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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - November) No. 17, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - November) No. 17, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - August) No.16, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - August) No.16, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - May) No. 15, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - May) No. 15, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - March) No. 14, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - March) No. 14, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Time To Dilute The Dilution Statute And What Not To Do When Opposing Legislation: Beyond A Comment On Professor Port's The "Unnatural" Expansion Of Trademark Rights: Is A Federal Dilution Statute Necessary?, Malla Pollack
Malla Pollack
This article has three goals: to state clearly the practical problems with the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995, to suggest modifications to deal with these problems, and to explore why prior opposition pieces did not garner support from the uncommitted. This last project requires a subject for the dissection table. Because it won the coveted Ladas Memorial Award for the best trademark article in 1994 and because it was published by the Trademark Reporter just before Congress voted on the Act, this article focuses on Kenneth Port's article, "The 'Unnatural' Expansion of Trademark Rights: Is a Federal Dilution Statute …
How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy: "Rent-Seeking" Charities Or Virtuous Politicians?, Nancy J. Knauer
How Charitable Organizations Influence Federal Tax Policy: "Rent-Seeking" Charities Or Virtuous Politicians?, Nancy J. Knauer
Nancy J. Knauer
Tax-exempt charitable organizations exert considerable influence over Congress, the Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service in matters dealing with exemption from federal income tax and the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. This Article uses both public choice and public interest analysis to help identify various features of the charitable community and explain how exempt organizations weild political influence despite the restrictions placed on their activities under the tax code. Arguing that the influence of charitable organizations over tax policy can be explained from either a public choice or public interest vantage point, the Article concluds that the …
Shining The Spotlight Of Pitiless Publicity On Foreign Lobbyists?, Charles Lawson
Shining The Spotlight Of Pitiless Publicity On Foreign Lobbyists?, Charles Lawson
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This note discusses the changes made to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) and evaluates the impact of those changes. FARA's regulatory regime has long been criticized for its loopholes. FARA's historical focus on foreign propagandists has also been condemned as out of step with the modern political environment in the United States, where foreign" lobbyists" are seen as a serious threat to government integrity. In response to such criticisms, the LDA endeavored to reform FARA so as to increase compliance levels among foreign lobbyists seeking to influence the U.S. political process. …