When Congress wrote the last campaign finance law five years ago, it didn't even mention the Internet.
Some wealthy donors were put off by the complexity of campaign finance law.
The subject was the so-called millionaire's amendment to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
Instead, he applied for a bank line of credit, and created a new gray area of campaign finance law.
In other key decisions this term, the court stripped away a key part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
The groups are controversial because they exploit loopholes in the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.
The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibited corporations from running television commercials for or against Presidential candidates for thirty days before primaries.
In fact, big money from corporations and unions was shut out of federal campaigns by the 2002 campaign finance law.
The Supreme Court is not in session, though it is hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law.
And the complexity of campaign-finance law makes it hard even for well-meaning candidates to be sure they are not breaking it.
Campaign-finance law places strict limits on donations, but candidates and their spouses can spend an unlimited amount on their own campaigns.
The court this term gutted a key provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that had been upheld just three years ago.
He will also be helped by a change in the campaign-finance law.
For example, Roberts wrote a narrow opinion in 2007 holding that the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law did not apply to certain political advertisements in Wisconsin.
He brought to the case an expertise in tax and finance law honed through handling many corporate cases as a judge over the years.
He did say, however, that had he his druthers when running the probe, he would have sought felony charges against many involved for gross violations of campaign finance law.
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Ozawa still controls the largest block of DPJ votes and continues to act as pre-eminent power broker, despite having had his party membership suspended as punishment for campaign finance law violations.
Clinton's campaign was unable to repay that personal loan by the time the Democratic National Convention convened in Denver, Colorado, in August, the deadline mandated by the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
Here's the legal part of the case: Democrats say McCain has violated campaign finance law and that he's getting away with it because the enforcement agency, the FEC, has not been able to function.
Under Germany's political-finance law, brought in by Mr Kohl himself in 1994, all parties have to present yearly accounts to parliament, along with a record of all contributions, however small, with donors' names and addresses.
Kim escaped jail time at his March 9 sentencing for violations of federal campaign finance law, but he still awaits the verdict of two other juries: his House colleagues and the voters of California's 41st District.
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Critics of the court say the decision will usher in a new era of corporate influence in elections, undermining the spirit of the 2002 campaign finance law, which was designed to curb "soft money" (or unregulated) political donations.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the case, said in a statement Ms. Hou and Mr. Pan "stuck a knife into the heart" of the city's campaign-finance law as part of a scheme "to corruptly advantage" Mr. Liu's campaign.
"Once this finance law is approved, along with the amendments on everything which Europe has asked of us and which the Eurogroup has asked for, I will resign, so that the head of state can open consultations, " he said.
Countless Marines I know had put off careers in business, finance and law to play small, almost anonymous parts in tedious and dangerous places.
He writes on Islamic finance in law review articles and on his blog, Muslimlawprof.org, and is the author of Howling in Mesopotamia.
What's more, many jobs in the insurance industry use skills that are prevalent in fields like corporate finance, law and customer service, making a switch more feasible.
Interestingly, the gender pay gap is widest for those with an advanced degree, suggesting that discrimination is most severe in highly skilled fields, like finance and law.
The city has invested heavily in trying to attract more technology companies, in part to offset stagnant job growth in more traditional local industries such as finance and law.
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