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Regulation and Taxation

NY Authorities Serve Bartender an Injustice Cocktail

According to a lawsuit filed this month , after David Kelleran bounced a check he’d sent to renew his liquor license for one of his two

Aug 23, 2012
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2 Mins
Dr. Hudgins's 12-Step Cure for Big Government Conservatism

You lost control of the Senate and House for the first time in twelve years and of governorships across the country. President George....

Aug 15, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
FTC Extracts Fine from Google as Harassment Continues

Today the Federal Trade Commission—just one of many government agencies here and abroad that have been harassing one of the world’s ...

Aug 9, 2012
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2 Mins
Fighting ATM-Sticker Lawsuits

I'm beginning to think someone has gotten the wrong answer. Recently, I blogged about ATM accessibility rules: The machines must be

Jul 20, 2012
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EEOC Sues Cafe Over Disabled Employee

If the notion of forcing Netflix to tailor movies for the deaf and blind or making banks replace their ATMs with audio-equipped versions ...

Jun 27, 2012
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Must Netflix Tailor Movies for the Deaf and Blind?

A deaf person and two deaf-advocacy organizations are suing Netflix for making movies available for instant online viewing without providing

Jun 26, 2012
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2 Mins
ATMs, Accessibility, and Human Needs

Robert Jahoda, a blind man from Pennsylvania, is sole named plaintiff in a batch of lawsuits seeking to force banks to bring their ATMs.....

Jun 21, 2012
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Stossel on Regime Uncertainty

The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it

Jun 7, 2012
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1 Min
Lawyer Gets Record Insider-Trading Sentence

Matthew Kluger yesterday received the longest sentence yet for insider trading: twelve years . That's a year longer than Raj Rajaratnam's,..

Jun 5, 2012
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New Yorkers Shrug

Over the past decade New York State has lost 3.4 million residents, with incomes totaling $119 billion, according to the Tax Foundation

May 31, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
DC Regulators Back Down from Crackdown on Secondhand Stores

Secondhand specialty shops in Washington, D.C., had some unwelcome visitors last month: bureaucrats and police telling them they needed..

May 30, 2012
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Forfeiture Strikes Businesses

If you can blame property for crimes, you can seize the property of innocent people. That's called "forfeiture," and government uses it

May 22, 2012
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EU Wants Google to Work Against Google

The European Commission has identified four antitrust "concerns" with Google's offerings and is demanding "voluntary" remedies if Google....

May 21, 2012
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Rejecting Public Ownership

Business creators and investors are increasingly choosing not to take their companies public, says the Economist, and one reason is...

May 18, 2012
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2 Mins
California's Choices: Austerity, Expropriation, or Liberty

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his state’s budget deficit will be $16 billion, up from earlier estimates of $9.2 billion, on a

May 16, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
A Health Insurance Speech Mandate

Under ObamaCare, health insurers must in some cases send rebates to insured individuals. Under new regulations, the Wall Street Journal....

May 14, 2012
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1 Min
An Economic Defense of Insider Trading

One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider

Feb 12, 2012
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Jeffrey A. Miron
4 Mins
The Morality of Insider Trading

In the decades since the SEC decided that trading in your company’s stock could be a form of “fraud” if you were guided by first-hand knowle

Dec 6, 2011
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Greg Reyes: Justice Denied

On October 13, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to throw out the fraud conviction of Greg Reyes that had emerged from the...

Oct 21, 2011
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6 Mins
Rip Their Lungs Out!

This one will take your breath away and, when you recover, teach you a life-saving philosophy lesson. The Obama administration’s Food and...

Sep 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins

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