Newsmax
New Federal Lamp Standards to Cost $90M, Close Factories
Reason
Choke Point Check-In: Constitutional Concerns in DOJ Targeting ‘Risky’ Businesses
Operation Choke Point was initially pitched as a crackdown on web-based payday lending businesses that lend into states that prohibit it. Now it may have…
CQ Researcher
School Discipline: Should zero-tolerance policies be revised?
Some school districts are voluntarily revamping their discipline policies, while the Justice Department has sued others referred to them by the Education Department's Office for…
Reuters
A smoking gun in debate over consumer class actions?
Reuters reports on the Center for Class Action Fairness' case Frank V. Poertner. CCAF objected to a settlement of consumer fraud over Duracell batteries which granted…
Greeley Tribune
EPA boss’ emails show a coordinated state, federal effort to skirt transparency
National Review
The Obama Administration’s Deserving Victims
The Obama administration recently recommended that campuses deny students facing sexual-assault charges the right to cross-examine their accuser, a trend already well underway on campuses…
National Review
Operation Chokepoint: Creeping into Unconstitutionality?
Operation Chokepoint is part of the administration’s Obamaloans strategy to wipe out the small dollar lending industry that I wrote about in January. Briefly, this…
Forbes
Odds Of A Payoff In Consumer Class Action? Less Than A Straight Flush
Forbes cites Ted Frank of CCAF on recent consumer class action case. An interesting piece of data just dropped into the official record in…
Heartlander
The View from the Bottom
Could the economic decline have something to do with the insane increase of federal government regulation? As John Merline asked in Investor’s Business Daily, “After…
Roll Call
Libertarian CEI Knocks GOP Internet Gambling Bills
The Canal
The US Regulatory Black Hole, Quantified
This week the Competitive Enterprise Institute released its annual report on the failures of the regulatory state. Written by Clyde Wayne Crews, the report is…
The Blaze
White House Official Accused of Trying to Hide Communications
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to produce the work-related emails of its director, John Holdren,…
The Blaze
Obama’s chief science adviser must explain secret emails
The Blaze
White House sued over official’s email records
NCPA
The Regulatory State
It cost Americans a whopping $1.863 trillion to comply with federal regulations in 2013, more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada, according to…
Human Events
Regulations Take $1.8 Trillion Bite Out Of Economy
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) this week released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the size and scope of federal regulations. According to the…
MacNN News
Appeals Court Kicks Back Apple Power Adapter Class-Action Settlement
MacNN News reports on an objection filed by the Center for Class Action Fairness which brings the Apple settlement case back to court to question the…
MacNN News
Fox News: Obama’s record-setting expansion of federal regulations
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com…
MacNN News
CEI’s Minton: Push to Ban Internet Gambling Divides GOP
Reason
The United States of Regulation: Compliance Costs Consume Huge Chunks of Our Economy
Progressive Railroading
Obama administration sends four-year transportation bill to Congress
Meanwhile, Competitive Enterprise Institute transportation policy expert Marc Scribner was more critical. Bailing out the Highway Trust Fund would violate "the long-standing user-pays/user-benefits principle in…
Trib Live
The Thursday wrap
The Competitive Enterprise Institute calculates that the cost of U.S. federal regulations now is larger than the economies of all but nine countries in the…
Washington Times
Bureaucracy doesn’t just hurt — it kills
With all this outreach to give things away, how big is this federal bureaucracy and its red tape? Clyde Wayne Crews at the Competitive Enterprise…
Citation
Inside the Beltway: Federal regs — they cost $1.9 trillion
One News Now
Transportation Analyst: Hands Off Driverless Cars, Uncle Sam
A transportation policy analyst warns that lawmakers and regulators should steer clear of driverless vehicles when they arrive. Marc Scribner is a fellow for the…
Investor's Business Daily
U.S. Regulatory Costs Are World’s No. 10 Economy
The Blaze
New Report: How the Obama Admin. Has Far Surpassed George W. Bush in Pushing Costly New Regulations Without Congressional Approval
The Hill
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Daily Caller
The Federal Government Now Consumes 31 Percent Of The US Economy
The federal government now consumes 31 percent of the U.S. economy due to trillions in spending and thousands of pages of costly regulations, according to…
Washington Examiner
Average U.S. household spends more on federal regulations than for health care, food or transportation
Here's a sobering fact likely known to few Americans outside of the nation's capital: The federal government is the only government on earth that collects…
Washington Examiner
Libertarian groups slam online gambling ban
Georgia Policy
Steer Clear of Overregulating Autonomous Autos
If anything drives transportation policy as a solution to congestion and mobility challenges in Georgia, it should be the recommendations in a new report from…
Forbes
Ninth Circuit Chucks Apple MagSafe Settlement, Chides Judge’s Oversight
Forbes reports on the settlement of a class action against Apple which would have paid the lawyers $3 million but less than $1 million to…
CQ Researcher
Self-Driving Cars Promise Safer Highways if Regulators Keep Hands Off, Study Says
Wider adoption of technology to allow vehicles to drive themselves promises to usher in a new era of safer motoring — as long as lawmakers…
Law 360
9th Circ. Vacates Apple Adapter Settlement Over Attys’ Fees
Law 360 reports on CCAF's objection to the Apple adapter settlement that was unfair to class members. Ted Frank of The Center for…
Overlawyered
Schuette v. Coalition, in tweets
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court, over two dissents, ruled that the voters of Michigan were within their rights under the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause to…
Overlawyered
Schools Roundup
More applications of New Jersey’s pioneering “anti-bullying” law. And will it stand up in court? [Hans Bader, earlier here, etc.]…
Law 360
Pella Window Deal Leaves Class In The Cold, 7th Circ. Told
Law 360 mentions Ted Frank's comments on whether the Pella Window settlement benefit class members. Theodore Frank, who represents a separate objector, added…
Trib Live
The secret ballot: Protect it
A new report on the United Auto Workers' attempt to organize Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., makes clear the need to better protect workers' right…
Washington Examiner
Examiner Editorial: The ‘soft despotism’ of regulation imposes high costs on Americans
Oregon Catalyst
In opposition to Jackson County Measure 15-119 GMO ban
Wall Street Journal
Regulator Without Peer
Free Beacon
IG: DOE Ignored Internal Expert’s Advice in Subsidizing Bankrupt Solar Company
The Blaze
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
Politico
White House Calls in the Deans — China Growth Slows — Bloomberg Says He’s Going to Heaven
COURT MOVES AGAINST PART OF DODD-FRANK — CEI’s John Berlau: “[The recent] ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Dodd-Frank’s ‘conflict minerals’ disclosure…
Heartland Institute
Bill Would Force Florida Brewers to Pay Distributors for Their Own Beer
Michelle Minton, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Fellow who specializes in alcohol regulation, said although all the states but Washington have a “three-tiered” system for alcohol…
Free Beacon
Begich Earmarked Millions for Bankrupt Green Energy Company
Power Line
Lilly Ledbetter and the Lie That Will Not Die
When a lie becomes an article of faith not just for a movement for an entire political party, that lie is probably here to stay.
Overlawyered
Free Speech Roundup
New Jersey ruling letting parents be sued over kids’ Facebook posts will chill speech [Hans Bader/CEI, earlier]…
Weekly Standard