Citation
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…
Orange County Register
California Shuns Black Gold
From an Orange County Register editorial: "Part of the intentional destruction of the California economy is raising energy prices," Myron Ebell told us;…
Orange County Register
GOP Elders Conflicted About Future NASA, Commercial Space Projects
From Gene J. Koprowski’s article in The Daily Caller: This week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based free-market think tank, released a…
Orange County Register
Free-Market Fans Encourage Rush for Off-Plant Real Estate
From Rebecca Boyle’s article in Popular Science: Getting to the moon is a noble and ambitious goal for any country, and other nations…
Orange County Register
Judge Rules in Case Over Wis. Collective Bargaining Law
From Michael P. Tremoglie’s article in Legal Newsline: According to Vincent Verduccio, the labor policy counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington,…
Orange County Register
Entrepreneurs Win Half a Loaf With the JOBS Act
From Tim Carney’s column in The Washington Examiner: Crowdfunding is a way of financing a business venture without a financial intermediary or a…
Orange County Register
Lights Off for Earth Hour? Rightbloggers Leave Lights On, Declare Victory Over So-Called “Environment”
From Roy Edroso’s article in The Village Voice: As we explained last year, Human Achievement Hour was founded in…
Sun Live
Winning Millions, Saving the Planet and Pink Boots
From Brian Rogers' article in SunLive: Meanwhile, clear-thinking readers were again subjected to another dose of Earth Hour nonsense this week – when…
CBS Seattle
Will Apple’s Staggering Growth One Day Be Its Undoing?
From Candice Lee Hefland's article for CBS Seattle: “Saturation is not a huge concern. If anything, Apple devices will continue to proliferate a…
Fox News
Let There Be Light: ‘Human Achievement Hour’ to Coincide With Earth Hour
From Fox News: The Competitive Enterprise Institute plans to commemorate Earth Hour 2012 with its "Human Achievement Hour," 60 minutes to…
Fox News
Lighten Up
From Jennifer Harper’s Inside the Beltway: Earth Hour: Oh, it does sound so noble, a veritable Al Gore-ian delight. Landmarks around the…
Fox News
Will Congress Stop NLRB?
Imagine an election in which one candidate may campaign for a year while the other is only allowed to enter the race a week before…
Fox News
Congress Must Act Now on Federal Transportation Bill
From a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial: As we noted in a February editorial, that bill has received significant opposition from such conservative and…
Fox News
CEI to Host Norquist-Lott Book Party
From Betsy Rothstein’s post on FishbowlDC: The Competitive Enterprise Institute and Christian Josi are hosting a book party and signing tomorrow at CEI…
Fox News
Stearns’ Healthcare Record Questioned
From Bill Thompson’s article in The Gainesville Sun: Such remarks echo a common refrain among conservative critics of President Barack…
Fox News
The Hidden Flaw in the Bipartisan JOBS Act
From Michelle Hirsch’s article in The Fiscal Times: The bill has members of the business community cheering, calling it a first step in…
Fox News
Presence of Lead, Other Chemicals in Cosmetics Poses Concerns
From Barbara Bradley’s article in The Commercial Appeal: The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit advocacy group headquartered in Washington, posts some hair-raising information…
Fox News
Goldman Sachs and the Free Market
John Berlau on Goldman Sachs and the Free Market…
Fox News
A Small Victory Against the EPA
From Issac Gorodetski’s post on Point of Law: Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects with the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Fox News
March 23 Roundup
From Walter Olsen’s post on Overlawyered: Just what European business needs: gender quotas for corporate boards [Bader, CEI]…
Fox News
Crowdfunding Legislation Both Panned and Praised
From Investor’s Business Daily and Yahoo! Finance: Business observers say there is growing and widespread enthusiasm in the U.S. to provide greater support…
Fox News
HHS Deems Rate Hikes Excessive in Nine States
From Michael P. Tremoglie’s article on Legal Newsline: But the issue of the government telling insurers how much premiums should be is a…
Fox News
Justices Allow Challenge to EPA Control of Wetlands
From Felicity Barringer’s article in The New York Times: The Sacketts were represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian…
Fox News
Supreme Court Rules Against EPA ‘Strong Arm’
From Michael Tremoglie’s article on LegalNewsline: Many organizations filed amicus briefs in favor of the Sacketts. Among them were the U.S. Chamber of…
ARS Technica
Witnesses Warn Verizon-Comcast Deal Will Damage Competition
From Timothy B. Lee's article on ArsTechnica: We asked Ryan Radia, an analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to comment on the hearing.
ARS Technica
Score One For Freedom, One Against EPA
From Paul Mulshine’s post in The Star Ledger Blogs: You can get a good summation here on the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog.
