Citation
Conservative Groups and Bank Challenge Consumer Bureau
From Maya Jackson Randall and Victoria McGrane’s article in The Wall Street Journal: The State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, the Competitive…
Powerline
Major Lawsuit Challenges the Constitutionality of Dodd-Frank
From Paul Mirengoff's post in PowerLine: The plaintiffs are represented by Boyden Gray of Boyden Gray & Associates, along with the firm of…
Powerline
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Under Legal Attack Over Broad Powers
From Reuters: The challenge, brought by the State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas; the Competitive Enterprise Institute; and the 60 Plus Association,…
Powerline
Why Dodd-Frank Is Unconstitutional
From C. Boyden Gray and Jim R. Purcell’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal: Of course, the government will respond that we are…
New York Times
This Week in Small Business: Working Without Pay
From Gene Marks' post in The New York Times' You're the Boss blog: The Internal Revenue Service offers advice for safeguarding tax…
Newsbusters
The Horror: NYT’s Timothy Egan Forced to Watch Fox News
From Clay Waters' article on Newsbusters: "Timothy Egan, a liberal reporter turned columnist for the New York Times, was forced to watch Fox…
Forbes
President Obama: The Biggest Government Spender In World History
From Peter Ferrara's column in Forbes: As Hans Bader reported on May 26 for the Washington Examiner, the budget approved and implemented by…
ABA Journal
7th Circuit Nixes ‘Feeble’ Sears Class Action, Says Its ‘Only Goal’ Is Fees for Plaintiffs Lawyers
ABA Journal reports on Ted Frank's victory in a case challenging the settlement set to pay most of the money to attorney's rather than the…
ABA Journal
New York Court Nixes Challenge to Carbon Market
From Reuters’ Point Carbon: A New York state court on Wednesday dismissed a Tea Party-backed lawsuit that tried to…
WVNS TV
Machin, Republicans Fight Mercury Emission Rule
From WVNSTV and The State Journal: The Competitive Enterprise Institute released a report called "All Pain and No Gain" earlier this month stating…
WVNS TV
Should We Label Genetically-Modified Food?
Green State TV is back for 2011 with an interview on biotechnology and agriculture with Greg Conko…
WVNS TV
Norquist, Conservative Groups Petition FCC in Favor of Latest Verizon Deal
From Josh Peterson’s Daily Caller article: “Demand for wireless broadband is more than doubling annually, but vast swaths of valuable spectrum — the…
Reuters
An Eye on Environmental Justice
From Curtis Brainard's post in The Observatory: The activity drew some attention from The Washington Post and The New York Times, but hasn’t…
Business Week
Obama Shouldn’t Embellish His Small Business Record
From Scott Shane's article in Bloomberg Businessweek: Now consider regulation. The National Economic Council report says that the president has cut “red tape”…
Business Week
Paul Ryan at CEI Gala: Want to See How This Movie Ends? Look at Europe
From Francesca Chambers’ post in RedAlertPolitics: It’s not to late to turn around our country and get the American Dream back, said Rep.
Washington Post
Would Don Draper Hate Today’s Corporate Ad Campaigns?
From Suzy Khimm's post in The Washington Post's WonkBlog: If an ad man like Don Draper saw the groveling, apologetic PR coming from…
Washington Post
Paul Ryan Goes Solo for Romney in N.C.
From ABC News’ Veep Beat: RYAN STUMPS FOR ROMNEY IN NORTH CAROLINA: While his state is engaged in a recall election today, Rep.
Washington Post
Paul Ryan Calls Wisconsin Recall Election for Walker
Washington Post
Former FCC Official Takes Stance Against FCC’s Possible 4G LTE Technology Mandate
From Josh Peterson’s article in The Daily Caller: Fred Campbell, director of the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project — a new project by…
Washington Post
Unions and the Obama administration, ‘First Principles’ to Prosperity and More
From The Washington Post's ThinkTanked: Competitive Enterprise Institute’s F. Vincent Vernuccio and Trey Kovacs: Big union’s unethical influence in government. (Washington Times)…
Social Science Research Network
Two Questions for Law Schools About the Future Boundaries of the Legal Profession
From Elizabth Chambliss' NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper: A better strategy is to focus on lowering the cost of the unified J.D. degree,…
Case Western Reserve Law Review
The Role of the Avoidance Canon in the Roberts Court and the Implications of Its Inconsistent Application in the Court’s Decisions
[FN1]. See, e.g., Hans Bader, Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB:…
Forbes
Court Rejects Volkswagen Settlement That Gave Lawyers $9 Million, Owners Letters
Forbes discusses Ted Frank's victory when the court sided with him and overturned the Volkswagen settlement because the lawyers created a conflict of interest between…
Forbes
55,000 Green Cards for Foreign Tech Graduates
From Justin Harper’s article in The Telegraph: David Bier, policy analyst at the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, said: “The economy is ready to…
Oil & Gas Journal
US Regulatory Costs Amplify Pressure of the Mammoth Deficit
From Bob Tippee's column in The Oil & Gas Journal: An annual report published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates the cost of…
One News Now
Has Ethanol Helped Lower Gas Prices?
