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
In this installment of ML Strategies’ Pre-Election Analysis series, we discuss the potential impact the 119th congress and presidential election on consumer product safety. Like other spheres of federal public policy,...more
Since the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA”) in the United States, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) have issued notices of proposed regulations...more
Regulations matter. Federal executive action is supposed to be rooted in statutes, established through regulatory processes generally tied to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and — at least conceptually — rooted in the...more
Various media outlets are reporting that President-elect Joe Biden already has plans to sign a series of executive orders shortly after being sworn into office in January. While some of these planned executive orders will...more
Joint-Employer Update. As a pre-Halloween treat to stakeholders who are preparing written comments on the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposed joint-employer rule, on October 30, 2018, the NLRB extended by 30...more