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Dec 1, 2024 | 
ij.org | Renee Flaherty
Awa Diagne lived the American Dream for nearly 30 years. She moved here from Senegal in 1992, raised six children, and became a U.S. citizen in 2002. Like many entrepreneurial immigrants, she supported her family by braiding hair in downtown Atlanta. Then in 2021, tragedy struck when her husband passed away from COVID-19. Awa and her family had just moved to the Atlanta suburb of South Fulton so that her twin daughters could attend the excellent local schools.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
reason.com | Daryl James |Renee Flaherty
Health Care The Institute for Justice partners with an independent eye doctor to challenge state regulations that protect hospital monopolies and restrict patient access.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
carolinacoastonline.com | Daryl James |Renee Flaherty
By Daryl James and Renee FlahertyNorth Carolina regulators crossed a line in 1973 when they told a nonprofit hospital it could not build new facilities on its own land with its own money. A new law had given the regulators veto power, but the state Supreme Court intervened and declared the statute unconstitutional. The decision was not close. The justices struck down the law by unanimous vote, ending the state’s first experiment with certification-of-need, or “CON,” laws.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Elizabeth Stauffer |James Rogan |Renee Flaherty |Jeremy Straub
The Federal Trade Commission has fired the first salvo of what some expect to be numerous investigations into artificial intelligence providers. OpenAI, the company that has gained fame for its AI-powered chatbot, was, perhaps not surprisingly, the first target. The FTC is demanding information from OpenAI, including details of all large language model products offered, its corporate governance, and research and development agreements.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Elizabeth Stauffer |James Rogan |Renee Flaherty |Max Eden
Two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida to condemn the state’s new social studies framework for “pushing propaganda on our children” that “people benefited from slavery.” The mainstream media has been buzzing about it ever since, and last week the Congressional Black Caucus asked the Departments of Education and Justice to pursue an aggressive legal strategy to attack Florida.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Elizabeth Stauffer |James Rogan |Renee Flaherty |Romina Boccia
Fitch Ratings, one of three major credit rating agencies, downgraded U.S. debt from AAA (the highest possible rating) to AA+ yesterday, explaining:A rating downgrade is intended to serve as a signal to markets that an issuer of bonds is less likely to repay interest or principal. In this case, the rating downgrade is minor, from an “extremely strong capacity to meet financial commitments” to a “very strong” capacity.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | James Rogan |Rachel Greszler |Benjamin Paris |Renee Flaherty
Courts moved fast to overturn Arizona’s prohibition on recording the police within eight feet. A federal judge suspended the law two months after it passed in July 2022, and then struck it down on July 21, 2023, after nobody came forward to defend it. That’s lightning speed in the litigation world. Yet other laws, equally unreasonable, survive court challenges and stand for years. The difference is not the level of absurdity or harm.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Elizabeth Stauffer |James Rogan |Renee Flaherty |Michael Brickman
Conventionally, Democrats have an aversion to the idea of boiling everything that happens in K-12 education down to a simple metric that can be used to judge the efficacy of a school or its educators. Meanwhile, Republicans tend to resist the idea of any top-down, federal government-controlled metric used to determine nearly any outcome. These tendencies may help to explain why the debate over higher education accountability is so confusing.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
bnanews.bna.com | Renee Flaherty
People suffer when lawmakers invent new restrictions on normal activities. Lactation consultant Mary Jackson almost lost her career in Georgia. Her supervisor at the Atlanta hospital where she works told her she no longer could help nursing mothers and their babies if she failed to comply with an occupational licensing requirement before it took effect on July 1, 2018. The clock was ticking.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Renee Flaherty
People suffer when lawmakers invent new restrictions on normal activities. Lactation consultant Mary Jackson almost lost her career in Georgia. Her supervisor at the Atlanta hospital where she works told her she no longer could help nursing mothers and their babies if she failed to comply with an occupational licensing requirement before it took effect on July 1, 2018. The clock was ticking.
