Bloomberg News
Toy ‘R’ Us Antitrust Settlement Tossed Over $14 Million in Attorney Fees
Bloomberg News reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the Toys 'R" Us settlement that granted a lot of money to the attorney's,…
Wall Street Journal
Court Nixes $14 Million Lawyer-Fee Request
The Wall Street Journal reports on Ted Frank's victory in a case that he objected to the large class action settlement that mainly went to charities…
Daily Caller
Another top EPA official caught using private email account
“The sad fact is I was not all that surprised to find that address,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told TheDC News Foundation.
Free Beacon
Whole Lotta Redactin’ Going On
The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), are from Jackson’s pseudonymous, secondary email…
Free Beacon
Secrecy surrounds company suing Consumer Product Safety Commission
“The public does not have a right to know everything. Records are sealed for many and various reasons, generally to protect the innocent,” said Fran…
Free Beacon
A Different Standard
Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which filed a brief in the St. Paul case, said…
Forbes
Court Rejects $14 Million Fee For Lawyers, $3 Million For Their Clients
Forbes details Center for Class Action Fairness' legal action against a class-action settlement which would have paid lawyers who negotiated it over four times as…
Bloomberg Business
Toys ‘R’ Us $35 Million Antitrust Accord Overturned
Bloomberg Business discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' case In Re Baby Products Antitrust Litigation. Toys “R” Us Inc.’s $35 million settlement…
Bloomberg Business
Eight States Join Challenge of Law That Regulates Financial Industry
The move comes more than four months after three other AGs joined the suit, which was originally filed in June by the State National Bank…
Forbes
Obama’s SOTU: A Campaign Speech That Erodes The Power Of The Citizenry
Every year legislators and bureaucrats disgorge new laws and regulations which discourage job creation. Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has pointed to…
Overlawyered
February 17 roundup
Federal taxpayers via National Cancer Institute grant dished out more than a million dollars to pay for laughable conspiracy-theory report smearing Tea Party [Hans…
Overlawyered
Georgia joins lawsuit challenging Dodd-Frank
In addition to the community bank, original plaintiffs include the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the 60 Plus Association. Attorneys General from Michigan, Oklahoma, and South…
Overlawyered
A Lot of Hot Air on Energy in the SOTU
And as Brian McNicoll of the Competitive Enterprise Institute notes, “If the president is serious about across-the-board energy,…
Overlawyered
Marco Rubio immigration bill sneaks in database expansions
“Using employers as a fourth arm of the government is not the framework that the founders of this country envisioned when they created the Constitution,”…
Washington Examiner
Non-profit Freedom Of Information Act requestor claims EPA abusing fee waivers
Officials with the Competitive Enterprise Institute are appealing an Environmental Protection Agency decision to "arbitrarily and capricously" deny two fee waiver requests submitted by…
Washington Examiner
Congress: EPA is flouting gov’t transparency laws to hide emails
Last month, the EPA released more than 2100 emails from Lisa Jackson’s alias account — “Richard Windsor” — using the terms “coal,” “climate,” “endanger,”…
Free Beacon
Left-Wing Groups Shape Dodd Frank
“That these anti-capitalist agendas are influencing the CFPB is especially troubling, because the CFPB lacks any form of accountability to American voters through Congress,” John…
Free Enterprise
Hazed and Confused: Arizona Fights Anti-Coal Regional Haze Rules
The U.S. Chamber report authored by Competitive Policy Institute policy analyst William Yeatman, “EPA’s New Regulatory Front: Regional Haze and the…
Chicago Tribune
Obama taps REI chief Sally Jewell for interior secretary
"We're not going to get excited that she's suddenly going to change course from the current anti-energy policies of the Obama administration," said Myron Ebell…
Daily Caller
Colorado ex-Gov. Bill Ritter on shortlist for both Energy and Interior posts
William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst who wrote the report for the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Independence Institute in…
Washington Examiner
Treasury demands non-profit pay previously waived FOIA fees for carbon tax emails
The Treasury Department filing was the latest development in a case that began last November when CEI appealed to the federal court to reverse Treasury's…
Washington Examiner
Bill would halt taxpayer-funded union activism
Matt Patterson, a labor policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington D.C., told Watchdog.org that the union racket attached to “official time”…
Yahoo Finance
The Fog of Austerity: This Smoke Cloud Is the Ultimate Symbol of Greece’s Depression
But "Greece is regressing," said Iain Murray, vice president for strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "As it becomes poorer, its environment suffers more."…
Yahoo Finance
Inside the Beltway: Alarmed by the Feds
It could be raining regulations soon, should the wishes of Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island come true.
