The United States Supreme Court on Thursday morning released its opinion in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, et al. and delivered a stinging rebuke to federal bureaucrats and the administrative state. The case dealt with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of seeking civil penalties against defendants accused of securities fraud in-house before administrative law judges…

Plaintiffs in the landmark Murthy v. Missouri online-censorship case will continue fighting against the government’s ability to pressure social-media platforms into restricting certain forms of speech after the Supreme Court ruled against them on Wednesday. The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the plaintiffs in the case, five social-media users and two states, lacked standing to sue the government for…

Justice Samuel Alito excoriated the Supreme Court majority for “shirk[ing]” its duty to restrain the government’s coercive censorship efforts in “one of the most important free speech cases” to reach the high court in years. The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided 6-3 with the Biden administration in Murthy v. Missouri, finding that two states and five…

Attorney Jonathan Mitchell and the New Civil Liberties Alliance lead this week’s edition of Law360’s Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms…

Critics of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate disclosure rule are asking a federal appeals court to permanently scrap the now-paused regulation, arguing it would impose an “extraordinary burden” on companies to comply. In a brief filed Friday with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Center for Public Policy…

Several business groups have urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to vacate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial climate disclosure rule, calling it “unlawful several times over.” In an opening brief Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and similar advocacy organizations told the St. Louis-based appeals court that the challenged rule…