Washington Examiner
Blame Harvey’s Torrential Rain, Not Development, for Massive Flooding, Planning Experts Say
Washington Examiner discusses development in Houston in regards to Hurrican Harvey with Marc Scribner. Houston’s relaxed approach to development should not be blamed for…
Forbes
Trump’s Tax Reform Plan Targets Middle-Class Tax Complexity
President Trump visited Missouri to talk about tax reform, stressing simplicity and middle-class tax relief and “plans to bring back Main Street by reducing…
Blog
Subsidy Forces Florida Taxpayers to Pay for Union Work
Most hardworking Americans would be shocked to learn that public employees at all levels of government—federal, state, and local—conduct union business that is totally unrelated…
Comment
CEI Submitted Comments to the FCC on Restoring Internet Freedom
View Full Document as PDF On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), we respectfully submit these reply comments regarding the FCC’s…
News Release
Union Subsidy Wastes Millions of Taxpayer Dollars in Florida
Florida has a problem with taxpayer giveaways to labor unions due to a practice known as “release time,” explains a new report from Florida’s James…
Study
Union Time on the Taxpayer Dime
View Full Document as PDF Published with the James Madison Institute Over the past 20 years, Floridians have consistently made conscious decisions…
News Release
CEI Joins Supreme Court Amicus Brief Against Federal Sports Gambling Ban
Legal Brief
Amicus Brief of Pacific Legal Foundation, CEI and the Cato Institute in Christopher Christie v. NCAA
View Full Document as PDF A federal statute compels New Jersey to continue prohibiting sports gambling, thus requiring the state to hold…
JD Supra
Subway Settlement Giving Attorneys a Lot of Dough Doesn’t Measure Up
JD Supra covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. A settlement giving the class attorneys $525,000 without giving customers any meaningful benefits was thrown out…
Washington Times
Real Progress in Regulatory Reform
Washington Times cites 10,000 Commandments. It’s true. A full seven months after President Trump’s inauguration and the convening of a new Congress, there…
Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: Judges Toss Out Settlement in Subway Foot-long Shakedown
Las Vegas Review-Journal covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. Judges are the key to combating lawsuit abuse. Too often, however, they indulge the worst…
Washington Post
A Class Action That Is ‘No Better Than a Racket’
Washington Post covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed a district court’s approval of…
Nation's Restaurant News
Appeals Court Rejects Subway Foot-Long Settlement
Nation’s Restaurant News discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. A U.S. appeals court threw out a settlement between Subway and its…
C-SPAN
VIDEO: Iain Murray Discusses “Shrinking Government Bureaucracy” on Washington Journal
Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses CEI’s “Shrinking Government Bureaucracy: Reorganizing the Executive Branch to Boost Economic Growth and…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wagner, McCaskill Efforts to Go After Backpage Site Attracting Powerful Foes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers CEI’s statements in a letter to Congress regarding an internet freedom bill. Efforts by several members of the Missouri…
VapingPost
New FDA Anti-Vaping Campaign Plans To Target Teens
VapingPost covers CEI’s joint objection with CASAA to the Obama administration’s ban on vaping on aircrafts. Hopes that the new FDA tobacco control…
RedState
They’re Still Going After Federalism and Online Gaming
RedState covers a coalition letter/amendment in regards to an amendment by Charles Dent that would harm online gambling. I’ve posted number of articles…
News Release
CEI Sues DOJ for Documents on Berkeley Video Take-Down Issue
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeking documents behind a controversial take-down…
Investor's Business Daily
With Angry Politics Dominating, Trump’s Smart Infrastructure Reforms Go Almost Unnoticed
Investor’s Business Daily cites 10,000 Commandments while Talking about President Trump’s infrastructure plan. Reform: Lost amid all the political name-calling last week, President…
Litigation
CEI v. Department of Justice
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on August 30, 2017, seeking documents behind…
Blog
Happy 25th to the State Policy Network
The State Policy Network is an impressive organization that helps improve the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations and nonprofit leaders at the state level across the…
USA Today
Court’s New Math in Subway Foot-Long Sub Lawsuit: Zero + Zero = Zero
USA Today discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Adam Schulman. A class-action lawsuit that almost extracted $520,000 out of Subway over the length…
The Guardian
Conservative Groups Shrug Off Link Between Tropical Storm Harvey and Climate Change
The Guardian discusses Hurricane Harvey with Myron Ebell. Conservative groups with close links to the Trump administration have sought to ridicule the link…
Reason
Instead of Filling Vacancies, Congress Should Abolish the NLRB
Reason discusses the National Labor Relations Board vacancies with Trey Kovacs. The U.S. Senate voted earlier this month to confirm Marvin Kaplan’s appointment…
Wall Street Journal
Nixing the $520,000 ‘Footlong’
The Wall Street Journal discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has given the plaintiffs bar…
Blog
Why Economic Freedom Is the Best Weapon against Poverty
This blog post is adapted from a speech delivered to the Foreign Service Institute at the United States Department of State on August 29, 2017.