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: A new study claims the growth in ethanol production over the last 12 years has reduced wholesale…
Tuscon Sentinel
Lawyers Weigh Appeal After $3.4 Billion Tribal Lands Settlement
Tuscon Sentinel reports on Ted Frank's work to appeal an unfair settlement for claims by Native Americans who entrusted property to the government.
Tech News World
Apple, Samsung Chiefs Pick Up Their Marbles and Go Home
From Erika Morphy's article in E-Commerce Times: Judges will often order two sides to try mediation before a legal action, Ryan Radia, an…
Bloomberg Business
$3.4 Billion Indian Land Royalty Settlement Upheld
Bloomberg reports on the class action settlement objection which argued that some beneficiaries would be overpaid while others would be left undercompensated for their claims that…
Bloomberg Business
Higher Education Bubble Update
From Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Are We Subsidizing Student Debt Too Generously? “Why am I subsidizing student loans for Harvard…
Cato
Obamacare’s Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division
From Ilya Shapiro's post on Cato@Liberty: As the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Hans Bader put it: Obama’s HHS secretary sought to gag…
Legal Times
D.C. Circuit Upholds $3.4B Native American Class Settlement
Legal Times reports on Ted Frank's objection to a settlement that was not distributed fairly to the class members, especially those who were injured the…
Legal Times
Medical Roundup
From Overlawyered: Forcing companies to make politicized disclosures to customers implicates First Amendment [Hans Bader on HHS “must credit…
Forbes
Comcast’s Puny Data Cap Increase
From Timothy B. Lee's op-ed on Forbes: Ryan Radia wants to know what I think of Comcast’s announcement that it’s raising…
Hawaii Reporter
Grassroot Perspective: Regulators Run Wild, the West Side’s Story, and More
From Malia Hill's column in The Hawaii Reporter: Credit must be given to whoever thought up the title for the new report on…
Washington Times
Team Obama’s War on Bald Eagles
From Deroy Murdock's column in The Washington Times: “Lethal take” is Washington-speak for “federally approved eagle slaughter.” Precise eagle-kill numbers are tough to…
Washington Times
NLRB’s Ambush Rule Overturned For the Moment
From Bob Adelman’s article at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Nation: According to labor policy specialist Vincent Vernuccio at the Competitive…
Washington Times
‘People’s Rights Amendment’ Would Knock Out People’s Rights
From Overlawyered: Incredibly, versions of this radical rights-stripping measure has been endorsed through resolutions by the state legislatures of…
Washington Times
Horses In the Dining Room?
From Rep. Jason Chaffetz’ op-ed in The Daily Herald: Some 1.65 million lawsuits are filed each year over enforcement of federal regulations…
Newsday
Wind Turbines Endanger Eagles
From Deroy Murdock's op-ed in Newsday: "Lethal take" is Washington-speak for federally approved eagle slaughter. Precise eagle-kill numbers are tough to determine, in…
Bloomberg
Light Bulb Battle Pits Tea Party Against Manufacturers
From Ari Natter's article in Bloomberg: “I think that many people feel it is a personal intrusion into their lives by government,” said…
Bloomberg
From Watergate to Wedgiegate
From Gene Healy’s column in The Washington Examiner: In a 2011 letter to the nation’s school boards, Department of Education Assistant Secretary…
Michigan Capitol Confidential
Federal ‘Stimulus’ Spent $34.5 Million In Michigan For Only 183 Total Jobs
From Anne Schieber's article on Michigan Capitol Confidential: The real problem is that the government is creating these programs in the first place;…
Michigan Capitol Confidential
Education Roundup
From Overlawyered: “Education Department Pushes Racial Quotas in School Discipline” [Hans Bader, CEI]…
Reason
Obama Is Losing the Keystone Pipeline Battle
From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason: As analyst Marlo Lewis from the free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out…
Reason
Refinery Not a Well
From Chris Woodward’s article on OneNewsNow: John Berlau, senior fellow for finance and access to capital for the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Center…
American's for Tax Reform
DC City Council Pushes for Higher Taxes on Consumers
From ATR.org: Don’t just take ATR’s word for it. In today’s Washington Times, Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute highlighted the…
American's for Tax Reform
Why You Should Stop Attending Diversity Training
From Suzanne Lucas’ article on CBS News: So why do we continue to do this? Well, for one reason, government or professional organizations…
Newsday
Transportation bill stymied in Congress
From Alfonso A. Castillo's article in Newsday: Marc Scribner, a spokesman for the Competitive Enterprise Institute — a think tank that advocates limited government —…
Newsday
Stakeholders Examine State Immigration Laws, Offer Solutions
From C-SPAN: The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) brought together legislators, law enforcement officers and activists to discuss solutions to immigration problems.
