As all levels of government work to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and treat those who are already sick,…

Just when the motor carrier sector thought that deregulation was the established practice at the federal and state levels, along…

As of Jan. 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulates how large businesses store and secure customer data….

There is a brand new kind of food entering the market, and how cell-based meat will be perceived and regulated…

It’s been strangely quiet on the independent contractor front. Just a few weeks ago, legislation that would crush freelance workers…

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told Puebloans on Saturday said he wants to emphasize the importance of small business throughout…

On November 1, 2019, Neora, a Texas-based healthcare products multi-level marketing (MLM) business, filed suit in Illinois Federal Court against…

The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice recently announced a policy that the Division would no…

The COVID-19 pandemic has the medical community scrambling to address shortages of supplies and some clinicians to properly care for…

Governments at all levels are figuring out how to make sure sick people are treated and that coronavirus doesn’t spread….

In this episode, Matthew Feeney hosts a discussion with Ashkhen Kazaryan and Caleb Watney on the approach regulators might take…

38 states have certificate of need (CON) laws which make it illegal for healthcare providers to offer healthcare services to…

In this paper, James Capretta argues that the current system for regulating the physician workforce is not flexible enough to ensure that enough doctors make it into the field to serve all patients. Mr. Capretta offers a number of reforms that, he argues, would streamline the educational and licensing processes for new and immigrating doctors.

In this paper, Christina Sandefur argues that well-intentioned laws designed to limit wasteful spending, known as certificate-of-need laws, no serve mostly to allow market incumbents in healthcare to keep new entrants out of the market. This, she argues, is harmful to the public and stands in violation of state anti-monopoly laws.

In this paper, the authors lay out a conception of the proper place of ‘public interest’ in patent law, and what they see as current, detrimental uses of that principle. Properly applied, the notion serves the public by promoting innovation, but improperly applied, they argue, public interest can serve to stifle progress.

In this paper, the authors argue that the uncertainty in local land-use rules often makes new building prohibitively risky, costly, and complex. The ambiguity of these rules and the lack of substantial legal recourse for those seeking to build, they suggest, hampers entrepreneurship and healthy economic development and increases inequality. Finally, the authors suggest a set of reforms that might improve the current state of affairs.

This paper lays out a set of constitutional concerns pertaining to certain new state and local regulations on data privacy. Do these new rules impinge on free speech, violate the dormant commerce clause, or are they preempted by other federal laws?

In this paper, Anastasia Boden and Jonathan Riches argue that home-based businesses are an important part of the economy with a very long history. State and local regulators, the authors claim, have often saddled home-based businesses with cumbersome rules that do more to hamper the property rights of homeowners than protect the public interest.