“When all you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail” as the old saying goes. For the Federal Government, there appears to be no statute the Office of Legal Counsel can find that does not allow it to hammer a vaccine mandate on the populace upon threat of loss of their livelihood.…

  “Every case lays down a rule, the rule of the case…But a later court can reexamine the case…In the extreme form this results in what is known as expressly ‘confining the case to its particular facts.’ This rule holds only of redhead walpoles in pale magenta Buick cars. And when you find this said…

Photo: Ben Domenech, co-founder and publisher of NCLA client FDRLST, Media, LLC/Author: Gage Skidmore When Vox Media employees walked out during a bargaining dispute in 2019, Twitter users tweeted along. Among the commentators was Ben Domenech, the publisher of the web magazine The Federalist. He tweeted from his personal account, “FYI @fdrlst first one of…

  NCLA’s latest “Lunch and Law” discussed its challenge in the Fifth Circuit against an Order issued by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) approving Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule, which requires Nasdaq-listed companies to satisfy gender, race, and LGBTQ+ quotas in their corporate boards or else issue an apology. Companies must also disclose statistical information regarding their…

The prospect of COVID-19 vaccine requirements for 5 to 11 year olds has become the latest frontier in the vaccine mandate debate, particularly since FDA gave the Pfizer-BioNTech Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for young children this age at the end of October. Because children face an exceedingly low risk of death or severe disease from…

Photo: NCLA’s clients Micah Eldred and David Lopez, SEC v. Spartan Securities During his first days and months in office, President Biden revoked a series of Executive Orders aimed at curbing abusive administrative enforcement actions and reliance on guidance documents. The revoked EOs, and agency regulations implementing them, provided much-needed protections for regulated parties and…