ALF Urges Supreme Court To Reject “Conspiracy Jurisdiction”

In BASF Metals Limited v. KPFF Investment, Inc., No. 23-232, two overseas corporate defendants in antitrust litigation involving market prices for platinum and palladium have filed a certiorari petition challenging a Second Circuit decision upholding a New York federal district court’s exercise of “conspiracy jurisdiction.”  On behalf of the Atlantic Legal Foundation (ALF), I have authored and filed an amicus […]

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Larry Ebner Quoted In Law360 On Supreme Court Cases Challenging The “Administrative State”

On September 29, 2023, Law360 published a feature article, ‘Administrative State’ Attacks Soar To High Court Crescendo, previewing the new Supreme Court term. I am among the Supreme Court observers quoted in the article: Rising rancor, a muscle-flexing majority and a jam-packed docket could augur a transformative term for administrative law. The upcoming term “may

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ALF Amicus Brief Urges Supreme Court To Decide Judicial Transparency Issue

The certiorari petition in Tardy v. Corrections Corporation of America, No. 23-129, requests the Supreme Court to resolve an inter-circuit conflict concerning Article III standing for individuals who seek access to sealed court records. The appeal arises from a Sixth Circuit decision holding that “to have standing, a plaintiff claiming an informational injury must have suffered adverse

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It’s Time For Attorneys & Courts To Use the Amended Expert Witness Rule

The Atlantic Legal Foundation long has been the nation’s leading advocate for use of sound science in judicial and regulatory proceedings. ALF’s advocacy in the famous Daubert trilogy of Supreme Court cases significantly contributed to the adoption of the reliability standard incorporated into Federal Rule of Evidence 702, which governs admissibility of testimony by expert witnesses. And ALF’s insistence

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Webinar: Challenging the Constitutionality of FTC & Other Federal Administrative Enforcement Proceedings

Last April, the Supreme Court’s unanimous combined judgment in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC & SEC v. Cochran opened federal district court doors to litigation challenging the structural constitutionality of civil administrative enforcement proceedings brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before their own administrative law judges. This

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ALF Argues No Chevron Deference For Unconstitutional Interpretations

Almost 40 years ago the Supreme Court held in Chevron U.S.A v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 467 U.S. 837, 844 (1984), that “a court may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency.” This Chevron doctrine “directs courts to accept an agency’s reasonable resolution of an ambiguity in

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ALF Amicus Brief Explains FRE 702’s Critical Role In Class-Certification Decisions

At least as far back as its participation as amicus curiae in the Daubert trilogy of Supreme Court decisions, the Atlantic Legal Foundation (ALF) has been one of the nation’s foremost advocates for ensuring that federal district judges fulfill their “gatekeeper” role under Federal Rule of Evidence 702.  Under Rule 702, federal district judges can admit into evidence, or otherwise rely

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ALF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief In Internet “Informational Injury” Case

Personal injury “failure-to-warn” suits long have been a well-accepted component of state tort law. Even failure-to-warn claims for intangible injuries such as emotional distress and reputational harm are allowed under certain  circumstances.  But what about the new frontier of Internet-based “informational injuries” allegedly sustained as a result of visiting  business websites that allegedly fail to

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ALF Urges Supreme Court To Review Foreign-Student Guest Worker Case

On behalf of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, Larry Ebner  has filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to decide whether the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) to allow “F-1” student visa holders to stay in the United States and work for  computer or other technology-sector

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ALF/WLF Brief Urges Full 11th Circuit To Enforce Federal Preemption of Pesticide Failure-To-Warn Claims

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has granted rehearing en banc in Carson v. Monsanto Co., No. 21-10994, one of thousands of state-law personal injury suits alleging that Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup herbicide, failed to provide a label warning that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, can cause cancer. The U.S. Environmental

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