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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Post-Election: 501(c)s & Political Spending
While final figures will take a while to compile, an early Center for Responsive Politics report indicates that at least $300 million of the approxmately $6 billion spent this just…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Disclosure and value creation … or not
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Two interesting papers that raise the question of the true value of disclosure. The first is by Steven Davidoff and Claire Hill, Limits of Disclosure. Disclosure has been a common…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Davidoff & Hill on Limits of Disclosure
Limits of Disclosure, by Steven M. Davidoff, Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law; Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance, and Claire A. Hill,…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Massachusetts Fines Citi $2 Million for Tech Analyst’s Improper Disclosures
Massachusetts Securities Division fined Citigroup $2 million for failing to supervise tech analyst Mark Mahaney and a junior analyst who improperly disclosed confidential information about Facebook's IPO and Google's revenue…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Heminway on SEC Disclosure Rules for ABS
The SEC’s New Line-Item Disclosure Rules for Asset-Backed Securities: MOTS or TMI?, by Joan MacLeod Heminway, University of Tennessee College of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the…
Notice of Appeal
Appellate Update: Austin v. Ettl, et al. [Wash. App. No. 42256-5-II]
By Leonard Feldman, Hunter Ferguson, J. Will Eidson
Austin executed a real estate purchase and sale agreement for the purchase of the Ettls’ property. On the day of closing, the Ettls provided Austin with a real property transfer…
Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
Federal Court of Appeals: Political Groups May Maintain Donor Information Secret, For Now
By Christopher L. Rissetto, Carlos Valdivia
Yet another wrinkle has developed in the fabric of campaign finance reform, this time favoring the non-disclosure of donor information by groups responsible for “electioneering communications.” In a per curiam…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Reverses Disclosure Ruling, Passes to FEC
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit today vacated the district court ruling in favor of plaintiff-Representative Chris Van Hollen over the FEC's disclosure regulation in Van Hollen v. FEC. …
Inside Political Law
Minnesota Regulators to Continue Enforcing Campaign Finance Law Against Super PACs
As we’ve discussed, last week the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit preliminarily struck down the Minnesota campaign finance laws imposing constitutionally burdensome disclosure obligations on…
AdLaw By Request®
FTC Issues Guidance to Mobile App Developers
On September 5, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission published "Marketing Your Mobile App: Get It Right from the Start", a set of guides addressing compliance with truth in lending and…