Regulation

July 21 marks the two-year anniversary of the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory act. So let us ask: Has the intervening regulatory and industry activity fulfilled the promise that Dodd-Frank will end bailouts?

The State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, has filed a lawsuit asking the U.S.

Nine months after the collapse of MF Global rocked the commodities futures market comes news of a similar scandal involving Peregrine Financial Group, Inc.

Portland, Oregon officials have made it a crime for certain businesspeople to give customers more value for their dollar. Now the city is in federal court trying to defend the constitutionality of their action.

Everyone knows city or county building, zoning, and subdivision regulations decided a lot of what the family homestead would be like when it was built. Elements such as lot size, street setback, and the like are all set by these regulations.

Eighteen states are categorized as “control” states for the way they regulate alcohol distribution. This means the state monopolizes some portion of sales of alcoholic products such as hard liquor.

Almost two years ago, on the heels of—if not still amidst—the worst financial crisis since the early 1930s, President Barack Obama signed the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010” (Dodd-Frank) into law.

More than a decade ago the Massachusetts Association of Realtors succeeded in getting the state to increase real estate license renewal requirements.

Bloomington, Illinois is home to Illinois State University and a downtown nightlife scene that is often a mess. It’s also home to city officials who have decided to block a woman who wants to help clean up the mess.

Partly in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s handling of the Comcast-NBCU merger, the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved two pieces of legislation that would prevent regulatory overreach by requiring any conditions imposed on

Every January, tens of thousands of technology industry leaders travel to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show.

The Department of Homeland Security granted written permission to its National Operations Center Media Monitoring Initiative to collect and retain data gathered from news anchors, journalists, reporters, or any person using “traditional and/or social

A cofounder of the Absolute Poker website entered a guilty plea to federal criminal charges in December. The online gambling site was one of three subjected to an April 2011 online-gambling crackdown by U.S. law enforcement officials.

In 2002 and 2003, celebrities uttered obscenities during live television broadcasts. The offensive words led to a battle over the Federal Communication Commission’s indecency standards, ultimately argued Jan. 10 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

When Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the most significant change to the Communications Act since its adoption in 1934, many people thought the new statute meant there would be a meaningful deregulatory shift in communications

The Federal Communication Commission has validated the Tennis Channel’s complaint that Comcast illegally granted preference to its own sports channels—Versus and Golf Channel—by placing them on broadly distributed tiers rather than as part of the premium

Sens. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and John Barrasso (R-WY) have introduced legislation that would exempt some smaller companies from the regulatory burden of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s Section 404 top-down risk assessment process. S.

Federal regulations in 2011 added more than $231 billion in regulatory costs to private businesses and state and local governments and required 133 million hours of paperwork, according to a report by the Washington, DC-based American Action Forum.

Nearly 40 years ago, Maryland’s General Assembly passed the Land Use Act of 1974 requiring the state’s Department of Planning to create a strategy for growth of land development. Little happened until 2011, when Gov.

Washington State voters in November approved Initiative 1183, ending the state’s monopoly on the sale and distribution of alcohol. The state expects to be out of the liquor business by June 1.

Online search-engine giant Google has come under antitrust investigation by the U.S. Senate, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice.

Imagine that some lobbyists have staked out part of Antarctica and brought suit in federal court against tourists who trespassed on “their” land. Fine, you say: After all, the lobbyists got there first.

In recent decades, unprecedented differences have developed in the price of new tract housing on the urban fringe in U.S. metropolitan markets.

Advocates of allowing the top two federal income tax rates to expire claim only 2 or 3 percent of businesses would be affected, but a new Tax Foundation report shows more than one-third of the revenue from an increase in the top two rates would come from