Sentences with phrase «support for public disclosure»

The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 allowed for unlimited political spending by corporations, but Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed his strong support for public disclosure of the money spent.

Not exact matches

The disclosure of teacher evaluations has been firmly supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but is a sensitive issue for teachers unions, who point to other public employees not having their evaluations released to either the general public or a narrowly defined portion of the populace, like parents.

State of the State: Gov. Cuomo Once Again Calls for Public Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public finaPublic Financing In his 2013 State of the State Address on Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo reemphasized his support for comprehensive reform of the state's campaign finance laws including effective disclosure, lower contribution limits, and public finapublic financing.

Cuomo proposes to extend a system of public campaign finance to all statewide offices and legislative races, ban the use of campaign funds for personal expenses, require the disclosure of outside income and the clients who supported it and change the state Constitution to allow prosecutors to claw back the pensions of officials convicted of public corruption.

The suit is also supported by the Center for Competitive Politics, a Virginia - based nonprofit that has worked against state - imposed restraints on political donations and disclosure requirements that it views as chilling to public engagement.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

They require posting a sample petition on a website, public disclosure of financial support, including the payment of full - time staff, for groups circulating petitions, and forbid paying for signatures.

Given Nestle Purina's total reliance on their «independent testing» as support for both their lawsuit and smear campaign, a reasonable person would have expected them to make a complete disclosure to the public of their testing procedure and protocols at the time they accused us of lying about our ingredients.

Global Witness is calling for Myanmar's EITI process to require oil and gas companies to open their true owners up to public scrutiny, and for the World Bank and other international donors backing the scheme to support such disclosure.

This hearing comes at a time when there is burgeoning diverse and bipartisan support for ending anonymous companies in the U.S. Major financial institutions, national security experts, law enforcement organizations, anti-human trafficking groups and public interest organizations have all endorsed legislation that would require the disclosure of the real people who own American companies.

The logic applied just as much to administrative proceedings: «Holding parties who receive the Record under an implied obligation not to use information in it for a collateral purpose promotes the public interest in obtaining full disclosure of [relevant] material..., just as this promise of confidentiality supports the obligation of complete disclosure between parties in civil actions» (at para. 37).