The Fair Play law does raise difficult questions of implementation.
"We knew we had them on the ropes after that play," Law said.
Sandra Bullock (Demolition Man) and Melissa McCarthy (White Oleander) play law enforcement officers who begrudgingly team up to fight crime in this weekend's new comedy, The Heat.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, she is the author of Wiki Government (Brookings Institution Press 2009), which will appear this year in Arabic and Chinese, and co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU Press 2006).
The Citizens Campaign in New Jersey, which led efforts to pass the state's pay-to-play laws, is concerned.
The appeals court — Judges Edwin H. Stern, Jack M. Sabatino and Jonathan N. Harris — found that the governor's order was at odds with state laws on collective bargaining, and with the intent of the pay-to-play laws.
New Jersey has some of the strongest pay-to-play laws in the country, aimed at regulating the awarding of contracts and other favors in exchange for campaign contributions.
Ms. Buono was among those who criticized Reform Jersey Now, saying they "render our campaign finance and pay-to-play laws useless" and introducing legislation that would have required the group to disclose its donors.
Part of that trip was paid for by a group called Choose NJ, which, the Times noted, "is financed by companies that are forbidden by pay-to-play laws to donate to the governor".
When the Democrats produced their more limited plan, they pointed out that only three other states had any kind of pay-to-play laws and that those were not as ambitious as the one the Republicans wanted for New Jersey.
