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Dec 29, 2024 | 
reason.com | Jonathan Adler
Vaping A growing body of evidence suggests bans on flavored vaping products will result in more young people smoking, but the FDA does not seem to care. | In early December, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Food and Drug Administration v.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
reason.com | Jonathan Adler
Climate Change A state Supreme Court gives environmental activists an important symbolic victory that will not do much of anything to mitigate the threat of climate change. | Last week, in Held v.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
reason.com | Jonathan Adler
The conservative legal organization has announced Eugene Meyer's successor as President of the Federalist Society. | Today the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies announced that attorney Sheldon Gilbert will succeed Eugene Meyer as President of the Federalist Society.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
reason.com | Jonathan Adler
Administrative Law Why Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are overestimating the extent to which the administrative state can be brought to heel through Presidential fiat.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
reason.com | Jonathan Adler
The Court seems uninterested in resolving at least some securities fraud disputes. | This morning the Supreme Court dismissed NVIDIA v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB as improvidently granted. This was the Supreme Court's second DIG of the term. Indeed, it was the Court's second DIG in a securities fraud case. Two weeks ago, the justices DIGged Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Adler
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin story. Congress did not create it by enacting a statute; President Richard Nixon created it by presidential edict. Perhaps that explains why it's hard to reconcile what the EPA actually does with a robust theory of the federal government's role in environmental protection. Nixon created the agency in response to a broad sense of environmental crisis in the nation (and a desire to gain partisan advantage).
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
friedfrank.com | Jonathan Adler |Lawrence N. Barshay |Gregg Beechey |Jeremy Berry |Robert Blumenfeld |William J. Breslin | +42 more
Client memorandum | November 7, 2024 Authors: Michael L. Sherman, Michael Gershberg, Nihal Patel, Joanna RosenbergOn October 21, 2024, the Division of Examinations (”EXAMS”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published its examination priorities for 2025 (the “2025 Priorities”).[1] EXAMS’ examination priorities are released annually and are designed to preview key areas where EXAMS intends to focus its resources.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
wvnews.com | Jonathan Adler
I want to tell Lewis Countians how blessed they are to have such wonderful courthouse officials. I should know, since I run the statewide association for county officials, WVACo.I specifically want to single-out your longtime Commissioner who’s up for re-election this year for her fourth term, Agnes Queen. Agnes just served as President of WVACo this past year and did a tremendous job, working for all 55 counties, their officials and the people. In a way, she was an un-elected Governor.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
thehandbook.com | Ashling McCloy |Jonathan Adler
These days there’s so much to consider when booking your city break or sunny getaway, but throw in a top design hotel and you may never want to leave its stylish confines. We’ve picked our fave spots to book for the coolest interiors and incredible creative inspo…It used to be all about the location, but today we are spoilt for choice when it comes to hotels.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
972mag.com | Jonathan Adler
Last month, nearly a year into Israel’s genocidal war, there finally seemed to be a small dose of good news from the Gaza Strip. After the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare and wastewater management infrastructure, a widespread polio epidemic in the besieged territory appeared likely by mid-summer, when the disease was first detected in sewage samples; in early August, a 10-month-old baby contracted the disease and quickly became paralyzed.
