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Washington, D.C.<\/em> \u2013 The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) filed a motion<\/a> Wednesday to intervene in a suit filed by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The suit challenges the SEC\u2019s authority to dictate the content of corporate proxy ballots presented at annual shareholder meetings for the approval of shareholders. NCPPR is represented in the case by the law firms of Boyden Gray & Associates and America First Legal.<\/p>\n

\u201cManufacturers are facing an onslaught of activists seeking to hijack the proxy ballot to advance narrow political agendas, and the SEC has become a willing partner in the effort,\u201d said NAM Chief Legal Officer Linda Kelly. \u201cThe corporate proxy ballot is not the appropriate venue for policy decisions better made by America\u2019s elected representatives, and manufacturers are regularly caught in the middle as activists on the left and the right bring fights from the political arena into the boardroom. The NAM Legal Center is standing up for manufacturers to ensure they can focus on growing their businesses, driving economic expansion and job creation and creating value for shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

NCPPR filed the lawsuit last month to ensure that the SEC either proceeds in a transparent and unbiased fashion or is stopped altogether.<\/p>\n

\"Scott<\/a>

Scott Shepard<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn recent years the SEC and its staff have refused a series of requests that it become more transparent in its decision making and modify its rules to eliminate opportunities for partisan decision-making about which proposals can proceed to proxy ballots — opportunities for partisanship that they have taken astonishing advantage of,\u201d said FEP Director Scott Shepard<\/a>. \u201cThis reckless disregard of law and duty by the SEC has revealed the parlous condition of its claims to have any place in reviewing shareholder proposals at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Should NCPPR prevail in its suit, the courts may demand that the SEC revamp its proposal-review process or withdraw from that process altogether. NAM joins NCPPR in seeking the latter remedy.<\/p>\n

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Washington, D.C. \u2013 The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a suit filed by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 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