Washington Times
Analysis Tracks Costly Path of 3,541 New Federal Regulations, Provides Antidote for Congress
The Washington Times heavily cites CEI's Agenda for Congress and regulatory cost calculations. The frugal but liberty-minded analysts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
The Washington Examiner
A Closer Look at Sick Leave
The Blaze
Cybersecurity Concerns Spotlight Obama’s State of the Union Cyber Agenda
The Blaze cites CEI's Ryan Radia on cybersecurity: “Even as the federal government is forcing telephone companies to hand over phone call…
One News Now
One observation on Keystone: Legal but not ‘thrilled’ over land grab
One News Now talks to William Yeatman on Keystone XL: OneNewsNow sought comment from William Yeatman, a senior fellow specializing in energy policy…
The Patriot Post
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Does Anything But
The Patriot Post quotes CEI`s John Berlau on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: “A government report pegs the price of the work at…
The Daily Signal
Government Agency Under Scrutiny for $215 Million Building Renovation
The Dialy Signal quotes CEI`s John Berlau on the Consumer Protection Bureau office renovations: Costly building renovations at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection…
Washington Examiner
Beer Tax Overhaul Pits Big Brewers Against Crafty Upstarts
Cato At Liberty
Carbon Tax, Carbon Tax, Carbon Tax
Cato At Liberty cites Marlo Lewis' ongoing work discussing carbon taxes: Another take on the carbon tax is offered by our good…
Reuters
U.S. court voids payout of unclaimed funds in BofA class action
Reuters discusses Center for Class Action Fairness's victory in Oetting v. Green Jacobson PC, 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 13-2620 Thursday's…
The National Review
An Amazing Assertion of Bureaucratic Power
Washington Examiner
Unconstitutionality Index: Feds Issued 27 Regs for Every New Law, 3,541 in 2014
Wayne Crews discusses the year in regulation with Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard: In a brand new calculation done by the Competitive Enterprise…
Washington Examiner
Report: 21,000 regulations so far under Obama, 2,375 set for 2015
Wayne Crews is cited in the Washington Examiner: The pace of agencies issuing new rules and regulations has hit a record high…
Politico
A streetcar not desired?
Marc Scribner is cited in Politico: Besides costs, critics point to other shortcomings in the projects. For example, they question whether streetcar…
Opportunity Lives
Why America Needs to Get Smarter about Our Commercial Drone Policy
Marc Scribner talks to Opportunity Lives about the failings of current commercial drone policy: Marc Scribner, a fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
Breitbart
Federal Register Adds Nearly 1600 Pages of New Regulations
Breitbart discusses the latest regulatory numbers with CEI's Ryan Young. Not to be outdone by the congressional 1,603 page Cromnibus spending bill,…
The Washington Examiner
Obama Outdoes Bush on Small Business Rules
The Washington Examiner excerpts Wayne Crews' CEI blog post on President Obama's rules affecting small businesses: President Obama has issued nearly half…
The Blaze
China Recoils on Transparency at Climate Conference, but Obama Administration Still Confident in Deal
CEI's Cristopher Horner weighs in on the Lima, Peru climate summit at The Blaze: Asserting the bilateral agreement is entirely separate from…
Real Clear Markets
Entrepreneurs Want Capital, But Not Bank Capital
The Real Clear Markets cites CEi`s John Berlau on the investment regulations: The solution is to unleash capital from the bottom-up and where…
Washington Examiner
Senate ensures NLRB keeps Democratic majority
The Washington Examiner discusses CEI's coalition letter opposing McFerran's nomination to the NLRB: A coalition of conservative groups led by the Competitive…
Washington Times
The Land Grab Deemed a Backroom Deal
The Washington Times quotes Myron Ebell on the land grab hidden in the NDAA: Beware the land grab, adds Myron Ebell, energy and…
Fox News
Regulation Nation: Gov’t regs estimated to pound private sector with $1.8T in costs
Fox News cites Wayne Crews' work on regulatory compliance: For America's businesses, the Obama administration has an unpleasant holiday surprise.