Newsday
Union Sues Indiana, Says Right-to-Work Law is Slavery
From Michael P. Tremoglie’s article on LegalNewsline: F. Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, addressed this issue for the…
Newsday
Law Schools Begin to Shrink
From Overlawyered: George Leef wonders whether economic necessity will drive them to radical, even Olsonian, lengths. [NRO “Phi Beta Cons”]…
United Press International
Settlement in Netflix/Walmart suit slammed
United Press International reports on the case in which a Netflix and Walmart settlement granted lawyers huge payments and class members less than a dollar each.
Fierce Online
Netflix subscribers decry $27M class action settlement
Fierce Online reports on Ted Frank's objection to a Netflix and Wal-Mart settlement that would benefit the attorneys more than the class members and distribute…
Fierce Online
State Lawmakers Only Have Eyes for SB 1070
From Laurie Roberts’ column in The Arizona Republic: On Tuesday,Landfried’s group is joining with the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Texans for Sensible Immigration…
Daily Caller
Internet Bill Could Allow DHS to Spy on Congress, Supreme Court
From Josh Peterson's article on The Daily Caller: “Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank…
Reason
Leftwing Pitchforkers: Kill the Limited Government Monsters!
From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason: In a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal about the relentless Team Blue crusade…
Law 360
Sirius XM Shareholders Seek To Nix $180M Settlement
Law 360 reports on the case in which CCAF represented appellants to the Sirius XM settlement. Two Sirius XM Radio Inc. shareholders filed…
Law 360
Proposed CISPA Amendments Do Little to Appease Critics
From Declan McCullagh’s article in CNET: A fourth amendment, also from Jackson Lee, would extend CISPA by allowing Homeland Security to “intercept”…
One News Now
New Cars Affordable to Fewer People
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: Marlo Lewis, senior fellow for the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
CNET
CISPA Revision Allows DHS Internet ‘Countermeasures’
From Declan McCullagh's article on CNET: Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank that…
CNET
Are We Subsidizing Student Debt Too Generously?
From Jennifer Rubin’s post on The Washington Post‘s Right Turn blog: I went to two critics of the current craze for federal subsidies…
Reason
Building a 21st Century FDA
From Ronald Bailey's article in Reason: Delaying access to new drugs kills people. As Competitive Enterprise Institute general counsel Sam Kazman has…
Reason
Senate Judiciary Committee Takes Up Arizona 1070 Law
Reason
Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?
From Rebecca Boyle’s article in Popular Science: Some space colonization advocates argue that guaranteeing ownership of celestial real estate is a necessary precursor…
Reason
Ambulance Chasers Feast on Americans with Disabilities Act Claims
From Point of Law: Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, comments on a recent New…
Toledo Blade
Believers, Skeptics Stand Ground on Climate Change
From Dan Hopey's article in The Toledo Blade: Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, which has…
Toledo Blade
Conservative Groups Slam House Cybersecurity Bill
From Brendan Sasso’s article in The Hill: Six leading conservative groups urged Congress to re-work the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…
Toledo Blade
Ambulance Chasers Feast on Americans with Disabilities Act Claims
From Point of Law: Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, comments on…
Toledo Blade
Right to Work
Vincent Vernuccio on Right to Work…
Toledo Blade
Labor Union Sues Indiana, Calls Working Alongside Nonunion Employees ‘Slavery’
From David Martosko’s article in The Daily Caller: Competitive Enterprise Institute labor policy counsel Vincent Vernuccio told the Mackinac Center that “it’s insulting to the…
Toledo Blade
“Structuring”: Who Can Get Away With It, and Who Can’t
From Overlawyered: P.S. The Supreme Court, in a majority opinion by Justice Ruth Ginsburg [Ratslaf v. U.S., 1994], admirably “interpreted the ‘willfully’ element…
Toledo Blade
Profit Shouldn’t Be an Alien Concept
From The Gulf Coast Business Review: Although Star Trek fans are not alone in thinking it would be fun to take a cruise…
Toledo Blade
The Answer Really Isn’t Blowing in the Wind
From William Sullivan’s column in The American Thinker: In the natural world, 90 billion goes a long way. But as we’ve discovered, a…
Toledo Blade
The Times Covers ADA Filing Mills
From Overlawyered: I discuss the piece and its background in a new Cato post (& welcome Glenn Reynolds/Instapundit readers). Hans Bader and…
Orange County Register
DOJ Hungry for a Bite of Apple Inc.
