RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position? (take II)

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

So the IEEE can lobby but STC can't?


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
 

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> Subject: RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit; STC position? (take II)
> 
> Geoff raises one good point here, which is that taking a 
> stance on this could be considered political lobbying.  A 
> lawyer will never give you a full answer, it would cost too 
> much and 'teach you everything he knew', however there may be 
> other reasons behind this.
> 
> Many of you are not yet privy to the content of the proposed 
> STC Articles of Association of and joint agreement between 
> the organisation and its non-US-based Chapters, which it 
> wants to become incorporated bodies, mostly to satisfy the IRS.
> 
> One of proposed terms of incorporation is that a Chapter have 
> charitable status, and that it not participate in political 
> lobbying.  Like Geoff I'm a foreigner (and have lived in 
> Canada), so I'm not familiar with the detail of US law, 
> however I suspect that this will be a test case that has the 
> potential to set precedent and change the (interpretation of, 
> at least) US law.  To that extent, having a position could be 
> seen as lobbying, which would affect STC's charitable status. 
>  So not expressing an opinion is merely compliance with a law 
> that the STC is subject to either under New York or US 
> Federal law.  But like I said, I'm only guessing.


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