Ofer Lion Quoted By Tax Notes Today

Ofer Lion was quoted in a December 3 story from Tax Notes Today entitled "Court Wrangling Persists Over California Donor Disclosure Rule" on upcoming arguments in the Ninth Circuit regarding Democratic state Attorney General Kamala D. Harris's appeal of a preliminary injunction in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Harris, No. 2:14-CV-09448 (C.D. Calif. 2015), scheduled for December 9. The state of California denies that it discloses unredacted lists of major donors submitted annually by exempt organizations with charitable assets, contrary to claims by a prominent right-leaning organization. Lion said earlier he expects Americans for Prosperity Foundation to meet the same fate as Center for Competitive Politics. He continued that, given the effective seal of approval it just got from the U.S. Supreme Court, he expects the Ninth Circuit to stick to its guns and require disclosure.