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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 10/22/12
The cupboard is getting bare as we approach the election. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed review on no (“0”) proposed or final rules last week, but at least the Department of the...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 10/29/12
Washington (with the Federal Government closed) braces for approaching storm Sandy – not regulatory, at least this week, but the regulatory tsunami appears more destined to occur than ever. The Spring...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 1/21/13
This past week saw the January thaw from the holidays in regulatory movement. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) completed review on a number...
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D.C. Circuit finds “Recess Appointments” Invalid: NLRB Lacked Quorum
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled today that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lacked a quorum to act in Noel Canning v. NLRB because three...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 2/4/13
Regulatory and judicial processes intersected last week to a greater extent than usual, with several departments addressing (or not) court decisions and ongoing litigation. Highlights: Department of...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 2/18/13
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with some cohorts, published a flurry of four final rules last week that will give banking and mortgage attorneys plenty to read and absorb – and...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 2/25/13
Litigation over President Obama’s recess appointments took several additional steps last week and few significant rules were published. One rule worth noting is a Department of Health and Human...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 3/18/13
The regulatory process thawed last week in the Executive and Judicial Branches. Among the highlights, the simmering Recess Appointments Clause issue facing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 4/29/13
Busy and long today: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a hospital...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 5/6/13
All dollars great and small about regulations this week: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) theoretically made credit more available, but reality may not be so easy. Stock Exchange data...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 6/3/13
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not heed calls for extension of the public comment period on a massive rulemaking – granting a stingy extension that will cause more requests. The...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 8/5/13
Truck drivers (long haul and short haul) get top billing this week, with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated one small part of the latest in a line of contentious...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 9/2/13
The week before Labor Day – the final week of summer vacation – the Government might be expected to slow down, but the contrary was true. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published an...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 10/21/13
United States Government agencies lurched back into business and began to resolve the problems created by their absence, to the extent they can – and litigation has already commenced over the legality...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 11/18/13
After a deluge in last week’s multi-part Monday Morning Regulatory Review, this week is composed of odds and ends mostly bound together by the issue of funds transfers. The Congressional Budget Office...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 1/6/14: Obamacare @ SCOTUS; Mortgage...
The end of 2013 was hardly quiet, with five notable events worth highlighting. While this blog has foresworn further coverage of the crenelated litigation in the United States District Courts over the...
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SCOTUS Holds Obama Made Unconstitutional NLRB Recess Appointments –...
The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS), in NLRB v. Noel Canning, today affirmed the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decision that President Obama (POTUS)...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 7/27/15: WOTUS Litigation Joined; CFPB...
Litigation dominated regulatory practice last week. New filings in the Waters of the United States litigation clarified, as expected, some issues and process in nearly a dozen different district...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 1/18/16: SCOTUS Returns; Law Practice &...
The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) returned last week to open several new lines of inquiry that impact regulatory practice, but has not yet decided whether the hear the case of the year. At the...
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Monday Morning Regulatory Review – 4/11/16: Corporate Inversions Ruled Out;...
The Administration fully engaged in institutionalizing its policies through promulgated rules with the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Food...
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