Mass Live
Boston taxi drivers’ union to protest ride sharing service Uber
Services like Uber and Lyft upset cab drivers because they challenge the longtime status quo that has devolved into a cartel that limits innovation and…
National Review
Holder vs. Roberts
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized Chief Justice John Roberts in a commencement speech a few days ago: "Chief Justice John Roberts has argued that the…
One News Now
GM In Heavy Case Over Faulty Ignition Switches
Earlier this year, Toyota agreed to a $1.2 billion settlement with the Justice Department in a criminal probe over the company's recall of Toyota…
The Hill
Experts Debate Government Role In Alternate Fuels
Alternative fuel vehicles could improve the United States’ energy security and protect it from volatility in the oil market. But Myron Ebell, director of…
Newsmax
Climate Change Remains Unsettled, Say 31,072 Scientists
One more fallacy that the climate-change movement doesn't like to remember is the infamous "hockey stick" predictor, said Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at…
Forbes
President Obama’s Global Warming Calculated Deception Means Democrats Have Abandoned Working People
In light of the incontestable real climate science discussed above, the Obama Administration’s National Climate Assessment released last week can only be considered an exercise…
Daily Caller
Wal-Mart, Other Big Corporations Not Opposing Minimum Wage Hikes
The Real News
TRNN Debate: Should The Internet Be Regulated Like A Utility?
ANTON WORONCZUK, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Anton Woronczuk in Baltimore. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has just voted three…
Mapping the Internet
Parallel Internets, Another Internet Treaty Or Both? The Next Pieces Of The Internet Governance Jigsaw Puzzle – Part 2
For a long time before Brazil, Angela Merkel and others had awoken to the possibility of networks separate though connected to the currently US-dominated…
Newsmax
New Federal Lamp Standards to Cost $90M, Close Factories
Reason
Choke Point Check-In: Constitutional Concerns in DOJ Targeting ‘Risky’ Businesses
Operation Choke Point was initially pitched as a crackdown on web-based payday lending businesses that lend into states that prohibit it. Now it may have…
CQ Researcher
School Discipline: Should zero-tolerance policies be revised?
Some school districts are voluntarily revamping their discipline policies, while the Justice Department has sued others referred to them by the Education Department's Office for…
Reuters
A smoking gun in debate over consumer class actions?
Reuters reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' case Frank V. Poertner. CCAF objected to a settlement of consumer fraud over Duracell batteries which granted…
Greeley Tribune
EPA boss’ emails show a coordinated state, federal effort to skirt transparency
National Review
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
The Obama administration recently recommended that campuses deny students facing sexual-assault charges the right to cross-examine their accuser, a trend already well underway on campuses…
National Review
Operation Chokepoint: Creeping into Unconstitutionality?
Operation Chokepoint is part of the administration’s Obamaloans strategy to wipe out the small dollar lending industry that I wrote about in January. Briefly, this…
Forbes
Odds Of A Payoff In Consumer Class Action? Less Than A Straight Flush
Forbes cites Ted Frank of CCAF on recent consumer class action case. An interesting piece of data just dropped into the official record in…
Heartlander
The View from the Bottom
Could the economic decline have something to do with the insane increase of federal government regulation? As John Merline asked in Investor’s Business Daily, “After…
Roll Call
Libertarian CEI Knocks GOP Internet Gambling Bills
The Canal
The US Regulatory Black Hole, Quantified
This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute released its annual report on the failures of the regulatory state. Written by Clyde Wayne Crews, the report is…
The Blaze
White House Official Accused of Trying to Hide Communications
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to produce the work-related emails of its director, John Holdren,…
The Blaze
Obama’s chief science adviser must explain secret emails
The Blaze
White House sued over official’s email records
NCPA
The Regulatory State
It cost Americans a whopping $1.863 trillion to comply with federal regulations in 2013, more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada, according to…
Human Events
Regulations Take $1.8 Trillion Bite Out Of Economy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) this week released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the size and scope of federal regulations. According to the…
MacNN News
Appeals Court Kicks Back Apple Power Adapter Class-Action Settlement
MacNN News reports on an objection filed by the Center for Class Action Fairness which brings the Apple settlement case back to court to question the…
MacNN News
