by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Earlier this month on a Friday afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly issued an extraordinary administrative order. In one fell swoop, the SEC unconditionally abandoned more than 40 enforcement cases the agency had previously spent untold staff...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 18, 2022 | Blog, Russ Ryan
Because our elected branches of government can’t always be trusted to zealously keep one another in check, litigation by individual private citizens has long been among the most effective ways to enforce separation of powers and other structural constitutional...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jul 26, 2022 | Opinion, Russ Ryan
Imagine a dystopian world where Congress empowers a private corporation to secretly investigate and punish members of a particular profession — say, auditors. Think of a private version of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but with evergreen funding that...