Yahoo Finance
Inside the Beltway: Alarmed by the Feds
It could be raining regulations soon, should the wishes of Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island come true.
Yahoo Finance
Gov. McDonnell’s Transportation Plan
Heartlander
GMO Labeling to Appear on Washington Ballot
Gregory Conko, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says consumers have a right to know if products they purchase have negative health consequences.
Heartlander
Behind the Consumer Confidence Crash
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the 60 Plus Association are writing Congress “asking the Senate withhold the confirmation of [CFPB director nominee Richard] Cordray until…
Heartlander
Groups ask Senate to withhold Cordray’s confirmation as CFPB director
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with a seniors advocacy group, has sent a letter to Congress asking the Senate to withhold Richard Cordray’s confirmation as…
One News Now
Politics in Transportation
So far, the list of potential replacements includes Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and National Transportation Safety Board chairman Deborah Hersman. Regardless, Marc Scribner of…
One News Now
Lockheed Martin joins forces with Louisville-based Sierra Nevada in building Dream Chaser
Rand Simberg, a space analyst and adjunct scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, said Sierra Nevada’s partnership with Lockheed gives it…
One News Now
Plaintiffs from CFPB Suit Urge Cordray Confirmation Delay
The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the 60 Plus Association are urging the Senate to delay confirmation of Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection…
Washington Examiner
Out of Control: 47 New Regulations for Every New Law
According to a new Competitive Enterprise Institute study provided to Secrets, agency bureaucrats have finalized 47 times more new rules…
The Colorado Observer
Claims of Fracking Health Impacts Rich With Emotion, But Lack Proof
“I don’t want to impugn anyone’s particular symptoms, but if your property or person is affected, you have recourse in the courts,” said William Yeatman,…
The Colorado Observer
Vitter, Issa demand records regarding top EPA official’s use of private email account
The DCNF looked at 19 emails released by the EPA as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in September 2012.
Fox News
EPA Email Scandal Worse Than First Thought
We’re not talking about some alias to be used for personal correspondence but a totally false identity in whose name official business was allegedly conducted…
Washington Post
Fred Smith passes the torch at CEI
Most think tanks are earnest places — and then there’s the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “People say, ‘CEI has fun people, but some of them are…
CBN
If the Economy Is Weak, Why are Stocks Going Up?
Bill Freeza, with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he expects a tough economic year. "We're not going to see the kind of growth…
LA Times
Court rules Obama’s recess picks are illegal
"We think it's likely his recess appointment is going to meet the same fate," said Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a…
Daily Caller
House Republicans try again for EPA ‘Richard Windsor’ email records
“The common thread running through EPA’s behavior to date regarding the false-identity account we discovered is that the Agency has no intention of coming clean,…
Townhall
Dodd-Frank is an Unconstitutional Disaster
That law, Dodd-Frank, is being challenged in State National Bank of Big Spring v. Geithner. The lead plaintiff is a community bank that has had…
Forbes
A Brief Explanation of the Economics of Secuirities Lawsuits
Forbes quotes Center for Class Action Fairness' Ted Frank on how securities lawsuits work. Frank represents an investor who objects to the $16.5…
Forbes
Citigroup Plaintiff Lawyers Fire Back At Fee Objectors
Forbes reports on efforts by the Center for Class Action Fairness to dispute excessive fees sought by lawyers in a class action settlement with Citigroup.
The Colorado Observer
REPORT: New Energy Economy Comes With Hefty Price Tag
A report from an analyst with the Independence Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute released Tuesday found that initiatives undertaken as part of Colorado Gov.
Atlanta-Journal Constitution
More electric car charging stations open in Atlanta
“The EV charger credit is just a variation on the old theme of robbing Peter to pay Paul,” said Marlo Lewis, Senior Fellow at the…
The Hill
Right seeks to further weaken NLRB
Last week, The Hill’s Congress blog published two opinion pieces, by Fred Wszolek of the anti-union Workforce Fairness Institute and Trey Kovaks of the libertarian…
The Hill
Coming to America? It’s Going to Cost You
Meanwhile, even unauthorized immigrants from Central America pay between $7,000 and $10,000 in smuggling fees to get across the border, according…
National Review
Lisa Jackson’s Gadfly
Chris Horner is the gadfly determined to force the Obama administration to live up to its professed commitment to transparency. Having exposed outgoing EPA administrator…
Politico
TSA pulls plug on ‘naked’ body scanners
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has questioned how TSA got the scanners in the first place — and if they even work. “Public and expert comments…
Free Beacon
Investing in Foreign Countries
These companies saw their tax liabilities to which they could apply a tax credit either shrink or vanish altogether as a result, said William Yeatman,…
Free Beacon
Beer Distributors Say Yes To Middlemen
The NBWA study comes less than a month after the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington, D.C. policy shop, launched a broadside against the…
Washington Examiner
Issa demands EPA reveal all secret email accounts
Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which filed the lawsuit that led to the release of the Richard Windsor emails, criticized the EPA…
West Virginia Record
Class action crusader says ‘floc’ settlement unfair
The West Virginia Record reports on Ted Frank's efforts to challenge an unjust settlement in which the attorneys proposed to get more money than the class members.
