by mason.riggs | Feb 23, 2021 | In the News
In a step backward for due process, the Biden Department of Labor has revoked a Trump‐era policy meant to rein in the use of informal guidance documents to issue regulatory commands. Per Allen Smith at the Society for Human Resource Management, this raises the...
by mason.riggs | Feb 23, 2021 | In the News
An attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday to lift an 18-year-old gag order that barred a former Xerox executive from speaking out about his long-ago prosecution by the U.S. Securities and...
by mason.riggs | Feb 22, 2021 | In the News
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear, on March 1, 2021, whether administrative patent judges (APJs) of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are “inferior” officers properly appointed under the Appointments...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 19, 2021 | Blog
When mother-to-be Lisa Milice was researching nursery products to buy for her first child, she ran into a paywall. The problem was that, although the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission adopts binding safety standards for infant and nursery products,...
by mason.riggs | Feb 18, 2021 | In the News
CDC has now extended its one-sided eviction moratorium order until March 31st as a stop-gap solution to the eviction crisis sweeping the country. NCLA has filed a complaint against CDC’s order for leaving housing providers in the lurch and for prohibiting them...
