http://nclawyersweekly.com Fri, 24 May 2013 22:56:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/11/20/elections-stand-by-your-ad-required-disclaimers-airtime-production-tu-quoque-defense/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/11/20/elections-stand-by-your-ad-required-disclaimers-airtime-production-tu-quoque-defense/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:50:29 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=68036 Friends of Joe Sam Queen v. Ralph Hise for NC Senate In order to comply with the “Stand by Your Ad” Act, a candidate must disclose not only who paid for his ad’s airtime, but also who paid for its production.]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/11/20/elections-stand-by-your-ad-required-disclaimers-airtime-production-tu-quoque-defense/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/07/09/elections-fundraising-corporate-contributions-donor-recruitment-reimbursement/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/07/09/elections-fundraising-corporate-contributions-donor-recruitment-reimbursement/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:18:41 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=63894 U.S. v. Danielczyk In this prosecution of two corporate executives for an alleged scheme of recruiting donors and reimbursing their contributions to Hillary Clinton’s 2006 and 2008 Senate and Presidential Campaigns, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses dismissal of a charge of corporation contributions in violation of 2 U.S.C. § 441b(a).]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/07/09/elections-fundraising-corporate-contributions-donor-recruitment-reimbursement/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-civil-rights-national-voter-registration-act-application-disclosure/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-civil-rights-national-voter-registration-act-application-disclosure/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:28:37 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=63366 Project Vote/Voting for America Inc. v. Long Virginia election officials violated the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to disclose completed voter registration applications with voters’ Social Security numbers redacted; the 4th Circuit affirms a district court decision that Section 8(i)(L) of the NVRA does apply to such applications and defendants violated the NVRA.]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-civil-rights-national-voter-registration-act-application-disclosure/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-advocacy-group-fec-regulation-constitutional-vagueness-challenge-pac-disclosures-major-purpose-test/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-advocacy-group-fec-regulation-constitutional-vagueness-challenge-pac-disclosures-major-purpose-test/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:26:45 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=63364 The Real Truth About Abortion Inc. v. FEC Appellant, a Virginia nonprofit group called “The Real Truth About Abortion Inc.,” loses its constitutional challenge to a regulation of the Federal Election Commission that appellant says is unconstitutionally vague with regard to whether “Real Truth” has to make disclosures as a “political action committee.”]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/06/21/elections-advocacy-group-fec-regulation-constitutional-vagueness-challenge-pac-disclosures-major-purpose-test/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/05/24/elections-judges-public-finance-constitutional-first-amendment/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/05/24/elections-judges-public-finance-constitutional-first-amendment/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 14:37:44 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=62744 North Carolina Right to Life Political Action Committee v. Leake Defendants have failed to distinguish North Carolina’s matching funds scheme for judicial elections from the scheme which was declared unconstitutional in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 131 S. Ct. 2806 (2011). Other than the state interests rejected in Bennett, defendants have failed to come forward with compelling state interests to justify the scheme.]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2012/05/24/elections-judges-public-finance-constitutional-first-amendment/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2011/07/14/elections-civil-rights-independent-candidate-%e2%80%94-petition-signatures-residency-requirement/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2011/07/14/elections-civil-rights-independent-candidate-%e2%80%94-petition-signatures-residency-requirement/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:15:35 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=56870 Lux v. Judd A former independent candidate for Congress wins remand of his challenge to a Virginia statutory requirement that petition signatures in support of his candidacy be witnessed by a resident of the Congressional district; the 4th Circuit says the limited rationale underlying the case relied on by the lower court has been superseded by later Supreme Court cases.]]> http://nclawyersweekly.com/2011/07/14/elections-civil-rights-independent-candidate-%e2%80%94-petition-signatures-residency-requirement/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2010/07/25/elections-civil-rights-sc-%e2%80%98sore-loser-statute/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2010/07/25/elections-civil-rights-sc-%e2%80%98sore-loser-statute/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:31:28 +0000 North Carolina Lawyers Weekly Staff http://nclawyersweekly.com/?p=50234 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2010/07/25/elections-civil-rights-sc-%e2%80%98sore-loser-statute/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/10/26/elections-constitutional-political-parties-2-percent-retention-requirement/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/10/26/elections-constitutional-political-parties-2-percent-retention-requirement/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000 dmc-admin http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/10/26/elections-constitutional-political-parties-2-percent-retention-requirement/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/10/26/elections-constitutional-political-parties-2-percent-retention-requirement/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/09/07/elections-judges-constitutional-equal-protection-intermediate-review/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/09/07/elections-judges-constitutional-equal-protection-intermediate-review/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000 dmc-admin http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/09/07/elections-judges-constitutional-equal-protection-intermediate-review/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/09/07/elections-judges-constitutional-equal-protection-intermediate-review/feed/ 0 http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/08/10/elections-judges-campaign-funds-public-financing-combined-tv-ad/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/08/10/elections-judges-campaign-funds-public-financing-combined-tv-ad/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000 dmc-admin http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/08/10/elections-judges-campaign-funds-public-financing-combined-tv-ad/ http://nclawyersweekly.com/2009/08/10/elections-judges-campaign-funds-public-financing-combined-tv-ad/feed/ 0