Sentences with phrase «old lobbying law»

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Paul Vallone works for his father's lobbying firm and is attached to the old Vallone & Vallone law firm, which now serves largely as an «of counsel» answering service for Sacco & Fillas, another Queens law firm.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

MPs will today meet with older people for a mass lobby of parliament ahead of the age discrimination law review.

The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for marketing purposes.

Bankers» group says CARD Act raised rates, lowered credit access — The 3 - year - old federal credit card reform law is a mixed bag, banking lobby group says, but hurt consumers access to credit and raised rates... (See CARD Act impact)

A USA Today story published Wednesday reports that Biden worked to defeat a bipartisan bill designed to curb asbestos lawsuits at a time his older son Beau's law firm was filing asbestos cases and a former aide was lobbying against the measure.

An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.