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
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
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 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 grants cert. petition concerning the causation standard for proving racial discrimination under 42 USC 1981. The U.S. Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the Court to take this case.
U.S. Supreme Court
June 10, 2019
ISSUES: Title VII
Supreme Court grants cert. petition concerning federal preemption of state environmental remedies under CERCLA. The Chamber filed a coalition amicus brief urging the Court to take this case.
U.S. Supreme Court
June 10, 2019
ISSUES: CERCLA, Federal Preemption & Commerce Clause
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