SNL
Free markets group bashes Dow’s anti-LNG export campaign through song
Using Woody Guthrie's folk song "This Land Is Your Land" as the tune, the CEI's Marlo Lewis Jr. created a political satire video titled "This…
The Hill
Free-market group riffs on Woody Guthrie in gas export push
CEI, a think tank and advocacy group, says there’s a serious message behind the satirical video and song. “With what right does Dow seek to…
The Hill
Volkswagen and UAW Are Getting Cozier, but Will They Ultimately Match Up?
The UAW also remains staunchly opposed over any aims in Chattanooga by politicians in Tennessee, a conservative redoubt where much of the opposition to the Detroit…
Politico
Also in Court News – Mann Defamation Continues
ALSO IN COURT NEWS — MANN DEFAMATION CASE CONTINUES: A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday shot down a request by National Review Online to…
Politico
VW and UAW meet over U.S plant, report says
Critics argue that the union’s bargaining style is partly to blame for the recent struggles of Detroit’s automakers. One anti-union group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…
Citation
Observers say Binz nomination in doubt in light of unprecedented attention and attacks
William Yeatman of the conservative free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute said that Binz’s work with the Colorado PUC raised concerns, including his actions in support of…
Heartlander
Lisa Jackson Hires Lawyer for Email Concealment Fiasco
The agency and its previous head have still breathed easy despite months of inquiries andFreedom of Information Act requests from Chris Horner of the Competitive…
Heartlander
Judge refuses to toss climate scientist Mann’s defamation lawsuit
Mann sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative advocacy group, in 2012 over their blog posts that alleged his research…
Heartlander
Happiness is overrated, says Competitive Enterprise Institute
Using happiness surveys for political purposes is flawed, according to a study from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian thinktank CEI accuses happiness indices…
WorldMag
Signs and Wonders
Are you happy? One problem with surveys such as the one above is that they measure factors irrelevant to the outcome, and ignore factors vital…
WorldMag
Activists and workers protest minimum wage and working conditions at fast food restaurants across Boston
Critics of the fast food protest movement say that the minimum wage was never meant to support a family and that the government should not…
WorldMag
Inside the Beltway: Regulating the Gun Relics
We’re touchy-feely on a global level. Several large scale “happiness” indexes have emerged in recent years from the United Nations and other sources, measuring the…
Reuters
No circuit split on charity-only settlements: Facebook, Public Citizen
Reuters discusses CCAF's case which objects to a settlement from a class action lawsuit against Facebook. In a brief filed Thursday with the Supreme Court,…
Reuters
Unsettled Science
A superior court judge in the District of Columbia thinks she knows better, last month using the “settled science” principle to side with Penn State…
Fox News
DOJ Suits Against Airline Merger Further Alienates Unions
“It’s going further than just a few unions that really don’t represent a lot of people,” Marc Scribner, a transportation policy expert with Washington-based Competitive…
Tulsa Today
EPA settlement on Regional Haze more costly
William Yeatman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute said the following: “PSO’s strategy to close two coal plants decades early is certainly the best deal for…
Edmond Sun
State leaders decry EPA haze regulations
The EPA has been hurting the coal industry since 2009 with senseless regulations, said William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy & Environment…
Watch Dog
OK’s attorney general wants to clear haze from EPA regional standards fight
Joining Pruitt at Oklahoma City University for an Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Oklahoma forum discussing “EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook,” were U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City,…
Tulsa World
‘EPA Regulations and Your Pocketbook’ forum features agency’s foes
William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, called the EPA "out of control." The…
News OK
PSO plan to phase out coal generation may cost too much, group says
William Yeatman, assistant director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said PSO's plan underreported the costs of switching to…
EE News
Jackson hires lawyer as e-mail probes escalate
In a statement today, CEI extended its accusations to current EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. "Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has hired a lawyer because she…
Reuters
Diamond, Shareholders Reach Unusual Deal: Class to Receive Stock
Reuters reports on the Diamond Foods class action settlement that is compensating millions of dollars in shares. Reuters asks Ted Frank to share his insights…
Daily Caller
Study: Put regulators on a budget
The idea of a regulatory…
Bloomberg
Coal Foe Named to FERC Is Latest Obama Pick Drawing Ire
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission under Binz allowed Xcel to receive a 10.5 percent rate of return on construction costs associated with building natural-gas generators,…
Bloomberg
Is It Time to Fire the House and Senate Intelligence Committees
But instead of being given a voice, opponents of giving the NSA more power through CISPA were ridiculed by the Committee. Chairman Rogers (R-MI)…
Detroit News
U.S. needs deregulatory stimulus
Clyde Wayne Crews of the Competitive Enterprise Institute recently published the “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State.” It is filled…
Saipan Tribune
Weak US foreign policy
“CEI, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is one of a growing group of organizations that monitors and quantifies the 80,000 or so pages of federal regulations…
Saipan Tribune
Sen. David Vitter raising more questions about EPA’s use of personal email accounts
The email between Jackson and the Siemens’ official was obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group that opposes what it says is overregulation by…
Washington Times
Investigators ask former EPA chief to turn over private emails
While Ms. Jackson was chief of the agency, employees were repeatedly reminded about the rules for private email use, the lawmakers said.
