[Editor’s Note: This is Jim Tozzi’s review of Eloise Pasachoff, The President’s Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control, 125 Yale Law Journal 2182 (2016), which originally appeared here.  Jim Tozzi served as a career regulatory official in five consecutive Administrations and was instrumental in the establishment of centralized regulatory review.] Centralized regulatory review began on the “budget […]

The Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Texas Thursday seeking to block the Treasury Department’s April 2016 inversion regulations. The Chamber says that the inversion regulations exceed Treasury’s statutory jurisdiction, that the regulations are arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and that Treasury failed to follow the APA’s […]

We’re very excited to launch the new and improved Notice & Comment. Thanks to the hard work and input from our online team and executive board, the blog now features various organizational tools and direct-access for bloggers. We look forward to developing the blog further and continuing to provide our readers with high quality content.

Back in April I blogged about the district court decision in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council. There, Judge Rosemary Collyer (D.D.C.) sent waves through the financial services industry and among scholars of cost-benefit analysis. Relying in part on the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Michigan v. EPA, the district court held that the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) […]

Next month the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice will be hosting its annual Homeland Security Law Institute, one of the Section’s three major annual conferences. It has been a premier program every year, and promises to be this year as well.  So definitely don’t miss it if you’re in DC in late […]

The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has a Government Book Talk! blog which is designed to “raise the profile of the best publications from the Federal Government, past and present.”  The latest post is entitled What’s the “CFR” and Why Is It So Important to Me? The post appropriately notes that the Code of Federal Regulations […]

This has been a banner year for the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice–one that has been full of accomplishments. The Section has set a record for the most program events in its history, including some terrific new programs such as “The 60th Anniversary of the Hoover Commission: Lessons for Regulatory Reform”, the “Great Debate” […]