Blog
CEI Podcast for August 8, 2013: CEI Appeals Dismissal of Dodd-Frank Lawsuit
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman discusses plans to appeal the case.
Blog
Senate Immigration Bill Authorizes E-Verify as Surveillance Tracking
The Senate immigration bill (S. 744) is immense, so most Americans (and, more importantly, journalists) can be forgiven for missing the part that authorizes…
Newsletter
CEI Today: 100 people to watch, gov’t stonewalling, Big Sugar, and pesticide politics
Blog
Not Going Gently: Rogue NLRB Lands One More Blow
For the first time in a decade, the National Labor Relations Board is composed of five legitimately appointed members. However, one of the last decisions…
Newsletter
CEI Today: Keystone pipeline, BPA & infertility, and menu labeling that doesn’t work
Blog
Europe’s Continued Stagnation Is Not Surprising, Given Lack of Reform
The Guardian reports that Italy’s record-long economic slump has continued for another quarter. This isn’t much of a surprise given Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s…
News Release
Unhappy Anniversary: A Year of Treasury Department Stonewalling
WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug. 7, 2013 – Today marks one year since the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed two Freedom of Information Act requests for documents…
National Journal
Keystone XL: Not Enough Attention to Core Issues
In the protracted conflict over the Keystone XL Pipeline, too much attention is paid to peripheral issues and not enough to the core issues. Peripheral…
National Journal
Uber Wars
Instead of playing favorites with existing cab services that are resistant to change, city officials should encourage competition, Matt Patterson, a labor-policy analyst with the…
National Journal
Is ‘zero for zero’ a sugar industry ploy?
The U.S. sugar lobby is promoting a supposedly free market idea: to get rid of the U.S. sugar support program if Brazilian producers give up…
ABA Journal
Diaper deal that gave $2.73M to lawyers, one-box refund to customers is nixed by 6th Circuit
ABA Journal details the class action settlement against Proctor & Gamble, which the Center for Class Action Fairness objected to, and was later overturned. A…
ABA Journal
New study proves menu labeling doesn’t work as promised
Does calorie labeling on restaurant menus encourage healthier eating? A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health suggests not, concluding that calorie…
Daily Caller
Fight erupts over Obama’s pick for top US utility regulator
“In Colorado, Binz actually participated in the crafting of legislation that mandated fuel switching from coal to gas for 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation, at…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…
Washington Examiner
‘War on coal’: 207 coal plants will close in the next decade
William Yeatman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute agrees. "President Obama campaigned on a promise to bankrupt coal, and EPA is now backing up his words,"…
Forbes
We’re In A Cultural War Between The Forces Of Economic Dynamism And Stasis
In a recent column, I noted that our tribal ancestors viewed entrepreneurs with suspicion. In their view, entrepreneurs were too willing to violate…
The Wall Street Journal
Appeals Court Says Legal Fees in Diaper Suit are Ir-rashional
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' In re Dry Max Papers Litigation case. A U.S. appeals…
Law 360
Lessons From CCAF On Designing Class Action Settlements
Law 360 reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' win in the In re Dry Max Pampers case. The recent decision by the…
Blog
Senate NLRB Deal Backfires on GOP…Again
Just over a week ago, Democrats suckered Republicans into a deal to avert what Senator Harry Reid referred to as the “nuclear option” that would…
Newsletter
CEI Today: House anti-carbon tax vote, EPA takeovers, and the UN treaty on disabilities
Blog
CEI’s Battered Business Bureau: The Week in Regulation
82 new regulations, dairy import licenses to information sharing.
The Hill
Sen. Durbin’s vendetta against supplements
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier describes the In re Dry Max Pampers Litigations case and Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the Proctor & Gamble…
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier discusses with Ted Frank why the Center for Class Action Fairness is challenging a settlement which paid large sums to the…
Grist
Sally Jewell Doesn’t Want Any Climate Deniers At Interior
Such moralizing would be funny were it not for the chilling effect it is bound to have in an agency already mired in group think.
