National Review Online
Trial Lawyers Try to Take a Bite Out of Subway; Now Regret It
National Review Online covers the Subway ‘footlong’ case. A law firm thought it had an easy case when a photo showed a Subway…
The Hill
Gaming Group to Supreme Court: End Ban on Sports Betting
The Hill discusses Christie v. NCAA with Michelle Minton. The American Gaming Association on Tuesday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support…
Greenwire
Harvey Amplifies Partisan Debate Over Flood, Zoning Rules
Greenwire discusses Houston zoning laws with Marc Scribner. Did regulations help Houston weather the impact of Hurricane Harvey, or did they hinder the city’s…
The Guardian
Self-Driving Cars Must Have Technology to Prevent Use in Terror, Lawmakers Say
The Guardian discusses the House’s passage of the SELF DRIVE Act with Marc Scribner. Self-driving vehicles will need to be equipped with cybersecurity…
Ars Technica
House Passes Law to Accelerate Adoption of Self-Driving Technology
Ars Technica discusses the House’s passage of the SELF DRIVE Act with Marc Scribner. The House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation…
The New York Times
Self-Driving Cars’ Prospects Rise With Vote by House
The New York Times discusses the House’s passage of the SELF DRIVE Act with Marc Scribner. Lawmakers in the House took a major…
Forbes
IRS Responds To Privacy, Other Challenges In Bitcoin Records Fight
Forbes covers the amicus brief filed in Coinbase v. United States. The federal government fired back last week as answered opposition to its…
Cato
Congress Risks the Constitution in New Jersey Sports Betting Case
Cato covers the amicus brief filed in Christie v. NCAA. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which Congress passed in 1992,…
Legal Reader
Appeals Court Tosses Out Subway Footlong Sandwich Case
Legal Reader covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. It’s happened to many people across the country. After a trip to subway and ordering a…
MSN Money
10 Ridiculous Lawsuits and the Insane Payouts They Sought
MSN Money covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. In 2013, a group of Subway customers filed a class action lawsuit against the chain, claiming…
The Daily Caller
There’s A ‘Strong Moral Case For Energy Abundance.’ Here’s Why [VIDEO]
The Daily Caller interviews Myron Ebell on the future of energy policy and the moral case for energy abundance. Energy…
Fox News
Subway’s $5 ‘Footlong’ Lawsuit Gets Nixed by Judge
Fox News covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. A $520,000 class action lawsuit over Subway’s “$5 footlong” is not measuring up, according to a…
Reason
Report: Florida Unions Milk Taxpayers for Millions Through ‘Release Time’
Reason covers a new report co-authored by Trey Kovacs on public uninon release time in Florida. Taxpayers in Miami have spent more than…
Washington Examiner
Blame Harvey’s Torrential Rain, Not Development, for Massive Flooding, Planning Experts Say
Washington Examiner discusses development in Houston in regards to Hurrican Harvey with Marc Scribner. Houston’s relaxed approach to development should not be blamed for…
JD Supra
Subway Settlement Giving Attorneys a Lot of Dough Doesn’t Measure Up
JD Supra covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. A settlement giving the class attorneys $525,000 without giving customers any meaningful benefits was thrown out…
Washington Times
Real Progress in Regulatory Reform
Washington Times cites 10,000 Commandments. It’s true. A full seven months after President Trump’s inauguration and the convening of a new Congress, there…
Las Vegas Review-Journal
EDITORIAL: Judges Toss Out Settlement in Subway Foot-long Shakedown
Las Vegas Review-Journal covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. Judges are the key to combating lawsuit abuse. Too often, however, they indulge the worst…
Washington Post
A Class Action That Is ‘No Better Than a Racket’
Washington Post covers the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement. Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit reversed a district court’s approval of…
Nation's Restaurant News
Appeals Court Rejects Subway Foot-Long Settlement
Nation’s Restaurant News discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. A U.S. appeals court threw out a settlement between Subway and its…
C-SPAN
VIDEO: Iain Murray Discusses “Shrinking Government Bureaucracy” on Washington Journal
Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses CEI’s “Shrinking Government Bureaucracy: Reorganizing the Executive Branch to Boost Economic Growth and…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wagner, McCaskill Efforts to Go After Backpage Site Attracting Powerful Foes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers CEI’s statements in a letter to Congress regarding an internet freedom bill. Efforts by several members of the Missouri…
VapingPost
New FDA Anti-Vaping Campaign Plans To Target Teens
VapingPost covers CEI’s joint objection with CASAA to the Obama administration’s ban on vaping on aircrafts. Hopes that the new FDA tobacco control…
RedState
They’re Still Going After Federalism and Online Gaming
RedState covers a coalition letter/amendment in regards to an amendment by Charles Dent that would harm online gambling. I’ve posted number of articles…
Investor's Business Daily
With Angry Politics Dominating, Trump’s Smart Infrastructure Reforms Go Almost Unnoticed
Investor’s Business Daily cites 10,000 Commandments while Talking about President Trump’s infrastructure plan. Reform: Lost amid all the political name-calling last week, President…
USA Today
Court’s New Math in Subway Foot-Long Sub Lawsuit: Zero + Zero = Zero
USA Today discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Adam Schulman. A class-action lawsuit that almost extracted $520,000 out of Subway over the length…
The Guardian
Conservative Groups Shrug Off Link Between Tropical Storm Harvey and Climate Change
The Guardian discusses Hurricane Harvey with Myron Ebell. Conservative groups with close links to the Trump administration have sought to ridicule the link…
Reason
Instead of Filling Vacancies, Congress Should Abolish the NLRB
Reason discusses the National Labor Relations Board vacancies with Trey Kovacs. The U.S. Senate voted earlier this month to confirm Marvin Kaplan’s appointment…
Wall Street Journal
Nixing the $520,000 ‘Footlong’
The Wall Street Journal discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has given the plaintiffs bar…
Wall Street Journal
VIDEO: Opinion Journal: Subway’s Sandwich Settlement
Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal covers Ted Frank and CEI’s win in the Subway settlement.