From an Orange County Register editorial: "You could actually say that Apple is bringing more competition to the market, not less," through its…
Orange County Register
On College Campuses, Title IX Transforms Response to Sexual Assault, But Not Without Critics
From an Associated Press article: Hans Bader, an attorney who worked at OCR under the Bush administration, says OCR’s guidelines “stack the deck…
Orange County Register
Union PACs
Vincent Vernuccio on Union PACs…
One News Now
Why the Rush? Re: Solyndra Loan
From Chris Woodward's article in OneNewsNow: Marlo Lewis, senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI) Center for Energy and Environment, says the…
One News Now
McGraw Appointees Give $36K to Re-Election Campaign
From John O’Brien’s article in The West Virginia Record: An October report produced by the Manhattan Institute as part of its Trial Lawyers…
Investors
Apple Investors Shrug Off E-Book Antitrust Lawsuit
From Patrick Seitz' article in Investor's Business Daily: The Competitive Enterprise Institute said the Justice Department made a mistake in taking legal action…
Heartlander
Critical Drug Shortages Reaching Crisis
From Ashley Bateman's article on Heartland.org: But according to Greg Conko, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, more mandates on companies…
Heartlander
Higher Education Bubble Update
From Glenn Reynolds’ post on Instapundit: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hans Bader: Staggering Law School…
Heartlander
April 11 Roundup
From Overlawyered: More on how Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization would chip away rights of accused [Bader, Heritage,…
Heartlander
How Will Law Grads Repay Their Loans?
From George Leef’s post in National Review: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes here about the high debt levels on average…
Heartlander
When Will We Learn Lessons of Big Government?
From Lawrence Reed’s article in The Times-Herald: The Obama administration is jamming new regulations down the throats of businesses big and small at…
Heartlander
Louisiana’s Taxpayer-Funded Public Employee Contracts Could be Opened to Public Scrutiny
From Kevin Mooney’s article in The Pelican Post: Even with the compromise, Vincent Vernuccio, a labor counsel with the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI),…
Heartlander
Could Legal ‘Loophole’ Lead to Land Claims on Other Worlds?”
From Alan Boyle’s post on MSNBC.com: The concept was unveiled last week by Rand Simberg, an adjunct scholar at the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise…
Heartlander
Stalking a Claim on the Moon
From Jeff Foust’s article in The Space Review: The current round in the debate over property rights in space started with the publication…
Heartlander
AM Briefing
From The Washington Post‘s ThinkTanked: Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Matt Patterson: PETA vs. people … and animals. (Washington Examiner)…
Heartlander
Coalition Challenges Conn. Governor on Labor Issue
From Michael P. Tremoglie’s article in Legal Newsline: “It is just one more example of the (Service Employees International Union’s) campaign of stealth…
Heartlander
Legal Loophole May Pave Way For Private Ownership Of Outer Space
From Andres Jaregui’s article in The Huffington Post: A shift in policy could open up the moon and other celestial bodies to ownership…
Heartlander
Loophole Could Allow Private Land Claims on Other Worlds
From Adam Mann’s article in Wired: Full blown colonization and settlement of other planets, moons and even asteroids might actually happen, says space…
Heartlander
The Truth About the Republican War on Caterpillars
From Molly Ball’s article in The Atlantic: In a similar gesture of outrageous insensitivity to the feelings of Creepy-Crawly-Americans, some conservatives also want…
Heartlander
AM Briefing
From The Washington Post‘s ThinkTanked: Competitive Enterprise Institute’s John Berlau: A breather from regulations. (National Review)…
Heartlander
Uttered in 2008, Still Haunting Obama in 2012
From Erica Martinson’s article in Politico: Matt Patterson of the Competitive Enterprise Institute began an opinion piece March 29 in the Washington Times…
Heartlander
Ground Control To Major Tom…Keep It Local, Man…
From Anita Cooper’s article in RealtyBizNews: Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Adjunct Scholar, Rand Simberg, has been working to make the recognition of lunar property…
Tech News World
EU Puts Motorola on the Hot Seat
From Erika Morphy's article in E-Commerce Times: These days, the reaction to any complaint about patent infringement — especially in the mobility space…
Tech News World
The Ugly Truth About Law Schools
From George Leef’s post in National Review Online: Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blows the whistle on…
Legal News Line
The EPA’s Encroachment of Power
From Michael P. Tremoglie's article in Legal Newsline: The past few months have seen the EPA criticized by the very same court which…