Regulations

The Lawyer Who Gave Sexual Harassment Its Name

A look back at the career and contribution of lawyer and legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon, whose 1979 book…

#TimesUp

“It’s time to ensure that your company has a strong policy prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace and that the […]

Does The Conflict-Minerals Law Hurt African Miners?

Many companies will soon be fulfilling their SEC requirement to report on whether mining of certain minerals in their supply […]

Dershowitz Assails ACLU For Defending Raid On Trump’s Lawyer

Harvard law professor and civil liberties advocate Alan Dershowitz calls the ACLU to task for defending the FBI’s raid on […]

17 Percent Of EEOC Sexual Harassment Complainants Are Male

In a recent CNN poll, ten percent of men reported they had been victims of sexual harassment at work. The […]

Insurers Keep Wary Eye On School Kids’ Climate Lawsuit

Most industry observers are not paying much attention to a climate lawsuit in Oregon, where 21 teen-age students are suing […]

Payday Lenders Sue Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

An Obama-era regulation, yet to be implemented, would have required pay day lenders to verify that borrowers can afford the […]

The End Of “Regulatory Exceptionalism” For Silicon Valley

Regulators seemed to accept what  John Perry Barlow proclaimed in his widely quoted Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, in 1996: “Governments […]

Tech Regulation Will Stifle Start-Ups

A push is on to expand regulation of tech companies, but Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, […]

Appeals Court Eases Robocall Rules, And The Calls Keep Coming

“Proving once again that technology moves much faster than the law,” the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down significant parts of…

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