A key U.S. Supreme Court ruling wasn’t enough to convince a federal judge to strike down a federal agency’s investigation of a New Jersey lawyer who operates a debt-collection service and has spent three years and $80,000 fighting. New York judge Kenneth Karas on Aug. 18 granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s petition to enforce…

A Norfolk state representative says he supports a lawsuit against what he calls Gov. Charlie Baker’s “overreach” in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Shawn Dooley, R-Norfolk, said his comments are “not necessarily attacking the quarantine, the restrictions, or even the fines,” but rather the way the governor — or “King Baker” as the representative…

A split panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Tuesday threw out a suit brought by an accountantwho alleged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal. Two of the three judges on the panel agreed that Michelle Cochran, who the SEC claims violated Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards, must first…

For years Barry Romeril, the former chief financial officer of Xerox, has yearned to speak out about massive accounting-fraud charges leveled against him and his company by the SEC in 2002, say his lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. But weeks after the SEC lodged civil fraud charges in Manhattan federal court against him and…

FreedomWorks recently announced the launch of the American Freedom Initiative (AFI), a collaboration headed by former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker. This project aims to help relieve injustices committed against Americans under the criminal justice system and the regulatory state. As part of this project, we will shine a spotlight on some of the individuals the…

Universities are pushing back on students’ claims that they are entitled to refunds due to the inadequacy of remote learning, a New York federal judge struck down some federal limits to paid coronavirus leave, and Microsoft has been accused of breaching a lease when it opted not to reopen a store closed down due to the pandemic.…