Fox News: Obama’s record-setting expansion of federal regulations
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com…
MacNN News
CEI’s Minton: Push to Ban Internet Gambling Divides GOP
Reason
The United States of Regulation: Compliance Costs Consume Huge Chunks of Our Economy
Progressive Railroading
Obama administration sends four-year transportation bill to Congress
Meanwhile, Competitive Enterprise Institute transportation policy expert Marc Scribner was more critical. Bailing out the Highway Trust Fund would violate "the long-standing user-pays/user-benefits principle in…
Trib Live
The Thursday wrap
The Competitive Enterprise Institute calculates that the cost of U.S. federal regulations now is larger than the economies of all but nine countries in the…
Washington Times
Bureaucracy doesn’t just hurt — it kills
With all this outreach to give things away, how big is this federal bureaucracy and its red tape? Clyde Wayne Crews at the Competitive Enterprise…
Citation
Inside the Beltway: Federal regs — they cost $1.9 trillion
One News Now
Transportation Analyst: Hands Off Driverless Cars, Uncle Sam
A transportation policy analyst warns that lawmakers and regulators should steer clear of driverless vehicles when they arrive. Marc Scribner is a fellow for the…
Investor's Business Daily
U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
The Blaze
New Report: How the Obama Admin. Has Far Surpassed George W. Bush in Pushing Costly New Regulations Without Congressional Approval
The Hill
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Daily Caller
The Federal Government Now Consumes 31 Percent Of The US Economy
The federal government now consumes 31 percent of the U.S. economy due to trillions in spending and thousands of pages of costly regulations, according to…
Washington Examiner
Average U.S. household spends more on federal regulations than for health care, food or transportation
Here's a sobering fact likely known to few Americans outside of the nation's capital: The federal government is the only government on earth that collects…
Washington Examiner
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Georgia Policy
Steer Clear of Overregulating Autonomous Autos
If anything drives transportation policy as a solution to congestion and mobility challenges in Georgia, it should be the recommendations in a new report from…
Forbes
Ninth Circuit Chucks Apple MagSafe Settlement, Chides Judge’s Oversight
Forbes reports on the settlement of a class action against Apple which would have paid the lawyers $3 million but less than $1 million to…
CQ Researcher
Self-Driving Cars Promise Safer Highways if Regulators Keep Hands Off, Study Says
Wider adoption of technology to allow vehicles to drive themselves promises to usher in a new era of safer motoring — as long as lawmakers…
Law 360
9th Circ. Vacates Apple Adapter Settlement Over Attys’ Fees
Law 360 reports on CCAF's objection to the Apple adapter settlement that was unfair to class members. Ted Frank of The Center for…
Overlawyered
Schuette v. Coalition, in tweets
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court, over two dissents, ruled that the voters of Michigan were within their rights under the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause to…
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
More applications of New Jersey’s pioneering “anti-bullying” law. And will it stand up in court? [Hans Bader, earlier here, etc.]…
Law 360
Pella Window Deal Leaves Class In The Cold, 7th Circ. Told
Law 360 mentions Ted Frank's comments on whether the Pella Window settlement benefit class members. Theodore Frank, who represents a separate objector, added…
Trib Live
The secret ballot: Protect it
A new report on the United Auto Workers' attempt to organize Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., makes clear the need to better protect workers' right…
Washington Examiner
Examiner Editorial: The ‘soft despotism’ of regulation imposes high costs on Americans
Oregon Catalyst
In opposition to Jackson County Measure 15-119 GMO ban
Wall Street Journal
Regulator Without Peer
Free Beacon
IG: DOE Ignored Internal Expert’s Advice in Subsidizing Bankrupt Solar Company
The Blaze
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
Politico
White House Calls in the Deans — China Growth Slows — Bloomberg Says He’s Going to Heaven
COURT MOVES AGAINST PART OF DODD-FRANK — CEI’s John Berlau: “[The recent] ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dodd-Frank’s ‘conflict minerals’ disclosure…
Heartland Institute
Bill Would Force Florida Brewers to Pay Distributors for Their Own Beer
Michelle Minton, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Fellow who specializes in alcohol regulation, said although all the states but Washington have a “three-tiered” system for alcohol…
Free Beacon
Begich Earmarked Millions for Bankrupt Green Energy Company
Power Line
Lilly Ledbetter and the Lie That Will Not Die
When a lie becomes an article of faith not just for a movement for an entire political party, that lie is probably here to stay.
