by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 11, 2023 | Blog, Greg Dolin
When the people of several states presented our Constitution for ratification in 1787, one issue nearly derailed the adoption of the nation’s charter. The Anti-Federalists vehemently objected to the lack of a guarantee for a civil jury in the proposed document....
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 10, 2023 | Blog, John J. Vecchione
Precision Patient Outcomes, Inc. (PPO) and its principal, Margrett Lewis, are being sued in San Francisco by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for selling and marketing high-quality dietary supplements and providing consumers with information that the vitamins...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 12, 2023 | Blog, Russ Ryan
What happens when federal bureaucrats get caught red-handed with both fists in the private-sector cookie jar? Do they apologize and return the funds they illegally confiscated, perhaps even with interest? (Okay—stop laughing please.) Of course not. Being a...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, Kara Rollins
The Federal Trade Commission has a well-documented history of asserting regulatory powers beyond anything granted to it by Congress. Just last year, in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Commission’s decades-long claim that...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 13, 2022 | Blog, Sheng Li
They say that an oral argument cannot predict a case’s outcome, but NCLA’s October 5, 2022 argument in Mexican Gulf v. U.S. Department of Commerce may prove to be an exception to that advice. There, a Fifth Circuit panel comprised of Chief Judge Richman and...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 23, 2022 | Blog
The headwaters of the Animas River begin in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The confluence of streams—Mineral Creek, Cement Creek, and the Upper Animas—define the Upper Animas River basin. The river basin contains hundreds of inactive or abandoned...