Cornell University Law School
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency
From Justice Samuel Alito's concurring opinion in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency: Far from providing clarity and predictability, the agency’s latest informal guidance…
Cornell University Law School
EDITORIAL: Obama’s Bogus Rules
From a Washington Times editorial: The scope of federal rule-making is bewildering. More than 700 new final rules have been published this year,…
Cornell University Law School
NLRB Touts Union Election Record
From Michael P. Tremoglie’s article on LegalNewsLine: Vincent Vernuccio is the Labor Policy Counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He found the NLRB’s…
Cornell University Law School
Bell’s Critical Race Theory Promoted in Public Schools
From Kyle Olson’s post on BigGovernment: A radical organization known as the Pacific Educational Group (PEG) is actively promoting Derrick Bell’s Critical Race…
Cornell University Law School
March 20 Roundup
From Walter Olson’s post on Overlawyered: “Lawyer Who Spotted Broker Fraud Rewarded With SEC Ordeal” [Business Week via Bader]…
Cornell University Law School
Bader on the Theodore Urban Case
From Ted Frank’s post on Point of Law: Hans Bader discusses the seemingly incoherent approach of the Department of Justice to prosecuting financial…
Cornell University Law School
What’s Wrong With the Violence Against Women Act
From Wendy Kaminer’s article in The Atlantic: Will Creeley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) points out that “prompt and…
Orange County Register
EDITORIAL: Don’t Throw the E-Book at Apple
From The Orange County Register's editorial: So far, the ebook market actually is dominated by Amazon.com's Kindle device, Ryan Radia told us; he's…
One News Now
When ‘Protections’ Are Toxic
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: Canadian environmental ministers wanted to list the silicone known as Siloxane D5 as a "toxic substance." But…
New York Times
Report Maps U.S. Risks from Rising Seas in Warming World
From Andrew C. Revkin's post in The New York Times' Dot Earth Blog: Gillis’s news story could wind up being criticized by some…
Politico
Highway Bill Now Over to John Boehner
From Kathryn A. Wolfe's article in Poltico: Marc Scribner, writing on the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s blog, urged the House to reject the Senate…
Politico
Student Loans: America’s Next Debt Bomb
From Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit: HANS BADER: Student Loans: America’s Next Debt Bomb?…
Politico
Verizon’s Deal With Cable Companies Finds Supporters, Detractors
From Michelle Maisto’s article in eWeek: Eleven…
Politico
Natural-Gas Vehicles Plan Sputters in Senate
From Ben Geman’s post in The Hill’s E2 Wire Blog: The Senate plan would have expanded credits for purchasing natural-gas cars and trucks,…
New York Times
Rising Sea Levels Seen As Threat to Coastal U.S.
From Justin Gillis' article in The New York Times: The handful of climate researchers who question the scientific consensus about global warming do…
New York Times
March 13 Roundup: Boom-Era Property Speculators to Get Foreclosure Aid
From Walter Olsen’s post on Overlawyered: “Are Courts Dragging Out the Housing Crisis?” [Mark Calabria, Cato] “Boom-Era Property Speculators to Get Foreclosure…
New York Times
Economic Rebound in Doubt as 10 Percent of All US Workers Employed Just ‘Part-Time’
From Gene J. Koprowski’s article in The Daily Caller: “The ‘recovery’ is weak and may sputter,” Hans Bader, a scholar and economics expert…
New York Times
Higher Education Bubble May Explode in Taxpayers’ Faces
From Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit: HANS BADER: Higher Education Bubble May Explode in Taxpayers’ Faces. May?…
One News Show
Costly Regulations
From Chris Woodward's column on OneNewsNow: With already 600 new regulations in 2012, a fellow in regulatory studies says the United States continues…
One News Show
Koch v. Pickens Natural-Gas Battle Reaches Senate Floor
From Ben Geman’s article on The Hill‘s Energy & Environment Blog: And several groups are circulating a joint letter to senators opposing the…
One News Show
Leave a Light On For Earth Hour
From Peter Roff’s column in the U.S. News & World Report: The modern environmental movement believes that mankind’s activities need to be regulated…
One News Show
U.S. Chamber Pushes Regulators for Hearing on Nonbanks
From Donna Barok’s article in American Banker: The American Council of Life Insurers, Business Roundtable, and Competitive Enterprise Institute, among others, made the…
The Hill
News Bites
From The Hill's Healthwatch blog: The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute claims proposed reforms of the Toxic Substances Control Act would undermine public…
The Hill
EU’s Proposed Gender Quotas For Corporate Boards
From Isaac Gorodetski’s post on Point of Law: In recent commentary, senior attorney and counsel for special projects with the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
The Hill
The Autoworkers Obama Left Behind
From Michelle Malkin’s column: Thanks to a separate Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, we already know that…
The Hill
Stop the Regulation!
From Mike Whalen’s op-ed on The Huffington Post: Unfortunately, when it comes to our current government and regulation, the reality is that where…