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15 Feb 2011, 6:53 pm
The 2010 Patient Protection Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of insurance exchanges within each state, bans discrimination against patients with pre-existing conditions, and requires all Americans to purchase some form of health insurance. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 6:00 am
The Australian Government’s Productivity Commission, as part of its annual review of regulatory burdens on business, has announced that it will publish a report on areas in need of regulatory reform and methods for evaluating reform outcomes. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 9:30 pm
A U.S. appeals court struck down a key Obama administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule to reduce harmful emissions from coal-burning power plants. [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
President Obama’s requirement that religiously-affiliated employers provide insurance coverage for contraception has sparked a number of lawsuits.The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed its fourth suit challenging the Health and Human Services (HHS) rule. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 11:00 pm
In the wake of the General Services Administration (GSA) scandal, the House approved the DATA Act that will create a five-member commission to oversee federal spending. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:00 pm
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a process to withdraw approval for marketing Genentech’s Avastin (bevacizumab) as a first-line treatment for metastatic breast cancer, a type of cancer that spreads to other organs. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 4:40 am
Hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding must generally allow a same-sex domestic partner to be a medical representative for an incapacitated patient, according to guidance issued this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) within the U.S. [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 9:30 pm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently revised its so-called Green Guides, which provide guidance to businesses about avoiding deceptive claims about environmental features of services or products, such as their recycled content or their lack of toxic ingredients. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its first mobile cramming case, accusing a company of taking advantage of consumers by adding unauthorized charges to phone bills.The U.S Senate rejected expanded gun background checks. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 6:00 am
A bipartisan consensus appears to be emerging over making major reforms to the U.S. patent system. [read post]
25 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
There’s a common impression that key Obama administration regulatory reforms have created a power struggle between the federal government and the states. [read post]
3 Jun 2013, 9:30 pm
Science is a key tool in regulatory decision-making – but also a controversial one. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 6:00 am
Amidst growing anxiety of a shortage of spectrum for wireless communications and concerns about receiving unwanted signal interference that could make Global Positioning Systems (GPS) unusable, the U.S. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm
This week, the Supreme Court decided a case that was anxiously awaited by property rights mavens on one side and environmentalists on the other. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 9:35 pm
” This post is part of RegBlog’s ten-part series, The Bounds of Executive Discretion in the Regulatory State. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 6:56 am
Richard Pierce recently wrote in the University of Pennsylvania’s Regblog that “In theory, the notice-and-comment process provides a judicially enforced means through which all individuals and groups that have an interest in the outcome of a major regulatory decision making process, including beneficiaries, have an effective means of influencing its outcome. [read post]
3 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
As I have previously explained on RegBlog, beginning in 2002 Google set out to digitize all of the world’s books, millions of which are out-of-print, orphan works. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 9:30 pm
This post is part of RegBlog’s ten-part series, The Bounds of Executive Discretion in the Regulatory State. [read post]
3 Apr 2016, 9:30 pm
This post is part of RegBlog’s six-part series, Improving Higher Education Regulation. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 9:35 pm
This post is part of RegBlog’s ten-part series, The Bounds of Executive Discretion in the Regulatory State. [read post]
