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In Friedrichs v. CTA, Supreme Court Can Strike a Blow for Free Speech
Oral arguments in one of the most important Supreme Court labor cases in years are set for January 11, with potential major implications in the…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Humanity First and Family Medicine Man
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Promoting Economic Freedom in 2016
It was Marxists who wanted permanent revolution, but it is capitalists who have delivered it. The last 50 years have seen a sustained revolution in…
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The 2016 Unconstitutionality Index: 39 Federal Rules for Every Law Congress Passes
The New Year brought news of yet more executive action by President Obama, most prominently this time on tweaking the Second Amendment and access to…
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
2015 was a record-setting year, with the Federal Register reaching 82,035 pages. This breaks the previous record by more than 600 pages, or roughly the length of Moby…
Washington Times
The Unconstitutionality Index: 3,408 New Federal Regulations, 87 Laws
The Washington Times discusses Clyde Wayne Crews’ recent report on the alarming growth of regulations. The nation continues to be a playground for government…
Washington Examiner
Unconstitutionality Index: Obama issues 39 rules for every law
The Washington Examiner discusses the current administration's increase in regulations per law passed with Clyde Wayne Crews. "Bush's last six years averaged 17, while…
The Washington Examiner
What the Near-Death of the Railroad Industry Can Teach American Business Leaders
Business executives deal with the spiraling cost of complying with government regulation every day. This burden has become so large and pervasive that many have…
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The Good the Bad and the Big: Top 3 Consumer Policy Stories of 2015
2015 was a big year for health and consumer news. Unfortunately, many of the biggest stories were viral in the true sense of the word:…
The Wall Street Journal
Happy New Regulatory Year
The Wall Street Journal cites CEI's Wayne Crews on the growing yearly tally of regulations: Unofficially, Mr. Obama’s Administration has once again…
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CEI’s Year in Review: Defending Freedom and Promoting Free Markets
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CEI Looks Ahead to 2016
Legal Brief
Amicus Brief Filed in Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) filed an amicus brief arguing unclaimed funds from the settlement in In re Black Farmers Discrimination Litigation should…
News Release
CEI Files Amicus Brief in Support of Returning Funds to Black Farmers Discriminated Against by the USDA
Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) filed an amicus brief arguing unclaimed funds from the settlement in In…
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Bureaucracy Unbound: 2015 Is Another Record Year For The Federal Register
With one day to go in 2015, the Federal Register tops off at 81,611 pages. That’s higher than last year at 77,687 pages and higher than it’s…
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2015 – The Year of Equity Crowdfunding
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time for year-end retrospectives, in which the past year is proclaimed the “year of” something. So in that…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Legacies of Empire & A New Magna Carta
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
78 new regulations, from drones to ground beef.
Comment
State Policy Network Groups’ Comments on Clean Power Plan
The following State Policy Network think tanks, the Buckeye Institute in Ohio, the Independence Institute in Colorado, the Rio Grande Foundation in New Mexico, and the…
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Washington Says Merry Christmas With 80,000 Pages Of Regulation
There may be a federal war on coal in the ground, but Washington has plenty of coal for your Christmas stocking. The Federal Register—where federal…
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Holiday Liquor Laws: Where to Buy Your Christmas Cup of Cheer
Nobody wants to drive an hour over the border just to get booze, especially on Christmas Day. However, 27 states in the union still have…
Litigation
Challenging the Clean Power Plan: CEI, et al. v. EPA
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its so-called Clean Power Plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
USA Today
TSA May Require a Full-Body Scan, Rather than Pat-Down
CEI's Marc Scribner comments to USA Today on the TSA's recent decision to end its policy of allowing all travelers to opt for a…
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Scrooge Was the Ultimate Job Creator
In a 2013 essay for Forbes that is quickly becoming a Christmas classic, my colleague Fred Smith took a fresh look at the character of…
News Release
CEI Takes the EPA’s Clean Power Plan to Court to Protect State Rights
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its Clean Power Plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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RealClear Radio Hour: Mom, Boogey Man, and Popehat
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CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
There are just eight more editions of the Federal Register remaining to be published this year. With new regulations in the last week covering everything from truck…
Inside Sources
Holiday Toy Safety: Common Sense Trumps Activist Advice
For Inside Sources, Angela Logomasini writes on the seasonal overactive alarmism around chemicals in children’s toys: If you believe the U.S. Public Interest…
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“UN climate change goal? We’re there now” – John Christy
Every month John Christy and Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, report global temperature data from their satellite monitoring program, known as the…
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COP-21 Adopts Big, New Paris Climate Treaty (But We’re Not Supposed To Call It a Treaty)
COP-21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) concluded in Paris only one day late on Saturday, 12th…
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Republican House and Senate Give Huge Victory to President Obama’s Climate Agenda
The House and Senate on 18th September passed omnibus appropriations legislation that provides $1.15 trillion to fund the federal government for the remainder of FY…
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Automated Vehicles Update: California DMV Releases Draft Rules and Some Notes about that Crash Study
CALIFORNIA DMV AV OPPS RULES PROPOSED: On December 16, the California Department of Motor Vehicles released its draft licensing and operations rules for consumer automated vehicles,…
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Obama Claims the Paris Climate Agreement Is Not a Treaty. Huh?
