Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday sharply criticized his own majority opinion in a 15-year-old telecommunications case and an underlying decision that says courts must give deference to agencies interpreting their own regulations, urging his colleagues to reconsider both rulings. Read the full article here.TweetShareShare0 Shares

Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday continued his campaign for the Supreme Court to reconsider a pair of landmark administrative law cases courts have long relied on to evaluate federal regulations. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

Justice Thomas said the court should revisit an earlier decision granting so-called Chevron deference, under which courts must defer to an agency’s interpretation of its regulations if the underlying statute is ambiguous, as well as his own 2005 opinion in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, in which he said if…

NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth discusses how the special interest groups can influence attorney general offices and why it violates the due process requirement and ethics standards.   TweetShareShare0 Shares

Last week the Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The court concluded that there was no longer any “case or controversy” as the…

Harriet Hageman, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox. The motion asks the court to issue a supplemental order to address one of the important claims that was…