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Mark Chenoweth on Chicago's Morning Answer: Private funding of state AGs creates a bias problem

February 25, 2020
NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth, comments on an enormous due process problem for targets of enforcement actions from state attorney general offices filled with special assistants on private payrolls.   TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Supreme Court Won’t Review Challenge to Mailbox Rule

February 24, 2020
The Supreme Court rejected a case involving the producers behind the 2004 movie “Ray,” about the life of musician Ray Charles, involving their fight with federal officials over the rule for assessing the timeliness of a tax filing. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Justice Thomas, in Lone Dissent, Thrashes 'Chevron' and His Own 'Brand X' Decision

February 24, 2020
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
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Thomas Pushes High Court to Revisit Agency Deference

February 24, 2020
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
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Justices Ceded Too Much Power To Agencies, Thomas Says

February 24, 2020
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…
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Mark Chenoweth on The Dom Giordano Program: How politicians influence attorney general offices

February 21, 2020
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
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