The New Civil Liberties Alliance has thrown its weight behind a constitutional challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s in-house enforcement process, backing body camera maker Axon’s battle in Arizona federal court over an ongoing administrative merger review. The nonprofit law firm, which is led by conservative legal scholar Philip Hamburger, fired off a brief in…

Few Americans know that when they settle a case with the SEC (or the CFTC which has a similar “rule”) that they will be forced to agree to a lifetime gag, a subject of much concern to Americans across the political and economic spectrum. Whether in small businesses or large, Americans charged by these powerful government agencies settle 98%…

Honda has asked Arkansas’ appellate court not to show deference to the state’s tax agency and to reverse the denial of a tax refund for income from sales of federal environmental credits to other car manufacturers. In a reply brief filed Monday, American Honda Motor Co. Inc. told the Arkansas Court of Appeals that the…

In the following guest post, Dan Gold, Thad Behrens, Kit Addleman, Emily Westridge Black, Carrie L. Huff, Timothy Newman, Matt McGee, and Odean L. Volker of the Haynes and Boone, LLP law firm review the key developments during 2019 in securities litigation and enforcement, including significant securities related decisions by the Supreme Court and federal…

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week over the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and whether, as currently structured, it is too far removed from executive oversight. The plaintiff’s attorney in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB argued that “never before in American history has Congress given so much executive power to a single individual,”…

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman hosts Lunch & Law with Jennifer Braceras, the Director of the Independent Women’s Forum Law Center, Hanna Stotland, an admissions consultant, and Caleb Kruckenberg, NCLA Litigation Counsel who is handling Vengalattore v. Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Education. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares