- “Judge dismisses lawsuit that challenged Zillow’s home price estimates” [Chicago Tribune, earlier]
- Seventh Circuit: immunity doctrine bars relief for governor’s aide whose home was raided in Wisconsin John Doe probe [Archer v. Chisholm, earlier]
- Good news: Federal court kills Obama overtime-for-midlevel-employees rule much criticized in this space [Trey Kovacs, CEI]
- Not so good news: new FDA management decides to leave in place Obama menu labeling regs much criticized in this space [Katherine Mangu-Ward, Baylen Linnekin]
- Senate holds hearing on proposals to break up Ninth Circuit [Diamond Naga Siu, Politico, earlier]
- “Will U.S. Policymakers Repeat Our Past Protectionist Failures?” [Scott Lincicome, Cato]
Posts Tagged ‘free trade’
“An arcane American law protected by powerful interests is causing insane traffic jams”
Because the protectionist Jones Act makes coastwise shipping inordinately expensive, much freight moves in trucks along the interstates that parallel the coasts, contributing to congestion and fuel use [Erik Olsen, Quartz]
March 1 roundup
- Online accessibility demands under the ADA: “Surge in website lawsuits continues” [Retail Law Advisor, background]
- Even with no trade war yet, jitters affect livestock growers through slump in cattle futures [Richard Parker, Dallas News] Federalist Society/American Branch of the International Law Association panel on trade law in Trump era [part of symposium with panels on international law generally, alliances and interventions]
- “There is yet another more level of nerdiness, courtesy of Professor David Noll. Anne Gorsuch signed the rule at issue in Chevron.” [Josh Blackman]
- Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act reintroduced as H.R. 522 and likely again to command majority support in House Judiciary Committee [Rep. Bob Goodlatte, earlier (in face of veto prospect, committee approved bill last term by 18-6 vote), more: Fox News, earlier]
- Did Obama DoJ civil rights chief Vanita Gupta act without lawful authority? [Thomas Berry, Cato Legal Policy Bulletin]
- A second Trump executive order on regulation establishes reform officials within agencies [Brian Knight, Reuters, text, earlier on first order]
January 25 roundup
- Four views of the Trump conflicts plan [Milan Markovic/Legal Ethics Forum, Prof. Bainbridge, Andrew Grewal series, Max Kennerly, earlier on Morgan Lewis] And the paper that summarizes the views of President’s most vocal critics [Norman Eisen, Richard Painter, and Laurence Tribe, Brookings, earlier on Emoluments Clause]
- Five years after filing, Michigan consumer’s unusual suit against makers of Ryan Gosling movie ‘Drive’ grinds on [Eriq Gardner, Hollywood Reporter]
- A law unto themselves: Indian tribe expulsions and related governance issues can trample member rights [Brooke Jarvis, New York Times Magazine (“The ejection of tribal members is most prevalent in small tribes with casinos on their land”), earlier on Nooksack controversy]
- “The False Promise of ‘Buy American'” [Dan Ikenson, Cato]
- State travel sanctions against other states: a bad idea in themselves, an insult to constitutional comity, and inevitably a 2-way street [Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast]
- Obama HUD’s far-reaching AFFH (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing) scheme now being portrayed unconvincingly as just slight extension of earlier law [Vanessa Brown Calder]
International trade: don’t stop the music
“The reason so many Americans own guitars today is thanks, in large part, to past trade agreements” [Vincent Caruso, Reason]
September 28 roundup
- Today at Cato, Josh Blackman discusses his new book Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power with comments from Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes and Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner, Ilya Shapiro moderating [watch live 12 noon Eastern]
- Breed-specific laws fuel mass euthanasia: “Montreal Gearing Up To Sentence Huge Numbers Of Innocent Dogs To Death” [Huffington Post]
- Feds prepare to mandate mechanical speed governors capping road speed of tractor-trailers; truckers warn of crashes and traffic jams [AP/San Luis Obispo Tribune]
- “You have to go back to the Red Scare to find something similar,” said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) of advocacy-group subpoenas by Hill committee in “Exxon Knew” probe. Or just five months to the CEI subpoena [Washington Post hearing coverage which oddly omits mention of CEI episode]
- “I’m not here to take away your guns.” Why Hillary Clinton’s assurances ring hollow [Jacob Sullum] Trump’s comments defending stop-and-frisk and no-fly no-buy further undercut his never-impressive claims as defender of gun liberty [AllahPundit, Leon Wolf, Ilya Somin]
- Why my Cato colleagues believe the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP) is worth supporting as a trade liberalization measure despite some suboptimal aspects [Daniel J. Ikenson, Simon Lester, Scott Lincicome, Daniel R. Pearson, K. William Watson, Cato Trade]
April 6 roundup
- Do lawyers find ways to litigate over the effects of the leap day, Feb. 29, that is inserted into the calendar every four years? Glad you asked [Kyle White, Abnormal Use]
- Weren’t regulations supposed to have fixed this, or is it that accommodation rules for air transport are legally separate from those for ordinary commerce? “More flights seeing odd animals as emotional support companions” [WHIO]
- Tiny desk and art magnets: Zen Magnets wins partial but important legal victory against Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) [Zen Magnets, Nancy Nord, earlier]
- Federal government, which has passed no law on private-sector LGBT bias, considers withholding funds to punish North Carolina for declining to have one [New York Times; earlier on Obama EEOC’s wishful effort to generate such coverage through reinterpretation of other law]
- Spirit of trade barriers: Nevada workers walk off job to protest use of workers from other U.S. states [Alex Tabarrok] Expansion of foreign trade “has revealed, not created, problems in the American economy” [Scott Lincicome] More: “Limiting trade with low-wage countries as severely as Sanders wants to would hurt the very poorest people on Earth. A lot.” [Zack Beauchamp, Vox; related Jordan Weissmann, Slate (what Sanders told NYDN “should be absolutely chilling to the developing world… inhumane”)]
- Latest ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act) cause célèbre is over 6-year-old Lexi, whose world is getting upended because of her 1.5% Choctaw descent (a great-great-great-great grandparent on her father’s side) [Christina Sandefur/Federalist Society blog, Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post earlier generally on ICWA and in my writing at Reason and Cato on the Adoptive Couple case]
Claim: open trade benefits only the wealthiest in U.S.
Because they buy all the clothing, right? [David Henderson, EconLog]
March 16 roundup
- Maryland: no strict liability when noise from lawful fireworks display causes cows to stampede in nearby barn [Volokh]
- Minimum wage and affordable housing: “Oregon Legislature Repeals Laws of Supply & Demand” [Randal O’Toole, Cato]
- Policy debate on international trade: Donald Trump v. Milton Friedman (more);
- Defense pounces on Garlock trust asbestos revelations [Bates White, Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and more]
- “Seven steps to ensure you become overregulated” include “#1 – Be Successful.” [Mark Jamison, Tech Policy Daily]
- We’ve restored (again) our custom 404 Not Found page, an old favorite that has made various best-of lists;
- Ink colors, flag fringe, lower case: @jjmacnab tweetstorm explores fixations of “sovereign citizen” subculture. Plus: “Oregon Occupier Files ‘Counter-Complaint’ Against Feds and/or Devil” [Lowering the Bar]
Candidates’ flip-flops on international trade
“After years of similar pandering, the GOP doesn’t have a good response to Trump’s trade demagoguery. But there is one.” [William Watson, Cato; Scott Lincicome, The Federalist]