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Petition for Rulemaking: Promulgate Regulations Prohibiting the Issuance, Reliance On or Defense of Improper Agency Guidance

December 20, 2018
In the News
Re: Petition for Rulemaking to Promulgate Regulations Prohibiting the Issuance, Reliance on, or Defense of Improper Agency Guidance As the petition sets out in detail, NCLA  asks DOT to cease its ad hoc promulgation of guidance by which DOT or the agencies under its auspices seek to bind private parties with the force of law. By…
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Comments in Response to HHS, CMS: Regulation to Require Drug Pricing Transparency

December 17, 2018
In the News
Re: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Regulation to Require Drug Pricing Transparency Proposed Rule CMS-4187-P The Drug Pricing Rule is fatally flawed in two principal ways. First, CMS lacks the statutory authority to regulate the subject matter of the proposed Rule, pharmaceutical market efficiency. Second, even if CMS has the authority to regulate the subject matter,…
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The Hill: The SEC should listen to Sen. Cotton

By: Margaret A. Little December 17, 2018
In the News
Originally published in The Hill on December 17, 2019 On Tuesday Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked tough questions to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, during a banking committee hearing about an opaque form of regulation which has silenced Americans for far too long. The SEC lawlessly enacted the pernicious “gag rule” in 1972 without going…
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The SEC should listen to Sen. Cotton

December 17, 2018
On Tuesday Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked tough questions to the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, during a banking committee hearing about an opaque form of regulation which has silenced Americans for far too long. The SEC lawlessly enacted the pernicious “gag rule” in 1972 without going through notice-and-comment rule-making. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission quietly slipped…
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Forbes: Will Constitutional Defects With Administrative Law Judges Collapse The SEC's House Of Cards?

By: Mark Chenoweth December 3, 2018
In the News
“November 30, 2018 marked an obscure but important one-year anniversary. On that date, shortly after the Solicitor General had filed a brief confessing error in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Securities and Exchange Commission sought to fix the newly exposed defects in the unconstitutional appointments of its Administrative Law Judges (ALJs). But the purported “ratification” SEC…
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Lucia sues the SEC again – challenging ALJ Constitutionality and seeking dismissal

November 29, 2018
In the News
A new lawsuit filed in federal court in California seeks to have further SEC ALJ proceedings against former IA Ray Lucia dismissed, claiming the ALJ system remains unconstitutional because judges can only be fired via the civil service system. The latest legal twist in this six year-old case follows Lucia’s victory before the U.S. Supreme…
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