President Trump’s February 18th Executive Order entitled, “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” represents a sweeping effort to consolidate federal executive branch lawmaking power with the President. The Order’s...more
2/26/2025
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ,
Executive Orders ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
NLRB ,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ,
OIRA ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trump Administration
On November 15, a U.S. District Court in Texas put the brakes on the Department of Labor’s April 2024 Rule designed to make more employees eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. State of Texas v. United...more
11/21/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Final Rules ,
Highly Compensated Employees ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Minimum Salary ,
Over-Time ,
Salaried Employees ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
There has been much speculation about how much deference the courts will give to federal administrative agencies,’ including the NLRB’s, statutory interpretations in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June Loper Bright decision...more
8/28/2024
/ Administrative Appeals ,
Administrative Procedure Act ,
Chevron Deference ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Government Agencies ,
Judicial Authority ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Unions
On June 28, 2024 the Supreme Court overruled the 40-year-old landmark ruling known as Chevron, a doctrine of administrative law that has until now required courts to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous...more
7/10/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Chevron Deference ,
Government Agencies ,
Judicial Authority ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Magnuson-Moss Act ,
NLRB ,
Relentless Inc v US Department of Commerce ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) ,
Unions