by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 4, 2020 | Blog, Michael P. DeGrandis
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a new regulation to “promote more efficient resolution of hearings.” The Procedural Streamlining of Administrative Hearings Rule, as the FCC calls it, claims that none of its hearings require oral testimony....
by nclaadmin | Nov 6, 2019 | Michael P. DeGrandis, Uncategorized
Re: FCC 19-86, EB Docket No. 19-214: Procedural Streamlining of Administrative Hearings Document No. 2019-20568 In NCLA’s view, The Streamlining Rule proposes to convert live-testimony hearings into written-record proceedings. Such a conversion would fundamentally...
by nclaadmin | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog, Michael P. DeGrandis
Ah, the games bureaucrats play. They most often resemble Twister, of course: How well can you contort yourself to follow an agency’s myriad of guidance and regulations? But many of their games are more insidious, implicating fundamental rights including freedoms of...
by nclaadmin | Oct 10, 2019 | Michael P. DeGrandis, Opinion
President Donald Trump just announced two executive orders to rein in unlawful administrative state action. The first order declares that its goal is “to ensure that Americans are subject to only those binding rules imposed through duly enacted statutes or...
by nclaadmin | Sep 3, 2019 | Michael P. DeGrandis, Uncategorized
Re: I.D. No. EDU-27-19-00010-P: Substantially Equivalent Instruction for Nonpublic School StudentsIn NCLA’s view, the Department must withdraw the Substantial Equivalency Rule because it violates the New York State and United States Constitutions in at least two...
by nclaadmin | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Michael P. DeGrandis
Taoism is a Chinese philosophy that is often represented by the yin-yang—a symbol of contrasting opposites in perfect balance with each other. From the Taoist perspective, “day” is only “day” in relationship to the night. In other words, all things are...
