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  • US Supreme Court gives miners, farmers new shot at overturning regulations

    07/03/2024 11:11:48 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 13 replies
    Reuters ^ | July 3, 2024 | Tom Hals
    Challengers to federal rules covering a range of industries including mining and farming got a fresh shot on Tuesday at rolling back regulations as the U.S. Supreme Court applied a new standard for reviewing the power of federal agencies. Nine lower-court rulings were vacated by the Supreme Court and sent back to be reconsidered in light of Friday's decision reversing the decades-old Chevron doctrine that said judges should defer to agencies to interpret laws they administer. The cases were the first of what is expected to be a wave of rulings reassessing the power of federal regulators, who make rules...
  • America's unique Internet success

    03/01/2007 11:44:24 AM PST · by JZelle · 48 replies · 923+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 3-1-07 | Scott Cleland
    A tech legislative priority of congressional Democrats, "net neutrality," threatens America's unique Internet success, because it would reverse America's 11-year, bipartisan policy to promote competition and not regulate the Internet. Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are co-sponsors of Dorgan-Snowe (S.215), a net neutrality bill that for the first time would mandate broadband provide equal treatment to all Internet content. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also supports net neutrality as does House Telecom Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, who plans a series of hearings soon to promote net neutrality legislation. To justify massive new government intervention in the Internet...