In a memo to enforcement officers posted on its Web site, which many tax-exempt groups monitor, the I.R.S. said that if "a 501 (c) (3) organization posts something on its Web site that favors or opposes a candidate for public office, the organization will be treated the same as if it distributed printed material, oral statements or broadcasts that favored or opposed a candidate".
The case raises a novel and interesting question: If an Internet provider is served a warrant for a customer account, can the provider litigate the constitutionality of the warrant pre-enforcement on its customer's behalf?
Google has fared slightly better, reporting on scrutiny of ad placement, its new policy for election ads and its dedicated teams to prevent election-related abuse of its services; but other information, such as data on enforcement of its policies, is still lacking.
It's hard to judge the situation without being able to hear the conversations with the parent or with law enforcement, but on its surface, it seems like a textbook example of how a gun violence restraining order could help the situation.
The agency immediately lifted a stay it had imposed on the enforcement of its cable concentration rules.
Also on Thursday morning, Facebook released a new report on its enforcement of its social network's community standards, along with a note from Zuckerberg outlining his plan for content moderation on the platform, which has more than 2-billion monthly active users.
Similar disputes are occurring in Boston and in San Francisco, which suspended enforcement of its ban on mobile billboards in June because of a lawsuit, said Nathan Ballard, a deputy city attorney there.
In a sudden outburst of frustration with the Serbian onslaught against the Muslims of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Security Council began preparing today to authorize immediate military enforcement of its ban on military flights over the former Yugoslav republic.
(quoting Head Money Cases, 112 U. S. 580, 598 (1884) (a treaty " 'is primarily a compact between independent nations,' " and " 'depends for the enforcement of its provisions on the interest and the honor of the governments which are parties to it' ")).