Wall Street Journal
VIDEO: Opinion Journal: Subway’s Sandwich Settlement
Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal covers Ted Frank and CEI’s win in the Subway settlement.
Bloomberg BNA
Corporate America May Be Best Hope to Re-Engage Trump on Climate
Bloomberg BNA discusses the possibility of a renegotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement with Myron Ebell. You’d think U.S. companies would be ready to…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Subway Sub-Length Litigation Slammed
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. It’s not only some Subway sandwiches that don’t measure up, according…
MediaPost
Appeals Court Approves Google’s $8.5 Million Data Leak Settlement
MediaPost discusses In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation with Ted Frank. A federal appellate panel has upheld Google’s $8.5 million…
Blog
Conservative Air Traffic Control Reform Opponents Continue Campaign of Falsehoods
Recently, I noted how corporate jet lobby National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) had attempted to trot out “Hero of the Hudson” Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger…
The Washington Times
Appeals Court Rejects ‘Worthless’ Subway Foot-long Settlement Between Sandwich Chain and Customers
The Washington Times covers the Subway footlong settlement. A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action settlement between the Subway sandwich chain and…
Wall Street Journal
Appeals Court Throws Out Settlement in Subway ‘Footlong’ Case
Wall Street Journal discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. In a case alleging Subway restaurant consumers got too little dough, judges…
Blog
Applying Big Data Techniques, New Study Finds Most Recent Warming Could Be Natural
Recent research indicates that the earth's atmosphere is less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide than previously assumed.
News Release
Third Party Cy Pres Awards in Google Settlement Unfair to Class
The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) today filed a reply brief in In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation…
The Daily Report
7th Circuit Says ‘Utterly Worthless’ Subway Footlong Settlement Has No Meat
The Daily Report discusses the Subway class-action settlement with Ted Frank. The litigation saga over Subway’s sometimes-undersized sandwiches neared its end Friday…
Reuters
‘Worthless’ Subway ‘Footlong’ Sandwich Settlement is Thrown Out: U.S. Court
Reuters discusses the Subway class-action settlement with Ted Frank. A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class-action settlement intended to…
News Release
CEI Gets Win for Consumers in Subway Footlong Settlement
In a victory for class action fairness, an appeals court rejected a settlement in the Subway Footlong case that would have paid plaintiffs’ attorneys over…
News Release
Fed Chair Yellen Off the Mark in Dodd-Frank Comments
At the Federal Reserve’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on August 25, 2017, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen made some tedious claims on the…
Blog
New Film ‘Food Evolution’ Confronts Confusion on GMO Crops
Genetic modification of food crops is a valuable scientific process that has already helped feed countless millions of people around the world and provided breathtaking humanitarian…
Blog
Smart Move to Repeal Department of Interior ‘Valuation Rule’ on Minerals
The repeal ensures that coal leasing and sales can continue while the agency develops and adopts a new rule informed by public comment.
News Release
CEI Supports Reducing Federal Lands for National Monuments, Returning Lands to Private Ownership
Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, responded to the Interior Department’s assessment of the use of federal land as…
The Register
Google’s $8.5m Class-Action Privacy Payout Goes to: Lawyers’ Alma Maters, Web Giant’s Pals
The Register covers Ted Frank’s arguments in a Google consumer privacy case. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has narrowly approved an…
Compliance Week
Killing the SEC and Other Plans to Redraft Regulatory Agencies
Compliance Week covers CEI’s reccomendations for reorganization to the SEC and other agencies from Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. Occasionally daydream about razing Washington’s regulatory agencies…
Blog
President’s Summer Policy Update
When it comes to the institutions of capitalism, the advance of human welfare, and liberty, we are here because we love the work.
Blog
NYT Pesticide Exposé Only Exposes Foolish Reporting
EPA decision not to ban chlorpyrifos was based on sound science.
Blog
Congress Expands Investigation into Inappropriate Federal Employee Political Activity
U.S. Postal Service employees and union engaged in a “systematic violation” of the Hatch Act, a law placing limits on political activity performed by federal…
Blog
Federal Payday Loan Rule Would Devastate Vulnerable Consumers
It is clear then that the CFPB has no legitimate basis for regulating most payday loans out of existence.
Blog
President’s D.C. Summer Update
Political posturing and high-level personnel changes in Washington have dominated the news and are shaping what policy changes are possible.
CoinDesk
The IRS Has Been Using Bitcoin Tracking Software Since 2015
CoinDesk covers CEI’s amicus brief filing in United States v. Coinbase. The Internal Revenue Service is using bitcoin transaction tracing tools developed by…