Journal of Commerce
Mandatory Switching Proposal for Class I Railroads Draws Fire
“NITL and supporters of its flawed proposal ignore the underlying economics of network industries and seek to require the board to make arbitrary and capricious…
Washington Post
A mandate that is off the rails
Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute has recently published his “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” This year’s…
Washington Post
EPA stonewalled records requests by Republican-led states
The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the EPA granted fee waivers for 92 percent of FOIA requests from major…
Washington Post
Obama uses government to crush opponents
The Freedom of Information Act provides citizens access to government documents for a reasonable fee. When Obama’s environmental supporters seek a fee waiver, they get…
Washington Post
Group goes to court over text messages of Obama’s EPA nominee
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking potential messages to or from McCarthy, the agency’s top air…
Washington Post
A Legacy Litigated
Here’s the thinking behind the lawsuit, funded in part by the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute. The problem, apparently, is a drafting…
Powder & Bulk Solids
Analyst Says Chemical Safety Improvement Act Not an Improvement
Senators David Vitter, R-LA, and Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, surprised the Senate with their introduction of legislation to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act on Wednesday,…
Powder & Bulk Solids
The cost of regulations: Economic tyranny
The big-government Obama administration’s propensity for end runs around Congress exacerbates the unchecked growth of federal regulations that diminish both liberty and prosperity.
Boston Herald
EPA out of control
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative advocacy group, has sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking an explanation of why it has been denied waivers of…
Washington Post
‘Alice in Wonderland’ coercion
Hans Bader, a former OCR lawyer now with the limited-government Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes that this “Alice in Wonderland” — “sentence first, verdict afterwards” —…
Washington Post
More mischief
Now comes word that the Environmental Protection Agency has been abusing the Freedom of Information Act. Agencies can charge FOIA request makers for the…
National Review
The Enviro-Fix Is In
“It’s another insidious angle to this,” says William Yeatman, the assistant director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and the Environment. “In essence,…
One News Now
CEI report: Uncle Sam loves his regulations
Americans spent an estimated $1.8 trillion in 2012 to comply with federal regulations, reports the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The public policy organization has just released…
Breitbart
Cost of Complying with U.S. Regulations Higher Than Canada’s GDP
$1.8 trillion buys a lot of red tape. That’s how much the federal regulatory machine is costing Americans each year, according to the…
Investor's Business Daily
Environmental Fear-Mongering Isn’t Just Silly, It Kills People
Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a Forbes article "Rachel Carson's…
Wall Street Journal
Red Tape Record Breakers
President Obama is opposing a bill passed by the House last week that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to better measure the costs…
Citation
Obama administration demands that colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes
The Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and flirting as “sexual harassment,” in addition to demanding…
Newsmax
EPA Waives Fees for Some Groups, But Not Conservatives
The Environmental Protection Agency waives its fees for big "green" groups 92 percent of the time while it waives fees for major conservative groups only…
The Atlantic
No Sex Talk Allowed: What’s wrong with the Obama administration’s definition of sexual harassment
"Federal government mandates unconstitutional speech codes at college and universities nationwide," the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) accurately…
Courthouse News
Lawyers Lose $2M Award for HP Inkjet Settlement
Courthouse News reports on Ted Frank's work to object to settlements that break the Class Action Fairness Act. While two members of the…
Law 360
$1.5M Attys’ Fees Scuttle HP Printer Defect Deal In 9th Circ.
Law 360 reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' victory in their objection to the Hewlett-Packard Co. settlement which benefited the plaintiffs' lawyers more…
Law 360
FCC again balks on telephone network shutdown
According to Fred Campbell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former bureau chief at the FCC, Friday’s notice is “more likely to…
Human Events
Now Boarding the Obama Administration Scandal Train: the EPA
CEI reviewed Freedom of Information Act requests sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several…
The Business Journals
Conservative group accuses EPA of playing favorites on FOIA fees
That’s according to an analysis of a year’s worth of FOIA requests by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based public policy group…
The Business Journals
EPA makes information requests more difficult for conservatives
According to EPA records obtained by the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, since January 2012 the agency has granted fee waivers for 75 out of…
The Business Journals
Uh Oh: Obama’s EPA Mistreated Conservative Groups, Too?
It’s not just the IRS that treats groups on the right differently from the rest. According to documents obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the…
The Business Journals
Could Immigration Bill Lead to Big Brother Database?