Forbes
Appeals Court Flushes Papers Settlement That Paid Lawyers $2.73 Million, Clients Zero
Forbes discusses Center for Class Action Fairness' case objecting to the Procter & Gamble settlement that benefited the plaintiffs' lawyers far more than the class members they…
Blog
The Misleading Push for the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Last year, the Senate did not ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with supporters falling just short of the two-thirds…
Legal Brief
District Court grant of motion to dismiss
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by CEI, 11 state attorneys general, and the State National Bank of Big Spring challenging the…
Blog
‘Universal’ Health Care Universally Loathed
Once upon a time labor unions and all their Labor Bosses loved Obamacare. But not anymore. Unions are slowly opening their eyes and accepting the…
Blog
$26.7 million victory for CCAF in Citigroup Securities case
Details at Point of Law.
Blog
Raul Labrador’s Sane Immigration Policy Reflects His “Libertarian Streak”
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) has led the effort in the House to fix immigration laws in the most conservative and free market way possible.
News Release
After Nearly 20 Years, CEI Applauds Victory on REINS Act
WASHINGTON, DC, August 2, 2013 – Wayne Crews, vice president of policy and director of technical studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, had the following…
News Release
Adverse District Court Opinion on Dodd-Frank Deeply Flawed, Case Now on Appeal
Washington, D.C., August 2, 2013 – A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by CEI, 11 state attorneys general, and the State National…
Overlawyered
Big Ted Frank victory on attorney fee markups
Overlawyered features Ted Frank's victory on behalf of class members in a case objecting to a Citigroup settlement. Longtime Overlawyered blogger Ted Frank…
Blog
CEI Podcast for August 1, 2013: Is Washington the Next Detroit?
Comment
Comments to the OMB on its 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
Wayne Crews submitted comments to the OMB on its 2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance…
Letters
Coalition Letter to Congressman Scalise in Support of H.R. 367
Full Document Available in PDF We write to express our support for your amendment to HR 367, the Regulations From the Executive…
Products
Letter to Rep. Paul Broun and Attached Comments on EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
Full Document Available in PDF I want to thank you for holding a hearing in your Oversight Subcommittee on 1st August on…
Newsletter
CEI Weekly: In Praise of Big Banking
Newsletter
CEI Today: REINS Act vote, Dodd-Frank court ruling, and EPA stonewalling
Overlawyered
As Bristol Bay fight heats up, EPA’s McCarthy may visit proposed mine site
Overlawyered
Federal judge dismisses states’ challenge to Dodd-Frank law
Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit brought last year by State National Bank of…
News Release
CEI Urges House Science Committee to Investigate Stratus Consulting’s Work on EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2013 – The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sent a letter to Representative Paul Broun asking him to investigate the…
News Release
Senate Concocts Notion of “Regulatory Paralysis” in Hearing Today
Reuters
Judge approves Citigroup $590 million settlement
Reuters reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' victory in the case In re: Citigroup Inc Securities Litigation. A federal judge gave final…
Forbes
Judge Cuts Fees In Citigroup Settlement, Citing `Waste And Inefficiency’
Forbes reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation case. A federal judge approved a $590 million settlement…
Wall Street Jourtnal
Judge: Plaintiff’s Firms Inflated Contract Lawyer Rates
The Wall Street Journal reports how Judge Stein sided with Ted Frank's argument that lawyers in class action lawsuits place large markups on their frees.
Blog
Court Wrong to Make Dodd-Frank Durbin Price Controls More Draconian
Today, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the Federal Reserve's implementation of the Durbin Amendment of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, which sets price controls on…
Blog
Detroit Bankruptcy Focuses Attention on Public Pensions
For people watching it from afar, the bankruptcy of Detroit — the biggest municipal bankruptcy in American history — may have brought a sense of…
Blog
Regulation of the Day Update: Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
The USDA is temporarily suspending its magician's rabbit-license regulations "in order that we may undertake a review of their requirements."…