NEWS ALERT:
District court vacates Department of Homeland Security’s Lottery Rule, which would have excluded highly skilled laborers from the U.S. market
U.S. Chamber files merits stage amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hold that federal courts have jurisdiction over motions to confirm or vacate arbitration awards in matters involving federal...
U.S. Supreme Court
September 17, 2021
ISSUES: Arbitration
U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief urging Eighth Circuit to affirm the district court’s ruling that defendant did not violate ERISA by exercising its contractual right to periodically reset...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
September 16, 2021
ISSUES: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
D.C. Circuit grants motion of U.S. Chamber and other business groups to intervene to defend EPA’s 2020 decision to retain the existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
September 16, 2021
ISSUES: National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to grant cert and to reinforce its precedent that a targeted tax aimed specifically and exclusively at a small group of speakers – here, four...
U.S. Supreme Court
September 15, 2021
ISSUES: Administrative Law & Government Litigation
Divided Ninth Circuit holds that California’s anti-arbitration legislation AB 51 is not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act. As a co-plaintiff, the U.S. Chamber opposed this outcome.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
September 15, 2021
ISSUES: Arbitration, Federal Preemption & Commerce Clause
District court vacates Department of Homeland Security’s Lottery Rule, which would have excluded highly skilled laborers from the U.S. market. The court previously vacated the Department of Labor’s...
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
September 15, 2021
ISSUES: Immigration
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