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1 day ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at reducing regulatory criminal prosecutions reflects a distorted reality in which a draconian regulatory regime is supposedly turning ordinary Americans into unwitting criminals, legal experts said this week.
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2 days ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the power to provide the cryptocurrency industry regulatory direction without congressional action, SEC Chair Paul Atkins said Monday, as the first major crypto legislation remains in limbo on Capitol Hill. “I would prefer to have statutes that guide us,” Atkins told reporters following a speech at an SEC-hosted roundtable on crypto asset regulation. “In the absence of that, we have more than adequate authority to proceed.
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5 days ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
Regulations governing off-road vehicles at a national recreation site, emissions standards for rubber tire manufacturing and funds for wi-fi hotspots for students will likely be no more after congressional Republicans rushed to overturn them this week in advance of a statutory deadline that hit on Thursday.
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6 days ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have started a public inquiry into deceptive event ticketing practices just days before an FTC rule banning unfair ticketing fees is set to go into effect.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The leaders of the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division on Monday requested that federal agency heads identify anticompetitive regulations to target for elimination. In a joint letter, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Gail Slater directed agencies to review regulations for anticompetitive effects, such as those that foster monopolies, build unnecessary barriers for new market participants and limit competition.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent announcement that it is examining its policy on forever chemicals left unclear whether the agency will take a deregulatory stance toward the contaminants, environmental lawyers said Monday. The EPA last week presented a list of actions to address these per- polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, but the plan is short on specifics.
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1 week ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The U.S. Department of Transportation said this week that it plans to update decades-old safety regulations for liquefied natural gas facilities, a move greeted with guarded optimism by the industry and safety advocates. The new rules should be “deregulatory and lead to cost savings for the industry,” stated an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
Who Got The Work J. Brugh Lower of Gibbons has entered an appearance for industrial equipment supplier Devco Corporation in a pending trademark infringement lawsuit. The suit, accusing the defendant of selling knock-off Graco products, was filed Dec. 18 in New Jersey District Court by Rivkin Radler on behalf of Graco Inc. and Graco Minnesota. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi, is 3:24-cv-11294, Graco Inc. et al v. Devco Corporation.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
House Republicans on Tuesday criticized banking regulators for stifling economic growth and imposing equal burdens on community and large, multinational banks as GOP lawmakers seek to drum up support for more than a dozen bills to ease financial services regulation.
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2 weeks ago | 
law.com | Dan Novak
The Environmental Protection Agency’s dismantling of its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights leaves the EPA far less equipped to protect disadvantaged communities from harmful pollutants, environmental lawyers say. The office's mission is to enforce federal civil rights law and work to achieve environmental justice, which refers to the reduction of environmental harms to poor and minority communities disproportionately exposed to pollution and climate risk.
