by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | May 3, 2023 | Kara Rollins, Opinion
Last week, Coinbase launched its first counteroffensive against the Securities Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) aggressive enforcement posturing in the cryptoeconomy. The cryptocurrency trading platform filed a petition for writ of mandamus asking the Third Circuit to...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 15, 2023 | Opinion, Sheng Li
The Biden administration’s attempt to forgive $400 billion in outstanding student loan debt through administrative fiat has come under richly deserved fire, with its fate now in the hands of the Supreme Court. But an equally unlawful companion giveaway has thus far...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Ernest Ramirez, a car-wash technician in a small, south Texas town, led a simple but fulfilling life with his son, Ernesto Junior. Junior was a “wonderful child, full of smiles.” Ramirez had raised his son alone; he’d never known his own father and sought to provide...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Mar 27, 2023 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
This month the Securities and Exchange Commission announced two settlements that illustrate the agency’s largely unchecked power to shake down companies with astronomical penalties that far exceed statutory limits set by Congress. The broader scandal is that these...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Mar 10, 2023 | Opinion, Richard Samp
The Supreme Court in late February granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) request to review Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, a constitutional challenge to CFPB’s funding structure. CFPB’s...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Feb 16, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
In 2015, Nohemi Gonzalez—a 23-year-old American studying in Paris—was gunned down by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists while dining at La Belle Equipe bistro. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider these wrenching facts of Gonzales v. Google on Feb. 21. Bound up with...
