- Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs to be put to the test | Businesses have been lobbying Congress and preparing legal challenges to push back on Trump’s proposal to enact tariffs on all imports. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/trumps-authority-impose-sweeping-tariffs-put-test-rcna179848 13 comments politics
- West wavers on Ukraine proposals to seize Russian assets as reparations. Ukraine lobbying UN and allies to clear legal path for extracting Russian compensation for war damage https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/west-wavers-on-ukraine-proposals-to-seize-russian-assets-as-reparations 4 comments worldnews
- How Western Firms Quietly Enabled Russian Oligarchs - Investment, law and lobbying firms have helped enmesh Kremlin-linked oligarchs into the Western financial and legal systems https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/business/russian-oligarchs-money-concord.html 2 comments politics
- Amazon is lobbying the US government to make pot legal https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-lobbying-us-government-to-make-pot-legal-2021-9 376 comments technology
- How does lobbying work? Why is it legal? https://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/50-state-chart-lobby-definitions.aspx 17 comments politics
- Leak: Man Who Bankrolled Brexit Boasted of WikiLeaks Backchannel - Hacked Twitter messages raise legal questions over Cambridge Analytica, undeclared foreign lobbying, and links between Julian Assange and the Brexit and Trump campaign teams. https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-bankrolled-brexit-boasted-of-wikileaks-backchannel 5 comments politics
- Hemp lobbying surges on the heels of legalization https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/17/hemp-lobbying-surges-on-the-heels-of-legalization-050002 12 comments politics
- Were Trump Lawyer Cohen's Actions Legal? The Lobbying Law Has A Loopholes https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/609903734/were-trump-lawyer-cohens-actions-legal 4 comments politics
- Luciano Moggi wrote in his column today in the Libero newspaper that he won his legal battle with Gianfelice Facchetti, as the judges agreed with the first degree ruling that Inter had been “lobbying referees.” https://www.football-italia.net/119194/moggi-inter-lobbied-referees 13 comments soccer
- The leading lobbying group for Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants is joining the legal battle to restore net neutrality https://www.recode.net/2018/1/5/16854324/silicon-valley-trump-netflix-free-internet-association-fcc-net-neutrality-lawsuit 4 comments politics
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just got a primary challenger. Meet Tim Canova. He gets that the economy is rigged, supports Wall St. reform, legalizing marijuana and ending the war on drugs. Debbie opposes MJ legalization while taking money from the alcohol lobby. South Florida needs a new leader! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv-UUjF0tnM 945 comments politics
- Experian has been lobbying for CISA, a bill that could give them legal immunity in the event of a hack https://www.youbetrayedus.org/experian/ 16 comments technology
- Experian has been spending millions lobbying Congress to pass CISA, a bill that could give companies like them legal immunity when they get hacked as long as they share data with the government https://www.youbetrayedus.org/experian/ 6 comments privacy
- Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, and a handful of other tech companies just began publicly lobbying Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that would give corporations total legal immunity when they share private user data with the government and with each other https://www.youbetrayedus.org/ 27 comments technology
- Google did not lobby us into submission, US trade watchdog says. The Federal Trade Commission denies accusations that it took no legal action against the tech company because of intense lobbying efforts http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/26/us-federal-trade-commission-google-lobbying-accusations 8 comments technology
- Big legal things coming down the pipline over the next few weeks. Congress is being lobbied to strip privacy from the internet. http://gamergate.me 36 comments privacy
- Scott Brown's N.H. Senate campaign threatens Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig with legal action over claims of Wall Street lobbying http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/scott_browns_nh_senate_campaig.html 24 comments politics
- Why Hobby Lobby could open a Pandora’s box of legal discrimination http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/3/hobby-lobby-future.html 25 comments worldnews
- In one, [De Blasio] boycotts the St. Patrick’s Day Parade because organizers refuse to allow gays to march behind banners declaring their sexual orientation. In the other, he warmly addresses an Orthodox Jewish group that had fervently lobbied against legalizing same-sex marriage in New York. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tale-standards-article-1.1812124#ixzz33qn2led0 3 comments politics
- Forget Hobby Lobby. The Bigger Legal Threat to Obamacare Still Has Life http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117156/obamacares-most-destructive-legal-challenge-still-has-life 4 comments politics
