Orange County Register
Yelp, TripAdvisor: Inside the ratings game
“It’s not an easy problem,” says Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C. “If…
KTIC Radio
Defeat Of Food Labeling Measure Was a ‘Mini Tax Revolt’ Analyst Says
"The mandate would have imposed a 'tax' on a perfectly safe technology that some activists object to on purely philosophical grounds," said Gregory Conko, CEI's…
Reuters
How to end pointless class actions, redux
Reuters reports on L'Oreal's class action settlement and the Center for Class Action's objection to the large fees paid to the lawyers and monetary damages to the…
San Francisco Chronicle
Facebook Prviacy Deal OKd With Justice’s Warning
The San Francisco Chronicle discusses the issue of class-action suits where attorneys get large fees and users are left with little. Center for Class Action…
Law 360
Chief Justice Roberts Turns Up The Heat On Cy Pres Pacts
Law 360 reports on Justice Roberts' comments on the issue of cy pres settlements which Center for Class Action Fairness objected to in the Facebook…
Law 360
Justices Won’t Touch Facebook’s $9.5M ‘Beacon’ Privacy Deal
Law 360 reports on teh case where Cheif Justice Roberts agreed with Center for Class Action Fairness that the problem of cy pres solutions for…
EPW
Neglecting a Cornerstone Principle of the Clean Air Act: President Obama’s EPA Leaves States Behind
Cited on pages 15, 19, 22, 25.
Forbes
Will Supreme Court Review Of Greenhouse Rule Take Air Out Of EPA Regulatory Overreach?
Marlo, first of all, what potential significance does this Supreme Court decision to review the case have? Does it indicate evidence of a shift within…
Forbes
The heavy price of regulations
Moreover, countless other federal, state, local and international regulatory authorities are busy interpreting, implementing and imposing rules under thousands of laws, ordinances and treaties. The…
National Review
Dodd-Frank’s Diversity Quotas
The Wall Street Journal
Latest Legal Challenges to the Health Law: A Guide
A fourth lawsuit is pending in Virginia. That case, as well as the one in Washington, is in the hands of Michael A. Carvin, a…
Daily Mail
Bombshell: Federal judge suddenly green-lights lawsuit that could stop Obamacare in its tracks
The Treasury Department, they contend, 'has reasonably interpreted the Act to provide for eligibility for the premium tax credits for individuals in every state, regardless…
Daily Mail
How to Fix Too Big to Fail
As the Competitive Enterprise Institute points out in its constitutional challenge to Dodd-Frank, Title I of the law gives the FSOC the ability to…
Daily Mail
Obamacare’s Next Bout: More Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) took the primary lead in finding funding and potential plaintiffs, as well as coordinating future…
Daily Mail
Health Law Faces New Legal Challenges
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, is coordinating the suits and helping with their legal costs, a spokeswoman said…
Daily Mail
Cuts can be made, but politicians have to want to make them
The program costs $9 billion annually and really should be eliminated since crop insurance is commercially available. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, even a…
National Review
Grilling the Park Service Bullies
The Park Service closed the City Tavern in Philadelphia, a meeting place for those who signed the Declaration of Independence, even though the tavern, at…
National Review
Regulatory overreach is the new normal
The Federal Register lists proposed and final rules, notices, corrections and presidential documents. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the 1939 Federal Register was 2,620…
National Review
Regulating The Citizenry: What Really Happened During The Partial Government Shutdown
During the partial government shutdown, other agencies were also busy regulating the American people. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute reports, the federal government set…
Tulsa World
Energy conference speakers blast regulations
William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he opposes regulation that serves no public health benefit and only gratifies a…
Tulsa World
Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge To Sweeping EPA Carbon Rules
The appeal was supported by the U.S. Chamber, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Southeastern Legal Foundation as well as companies like coal…
Time
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to EPA Climate Regulations
But there’s no doubt that this case will be a test for the Obama Administration and its green allies—and an opportunity for industry groups and…
CBN
Who Shut Down the Parks? Memorial Closures Probed
The Competitive Enterprise Institute says the Obama administration has gone too far in its implementation of the shutdown. Shutting…
Cleveland
Los Angeles Times riles climate-change skeptics by banning letters: A Closer Look (poll)
But Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a leading global-warming skeptic, tells the Washington…
Daily Caller
‘Why now?’ Fitch’s downgrade threat raises questions
“My question is ‘Why now?’” John Berlau, an economist at the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I just have…
Daily Caller
Raising the Federal Gas Tax
Marc Scribner Discusses the Fuel Tax on Fox Business…
The Hill
Shutdown halts federal regs
