Government Litigation

As both a party and an amicus, the Litigation Center routinely challenges regulatory overreach by federal, state, and local government agencies on a host of issues implicating numerous areas of substantive law. The Litigation Center also regularly participates in cases that present important constitutional questions regarding the separation of powers, due process rights, unreasonable searches and seizures, property rights, federal preemption under the Supremacy Clause, free speech, and many other issues.

Recent Activity

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GlaxoSmithKline LLC v. Louisiana

August 8, 2018

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to grant cert. petition concerning whether sovereign immunity bars a federal court from binding a state to a Rule 23 class settlement

Kisor v. O'Rourke

August 1, 2018

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in veterans’ benefits case urging Supreme Court to grant cert. in order to overrule Seminole Rock and Auer deference

Bellsouth Communications, LLC v. Cobb County

July 30, 2018

U.S. Chamber and Georgia Chamber file amicus brief in Georgia Supreme Court, arguing Georgia’s 911 Act precludes counties’ common law causes of actions against telecommunications providers

Chamber of Commerce v. IRS

July 26, 2018

Government dismisses own appeal from Chamber victory against IRS rule used to block certain corporate mergers

Amazon.com, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

July 5, 2018

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing Ninth Circuit should affirm Tax Court’s judgment that IRS violated Administrative Procedure Act in purporting to “clarify” its approach to “intangibles” in...

Timbs v. Indiana

June 18, 2018

Supreme Court grants cert. petition raising whether the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause applies to the States

Facebook, Inc. v. IRS

May 14, 2018

District court grants government’s motion to dismiss Facebook’s complaint in Administrative Procedure Act case against IRS

Bellsouth Communications, LLC v. Cobb County

April 16, 2018

Georgia Supreme Court grants review of 911 fees case

EQT Production Co. v. Department of Environmental Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

March 28, 2018

Pennsylvania Supreme Court, citing the Chamber’s amicus brief, limits liability under Clean Streams law for Pennsylvania businesses and landowners in ongoing discharge case

ACA International & Chamber of Commerce v. FCC

March 16, 2018

Victory in business community’s challenge to FCC’s 2015 order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act