West Virginia Record
Will EPA Chief’s Departure Prompt Better Energy Policy?
Given that the respected Competitive Enterprise Institute had to …
Washington Examiner
New mysteries in EPA’s Windsorgate scandal
Because EPA released thousands of emails that failed to satisfy the court's order, Horner said, "this response is deeply troubling and seems to have gravely…
Washington Examiner
Obama Issued $216 Billion in New Regulations in 2012, Showing the Need For Reform
Even though these regulations may seem harmless, the costs add up. Something needs to be done about excess regulations so that the worker can take…
CNS News
Released EPA Administrator’s Non-Public Emails Called ‘Deeply Troubling’
Chris Horner of the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute says he discovered Jackson's "false identity" while doing research for his book, "The Liberal War on Transparency.”…
Daily Caller
EPA releases more than 2,100 emails from agency chief Lisa Jackson’s ‘alias’ account
The Environmental Protection Agency released the first round of emails as in response to a lawsuit filed by a conservative group concerned that Environmental Protection…
Politico
First ‘Richard Windsor’ emails duds
DOCUMENT DUMP: EPA on Monday released the first batch of emails from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” alias email account, in response to a…
Fox News
EPA’s release of documents related to email aliases criticized as ‘deeply troubling’
The Environmental Protection Agency released roughly 4,000 pages of documents Monday in response to a request for information about possible secret emails by former Administrator…
Free Beacon
Picking Losers
William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the lawsuit illustrates the dangers of cronyism. “Whenever the government engages in industrial…
Washington Examiner
Glitches mar EPA release of first batch of ‘Windsorgate’ emails
Meanwhile, a few discs of the emails were obtained by parties to the litigation that resulted in the court order for the documents' release,…
Washington Examiner
Something for Everybody (To Hate): Rep. Wilson’s Beach House Bailout
But the bill still has some degree of serious support. In 2007, a version actually passed the House of Representatives 286-155 with co-sponsors that included…
Washington Examiner
To fix government, reform its agencies
Another way would be legislation to have all laws/rules of executive agencies be subject to economic impact studies which would show the dollar amount and…
Washington Examiner
DOJ to Release Secret EPA E-Mails
The White House even arranged for a privately owned computer server for conducting discussions about the controversial United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…
Statesman
Senators, protect us from the EPA
According Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, President Obama issued 953 “major regulations” (meaning regulations with a cost of $100 million or more, or…
Financial Post
Avoiding the ‘Basel cliff’
John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington has called the global bank rules the “Basel cliff” that could decimate many U.S. banks. Banks…
Financial Post
Google Faces UK Lawsuit For Search Results
In July, Google reached a record $22.5 million (£14m) settlement with the FTC to resolve charges that Google bypassed Apple Safari browser privacy…
Financial Post
Chris Christie Won’t Be the 2016 GOP Nominee
Washington Post
Sales Tax, Gas Tax, Mileage Tax: How To Pay For America’s Roads?