Bloomberg BNA
Corporate America May Be Best Hope to Re-Engage Trump on Climate
Bloomberg BNA discusses the possibility of a renegotiation of the Paris Climate Agreement with Myron Ebell. You’d think U.S. companies would be ready to…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Subway Sub-Length Litigation Slammed
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. It’s not only some Subway sandwiches that don’t measure up, according…
MediaPost
Appeals Court Approves Google’s $8.5 Million Data Leak Settlement
MediaPost discusses In re Google Inc. Cookie Placement Consumer Privacy Litigation with Ted Frank. A federal appellate panel has upheld Google’s $8.5 million…
The Washington Times
Appeals Court Rejects ‘Worthless’ Subway Foot-long Settlement Between Sandwich Chain and Customers
The Washington Times covers the Subway footlong settlement. A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action settlement between the Subway sandwich chain and…
Wall Street Journal
Appeals Court Throws Out Settlement in Subway ‘Footlong’ Case
Wall Street Journal discusses the Subway ‘footlong’ settlement with Ted Frank. In a case alleging Subway restaurant consumers got too little dough, judges…
The Daily Report
7th Circuit Says ‘Utterly Worthless’ Subway Footlong Settlement Has No Meat
The Daily Report discusses the Subway class-action settlement with Ted Frank. The litigation saga over Subway’s sometimes-undersized sandwiches neared its end Friday…
Reuters
‘Worthless’ Subway ‘Footlong’ Sandwich Settlement is Thrown Out: U.S. Court
Reuters discusses the Subway class-action settlement with Ted Frank. A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class-action settlement intended to…
The Register
Google’s $8.5m Class-Action Privacy Payout Goes to: Lawyers’ Alma Maters, Web Giant’s Pals
The Register covers Ted Frank’s arguments in a Google consumer privacy case. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has narrowly approved an…
Compliance Week
Killing the SEC and Other Plans to Redraft Regulatory Agencies
Compliance Week covers CEI’s reccomendations for reorganization to the SEC and other agencies from Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. Occasionally daydream about razing Washington’s regulatory agencies…
CoinDesk
The IRS Has Been Using Bitcoin Tracking Software Since 2015
CoinDesk covers CEI’s amicus brief filing in United States v. Coinbase. The Internal Revenue Service is using bitcoin transaction tracing tools developed by…
Deseret News
Task Force Considering New Revenue Models for Transportation Infrastructure
Deseret News covers Marc Scribner’s testimony before the Utah Transportation Governance and Funding Task Force. Utah lawmakers are trying to account for potential…
The Daily Sentinel
Returning Science to the EPA
The Daily Sentinel covers Angela Logomasini’s recent study on chlorpyrifos. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt recently delivered a strong message that EPA’s regulation…
Reason
Goodbye and Good Riddance to Operation Choke Point
Reason covers Iain Murray’s work on Operation Choke Point. A financial dragnet that ensnared porn stars, gun dealers, payday lenders, and other politically…
The Hill
How Trump is Doing at Cutting Regs
The Hill discusses President Trump’s progress on cutting regulations with Wayne Crews. President Trump is making headway on at least one campaign promise:…
The Hill
How Jeff Sessions is Stopping the EPA’s Slush Fund
The Hill discusses ending the EPA’s slush fund with William Yeatman. Principles are to be found in many places, a blessing in the…
Bloomberg BNA
Charity Loses $700K Award After Complaining About Gift Cards
Bloomberg BNA discusses Hochstetler v. Pacific Gateway Consession, LLC with Ted Frank. Pacific Gateway Concessions and a consumer class found a new recipient…
Law360
Consumer Advocates Say Target Deal Excludes Millions
Law360 discusses the Target Corporation Customer Data Security Breach Litigation with Melissa Holyoak. Consumer advocates on Tuesday urged the Eighth Circuit to reverse a…
Washington Times
Federal Government Needs Major Overhaul to Cut Red Tape, Reduce Costs: Report
The Washington Times covers CEI’s latest publication Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. Shrinking the federal bureaucracy would spur economic growth and reduce costs to taxpayers,…
Washington Free Beacon
Report: Reducing Regulatory Agencies’ Authority Could Boost Economy, Increase Job Creation
The Washington Free Beacon covers CEI’s latest publication Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. Reducing some of government’s regulatory agencies’ authority could boost economic growth and…
Salt Lake Tribune
Will Self-Driving Cars, Taxis Make Mass Transit Obsolete?
The Salt Lake Tribune covers Marc Scribner’s testimony before the Transportation Governance and Funding Task Force in Utah. Utah officials have long planned…
Politico
How to Shrink the Government
Politico’s Morning Money covers CEI’s latest publication Shrinking Government Bureaucracy. The Competitive Enterprise Institute is out with a series of proposals today on…
