa. C.S.A. §301 et. seq.) provides for certain guidelines for legal advertisements and notices. Failure to comply with these guidelines renders the legal proceeding, matter or case in question to be non- binding and ineffective upon any interested party.
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- Mini Law Lesson: New Rules for Text-Message Marketing Take Effect Oct. 16. Marketers Need a Stronger Form of Consent. Updated FCC rules over text message marketing take effect on Oct. 16, attorney Brian Heidelberger says in this Mini Law Lesson video.
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- Regulation of Obscenity, Indecency and Profanity. It is a violation of federal law to air obscene programming at any time. It is also a violation of federal law to broadcast indecent or profane programming during certain hours. Congress has given the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the responsibility for administratively enforcing the law that governs these types of broadcasts.
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Election Campaign Financing According to the high court, setting mandatory limits on the amount of money a candidate may spend in a campaign violated the First Amendment. However, the Court upheld the act's disclosure requirements, private contribution limits, and provision for the public funding of qualified presidential candidates.he Court ruled that provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), 2 U.S.C.A. §§ 431–456, which sets mandatory limits on the amount of money a candidate may spend in a campaign, violated the First Amendment.
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IRS and Laws Prohibiting Nonprofits From Political Activity Federal tax laws prohibit nonprofit organizations from engaging in partisan political activity. Tax-exempt organizations may run afoul of the Internal Revenue Service if those groups take part in political campaigns for or against a candidate for public office. Nonprofits that violate IRS guidelines and U.S. laws prohibiting nonprofits from partisan political activity risk losing their tax-exempt status and may also incur tax penalties.
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Communications Law and Regulation Spectrum Management At The FCC. The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, is the legal basis for management of that portion of the radio spectrum that is not earmarked for use by the Federal government. The reason for spectrum management, however, preceded the 1934 Act.
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- Answer: The Act prohibits a candidate from donating his or her campaign funds to any other candidate for federal, state, or local office or to any PAC. Candidates can donate campaign funds to their political party.
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Citizens United v. FEC The First Amendment, Political Speech, and. the Future of Campaign Finance Laws. The Constitution at a Crossroads. Introduction. In 2010, the Supreme ourt’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC upended the world of campaign. finance law as we know it by recognizing for the first time that the political speech of corporations is.
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- Freeze the panes you have created by highlighting this row. 1  In Excel 2007 and 2010, select Freeze Panes from the View tab. 2  In Excel 2003, you will find the Freeze Panes option under the Window menu in your toolbar.
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Buckley v. Valeo Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, is a US constitutional law Supreme Court case on campaign finance. A majority of judges held that limits on election spending in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 §608 are unconstitutional. In a per curiam opinion, they ruled that expenditure limits contravene the First Amendment provision on freedom of speech because a restriction on spending for political communication necessarily reduces the quantity of expression. It limited disclosure provisions ...
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Ch. 8 - Commercial Speech Public Service Commission imposed a ban on all promotional advertising by electric utilities to conserve energy. Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation filed suit because the ban violated the 1st and 14th amendments. Court ruled the blanket ban was unconstitutional because there were other, less restrictive bans and it was overbroad.
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Air Conditioner Mechanics Face Fine For Deliberate Freon Release Into Air To reduce ozone depletion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is making it illegal as of July 1 to deliberately vent Freon into the atmosphere during the servicing of stationary air conditioners in homes, office buildings, plants and other locations.
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Fax Advertising Policy Fax Advertising Policy. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, restricts the use of the facsimile machine to deliver unsolicited advertisements. Specifically, the TCPA prohibits the use of “any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement to a telephone facsimile machine.” The TCPA applies only to those facsimile messages that constitute “unsolicited advertisements.” he statutory prohibition applies to such advertisements ent both to residential and business facsimile numbers.
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- Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment Congressional Research Service 15 Commercial speech may be banned if it is false or misleading, or if it advertises an illegal product or service.reedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment Congressional Research Service 25 Speech on Radio and Television Speech on radio and television is treated differently depending on the method of delivery of the content.
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- Legal Alliance to Stop Geoengineering (LASG) CERTIFIED MAIL - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED. July 25, 2016. Re: Notice of Intent to File Citizensʼ Suits Pursuant to Federal Clean Water Act. and Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. RESERVATION OF RIGHTS. Proposed Plaintiffs intend to commence civil actions following sixty daysʼ notice to. prosecute the incidents and similar or related violations stated herein, including all.
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Campaign Contributions as Free Speech So I’m glad to see the Supreme Court take the words of the First Amendment—”Congress shall make no law”—literally. A recent Gallup poll shows that the American public agrees with the Supreme Court that campaign contributions are free speech but that most nonetheless want to limit said speech.
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LGBT rights in the United States If, for example, an LGBT rights organization wrote to President Obama encouraging him to issue an order extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, the communication would not count as lobbying. It is important to note the definition of lobbying at the state and local level may vary. Administrative and executive branch lobbying may be reportable under lobbying disclosure rules at the state or local level. Check AFJ’s state law resources for more information about the lobbying disclosure rules in your state.
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Of 2002 Among other things, this law banned soft money contributions to political parties, increased the limits on hard money contributions, and placed limits on the ability of corporations (including nonprofits) and labor unions to broadcast messages that included a federal candidate's name or image.
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Laws governing the initiative process in Michigan Some of the notable features of Michigan's campaign finance laws are: 1  A ban on all campaign contributions from people that have a ownership stake in a casino/gambling establishment. 2  A requirement that individuals who raise or spend $500 to support or defeat a referendum to register with the Michigan secretary of state.
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Election Campaign Financing Private Funding of Federal Election Campaigns. FECA illustrates the way that election-campaign-finance laws work. FECA requires that candidates for federal office form a campaign committee and a campaign fund, and that they disclose campaign contributions to the Federal Election Commission.
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Instructions for Form 990 Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (2017) Examples: receipt; Hybrid PAC. 1  The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (52 U.S.C. §§30101-30146). 11 CFR 100.18. 2  For party committees, rent, utilities, office equipment, office supplies, routine building maintenance and other operating costs not attributable to a specific candidate.
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- Aircraft restrictions. National Defense Authorization Acts for the 1992 and 1993 fiscal years lift some restrictions on women serving on aircraft involved in combat missions, allowing the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force to set conditions for which women can be assigned to aircraft engaged in such missions.