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Federal Court in Wyoming Asked to Block RFID Technology
April 26, 2021
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…
Parents Defend Electric Shock as Extreme Tool for Extreme Cases
April 23, 2021
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…
Justices Resolve Circuit Split on Challenges to Judge Appointments
April 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court. The six individuals who brought the consolidated suit were denied disability benefits by the Social…
Lunch and Law: The Administrative State - Reagan, Trump, and Biden
April 22, 2021
In April we celebrate Earth Day. Appropriately, this month NCLA invited distinguished guest panelist William Perry Pendley, who served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for Policy and Programs, to sit down with NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman for our monthly Lunch and Law…
Supreme Court Slams Brakes on FTC’s Fraud-Recovery Options
April 22, 2021
WASHINGTON (CN) — Overturning a nearly $1.3 billion injunction against a race car driver convicted of payday-lending fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday took away what the Federal Trade Commission has called “one of its most important and effective enforcement tools.” The FTC has relied on said tool to recoup billions of…