- n the Hobby Lobby case, the owners claim that their personal religious beliefs would be offended if they have to provide certain forms of birth control coverage to employees. The legal duty falls on Hobby Lobby, the company, not its owners. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/03/corporations_are_people_and_that_s_why_hobby_lobby_should_lose_at_the_supreme.html 130 comments politics
- Marijuana legalization supporters rally at Oklahoma Capitol: Hundreds of supporters for the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana rallied at the Oklahoma Capitol on Wednesday, speaking with lawmakers and lobbying for medicinal use of the drug. http://newsok.com/marijuana-legalization-supporters-rally-at-oklahoma-capitol/article/3933076 5 comments politics
- Hobby Lobby and corporate personhood: The cases are a collision of two very insidious legal metaphors — that personhood begins when any one religion says it does and that religious personhood can be vested in corporations in ways that can be forced on workers. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/12/hobby_lobby_and_corporate_personhood_the_alarming_conservative_crusade_to.html 40 comments politics
- Big Marijuana lobby fights legalization efforts - Byron Tau http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html?ml=tb 3 comments politics
- Big Marijuana lobby fights legalization efforts http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/big-marijuana-lobby-fights-legalization-efforts-94816.html 3 comments nottheonion
- Can anyone point me to an existing thread discussing the legality and/or points of argument for this Hobby Lobby mess? http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/01/business/la-fi-hobby-lobby-contraception-20130101 3 comments politics
- Hobby Lobby denied injunction, must comply with contraceptive mandate while legal challenge proceeds http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/12/20/hobby-lobby-denied-injunction-must-comply-with-mandate-while-legal-challenge-proc 27 comments politics
- Activists push for international ban on legal trade in polar bear items - US & Russian groups unite to lobby govts over rise in poaching & melting Arctic ice. "Polar bears are becoming more & more scarce, & that scarcity is driving up demand that's helping drive the species towards extinction." http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/01/polar-bear-legal-trade-ban 11 comments worldnews
- Google is lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where self driving cars could be legally operated on public roads. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11drive.html 24 comments technology
- Lobbying is Legal Bribery http://antignorance.com/politics/lobbying-is-legal-bribery/ 31 comments politics
- Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA's Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex http://www.alternet.org/drugs/148213/alcohol_lobby_now_openly_spending_against_ca%27s_legal_pot_initiative_in_alliance_with_police_industrial_complex 17 comments politics
- Kettle Calling the Pot Black: Alcohol Lobby Pumps Money Into Anti-Pot Legalization Campaign http://jonathanturley.org/2010/09/18/kettle-calling-the-pot-black-alcohol-lobby-pumps-money-into-anti-pot-legalization-campaign/ 4 comments politics
- Beer Lobby Gives $10,000 To 'No' On Proposition 19 Pot Legalization cp from beer/pot http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/marijuana/beer-lobby-gives-10000-to-no-o/ 26 comments politics
- Need another reason to boycott Starbucks? They're funding an anti-marijuana lobby in Colorado to fight recent decriminalization and legalization victories. We should not accept corporations who lobby for our imprisonment. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5559/t/4030/content.jsp?content_key=3266 177 comments reddit.com
- Focus on the Family chips in $98k to help overturn Maine's gay marriage law - Nonprofits like Focus & the Roman Catholic diocese are legally able to donate up to 15 percent of their annual budget to lobbying efforts http://www.gazette.com/articles/maine-64121-gay-marriage.html 5 comments politics
- "Legalize it" lobby grows. Mexico and other Latin American countries move toward drug decriminalization. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/mexico/091018/drug-decriminalization-marijuana 192 comments worldnews
- Supporters of marijuana legalization took their fight with a law directly to the law Sunday as they lit up in the Keene Police Station lobby. http://www.keenesentinel.com/articles/2009/09/28/news/local/free/id_373296.txt 3 comments reddit.com
- Comedian Pete Johansson talks about the DEA's interference with Canada's attempt to legalize marijuana - millions spent to lobby Cdn gov't to not do something 80% of population agrees with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2hxud9ep4 3 comments politics
- "This is the same kind of crazy cutting-edge quasi-hippy capitalism that started the PC revolution. If I were a big tobacco executive, I'd be trying to get in on this now, by bankrolling these guys and turning my massive DC lobbying machine over to legalizing pot at the federal level." http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/14/the_business_of_medi.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Congressman who's giving payday loan companies legal 391% APR loans says he's powerless to resist their lobbying--Submitter can stop him--just bring a rope http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/05/congressman-whos-giv.html 32 comments politics