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    <body>La asociaci&#243;n empresarial m&#225;s tradicional de los Estados Unidos, The National Association of Manufacturers, verdadero gigante del lobby corporativo en EEUU, ha planteado una acci&#243;n judicial pidiendo que se declare inconstitucional ciertas disposiciones de la &lt;A id=link_0 title=http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/110/s/s1.pdf href="http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/110/s/s1.pdf"&gt;Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007&lt;/A&gt;. Dicha constituye el esfuerzo m&#225;s reciente del Parlamento americano por limitar la influenica de los grupos de inter&#233;s y transparentar sus procedimientos.

 La asociaci&#243;n de fabricantes considera inconstitucional la disposici&#243;n de la ley mencionada por la cual se obliga a las organizaciones de este tipo a develar los nombres de la personas o empresas que donen m&#225;s de 5000 d&#243;lares a los legisladores. 

  

 Les copio la noticia del Wall Street Journal:

  

 &lt;H1 class=articleTitle style="MARGIN: 0px"&gt;Lobbyists Sue 
Over Disclosure 
In Ethics Law&lt;/H1&gt; &lt;DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT: bold 12px times new roman, times, serif; PADDING-TOP: 12px"&gt;&lt;SPAN id=byl style="FONT: bold 12px times new roman, times, serif"&gt;By &lt;B&gt;BRODY MULLINS&lt;/B&gt;
&lt;SPAN class=aTime&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;FONT color=#666666 size=2&gt;February 7, 2008; Page A8&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;/DIV&gt; &lt;P class=times&gt;WASHINGTON -- A large industry-lobbying group filed a lawsuit yesterday to overturn a central provision in an ethics law enacted by Congress last year.

 &lt;P class=times&gt;The ethics law, called the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007, sought to loosen the ties between lobbyists and lawmakers while shining more light on how lobbyists ply their trade. One provision took aim at large lobbying coalitions by requiring the publication of all entities that contribute more than $5,000 a quarter.

 &lt;P class=times&gt;The National Association of Manufacturers says the provision would require traditional trade associations to disclose names of their members for the first time. The lawsuit says trade groups have a First Amendment right not to make public the names of their member companies. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives.

 &lt;P class=times&gt;John Engler, the president of the manufacturers' trade group and former Michigan governor, said the law is a "potentially lethal threat" because it would discourage joining the lobbying coalitions. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), defended the law, saying it "mandates appropriate public disclosure."

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    <title>Lobistas presentan demanda de inconstitucionalidad</title>
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    <body>Es preocupante que el poder legislativo y ejecutivo sean secuestrados por los grupos de inter&#233;s corporativo. Pero lo es mucho m&#225;s que el poder judicial est&#233; tambien sujeto a la influencia del leviat&#225;n empresarial. Esto es lo que sucede, por surrealista que parezca, en Estados Unidos. En muchos estados se eligen los jueces por votaci&#243;n popular, y reciben contribuciones del sector privado para sus campa&#241;as. Eso es. De la misma forma que legisladores y presidentes venden sus almas a empresas y grupos de presi&#243;n a cambio de dinero para poder venderse a los electores. Es muy interesante &lt;A id=link_0 title=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01252008/watch4.html href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01252008/watch4.html"&gt;la entrevista que hace Bill Moyers a John Grisham&lt;/A&gt;, el famoso autor de novelas de abogados. Grisham se dedica a estudiar casos de la vida real para crear sus novelas. En la entrevista describe como en, si se miran las cifras, este fen&#243;meno hace que los jueces fallen en favor de los m&#225;s poderosos. 




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    <created-at type="datetime">2008-02-06T23:16:02Z</created-at>
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    <published-at type="datetime">2008-02-06T23:16:02Z</published-at>
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    <title>Jueces y lobby corporativo en Estados Unidos</title>
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