David Bier, an analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, warned, “The most worrying aspect is that this creates a principle of permission basically to do…
The Business Journals
Consternated Conferences
The conservative movement’s factions also pushed back against the often puzzling decisions of the American Conservative Union board, which controls CPAC. The gay conservative group…
New York Times
This Week in Small Business: Small Data
Adam Liptak says this has been the most business-friendly Supreme Court since World War II. The Senate approves an online sales tax bill,…
New York Times
Why Are Social Security Cards Still Easy To Fake?
Libertarians oppose such cards for a variety of reasons, one of which is the impact on businesses, according to David Bier, an immigration policy analyst…
New York Times
Online sales-tax bill faces web of opposition in U.S. House
But Jessica Melugin, an adjunct policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., public-policy group, said that would place an unfair burden on…
New York Times
What we learned about immigration reform yesterday
Not a single right-leaning think tank rose in defense of Heritage’s anti-immigration study. The American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, Manhattan Institute, the Competitive Enterprise…
Roll Call
Congress Must Rein In Expensive ‘Sue and Settle’ Tactics by EPA
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar William Yeatman recently shed some light on how the EPA uses the sue and settle…
Reason
Democratic Nativist (Yes, Such a Creature Exists) Strikes At Nikki Haley
Every good liberal knows that GOP is the party of bigoted, narrow-minded “knaves and fools” that is in every way morally inferior to the noble…
Reason
US Senate approves Internet sales tax
Opposing the bill are several trade groups and Internet companies, including TechAmerica, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, eBay, Etsy, the Information Technology…
Spectator
The Busch Doctrine: Tilting For Windmills
The job creation claims rest on two obvious premises: the viability of wind energy and economic efficiency of government investments in it. The first point…
The American Spectator
Financial Experts: Dodd-Frank Exacerbates Instability
These were the standout insights from a panel discussion hosted by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) on April 11. The gathering focused on the Financial…
Online Media Daily
Watchdogs Ask Court to Reject ‘Sponsored Stories’ Settlement
Online Media Daily discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the settlement deal in the Facebook privacy case. The law firm Center for…
Online Media Daily
Obamacare Gets New Court Challenge
Opponents of the health-care overhaul have filed a new lawsuit Thursday against the federal government on behalf of four individuals and three employers in the…
Human Events
Business Owners Sue IRS Over Obamacare Mandate
“Agencies are bound by the laws enacted by Congress,” said Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). “Obamacare is already an incredibly massive…
The Hill
Lawsuit claims IRS illegally implementing key part of ObamaCare
“ObamaCare is already an incredibly massive program. For the IRS to expand it even more, without congressional authorization and in a manner aimed at undercutting…
Daily Caller
EPA chief used alias to email with environmentalists
“So, an email account created in the name of a fictitious employee was indeed affirmatively used to present that false identity,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior…
Daily Caller
Jones aims to curb cyber-snooping
Under CISPA, private emails and a user’s Internet browser history could be sent to the federal government. Users would have no way of knowing whether…
Forbes
The Sad Decline of the Word Capitalism
Not everyone is giving up. One example is Fred L. Smith, chairman and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who has launched the…
The American Lawyer
Conscientious Objector
The American Lawyer writes a profile on Center for Class Action Fairness' Ted Frank and his efforts to fight for settlements that benefit class members.
The American Lawyer
Privatize almost everything
Finally, if you are having trouble with the quiz at the beginning, you might wish to go the websites of major free-market think tanks, such…
Overlawyered
NYT Breaks Open Pigford Case, Cont’d
Hans Bader wonders whether the Obama administration might have avoided going down the embarrassing settlement route had it taken more seriously the Supreme Court’s 2001…
Overlawyered
Watchdog group seeks FOIA records on nonprofit EPA ‘bullied’ out of contract
ATI and another nonprofit, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, have also sued the EPA over alleged violation of open records acts, accusing the agency of protecting…
CBN
FAA Blames Flight Delays on Cuts, GOP Blames Politics
Bill Frezza, a policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said the delays represent a political calculation. "I don't think there's any doubt right now…
CBN
Pass CISPA. Don’t Pass a Big, Messy Copyright Bill
There’s still the matter of a new FCC chairman. It’s important that we get a humble FCC chairman, not a wild-eyed activist. A letter…
CBN
The Circuit: MetroPCS shareholders approve T-Mobile deal
The letter, dated April 23, is signed by TechFreedom as well as Heritage Action, Americans for Tax Reform and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “We urge…
Free Beacon
Overseeing Failure
The failure of Fisker is indicative of the government’s inability to prop up whole sectors of the economy, said William Yeatman, an energy policy expert…
Free Beacon
The spreading of ‘right to work’ … where will it show up next?
