My many thanks again to Chris Walker, the Journal editors, and the many contributors for a very stimulating symposium on my book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve. I wanted to write today (and, because these issues end up taking so much space to unpack, in a subsequent post as well) to push […]
Earlier this month we hosted a terrific online symposium reviewing my co-blogger Peter Conti-Brown’s important new book The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, which was recently published by the Princeton University Press. The contributions to the symposium were diverse and thought-provoking. For ease of reference, I thought I’d include links to all of […]
Earlier this week, the Seventh Circuit issued its opinion in Roberts v. Commissioner , holding that a taxpayer’s efforts regarding his race horses amounted to a business under the tax code, and not a mere hobby, such that the taxpayer could enjoy various deductions. The court reversed the Tax Court’s contrary determination, finding that the […]
Over at Procedurally Taxing last week, my colleague Stephanie Hoffer and I weighed in on a fascinating new decision out of the Tax Court that held that Chenery does not apply to preclude the IRS from making arguments in the judicial tax deficiency action that the IRS did not make at the agency level. The […]
I’ve already groused about the Supreme Court’s decision in Liberty Mutual v. Gobeille, which reads ERISA to preempt state laws that ask self-insured plans to share claims data with all-payer claims databases (APCDs). Not only is the decision wrong, but it will hamper price transparency and frustrate health-care research. Sensitive to the concerns, the Court […]
The ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Education Committee Presents Assessing the Federal Regulatory Response to Sexual Misconduct on Campus Teleconference Thursday, April 21, 2016 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Eastern Time Five years ago this month, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter regarding sexual violence […]
On April 6, 2016, a Request for Comment on “The Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Roles for the Government in Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things” was published in the Federal Register. As noted in the preamble to the Notice, which was initiated by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the U.S. Department […]
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern | Teleconference Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Texas, one of the year’s most closely watched cases on constitutional and administrative law. The State of Texas and other plaintiffs challenge the Department of Homeland Security’s guidance on enforcement of […]
This month over at RegBlog they are celebrating their fifth birthday with a fifteen-part series on the last five years in regulation. (I’ll be contributing a piece later this month on developments regarding administrative law’s judicial deference doctrines.) [Update: The entire series and schedule can be found here.] RegBlog founder and Penn law professor Cary […]
I love a good headline. And boy, did I stumble across a great one today: “Never, Never—NEVER—Wake A Sleeping Tiger.” (The subheading is pretty great too: “Don’t even think about it.”) And sure enough, if you click through, you will see a video of one tiger waking another tiger, and then you’ll learn why you […]
John Malcolm and Michael Cannon—yes, the Michael Cannon of King v. Burwell fame—have a new op-ed accusing members of Congress and/or their staffers of committing a federal crime. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that unnamed officials who administer benefits for Congress made clearly false statements when they originally applied to have […]
Two weeks ago, in MetLife v. Financial Stability Oversight Council, District 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 Term in Michigan v. EPA , the district court held that the FSOC violated the Administrative Procedure Act […]
Dear 1Ls, Last fall I wrote a letter to your 2L colleagues. Now I’m going to write to you. Here’s the bottom line: If you want to clerk, the next few months are important. Many judges are waiting until applicants have their third or even fourth semester of grades. (Indeed, some judges prefer to interview […]
In Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual , the Supreme Court held that ERISA trumps state laws that require self-insured employers to share data on the prices they paid for health care for their employees. Predictably, and sadly, those employers look like they’re taking full advantage (paywalled) of the Court’s decision: Plans that provide health insurance in […]
Along with colleagues at the Public Health Law Center, I published an article this week in the journal Tobacco Control that critically reviews the FDA’s implementation of its authority to regulate the sale of new tobacco products. In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act), establishing federal authority to […]