President Obama insists that the international climate agreement adopted at the COP 21 conference in Paris is not a treaty. His reason for doing so…
Comment
CEI Comments to IRS on Substantiation Requirements
News Release
CEI Asks for Rehearing on Settlement in Berry v. Lexis
Today the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Congress Rewards Education Department for Overreaching and Flouting Checks and Balances
At Powerline, lawyer Paul Mirengoff writes about one of the many disturbing provisions buried in the budget-busting omnibus spending bill currently being passed by Congress as…
Coal Blog
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Does Not Deserve Judicial Respect
On August 3rd, President Obama announced his administration’s signature global warming policy, known as the Clean Power Plan. In the simplest of terms, the Clean…
News Release
CEI Opposes Omnibus Cave-In on EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules and Extensions of Wind and Solar Tax Subsidies
Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment, today explained CEI’s opposition to some provisions and support for certain riders in the omnibus…
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Obama Cements Status as King of Regulatory Bloat
Today marks a milestone for the one brandishing the Mighty Pen and Phone. The Federal Register hit 78,648 pages today. The Register is where the federal…
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Omnibus: No Financial Reg Relief, Dangerous GSE Provision, But a Little CFPB Sunshine
My Competitive Enterprise Institute colleagues and I have made the case for members of Congress to use the omnibus spending bill as an exercise…
News Release
Customer Fights Fat Reward for Lawyers in Subway Short-Sandwich Lawsuit
In a lawsuit over Subway's "footlong" sandwiches that don't measure up, CEI's Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) on Tuesday challenged a proposed class action settlement that…
Reuters
Subway ‘footlong’ sandwich deal doesn’t measure up, objector says
A class-action activist is taking aim at a proposed settlement in litigation over marketing for Subway’s 6- and 12-inch sandwiches, saying the deal offers nothing…
National Review
Omnibus Bill: Search in Vain for the Regulatory Relief
There are certainly some good things in the Omnibus Spending/Tax Extenders bills that dropped early this morning (though I…
Washington Examiner
Report: Obama Sets Red Tape Record, 545,875 Pages
The Washington Examiner cites Wayne Crews' work on the scope of President Obama's record-setting regulations: What's more, Obama still has half a month…
Litigation
Subway Footlong Sandwich Marketing And Sales Practices Litigation
In a victory for consumers, CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness successfully objected to an abusive class action settlement in a case about the length of…
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Why the Omnibus Shouldn’t Include Cybersecurity Legislation
Later this week, the House is slated to vote on a $1.1 trillion “omnibus” spending bill to fund the federal government through next fall. Naturally,…
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FAA Releases Mandatory Drone Registration Interim Final Rule
On December 16, the FAA will publish its interim final rule (IFR) on Registration and Marking Requirements for Small Unmanned Aircraft in the Federal…
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Omnibus with Significant Reg Relief May Be Worth Supporting
As the year-end omnibus spending bill is about to be unveiled, there will be a scramble to examine its provisions. In many policy areas, my…
Bloomberg
U.S. Cities Spend $1.2 Billion on Streetcars to Nowhere
Bloomberg quotes transportation expert Marc Scribner on cities investing in streetcars. While streetcars in Portland, Oregon and Seattle have succeeded — measured by…
Fortune
Should Plaintiffs Lawyers Get 94% of A Class Action Settlement?
Fortune reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' petition to the Supreme Court to review the Duracell class action settlement. On Saturday,…