Justia Blawg Search - Law Blogs, Lawyer Blogs, Legal Blogs Directory & Search Engine

News You Can Use Digest – August 21, 2020

21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor

National/Federal Biden Aides Headline DNC Fundraisers with Lobbyists Politico – Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/13/2020 When Barack Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he barred the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from accepting contributions from lobbyists in an attempt to purge their influence from his future administration. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

An Overview of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

11 Aug 2020, 6:00 am by Kevin Kaufman

Key Findings The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) offers developers nonrefundable and transferable tax credits to subsidize the construction and rehabilitation of housing developments that have strict income limits for eligible tenants and their cost of housing. [read post]

Tax Policy Blog - http://taxfoundation.org/blog/

News You Can Use Digest – July 17, 2020

17 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor

National/Federal America’s Governors Get Tested for a Virus That Is Testing Them New York Times – Manny Fernandez, Rick Rojas, Shawn Huber, and Mike Baker | Published: 7/13/2020 Governors have always been judged on their disaster responses, but the coronavirus wreaking havoc across the country these days does not recede like floodwaters and cannot be tamed by calling out the National Guard. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - http://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/

Tuesday’s LobbyComply News Roundup

14 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor

Campaign Finance South Carolina: “Dark Money Groups Spent at Least $875,000 Trying to Sway Myrtle Beach State Senate Race” by Andrew Brown and Jamie Lovegrove for Charleston Post and Courier Tennessee: “Former House Speaker Glen Casada Fined $10,500 for Campaign Finance Violations” by Joel Ebert for The Tennessean Elections National: “The Once-Mocked ‘Never Trump’ Movement Becomes a Sudden Campaign Force” by Ashley Parker and Robert Costa (Washington… [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - http://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/

Update in Suit Involving Aftermath of Fraud Arising from Wakpamni Lake Community Corp. TED Bonds in 2014-15

11 Jun 2020, 7:25 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are materials in Water Works Board of the City of Birmingham v. [read post]

Turtle Talk - http://turtletalk.wordpress.com/

Workers Insist Yale’s Wellness Program Not Really ‘Voluntary’

8 Jun 2020, 6:10 am by Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Fitzgerald & Pirrotti, P.C.

The plaintiffs are three unionized Yale employees — Christine Turecek, a cook; Jason Schwartz, a locksmith; and Lisa Kwesell, a part-time service assistant. [read post]

Employee Rights Blog - https://garrisonlaw.com/blog/

[Ilya Somin] The Problem of Racial Profiling—Why it Matters and What Can be Done About it

7 Jun 2020, 9:35 pm by Ilya Somin

As Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant describe in a recent book, American police too often use excessive force in cases involving white officers and white suspects, where race, presumably, is not an issue. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Immigration Article of the Day: 'Water is Life!' (and Speech!): Death, Dissent and Democracy in the Borderlands by Jason A. Cade

20 May 2020, 1:39 am by Immigration Prof

'Water is Life! [read post]

ImmigrationProf Blog - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/

SEC small business advisory committee endorses exempt offerings proposal, discusses COVID-19 response

11 May 2020, 8:18 pm by John Jascob

The second subtopic related to relaxing restrictions on demo days and “testing the waters” communications. [read post]

Jim Hamilton's World of Securities Regulation - http://jimhamiltonblog.blogspot.com/