Washington Times
Virgin Islands AG raises free-speech fears with subpoena for climate dissenters
The Washington Times reports on the subpoena an attorney general sent CEI regarding documents on climate change work. One of the 17 attorneys…
Conservative Review
‘Intimidation Campaign’: Subpoenaed Free Market Group Blasts AG’s Climate Change Shutuppery
The Conservative Review reports on the subpoena CEI recieved as part of the Attorneys General's campaign to silence those who disagree with them on climate…
Comment
Comments to the SEC on Derivative Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF The SEC proposes this rule “to take an updated and more comprehensive approach to the regulation of funds’…
Politico
Exelon-Pepco merger approved to create nation’s largest utility
Politico's Morning Energy discusses an order issued in CEI's case against the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. A fight over a…
Heartland Institute
Critics Say House FOIA Reform Bill Would Reduce Government Secrecy
The Heartland Institute speaks with Sam Kazman on FOIA reform. Dozens of groups across the political spectrum advocating for open-government reforms have called…
Heartland Institute
Obama Official Sued for Access to Private Emails
The Heartland Institute reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request for work-related emails on a White HOuse official's private email account. The…
E&E News
Judge orders science office to turn over documents
E&E News speaks with Sam Kazman on CEI's FOIA case requesting documents from the Office of Science and Technology. A federal judge is ordering…
Heartland Institute
IRS Complaint Filed Against RICO 20 Think Tank
The Heartland Institute reports on CEI's involvement in a complaint with the IRS to investigate a George Mason University professor. The Competitive Enterprise…
Daily Caller
Global Warming Double Dipper Enriches Family With Tax Dollars
The Daily Caller reports on why CEI filed a complaint with the IRS over a nonprofit's president who was taking taxpayer money for himself. A global warming crusader…
Politico
The Pfizer backlash
Politico reports on CEI's complaint filed with the IRS on the Institute of Global Enviornment and Study and its founder Jagadish Shukla. The…
Watchdog.org
Professors who urged prosecution of climate skeptics appear to be hiding something
Watchdog.org speaks with Sam Kazman on their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for documents from a GMU professor. The Competitive Enterprise Institute wants…
Blog
Drinking in the Dark
Bellion Vodka has one strange website. Bellion claims to be “the next step in the evolution of spirits” and “a smarter way to drink.” Its…
Blog
A Class Merger: CEI and the Center for Class Action Fairness Get Hitched
Litigation has been an important part of CEI since its earliest years—from our NYC rent control case in the 1980s, to our lawsuits against the…
MedPage Today
Do FDA’s Fast-Track Reviews Skimp on Important Data?
MedPage Today talks to CEI's Sam Kazman on FDA approval issues: But Sam Kazman, JD, general counsel at the pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute…
WND
Another White House Email Scandal Erupts
WND reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request, quoting Sam Kazman on the issue. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science…
The Daily Caller
A Conservative Think Tank Wants The White House Science Czar’s Private Emails
The Daily Caller cites CEI`s Sam Kazman on the private email accounts by top Obama administration officials: “There are a growing…
Legal Brief
Amicus Brief: United States Telecom Association v. FCC
Full Document Available in PDF A handful of telecom companies sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its Open Internet Order, also…
Products
Chief Justice Roberts: Congress passed ACA to improve insurance markets, not destroy them
PBS.org quotes CEI`s Sam Kazman on the Kings vs. Burwell Supreme Court Desicion: Sam Kazman, Competitive Enterprise Institute: Today’s ruling is a tragedy for…
Blog
The IRS, Obamacare, and the English Language
In the days just before the March 4 Supreme Court hearing in King v. Burwell, I got a number of calls from total strangers who had…
Heartland Institute
Government Spinning Up New Rules for Clothes Driers
The Heartland Institute quotes CEI's Sam Kazman on potential new efficiency rules for clothes dryers: Competitive Enterprise Institute general counsel Sam Kazman says…
USA Today
Obamacare Rule Harms Millions
Products
Obama Administration Hot and Cold on Climate Warnings
Blog
Seven Quotes about Communism: Take 2
A few years ago I assembled several quotes about Communism that I thought would make good epitaphs for it. Unfortunately, the ideology has turned…
Blog
Obamacare: Cert Granted on Friday, and Gruber III on Saturday
It was very good news, delivered in a very surprising way. Shortly after noon last Friday, the Supreme Court announced that it would review our…
The Wall Street Journal
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Health-Care Law Subsidies
The Wall Street Journal quotes Sam Kazman in their discussion of the Supreme Court's review of CEI's Obamacare Exchange case: The Supreme Court…
Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Obamacare Subsidies Case
Reuters News Service quotes Sam Kazman in this November 7 report on the SCOTUS decision to take up CEI's Obamacare challenge: The plaintiffs in…
Fox Business
SCOTUS to Hear ObamaCare Subsidies Case
Fox Business quotes Sam Kazman on the November 7th Supreme Court cert for CEI's Obamacare challenge. “Today’s grant of cert by the Supreme Court is…
Blog
Update: Where in the World is Jonathan Gruber?