On the right, many groups take issue with McDonnell's plan to rely on sales taxes for roadway funds. The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think…
Washington Examiner
20 Windsorgate questions for Obama administration
Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to make public Monday the first batch of 3,000 of 12,000 "Richard Windsor" emails sought by…
Washington Examiner
Top EPA official used private email account to correspond with environmental groups
A second Environmental Protection Agency official stands accused of using a personal email address to shield communications with environmental activists from public disclosure. Court documents…
Washington Examiner
McDonnell’s tax plan draws heat from across the spectrum
The focus on general sales tax revenues, rather than a tax on those who use the roads, also raised eyebrows. The Competitive Enterprise Institute said…
Washington Examiner
Bush officials, Environmental Defense Fund join in appeal to conservatives
Myron Ebell, who directs the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, dismissed the council as "one of several attempts by the environmental movement…
Washington Examiner
Ethanol mandates and starving kids in Guatemala
Our federal law requires refiners buy ethanol. This results in ethanol imports from places like Guatemala. This spurs the ethanol industry in Guatemala. This exacerbates…
New York Times
Easing of Rules for Banks Acknowledges Reality
“If Basel had been implemented this year as written, it almost certainly would have thrown the U.S. and other economies into a recession more than…
New York Times
Lisa Jackson’s Resignation
Bloomberg Business
Duane Morris, Troutman Sanders, Munger: Business of Law
Bloomberg reports on the case In re Citigroup Inc. Securities Litigation, in which Center for Class Action Fairness objected to the settlement which would grant…
Forbes
Class-Action Firms Capitalize On Wretched Market For Law-School Grads
Forbes mentions Ted Frank's objections to the marked up fee requests from lawyers who worked on the Citigroup class action lawsuit. Class-action activist…
Minding the Campus
How Law Schools Evade Market Competition
The plain truth, as many lawyers will tell you (Harvard Law graduate Hans Bader, for instance), is that law school is mostly a drawn-out prelude…
ABA Journal
Does Legal Fees Motion in $590M Citigroup Case Include $1K Per Hour for Low-Paid Contract Lawyers?
ABA Journal reports on Ted Frank's objections to the lawyers' marked up fee claims in a class action lawsuit where most of the work was done by…
Washington Examiner
Watchdog: Transparency advocates see tough year, growing ‘Windsorgate’ scandal at EPA ahead
According to Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), there is substantial evidence that Jackson was not the only EPA official…
Forbes
Plaintiff Lawyers in Citigroup Case Seek Big Markup For Outside Attorneys
Forbe reports on Ted Frank's objection to the platiffs' lawyers' fee requests in the Citigroup class action case because it is clear that they marked…
Forbes
David Vitter and Lisa Jackson are universes apart: James Gill
Vitter is not alone in his suspicions. The EPA’s inspector general, at the behest of Republicans on the House Science Committee, had begun an investigation…
Forbes
EPA’s Jackson to resign
Jackson leaves the agency while under scrutiny from a federal lawsuit filed by the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, which claims that the administrator used an…
Forbes
In Ireland, carbon tax cuts deficit and pollution
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has even filed a Freedom of Information suit seeking the release of Treasury Department emails containing the…
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
Common Cause vs. First-Amendment-protected political speech, part umpteen [Hans Bader, CEI]…
One News Now
CEI’s Report Card on the EPA
Ryan Young reports that the information is included in a report card [pdf] of sorts by his organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). "There is…
One News Now
Obama’s Regulatory Cliff Draws Near
The scope is staggering. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the overall regulatory burden has reached $1.8 trillion annually, and $215.4 billion in compliance costs…
Fox News
Attorney claims EPA chief resigned over alias email accounts
Jackson, in a brief written statement, said Thursday she is leaving the EPA after four years on the job, for "new challenges, time with my…
Washington Examiner
‘Richard Windsor’ departure from EPA is a victory for transparency
Then, in the course of litigation initiated a few months ago by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Horner, an internal memo from the…
Daily Mail
Did EPA Chief Lisa Jackson resign because emails she sent from a secret alias account will go public next month?
A Washington attorney suing the Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to disclose information about the creation and use of the ‘secondary’ email accounts, says the…
Daily Caller
EPA chief Jackson resigns amid transparency investigations into secret emails
“Life’s full of coincidences, but this is too many,” Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Chris Horner told FoxNews.com. “She had no choice.” The Justice Department…
ARS Technica
Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps
Ryan Radia and Fred Campbell, technology policy experts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argue against a bill sponsored by…
Free Beacon
The Domino Effect of Green Energy Failure
William Yeatman, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described the Obama administration’s funding of green energy companies as “vertical monopoly-type subsidy.” A vertical…
Free Beacon
William O’Keefe: Will the Carbon Tax Make a Comeback?
The centerpiece of Mr. Clinton’s first budget was a tax on energy use, as measured in British thermal units, or BTUs. At that time,…
ARS Technica
Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps
But Ryan Radia of the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute was less enthusiastic about Wyden's proposal. He believes that data caps can serve useful purposes beyond…
Law 360
2nd Circ. Approves $180M Sirius XM Antitrust Settlement
Law 360 reports on the case in which CCAF represented class members who objected to the Sirius XM settlement. The subscribers claimed that…
Hot Air
Forced unionization of in-home care workers back on Minnesota agenda
Open Market’s Trey Kovacs explained this at the time: To unionize a class of workers, Minnesota’s Labor Relations Act calls for a majority of workers…
Barrasso
A New Report on the Post-Election Red Tape Rush
William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 28th, 2012 regarding this sue–and-settle phenomenon –…
