On July 17, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Axon Enterprise v. FTC, where the plaintiff, Axon, argued that it should not be precluded from bringing constitutional claims challenging the FTC’s structure and administrative processes in federal court. The underlying dispute stems from the FTC’s investigation of Axon after it…

Marlborough health officials have visited Apex Entertainment three times this summer following complaints about violations of the state mask mandate. The complaints come on top of a state-ordered shutdown of the arcade at Apex in July. Health inspectors visited Apex on Thursday after a woman who took her son to Apex this week said she…

With the Supreme Judicial Court expected to hear arguments in a little over a week over a lawsuit challenging Gov. Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 executive orders, Attorney General Maura Healey has filed a lengthy defense of the governor and the legality of his actions to control the coronavirus. Baker has been sued by a group of…

The constitutionality of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission judges is back at the U.S. Supreme Court with a fresh appeal from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a small-government group that wants the justices to greenlight a federal lawsuit taking aim at the judges’ independence from the president. The NCLA filed a petition Monday on behalf…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance [NCLA], a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, announced that the Arizona Supreme Court “adopted verbatim” an NCLA-drafted amendment to the court’s Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions Rules making it easier for litigants to obtain Superior Court stays of administrative decisions. The new rule goes into effect starting January 1, 2021 and affects all…

The U.S. government is trying to force charter boats and companies that take customers fishing and sightseeing in the Gulf of Mexico to purchase a vessel monitoring system. Federal agencies will use the VMS tracking devices to monitor boats’ movements and whereabouts on the water, even when they are not using their federal permits to fish. Read the…