Newly passed legislation that would allow Wyoming bison and cattle ranchers to use any method of state-approved livestock identification — rather than federally mandated eartags — could soon be challenged by federal policy. The policy may erode a recent victory by Wyoming’s ranching industry that earned them more autonomy over tracking their animals, and industry…

A rental property manager in Tennessee has sued to block a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule requiring notice be given to delinquent residential renters about a nationwide eviction ban, saying it runs counter to rulings finding the ban invalid. The Property Management Connection (PMC) and others filed the lawsuit in Nashville federal court on…

NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins “National Report” on Newsmax to discuss the dangers associated with the plan to expand the Supreme Court.   Key points: The Court depends on the credibility that is established by making decisions based on law, not politics. A decision from Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme…

The IRS is seeking swaths of records from cryptocurrency companies on anonymous taxpayers as part of its broader effort to crack down on tax evasion in the industry. The demands involve the potential tax liabilities of unnamed taxpayers, and for that reason are known as John Doe summonses. The agency recently secured court permission to issue…

Livestock producers represented by the Billings, MT cattlemen’s group known as R-CALF say they have a  “right” to use “traditional low-cost methods related to animal identification and traceability.”  But USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) with growing support from such industry leaders as Tyson Foods wants to soon require “radio frequency identification (RFID) ear…

The D.C. Circuit appeared set Friday to reverse a federal ban on electric-shock devices, which are used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior in only one facility in the entire nation: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts. From Mother Jones and Mass Live to a 2012 video that shows a teenager being shocked and screaming for help, the center has…