Matt Patterson, senior fellow for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, sees Pennsylvania as one possibility. “There has been some legislation introduced [there]. I mean, that would…
Overlawyered
SCOTUS: U.S. Can’t Play Tortmaster-General to the World
Notably, all nine Justices sidestepped the issue that had caused extensive angst among many popular commentators, namely whether the statute could be applied to corporations…
Forbes
Carbon Tax…Are Republicans Really That Stupid?
As my respected friend Marlo Lewis at the Competitive Enterprise Institute cogently points out, economic arguments that government should tax “bads”, like CO2 emissions,…
Wall Street Journal
Dispute Arises Over Cost of Temp-Help Lawyers
The Wall Street Journal reports on Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder Ted Frank’s objection to fees in a Citigroup class action settlement. Attorneys…
E-Commerce Times
Google Bends to Dodge European Blow
It now seems that Google has offered to refrain from featuring its own content, Ryan Radia, analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told…
E-Commerce Times
Barbara Boxer Reveals EPA Email Aliases During Gina McCarthy Hearing
The secret email accounts were publicly revealed last fall by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think-tank that was tipped off about Jackson’s alias…
Daily Mail
Phony email account used by recently-resigned EPA administrator was NOT standard practice and broke federal law, researcher responds to Sen. Barbara Boxer
But Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) senior fellow Chris Horner told MailOnline that Jackson, who resigned in December, broke with tradition and created an entirely new…
Capital Press
Group Sues EPA Over Instant Messages
A new lawsuit accuses U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials of using instant messaging to avoid revealing their communications to the public. The plaintiff, the Competitive…
Capital Press
EPA vows better records management amid criticism
A pair of conservative groups – the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the American Tradition Institute – have expanded their push for more records disclosure…
Bloomberg
Ignore Hysteria Over New ‘Monsanto’ Bill
Greg Conko, who studies biotech issues for the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, points out that this fear is overblown, since organic standards require farmers to…
Law 360
$100M Kirby McInerney Fee Bid In Citi Case Meets Skepticism
Law 360 reports on a case where Ted Frank objects to the plaintiffs' lawyers fees which overcharged the class members they represented. Tort…
Reuters
Judge weighs fairness of Citigroup’s $590 mln investor pact
Reuters reports on CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness’s founder Ted Frank’s objection to the fees in a Citigroup class action settlement. The judge…
Trib Live
Environmental judge, jury & policeman
Marlo Lewis Jr. is a senior fellow in the energy and environment program at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank advocating limited…
Trib Live
Conservative groups sue for EPA officials’ instant messages
Two conservative groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for instant- message records for several top officials, including former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor”…
Trib Live
Morning Energy
EPA COMMUNICATIONS LAWSUITS CONTINUE WITH IM COMPLAINT: The Competitive Enterprise Institute and the American Tradition Institute last Thursday filed a new lawsuit that continues the…
Daily Caller
Little support from conservative groups for a carbon tax
“There is little chance that this Congress (or even a future Congress in which Democrats control both chambers) will enact a carbon tax on straight…
American Thinker
Busting the EPA’s secret government
Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the…
Law 360
$590M Citi Settlement Draws Skepticism From Judge
Law 360 reports on a case where Ted Frank challenges a settlement in which the plaintiff's lawyers recieved a huge pay out and the class…
ABA Journal
Expert in Legal-Fee Fight Blasts ‘Make Believe’ Game Over Cost of Contract Lawyers to Do Doc Review
ABA Journal discusses how Ted Frank is challenging the pracitce of lawyers raising fees in class action cases. Ruane is working with attorney Theodore…
Citation
Green Tyranny
Angela Logomasini Discusses Proposed Foam Regulations…
Fox Business
Green Tyranny
My mayor, Michael Bloomberg, now wants yet another ban-Styrofoam. He says it's "environmentally destructive." But Angela Logomasini, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argues that banning…
American Thinker
Michael Mann’s latest bogus claim
Michael Mann, the Father of the Hockey Stick graph — you know, the one where they had to “hide the decline” — seems to have…
National Review
The Surge in Freight Rail Investment
Marc Scribner of the regulation-averse Competitive Enterprise Institute has more recently argued that it is unlikely that cost-based rate ceiling would prove beneficial, as…
Red Alert Politics
TSA finally agrees to comply with 2011 court order requiring them to take comments on use of full body scanners
“I wouldn’t applaud TSA for doing this since they were required by the D.C. Circuit to open this proceeding by the end of the month,”…
Law 360
Kirby McInerney Defends $100M Fee Request In Citi Case
Law 360 reports on Frank’s objection to the fees in a Citigroup settlement in which the plaintiffs’ lawyers overcharged the class members they represented.