Investor's Business Daily
US Air, AMR Vow To Fight DOJ Lawsuit To Block Merger
"This administration's Department of Justice has a different posture than past DOJs, which had a more conservative approach to antitrust measures," said Marc Scribner, transportation…
GJ Sentinel
Printed Letters
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed 57 clean-energy bills into law. He now directs The Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
ABA Journal
Facebook Settlement That Awarded Zilch to Class Members is Challenged in Cert Petition
ABA Journal discusses Center for Class Action's objection to the Facebook privacy settlement because it does not benefit absentee class members or guaruntee that it…
Las Vegas Review Journal
Government moves to block airline merger, warns of higher fares, fees
But the open-market-leaning Competitive Enterprise Institute called the Department of Justice action “deeply misguided.” “On the heels of the successful Delta-Northwest and United-Continental mergers,…
Cleveland
NLRB, Now With All Members Confirmed by Senate, Begins First Week Reviewing Labor Cases
This week marked the first in a decade in which all five National Labor Relations Board members were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. . .
National Review
The Pinnacle of Rent-Seeking
In this post, Hans Bader of CEI explains how Georgetown Law School has figured out how to maximize its haul of federal-financial-aid money. You’ve almost…
New York Times
When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal
The New York Times reports on Ted Frank's objection to the Facebook privacy settlement. The leading critic of abusive class-action settlements is Ted…
New York Times
Uber Wars
Instead of playing favorites with existing cab services that are resistant to change, city officials should encourage competition, Matt Patterson, a labor-policy analyst with the…
ABA Journal
Diaper deal that gave $2.73M to lawyers, one-box refund to customers is nixed by 6th Circuit
ABA Journal details the class action settlement against Proctor & Gamble, which the Center for Class Action Fairness objected to, and was later overturned. A…
Daily Caller
Fight erupts over Obama’s pick for top US utility regulator
“In Colorado, Binz actually participated in the crafting of legislation that mandated fuel switching from coal to gas for 1,000 megawatts of electricity generation, at…
Journal Star
EPA’s regional haze program costs Nebraska electric utilities millions
"Its real goal is to impose another costly regulation on electric utilities and force them…
Washington Examiner
‘War on coal’: 207 coal plants will close in the next decade
William Yeatman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute agrees. "President Obama campaigned on a promise to bankrupt coal, and EPA is now backing up his words,"…
The Wall Street Journal
Appeals Court Says Legal Fees in Diaper Suit are Ir-rashional
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog discusses the Center for Class Action Fairness' In re Dry Max Papers Litigation case. A U.S. appeals…
Law 360
Lessons From CCAF On Designing Class Action Settlements
Law 360 reports on Center for Class Action Fairness' win in the In re Dry Max Pampers case. The recent decision by the…
The Hill
Sen. Durbin’s vendetta against supplements
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier describes the In re Dry Max Pampers Litigations case and Center for Class Action Fairness' objection to the Proctor & Gamble…
Cincinnati Business Courier
P&G’s diaper rash settlement flushed by court
The Cincinnati Business Courier discusses with Ted Frank why the Center for Class Action Fairness is challenging a settlement which paid large sums to the…
Grist
Sally Jewell Doesn’t Want Any Climate Deniers At Interior
Such moralizing would be funny were it not for the chilling effect it is bound to have in an agency already mired in group think.
Forbes
Appeals Court Flushes Papers Settlement That Paid Lawyers $2.73 Million, Clients Zero
Forbes discusses Center for Class Action Fairness' case objecting to the Procter & Gamble settlement that benefited the plaintiffs' lawyers far more than the class members they…
Overlawyered
Big Ted Frank victory on attorney fee markups
Overlawyered features Ted Frank's victory on behalf of class members in a case objecting to a Citigroup settlement. Longtime Overlawyered blogger Ted Frank…
Overlawyered