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
New Jersey ruling letting parents be sued over kids’ Facebook posts will chill speech [Hans Bader/CEI, earlier]…
Weekly Standard
Monotony Motors
Weekly Standard
More Profits, Fewer Jobs, But Many Fewer Workers, Too
William Galston makes a valid point with his comment that low interest rates may be counterproductive in the country’s search for more employment (“Soaring Profits…
Fox News
Critics say ‘transparent’ administration anything but open about federal regulations
Federal agencies are required to report all the regulatory actions they have under consideration in what's known as the Unified Agenda twice a year. In…
Townhall
Wind Blows
Platts
Bay nomination process marked so far by fewer fireworks, outcry by free market groups
Review Journal
Nevada prepares for arrival of fracking
Sun News
Turning lights on
Washington Times
The Light Fantastic
Washington Times
EDITORIAL: Lights-out ‘Earth Hour’ is 60 minutes wasted
Politico
Shut Up With All The Plane Silence Talk, CEI Says
Politico
Turn ON the Lights and Do Something Constructive for the Planet
Daily Caller
White House: raising minimum wage would help women
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…
Free Beacon
A Tale of Two Cities
Cato
Kansas Court Wrests School-Budget Decisions from Voters
Class Action Countermeasures
Guest Post – The Opt-Out Refund
Class Action Countermeasures features Adam Shulman's and his solution for settlements called the "Opt Out Refund." Adam Schulman of the Center for Class Action Fairness…
National Review
Man vs. Wild — California Water Crisis
National Review’s Law and Disorder Debate, “Man vs. Wild: California in Crisis,” took place in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2014. The keynote speakers were…
Fox News
SolarCity’s skyrocketing stock dependent on government tax giveaways
National Review
The EPA’s Anti-Transparency Antics
Citation
Pruitt Eyes New Legal Discovery To Bolster ‘Sue And Settle’ Attack On EPA
Washington Times
Al Gore’s latest outlandish outburst
Newsmax
Farmers Say EPA Data Dumps to Green Groups Endanger Their Privacy
Forbes
Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be “Proportionate”
News Max
EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Deals Blow to Rural Homes
News Max
Stagflation, Anyone?
Heartlander
Obama Hires Incendiary Podesta as Top Advisor
New York Post
Obama Makes Up His Own Rules
New York Post
Obama Makes Up His Own Rules
Daily Caller
Report: Obama Offers UN Climate Agreement That Doesn’t Need Congressional Approval
Washington Times
EPA’s Use of Secret Email Addresses Was Widespread: Report
Law 360
Netflix-Walmart Deal Hurt Competition, 9th Circ. Hears
Law 360 reports on the objection to the Netflix-Wal-Mart Settlement in which Ted Frank claims that the settlement was not fair for class members.
Legal Newsline
Eleven AGs, three organizations file appellate briefs in Dodd-Frank challenge
Free Beacon
Experts Slam Schumer’s Junk Science
AV Web
Aircraft Cell Phone Call Ban Sent To House
Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Proposed SEC Rules On Crowdfunding Threaten Access To Capital By Locking Out Ordinary Investors
In submitted comments, John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argued that the proposed rules could result in “costly, paternalistic requirements on crowdfunding that have…
Crowdfund Insider
Troops Rallying For Smarter Rules Around Equity Crowdfunding
One News Now
Talking Vehicles’ Hit Brick Wall: ‘A Variety Of Deployment Challenges
Washington Post
Inconvenient Facts for Obamacare
Newsmax
Cuomo’s ‘Tax-Free’ Plan for NY Is Not So Tax-Free
Townhall
Married To The State
Townhall
This Farm Bill Stinks
Daily Caller