November 29, 2001
Fla. Ruling Favors Fund-Raising Consultants
A federal court has sided with a coalition of national charities and fund-raising consultants in a closely watched lawsuit against a county fund-raising law. The case, in Pinellas County, Fla., is one in a series of recent court challenges to state and local solicitation rules around the country.
Reversing her own 1998 decision, a federal district judge in Tampa rejected a portion of the county's charitable-solicitations ordinance requiring fund-raising consultants who work with
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