regulation

Aug 12, 2019

Administrative: Farm Equipment Manufacturers and Dealers-Regulation-Contract Clause

Defendant appealed the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of North Dakota Senate Bill 2289, which regulated the relationship between farm-equipment manufacturers and dealers. The district court concluded that the legislation violated manufacturers’ federal constitutional rights under the Contract Clause. Where the statute merely benefited a particular econ[...]

Aug 5, 2019

Administrative: Regulation-Wine Production-Standing to Challenge Regulation

Plaintiffs appealed from the grant of summary judgment to defendant, which held that plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge a Minnesota statute requiring them to manufacture their wine with a majority of ingredients produced in Minnesota. Where plaintiffs faced a legitimate threat of prosecution traceable to the state regulation requiring them to use in-state ingredients, because […]

Jun 27, 2019

Facebook enlists plain English to clarify how it makes money

Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which have urged the company to make sure users know what they are signing up for. The guideline changes, announced […]

Jun 27, 2019

Facebook enlists plain English to clarify how it makes money

Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which have urged the company to make sure users know what they are signing up for. The guideline changes, announced […]

Jun 17, 2019

Rural county in uproar over new large-scale feedlot law

Many residents of a rural southwestern Missouri county are critical of a state law that restricts how much local authorities can regulate industrial feedlots and say they feel betrayed by their local representatives who backed the legislation. Speakers at a community meeting last week in Cedar County said they supported ordinances introduced by county commissioners […]

Jun 17, 2019

Rural county in uproar over new large-scale feedlot law

Many residents of a rural southwestern Missouri county are critical of a state law that restricts how much local authorities can regulate industrial feedlots and say they feel betrayed by their local representatives who backed the legislation. Speakers at a community meeting last week in Cedar County said they supported ordinances introduced by county commissioners […]

Sep 14, 2018

Decade later: Safer financial system, yet much hasn’t changed

On the brink of crumbling a decade ago, America’s financial system was saved by an extraordinary rescue that revived Wall Street and the economy yet did little for individuals who felt duped and left to suffer from the reckless bets of giant banking institutions. The government intervention shored up the banking system, allowed credit to […]