1. A federal judge is poised to rule on a tobacco industry bid to block state public health hearings on a plan to force disclosure of all cigarette ingredients. 2. Brownback said that Republicans on the foreign affairs committee were considering issuing a subpoena to the administration to force disclosure of the documents describing the deal. 3. But it is quite another matter to force public disclosure of that information about past offenders. 4. But most Republicans, who have the votes to force disclosure, insist that the material would help the public decide whether Clinton had lied under oath. 5. Even if they had known, though, lawyers and investor advocates are unsure whether it would have been enough to force disclosure. 6. In trying to force earlier disclosure, the SEC is proposing to place the burden of disclosure on companies rather than individuals. 7. Life Partners, however, defeated attempts to force disclosure of investors and to set mandatory minimums for the settlements paid to the terminally ill. 8. Most legal precedents on this subject involve efforts to protect confidential sources in the face of attempts by prosecutors or others to force disclosure of their names. 9. Several bills have been introduced in Congress to force disclosure. 10. Since Mexico has no right-to-know law, border residents were never able to force the disclosure of the amounts and types of toxic chemicals in their neighborhoods. |
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