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.
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…
Business Insurance
D.C. Appeals Court Strikes Down ACA Insurance Subsidies for Federal Exchanges
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…
Daily Press
D.C. Court Ruling Deals New Blow to Affordable Care Act
President Obama's healthcare law was dealt a new blow Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that due…
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…
McClatchy DC
D.C. Court Ruling Deals New Blow to Affordable Care Act
President Obama's health care law was dealt a new blow Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that due to a wording glitch in the…
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…
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…
Town Hall
Lois Lerner’s Illegal Instant Message Trick
I asked the leading force for government transparency in the country, Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whether it was legal for the IRS…
The Washington Free Beacon
UAW Continues Unionization Efforts at Volkswagen Plant in Tennessee
Labor experts told the Washington Free Beacon that the union is unlikely to face any consequences for breaking the agreement. It is up to the…
Pensions and Investments
Public Policy Group Calls For Risk-Free Public Pension Discount Rate
State governments could provide a clearer picture of public pension debt as it relates to state budgets by using a low-risk discount rate, said a…
Citation
Worried Moms: Global Warming Endangers Our Kids
From CBN News: WASHINGTON — Moms who are hot to stop global warming came with their kids to ask Congress Wednesday to…
Citation
Chris Horner discusses EPA overreach with Neil Cavuto
Frontpage Magazine
Obama Is Out of Order
The Court ruled 5-4 in Harris v. Quinn that SEIU cannot compel people who care for their loved ones to become union members. Nor can…
Fox News
Supreme Court Ruling on Union Dues Could Cost SEIU Millions in Payback
One of the nation's most powerful labor unions could face a costly onslaught of lawsuits seeking tens of millions of dollars in dues, after the…
Watchdog.org
Taxicab industry has history of lobbying, donations
The Virginia DMV’s order for Uber and Lyft to cease all operations in the commonwealth is the latest showing of the taxicab industry’s influence in…
Watchdog.org
When it Comes to Uber, Consumers May Speak Loudest
Uber was founded in 2009 as a venture-funded transportation company, allowing riders and drivers to connect on their mobile devices and see other people’s reviews…
The College Fix
California ‘Affirmative Consent’ Sex Bill Imposes Low Legal Standard for Guilt
CNN
Supreme Court narrowly limits reach of labor unions
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, however, celebrated the ruling as a major victory. "This decision delivers a major blow to the coercive powers…
The Freebeacon
Obama Allies Court Corporate Support for Climate Regulations
Whether the administration’s proposed policies will address those impacts is another question. “It’s weird that their argument is that [anthropogenic global warming] is bad for…
Human Events
Expert’s Take: TV Broadcast Rights
The Supreme Court this week ruled against a television broadcast company whose business model was infringing on copyright law. Ryan Radia, associate director of technology…
WBUR Boston
Supreme Court Aereo Decision Also A Blow To Boston’s Tech Sector
The media company Hearst Corporation, which owns WCVB-TV in Boston, says it is pleased with the ruling for protecting its right to be compensated. The…
WBUR Boston
CEI Dinner Video 2014: The Power Breakfast Club
The Hill
Green Group’s Unscientific Attack on Soap
NRDC claims that triclosan, the active ingredient in antibacterial soaps, disrupts human thyroid functioning, but that assertion is based on a shoddy study in which…
Personal Finance Hub
Report finds regulation compliance costs businesses $1.86 trillion
Over the past several years, think-tanks and market-related organizations have released reports that have given the United States low grades when it comes to red…
The Hill
Conservatives Turn to NSA for Help Getting White House Records
In a new twist to the surveillance debate, conservative groups are asking the National Security Agency for help obtaining phone and email records about the…
The Washington Times
DRIESSEN: What’s really behind anti-Keystone fanaticism?
Hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has promised to give $100 million to anti-Keystone Democrats, and Hollywood elites are lending their support and filmmaking skills to…
The Hill
NSA sued for EPA records
A group of conservative and environmental organizations is suing the National Security Agency (NSA) in order to obtain records about top officials at the Environmental…
Newsmax
CEI’s John Berlau: US Needs ‘Rational’ Immigration Program
Newsmax insider John Berlau, Newsmax insider and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Newsmax on Monday he feels the wave of undocumented children…
The Washington Times
Watchdog rebuffed on EPA data turns to NSA
A pro-business watchdog group sued the National Security Agency on Monday, demanding that the spy agency turn over metadata logs for some phones registered to…
Business Insider Australia
How A ‘Bunch Of Commies’ Are Forcing The Fortune 500 To Stop Destroying Rain Forests, Overfishing, And Burning Fossil Fuels
Even Greenpeace’s detractors have taken note of the organisation’s newfound potency. Fred Smith, former president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and founder of the…
Business Insider Australia
Obama Sprinting to Finish Line to ‘Transform’ America
Washington Examiner
OMB: 13-year High For New And Costly Federal Regulations
The group that tracks regulations, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Secrets that Obama has issued far more big dollar regs in his first six years…
Mint Press News
Black And Hispanic Students Punished More Severely Than White Counterparts
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
On school discipline and zero tolerance, Eric Holder draws the wrong lessons [Hans Bader, CEI "Open Market"] “Prior problem behavior accounts for the racial gap…