The Washington Post
John Berlau Reviews “Consumer Credit and the American Economy”
The Washington Post cites CEI`s John Berlau on Consumer Credit and American Economy: John Berlau of the Competitive…
Statesman
John Berlau Reviews “Consumer Credit and the American Economy”
The Statesman cites CEI`s John Berlau on Consumer Credit and American Economy: John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise…
The Hill
Conservatives Push Back Against Parks Provisions in Defense Bill
The Hill discusses our and other organizations' objections to the back-room dealings in the land package of the NDAA: Conservative organizations are backing…
Washington Examiner
Regulation Nation: Obama Issues Nearly 50% More Costly Regs Than Bush
The Washington Examiner cites Wayne Crews' work comparing President Bush's regulations to President Obama's: "According to an analysis by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,…
USA Today
Not Business as Usual: 200 firms back EPA climate regs
USA Today quotes Marlo Lewis on CEI's comments opposing the Clean Power Plan: Other business groups don't see such a rosy picture: This…
Forbes
Seventh Circuit Continues Scrutiny Of Class Action Settlements And ‘Cy Pres’
Forbes discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness’s objection in Pearson v. NBTY The Center for Class Action Fairness objected to the settlement…
Investor's Business Daily
The Other Amnesty
CEI's Hans Bader is cited in Investor's Business Daily on proposed racial quotas in school dicipline: In "People Who Care v. Rockford Board…
Newsmax
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Smith: Entertainment Industry Vilifies Business
Newsmax discusses Fred Smith's latest Forbes column: "The entertainment…
The Daily Caller
Report: HHS Waffled On Federal Obamacare Subsidies Question
The Daily Caller discusses Scot Vorse's research on the ACA: "The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Scot Vorse has published a timeline of the Department…
Forbes
Judge Tosses Glucosamine Settlement
Forbes discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness’ case in Pearson v. NBTY Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals…
One News Now
Two Views on Danger of ‘Net Neutrality’
One News Now talks to Ryan Radia about free-market reasons to oppose Net Neutrality: If this is a free speech issue, says the Competitive…
The Washington Examiner
Federal Judge Tells CFPB it Must Give Depositions Even if Doing So ‘Annoys’
The Washington Examiner asks CEI's John Berlau about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's reluctance to participate in depositions: "John Berlau, a senior fellow at the…
Breitbart
President Obama Goes Around Senate on Climate Change
Breitbart cited Christopher Horner's statement on President Obama's promise with China to cut emissions. Obama knows that two-thirds of the Senate under the U.S.
Washington Examiner
Federal judge tells CFPB it must give depositions even if doing so ‘annoys’
The Washington Examiner quotes CEI`s John Berlau on the CFPB`s claim of excempt from depositions: John Berlau, a senior fellow at the Competitive…
Human Events
Obama’s Economic Surrender to China
Human Events quotes CEI's Cristopher Horner on President Obama's environmental treaty with China at APEC: "Of course, since we’ve long trespassed against the boundaries…
Reason
Schools Implement Explicit Racial Bias in Suspensions
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…
Roll Call
Friday Q & A: Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute
Part 1, Part 2 Analyst Marc Scribner at the Competitive Enterprise Institute examines transportation policy from a staunchly pro-market standpoint. Here are excerpts…
Vox
The GOP’s Senate Takeover Could Be a Big Deal for Net Neutrality and Patent Reform
CEI's Ryan Radia discusses net neutrality, patent reform and online privacy with Vox Media: Net Neutrality: "Still, Ryan Radia of the Competitive…
Fox Business
What Small Business Owners Think About Income Tax
Fox Business cites Wayne Crews' work on regulatory compliance costs: With so much revenue potential when taxpayers and businesses thrive, one would…
Roll Call
With Autonomous Cars, A World Without Red Lights?
Marc Scribner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute said misguided government regulation may delay development of autonomous vehicles. Regulators may be well-intentioned, but they’re slow, he…
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…
Fox News
Pulling ‘an IRS’? EPA Reportedly Loses Text Messages Now Sought in Request
The EPA is being accused of pulling “an IRS” for reportedly planning to inform the National Archives it has lost text messages being sought in…
National Review
The EPA Chief’s Text Messages Go Missing
But Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of The Liberal War on Transparency, who is suing over the…
Washington Examiner
EEOC Says Its Background Checks Irrelevant
The government further argued that it would "dangerous" for the court to require that it turn over the policy since that would open up EEOC…
PC World
Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission engaged in the worst kind of “partisan politics” by working closely with net neutrality advocates to ensure their comments were…
Washington Examiner
Fannie, Freddie Investors Undaunted by Court Loss
A representative of Fairholme Funds, one of the activist hedge funds that brought the lawsuits in both the District and Federal Claims courts, told the…
InsideEPA
CEI Pushes Air Law Reform To Bolster State-EPA ‘Cooperative Federalism’
Conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is suggesting Congress pursue Clean Air Act amendments to correct what it sees as an imbalance in…
One News Now
Mobile Checking a “Scheme” or Good for Competition?
