Recently, it was reported that the Department of Justice is investigating whether the major television networks violated ...

There was not much administrative law news in the published opinions of the D.C. Circuit during the first week of ...

My apologies for the hiatus; the Ad Law Reading Room has been busy wrestling with the bear that is teaching Federal Courts. Without further delay, today’s entry is “Murray’s Lessee, Non-Article III ...

As the Supreme Court’s latest term drew to a close, the expert consensus knew where the Court would land in Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook. Humphrey’s Executor—and with it the constitutionality ...

Recent Rulemakings Reviewed is a monthly quantitative snapshot of federal regulatory activity, drawn from FRTracker—a platform that ingests Federal Register documents and decomposes binding rules into ...

The Trump administration has generally favored reducing environmental regulations. Yet on April 2, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

In the latest round of regulatory controversy around late-night television, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Public Notice last week reminding broadcasters of their ...

Briefly, the FCA allows a private party (called a “relator”) to file a lawsuit in federal court, on behalf of the United States, alleging a violation of the FCA. A relator need not be personally ...

Previously, we explained how the Supreme Court, in Bondi v. VanDerStok, appeared to endorse an impossibly deferential standard of review in cases involving claims that regulatory agencies have acted ...

Let’s start with the Federal Reserve. The Court appears to have made no progress in its quest to carve out the Federal Reserve from the sweep of the President’s proposed constitutional theory. When ...

The Trump Administration recently contemplated issuing an executive order aimed at combatting state restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence (“AI”), but has, for the moment ceased ...

Last month, Jeffrey Clark, the Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, issued yet another memorandum (M-25-36) describing how the Trump Administration intends to ...