The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. BIOTECHNOLOGY

The World Trade Organization rules against European restrictions on genetically modified foods. 

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko gives three cheers to the WTO’s biotech ruling. 

2. CONSITUTIONAL AND LEGAL

A constitutional challenge is launched against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader and Fellow in Economics John Berlau on the unconstitutional nature of the PCAOB’s appointment process.

3. ANTITRUST

Microsoft avoids antitrust litigation by agreeing to release information about its Windows Server operating system

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. on how antitrust rulings can stifle technological development. 

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