John Berlau discusses mobile checking with One News Now: "This week, an article in Salon calls it a scheme to prey on America's…
Washington Examiner
Federal Regs Cost $1.88 Trillion, More With Obama’s ‘Pen and Phone’ Rules
Burdensome federal regulations cost American taxpayers and businesses a shocking $1.88 trillion annually — far more than the administration estimates — and that doesn’t include…
Wall Street PR
RadioShack Corporation’s (RSH) Class-Action Settlement Anulled By Federal Appeals Court
Wall Street PR reports on the case in which the Seventh Circuit court sided with CCAF's argument that plaintiffs' lawyer fees must be proportionate to…
Stockwise Daily
Federal Appeals Court Declares Radioshack Corporation (RSH) Class-Action Settlement Void
Stockwise Daily reports on the Redman v. RadioShack Corp. and mentions Center for Class Action Fairness' Ted Frank and his reponse to the outcome of the case.
Reuters
U.S. court voids RadioShack class-action settlement over card receipts
Reuters interviews Center for Class Action Fairness' founder Ted Frank on federal appeals court's decision to void RadioShack Corporation's class-action settlement. Ted Frank,…
Watchdog.org
Officials quiet as police cite Uber-driving, retired Navy dad
Marc Scribner is a transportation expert at the Washington, D.C-based Competitive Enterprise Institute. He says the problem lies with Virginia’s laws — laws that didn’t…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
McClellan: Divvying Up $2.7 Million in Leftovers
Bill Mclellan describes Ted Frank's arguments in the Oetting v. Green Jacobson PC case. The big question was this: Why should money belonging…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
McClellan: Divvying up $2.7 million in leftovers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch discusses the class action case in which Ted Frank defends David Oetting arguing that the settlement money should be returned to the stockholders.
National Law Journal
Suit Over EPA’s Deleted Text Messages to Proceed
A pro-business advocacy group can move forward with a suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that challenges top officials’ deletions of text messages, a…
EMarkets Daily
Tech Stocks On Buy Recom
EMarkets Daily asks Center for Class Action Fairness' Ted Frank about the Google privacy case settlement. Google Inc’s resolution of a privacy court case…
Stockwise Daily
Lawyer: Google Inc. Settlement of Privacy Lawsuit Smells of Biasness
Stockwise Daily reports on the Google Inc. privacy lawsuit settlement and includes a quote from CCAF's Ted Frank for more details. It’s highly…
Bloomberg Business
Google Accord With Harvard Tie Fails Judge’s Smell Test
Bloomberg Business reports on Center for Class Action's argument in the In re Google Referrer Header Privacy case. Davila also heard today from…
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…
Bloomberg View
Pennies for Plaintiffs, Millions for Lawyers
Bloomberg describes how the Center for Class Action Fairness challenge lawsuits that benefit the lawyers more than the plantiff's themselves, and briefly mentions the In…
Law 360
HP Inkjet Settlement Objectors Continue Fight To DQ Cotchett
Law 360 reports on CCAF's objection to the HP Inkjet settlement which did not benefit class members. Ted Frank of the Center for…
National Review
Government-Required Affirmative Action Is Costly
The always informative Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a good discussion of the economic costs of one of the Obama administration’s new…
The Daily Caller
Report: Accept International Climate Agreements To Save South Asia
“Aside from the impossibility of projecting anything a hundred years into the future, there are countervailing reports and studies that suggest the exact opposite. It…
Market Watch
The mysterious case of Hewlett-Packard’s Autonomy deal
Market Watch details the H-P settlement case as it returns to court and CCAF's motion filed to diqualify the law firm working with H-P for conflict…
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.
