Lawsuit Filed Over JCOPE’s Comprehensive Lobbying Regulations - State and Federal Communications

November 29, 2018  •  

Lawsuit Filed Over JCOPE’s Comprehensive Lobbying Regulations

A lawsuit has been filed against the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to stop the commission’s Comprehensive Lobbying Regulations from going into effect on January 1, 2019.

David Grandeau, a former lobbying enforcement official and one of three petitioners in the lawsuit, argue the commission lacks the authority to create regulations that expand and amend New York’s Lobbying Act.

The lawsuit, York Group Associates LLC v. Joint Commission on Public Ethics was filed in state Supreme Court in Albany on November 28, 2018.

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