Today the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell filed the last brief regarding the cert petition now before the Supreme Court. It effectively rebuts each of…
Breitbart
Government Omits Any Mention of Jonathan Gruber in Most Recent Court Filing
Gruber and the amicus brief he signed were cited in nearly every government court filing in both the King v. Burwell case and the Halbig…
Blog
Where in the World is Jonathan Gruber?
The Obamacare insurance exchange rule is being challenged in four cases, and each one of them has been active over the last two weeks. The IRS…
New Jersey.com
Spare the Tire and Spoil the Trip: Another Awful Idea from the Feds
All this to save the mere 30 pounds that a space-saver spare weighs? That sure sounds nutty to me. It also sounds nutty to Sam…
The Daily Caller
Lawyers: Send Obamacare Subsidies Case Straight To Supreme Court
“En banc reconsideration by the full Circuit would only delay a final resolution of this incredibly important issue,” said Sam Kazman, general counsel for the…
The Hill
Lawyers argue O-Care case should go straight to Supreme Court
Sam Kazman, general counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is funding both cases, says the Halbig case should be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court.
Politico
Supreme Court Asked to Hear Obamacare Subsidies Case
The four Virginians whose challenge to Obamacare subsidies suffered a defeat last week are now asking the Supreme Court to hear the case. Their lawsuit…
USA Today
Appeals Court Panels Issue Split Decision on Obamacare
A divided federal appeals court panel dealt a potentially major blow to President Obama's health care law Tuesday, ruling that participants in health exchanges run…
The Wall Street Journal
The Lawyer Who Helped Spark This Week’s Affordable Care Act Rulings
Months after the Affordable Care Act became law, employment benefits lawyer Thomas Christina paced in his Greenville, S.C., office with its oil portrait of a…
Daily Mail
Obamacare In Chaos As Federal Court Strikes Down Tax Credits For Low-Income Americans Who Buy Insurance In 36 States – But Different Court Backs Policy Within Hours
The future of Obamacare was uncertain today after a federal court in Washington, D.C. struck down tax subsidies for Americans who bought insurance through federally-funded…
Reuters
Latest Obamacare Legal Knot Won’t Be Easy To Untangle
U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals courts released conflicting rulings hours…
NBC News
Latest Obamacare Legal Knot Won’t Be Easy To Untangle
U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals courts released conflicting rulings hours…
USA Today
Appeals Court Panels Issue Split Decision on Obamacare
A divided federal appeals court panel dealt a potentially major blow to President Obama's health care law Tuesday, ruling that participants in health exchanges run…
Yahoo News
Latest Obamacare Legal Knot Won’t Be Easy To Untangle
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals…
Fox Business
Federal Court Throws Out Subsidies: What Happens Now?
Millions of Americans rely on subsidies to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act’s mandate, but the fate of those cost-saving tax credits is…
USA Today
A Victory for the Rule of Law: Opposing View
The D.C. Circuit's decision Tuesday morning in Halbig v. Burwell is a major victory for the rule of law. And correspondingly, the Fourth Circuit's contrary ruling…
Chicago Tribune
Latest Obamacare Legal Knot Won’t Be Easy To Untangle
U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals courts released conflicting rulings hours…
Legal Brief
CEI Joint Amicus Brief in NLRB v Canning
Full PDF Document available here …
Newsmax
New Federal Lamp Standards to Cost $90M, Close Factories
Blog
Kings, Contracts, and the Rule of Law: Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital
Co-authored with John Norton Moore and Robert F. Turner Last Monday, April 21, the Supreme Court heard argument in a major case involving issues at…
The Washington Post
Missing the Mark on Climate Change
For the second year in a row, we’ve had peak cherry blossoms later than the average date of March 31. In 2013, they were nine…
Weekly Standard
Monotony Motors
Fox Business
Small Biz vs. ObamaCare One Step Closer to Supreme Court
Today’s hearing brings the case one step closer to the Supreme Court, according to Kazman, as neither side is likely to bow out. “It was…