The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unveiled two interim final rules intended to deal with enforcement activities in connection with policies enunciated over the past four years, including the so-called Brand memo, which banned federal prosecutors from using federal...
A group of charter boat captains around the Gulf Coast filed suit Friday against the federal government claiming a new digital reporting rule is an overreach. Allen Walburn, a Naples charter captain and an original plaintiff in the class action suit, said the new rule...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing a "radical expansion" of its rules in accusing a broker-dealer and a transfer agent of assisting a scheme to create sham companies and sell free- trading stock to the public, the two businesses told a Florida...
Help arrived in the form of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit set up by legal scholar Philip Hamburger that defends constitutional rights against overreach by the administrative state. The NLRB proposed a settlement: I delete the joke, I post information...
Gov. Charlie Baker filed a court brief on Friday defending his use of a 1950 Civil Defense Law to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency, equating the virus to the “natural causes” referenced in the law and pointing out that the Legislature has not balked at his use of...
The U.S. government is trying to force charter boats and companies that take customers fishing and sightseeing in the Gulf of Mexico to purchase a vessel monitoring system. Federal agencies will use the VMS tracking devices to monitor boats’ movements and whereabouts...
The New Civil Liberties Alliance [NCLA], a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, announced that the Arizona Supreme Court "adopted verbatim" an NCLA-drafted amendment to the court's Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions Rules making it easier for litigants...
Mark Chenoweth’s and Peggy Little’s “Secret Laws for the Powerful” (op-ed, July 24) focuses on regulation without notice-and-comment rule-making. Unfortunately, despite the Trump administration’s pronouncements to the contrary, this practice continues. The Securities...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defended its in-house judges Friday, telling the Fifth Circuit the U.S. solicitor general has explained the processes for removing the agency’s administrative law judges can be interpreted as constitutional...Read the full...
Protecting your private data in 2019 is a struggle, to say the least. Even something as innocuous as an app that makes your face look old might secretly store all of your photos and create a database of faces in a Russian basement somewhere. It's next to impossible to...