Law 360
HP Says Cotchett Deal No ‘Side Agreement’ To Settlement
Law 360 reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the HP settlement. Objectors to the settlement moved last month to…
The Hill
Devil’s in the details of Campus Accountability and Safety Act
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA), S. 2692, seeks to change how publicly funded universities investigate allegations of sexual assault. . . The act…
Courthouse News Service
Objection to Google’s $8.5M Privacy Deal
Courthouse News Service reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to a judge's ruling that Google should pay $8.5 million to settle the suit, because…
Politicker NJ
Objection! Clean Diapers & Dirty Class-Action Settlements
Politicker NJ describes the work of the Center for Class Action Fairness and the president Ted Frank in an event announcement. Since its…
The National Review
Blatant Conflict of Interest in Campus Accountability and Safety Act
Writing with his usual clarity and command of facts and cases, Hans Bader of Competitive Enterprise Institute points out a glaring problem with the proposed…
Daily Online Examiner
Google’s Privacy Settlement With Vanity Searchers Draws Opposition
The Daily Online Examiner reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to Google's privacy class-action lawsuit settlement. The deal, which was…
The Daily Signal
Cyberbullying Law Struck Down in New York
A state court in New York recently struck down that state’s cyberbullying law as violating the First Amendment. . . the state of New…
New York Times Magazine
Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual dinner and CEI president Lawson Bader are mentioned in a New York Times magazine feature article examining the opportunities…
National Review
Obama’s Idea of Transparency
Chris Horner is mentioned in a National Review article about the Obama administration’s lack of transparency: The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner…
Investor's Business Daily
States Tire Of Regulatory Overreach, Take Obama EPA To Court
William Yeatman is mentioned in an Investor's Business Daily article discussing why 12 states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over proposed rules on greenhouse-gas emissions:…
Daily Caller
Democrat On U.S. Civil Rights Commission Wants Speech Codes For ‘Adolescent’ 21-Year-Olds
Hans Bader is mentioned in a Daily Caller article discussing campus restrictions on First Amendment-protected speech: Among many others, Hans Bader…
Watchdog Wire
Report: Governments Mask Pension Debt, May Put Taxpayers At Risk
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's report, "Understanding Public Pension Debt" was featured by Nevada's Watchdog Wire: A new report once again sheds light…
Investor's Business Daily
Big Government Can’t Keep Up In Digital Era
Article by Michael Barone Earlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of ObamaCare backers who argued that…
Free Beacon
Report: Government Accounting Hides Debt
Article by Bill McMorris Your state may not be as fiscally solvent as politicians have led you to believe, according to a new…
Business Insider
A Watchdog Lawyer Is Raising Questions About HP’s Plans To Sue Former Autonomy Executives
Business Insider describes Ted Frank's efforts to object to the outcome of the HP class action settlement case in which lawyers received a high compensation…
Cook County Record
Judge Gives Preliminary OK to $75.5M Proposed Settlement in TCPA Class Action; Believed to be Largest of Its Kind
The Cook County Record discusses the Capital One class action lawsuit settlement with Ted Frank. Ted Frank, president and founder of Center for…
Law 360
Objectors Seek To DQ Cotchett Firm In HP Inkjet Settlement
Law 360 reports on CCAF's objection to the HP inkjet settlement. Objectors to a proposed settlement in a lawsuit accusing Hewlett-Packard Co. of…
LA Times
Lawyers Challenging Health Subsidies Seek Quick Supreme Court Ruling
Lawyers challenging President Obama's healthcare law filed a quick appeal with the Supreme Court on Thursday, urging justices to take up the issue this fall…
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…
The Daily Signal
Panel: Obama’s Emissions Regulations Mark ‘Unprecedented’ Executive Expansion
The Environmental Protection Agency kicks off public hearings today on its new carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions regulations for power plants. But before the…
Washington Examiner
Study Estimates Unionization Cost Workers in Some States $11,000
Heavy unionization cost the average worker in Michigan about $11,000 over the last 50 years. It cost workers in Nevada about…
Overlawyered
Labor and Employment Law Roundup
“Telling Employee He Is ‘Eligible’ For Bonus Not Enough to Create Contractual Obligation” [Chris Parkin/Daniel Schwartz; Connecticut appeals court] Richard Epstein on Obama’s anti-LGBT-discrimination…
National Review
Obamacare’s Architect Agreed That Only State Exchanges Could Offer Subsidies
Tonight, Reason’s Peter Suderman published an interesting revelation about the history of the decision reached this week by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, that Obamacare subsidies couldn’t…
Forbes
In 2012, Obamacare’s Architect Agreed With ‘Right-Wing’ Strategy To ‘Gut’ Obamacare
Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia—the second highest court in the land—ruled that Obamacare’s subsidies for individually-purchased insurance…
Bloomberg
The Surprise Obamacare Ruling That Wasn’t
Since the Halbig v. Burwell decision came down from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — which ruled that insurance…
Reason
Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State-Run Exchanges
Earlier this week, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit Court ruled that, contrary to the Obama administration’s implementation and an Internal Revenue Service rule,…
Slate
Libertarians Think They’ve Found a Smoking Gun in the Halbig Case
Last night I joined the cheerful libertarians of the Competitive Enterprise Institute for a celebration of the D.C. Circuit's Halbig decision, gathering string for a piece about…
Fox News
Architect Undermines ObamaCare Foundation
New York Times
N.F.L. Makes Open-Ended Commitment to Retirees in Concussion Suit
The New York Times cites Ted Frank on the NFL concussion settlement case.