NEWS ALERT:
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agrees with U.S. Chamber that state wage-and-hour laws don’t apply to drilling rigs on the outer continental shelf
Ninth Circuit invalidates and severs the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s debt-collection exception. The Chamber filed an amicus brief supporting the opposite.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
June 13, 2019
ISSUES: TCPA, Free Speech
U.S. Chamber files brief urging Kentucky Supreme Court to affirm dismissal of uninjured plaintiffs’ claims for lack of standing under the state constitution.
Kentucky Supreme Court
June 13, 2019
ISSUES: Article III / Standing, Capital Markets Securities & Corporate Governance
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging D.C. Circuit to affirm trial court decision that vacated government’s arbitrary and capricious cancellation of oil and gas lease that disregarded private...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
June 12, 2019
ISSUES: Government Contracts, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Third Circuit to reject narrow conception of Noerr-Pennington immunity and to hold that the FTC may not seek monetary relief under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
June 12, 2019
ISSUES: Antitrust & Competition Law, FTC
Supreme Court holds that the federal government can’t file administrative review petitions challenging patents. The Chamber filed a brief at the merits stage supporting this result.
U.S. Supreme Court
June 10, 2019
ISSUES: Intellectual Property, Administrative Law & Government Litigation
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing Ninth Circuit should reverse district court order certifying a class of approximately 230 million people in indirect purchaser lawsuit brought under state law.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
June 10, 2019
ISSUES: Antitrust & Competition Law, Class Certification
What Others Are Saying
"The chamber has created the equivalent of a boutique law firm at its headquarters, one whose roster of talent now rivals some of Washington’s most elite practices."
Reuters, "Chamber of Commerce forms its own elite law team"
Dec. 8, 2014