I’m quoted in Jack Arnholz’s report for ABC News on some of the problems with a very bad new scheme from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a ban on corporate mergers...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/04/bad-ideas-in-our-time-emergency-merger-moratorium/
Politically effective or not, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s debate attack on Mike Bloomberg over non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) was simplistic, and that’s putting it diplomatically West Coast lo...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/labor-and-employment-roundup-23/
Senator Elizabeth Warren and her Accountable Capitalism Act represent an attempt to revive a theory of the corporation that fell out of favor long ago, that corporate status is a grant of favor i...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/01/banking-and-finance-roundup-30/
“Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to break up big tech firms and impose new regulation on firms with high revenues. Walter Olson discusses what that might look like in practice.”...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/12/talking-warrens-big-antitrust-plans/
T-Mobile and Sprint, the #3 and #4 wireless carriers, would like to combine so as to more effectively compete with Verizon and AT&T, the two dominant players in the cellular service market. Vario...
In the greater Oklahoma City area next Tuesday, Nov. 12? Come out to my lunchtime law school talk at the U. of O. on employment law, sponsored by the school’s Federalist Society chapter A Sixt...
Supreme Court poised to strike down structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as unconstitutional No love lost between Elizabeth Warren’s, Barack Obama’s teams when consumer f...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/10/banking-and-finance-roundup-29/
Democratic contenders’ platforms on employment issues: Sanders still gets out furthest to left but Warren, Buttigieg, and O’Rourke giving him some serious competition Occupational licensure:...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/10/labor-and-employment-roundup-21/
Not scary or intrusive at all: presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has called for enacting a “national wealth registry,” the better to enforce future schemes of taxation, confi...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/09/wealth-registries-and-exit-taxes/
As one who wrote at length about the silicone-implant litigation at the time — founded as it was on junk science theories hyped to panic potential plaintiffs — I agree that Elizabeth Warren h...