That's the name of this article by Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute. Here's the abstract: Arizona’s immigration laws have hurt its economy. The 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) attempts to force unauthorized immigrants out of the workplace with employee regulations and employer sanctions. The 2010 Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act […]
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by Brian Wolfman The Supreme Court held this morning in Standard Fire Insurance v. Knowles that a named plaintiff's stipulation that the plaintiff class is seeking less than the Class Action Fairness Act's minumum jurisdictional amount does not preclude a federal district court from assuming jurisdiction under the Act. Justice Breyer's unanimous opinion is just […]
In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons that the first sale doctrine, which fosters the creation of a secondary market in used copies of copyrighted works by forbidding infringement claims based on the sale or purchase of copies of copyrighted works, applies even if the copyrighted […]
by Jeff Sovern Here's what the Times's Joe Nocera wrote in his column today: [The OCC] is a classic captured regulator. As American Banker pointed out recently, the Promontory Financial Group, a prominent banking consulting firm founded by Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency, recently hired the O.C.C.’s general counsel, Julie Williams. And […]
Douglas Ginsburg and Joshua Wright have just written this article on the topic. Here's the abstract: The beginning of a shift toward a more regulatory and less litigation-oriented regime of antitrust enforcement was observable by the mid-1990s, if not earlier. The transition toward this more bureaucratic approach by antitrust enforcement agencies is the subject of […]
One month before federal tax filing day, here's a helpful primer on an important redistributive aspect of our tax system.
On one hand, Bloomberg reports, the President is going to require federal agencies to consider their activities' impact on climate change. On the other, the Post reports, the administration may delay power plant regulations.
by Paul Alan Levy At Monday's hearing on the our motion to vacate the preliminary injunction against Majed Moughni to shut down his criticism of the proposed settlement of a lawsuit over McDonald’s sale of haram meat that had been advertised as halal, Judge Kathleen Macdonald agreed to both prongs of the relief we had […]
The NLRB issued this brief statement today: The National Labor Relations Board has determined not to seek en banc rehearing in Noel Canning v. NLRB, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the January 4, 2012 recess appointments of three members to the Board were invalid. The Board, in […]
We have posted many times (here, for instance) that, despite contrary political rhetoric about high taxes, taxes in the U.S. are at historic lows. Eduardo Porter has now published this essay explaining that the supposed connection between low taxes and economic growth — a basic premise of conservative U.S. thought for many years now — […]