The American Spectator
The First Church of Chicken Little
Back to the industry point, environmentalism is hardly an economic weak sister. Ian Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in his 2008 book, The Really…
Law
West Virginia AG’s New Rules for Outside Counsel
Legal reform advocates have had harsh words for outside counsel selection under McGraw. In a 2010 report, the Competitive Enterprise Institute named McGraw to its…
Law
Controversial E-Verify System Integral Part of Immigration Reform Proposal
Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Law Center and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, among many others, have expressed concerns about the…
Law
Bills would require warrants for police to use GPS tracking
Groups voicing support for the GPS Act include the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform’s DigitalLiberty.net, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Electronic Frontier…
Law
Slowly, GOP shifting on same-sex marriage
The final safe haven within the conservative movement for anti-gay bigotry — the American Conservative Union’s CPAC convention, held last week in Maryland — received…
Law
Libertarians: Keep Lights on for Earth Hour
Calling its alternative to Earth Hour “Human Achievement Hour,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute says Earth Hour sends the wrong message by representing “a rejection…
Law
Inside the Beltway: CBS is the Clueless Broadcast Network
Free Beacon
E.P.Delay
“It’s not a poorly written rule so much as a muddled one that conflates those two too readily,” Competitive Enterprise Institute energy policy analyst William…
Forbes
Corporate Lawyers Scratch Their Heads Over Citi Class-Action Fees
Forbes reports on how Center for Class Action Fairness’s Ted Frank discovered the plaintiff’s lawyers, in a class action suit against Citigroup, charged exorbitant billing…
Free Beacon
The First Bank of Solar
Free Beacon
Conservative case for gay marriage
In more signs of change, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference were widely criticized by mainstream conservatives for excluding pro-gay organizations from this…
Free Beacon
GOP not wedded to views on gays
And at the Conservative Political Action Committee convention, a panel sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute drew a large and approving crowd for a discussion…
Free Beacon
Republicans take aim at another EPA administrator for use of private email account
EPA emails that have been released as part of a lawsuit by the Competitive Enterprise Institute showed that Blumenfeld used an unofficial email address…
Law 360
Citigroup Fee Flap Strikes At Heart Of Class Action Model
Law 360 discusses Ted Frank's objections to the Citigroup settlement that paid attorneys huge fees for work done by contract lawyers. The most…
Watchdog
Dodd-Frank regulatory flaws stir passion at CPAC
But that’s a point of concern to John Berlau, a financial analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, because this could be taken to mean that…
Free Beacon
Failure Factories
Argonne, LG Chem, and General Motors are all part of what William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, describes as a…
Law 360
In-House Attys Fire New Salvo In Battle Over Law Firm Fees
Law 360 reports on Ted Frank's objection to the Citigroup settlement in which lawyers over-billed the class members they represented. The objector, Ted…
Law 360
CPAC stars: Ten Republicans to watch (whether you love or loathe them)
CPAC organisers denied GOProud a booth at this year’s event. But the Competitive Enterprise Institute used its position as a CPAC sponsor, which gave it…
The Guardian
CPAC 2013: An angry and beaten US right fires out scattergun wacky policies in hunt for victory
CPAC embraced Trump but did not invite gay Republicans, with their GOProud organisation reduced to a single speaker on…
Forbes
Judge Demands Contract-Attorney Records In Madoff Fund Fee Fight
Forbes quotes Ted Frank on the ethical issues behind the practice of plaintiffs' lawyers in class action suits charging large fees and billing hours that harm class members.
Forbes
CPAC Diary: Showdown on Gay Street
This panel, put on by the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, condemned intolerance from CPAC organizers, who were giving voters away by dismissing gay voters. They…
Legal Newsline
House Panel Examines ‘Litigation Abuses’
Legal Newsline reports on a House subcommittee hearing on litigation abuses and Ted Frank's witness on the problem of cy pres. Frank talked…
Politico
Morning Energy
WINDSOR NOT: EPA’s running behind on its next batch of emails from former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson’s “Richard Windsor” email account and won’t be ready…