“We’re very pleased that the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to wreck the U.S. economy with more and more heavy-handed and colossally expensive regulations has been…
The Hill
Kansas Supreme Court reverses permit granted to Sunflower coal plant
Brian McNicoll, senior communications director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which advocates limited government, said experts at his think tank believe that if the new…
Daily Caller
Lawyers: Private parks should sue Obama administration for forcing them to close
“As a lawyer who once worked for the government, I assume there is no legal authority for this because these private tourist attractions were not…
Daily Caller
Labor analyst: Volkswagen workers claim ‘misled’ by UAW
Matt Patterson, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the issue is important because, if it’s true, it would “significantly compromise” the union’s chances…
Daily Caller
Environmentalists blame GOP for government shutdown
“This is a totally phony complaint that comes up every time there is a federal shutdown or threat of a shutdown,” Myron Ebell, director of…
Investor's Business Daily
Shutdown Grounds Lawyers In US Air, American Case
Marc Scribner, analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think tank, earlier said: "American, if it isn't able to merge with US Air, is…
Tri Valley Central
EPA urged to update rules on secret email accounts
Chris Horner, the senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute credited with uncovering the Windsor email account, said it was a mistake for the inspector…
PBS
What Climate Change Skeptics Think About the UN Report
“The global warming establishment is in denial,” said Myron Ebell, director of Freedom Action and the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “The IPCC…
National Review
Public Citizen’s Unfair Attack on Arbitration
The National Review discusses with Ted Frank how class action suits benefit the lawyers rather than the class member. In reality, as Ted…
National Review
IG: ‘No evidence’ EPA used private emails to keep records secret
Jackson also came under fire from critics when documents released to the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute showed that in late 2009, she asked an official…
National Review
Sunday pops
But Competitive Enterprise Institute numbers crunchers easily identified billions upon billions of dollars of the fattest of fat. But, then again, it’s pretty difficult to…
Independent
IPCC report: The financial markets are the only hope in the race to stop global warming
Myron Ebell , the right-wing think tank the US Competitive Enterprise Institute “Global warming, although it may become a problem some decades in the…
Washington Times
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina joins company awarded millions in federal cash
“Obviously, he was chosen because of his political connections, which are, alas, essential to LanzaTech, a company that wouldn’t exist without taxpayer handouts,” said…
WPR
Will Carbon Caps Be A Boon Or Bust For The Economy?
William Yeatman, policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he’s worried about the impact of the new regulations on the economy, in part because…
Overlawyered
Hans Bader on disabled-hiring quotas
Building on my post of yesterday, Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Hans Bader makes several additional points about the Department of Labor’s new hiring…
The Guardian
Leading climate change economist brands sceptics ‘irrational’
Myron Ebell, of the US Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the Guardian: "Global warming, although it may become a problem some decades in the future, is…
Free Beacon
IBEW Criticizes EPA’s New Coal Emission Standards
“The unions oppose President Obama’s new coal rule for a simple reason: It’s terrible for the economy,” said William Yeatman, an energy policy expert at…
Daily Caller
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused of violating transparency law
“Just about every time they’re convening, it has to be open to the public . . . and when it’s not open to the public…
The Guardian
Big business funds effort to discredit climate science, warns UN official
To those who are in disagreement with climate science, however – even though recent research has found that more than 90% of scientific studies support…
Free Beacon
EPA Coal Regs Will Require Halving of Carbon Emissions in New Plants
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a D.C.-based think tank, said the changes to the new rule were “cosmetic” and likely to still be shot down…
Free Beacon
CEI’s Patterson: Right-to-Work Laws Represent ‘Common Sense’
Matt Patterson, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a strong advocate of states with right-to-work laws. These laws…
Midwest Energy News
Report: Social costs, if accounted for, make coal uneconomical
Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, wrote this week on GlobalWarming.org that SCC analyses “all-too-easily…
EE News
Social costs of electricity from coal make it uneconomical, researchers assert
Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, wrote this week on GlobalWarming.org that SCC analyses "all-too-easily…
EE News
How Chattanooga beat Google Fiber by half a decade
To understand why cable companies are so resistant, it helps to understand a bit about their business model. Because dense urban areas are more profitable…