A Washington, D.C., organization is challenging the ability of the heads of state agencies in Arizona to discard the conclusions of independent hearing officers.The new lawsuit filed Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court contends that a caregiver at a group home was denied his rights when Greg McKay, director of the Department of Child Safety,…

Raymond Lucia, who successfully argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s administrative law judges had been appointed unconstitutionally, was less triumphant in California federal court on Wednesday… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defended its in-house judges Friday, telling the Fifth Circuit the U.S. solicitor general has explained the processes for removing the agency’s administrative law judges can be interpreted as constitutional… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares

Protecting your private data in 2019 is a struggle, to say the least. Even something as innocuous as an app that makes your face look old might secretly store all of your photos and create a database of faces in a Russian basement somewhere. It’s next to impossible to track who’s gotten hold of your…

Mark Chenoweth’s and Peggy Little’s “Secret Laws for the Powerful” (op-ed, July 24) focuses on regulation without notice-and-comment rule-making. Unfortunately, despite the Trump administration’s pronouncements to the contrary, this practice continues. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Share Class Selection Disclosure Initiative is a headline-grabbing example in which 79 financial institutions were faulted for not taking…

FORT WORTH — U.S. District Court judge John McBryde dismissed a Coppola, Texas, woman’s complaint against the Security and Exchange Commission but one of her attorneys said there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Michelle Cochran should not have been put through the stress of an SEC hearing before the organization’s administrative…