Refrigerant industry players urged the D.C. Circuit either to void part of a 2020 law that directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons or to force the agency to reconsider its regulatory approach…

… Over the last several years, groups such as the Pacific Legal Foundation, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Alliance Defending Freedom and the Institute for Justice have found tremendous success in bringing constitutional challenges to like-minded Supreme Court justices. “They’ve done really well,” said Unikowsky…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency’s rule “has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity.” …

More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the Antiquities Act of 1906…

… In July 2023, ED announced borrowers who had made the required 20 or 25 years of qualifying payments on income-driven repayment plans would be notified of their debt cancellation and 30 days later their debt servicers would begin discharging their loans. ED was expected to review borrowers’ accounts every two months. However, in August…

… John J. Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance represents the petitioners. Elizabeth B. Prelogar of the U.S. Department of Justice represents the federal defendants.