NEWS ALERT:
U.S. Supreme Court holds that judges, rather than juries, must decide whether federal prescription-drug regulations preempt state failure-to-warn claims
U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit arguing that the Americans with Disabilities Act does not grant disabled employees a preference in job placement over better-qualified...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
May 22, 2019
ISSUES: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
U.S. Chamber files brief urging the New Mexico Supreme Court to dismiss suit brought by the state government as precluded by prior unsuccessful qui tam action regarding the same allegations.
New Mexico Supreme Court
May 21, 2019
ISSUES: Jurisdiction & Procedure
U.S. Supreme Court holds that judges, rather than juries, must decide whether federal prescription-drug regulations preempt state failure-to-warn claims. The Chamber urged the Court to take this case...
U.S. Supreme Court
May 20, 2019
ISSUES: Federal Preemption & Commerce Clause, Food & Drug, FDA
U.S. Chamber joins coalition brief urging Eleventh Circuit to grant rehearing en banc to consider whether class settlement should have been approved due to lack of named plaintiff’s Article III...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
May 20, 2019
ISSUES: Class Actions & Mass Actions, Article III / Standing
Business coalition including U.S. Chamber files motion for summary judgment in litigation against OSHA’s 2016 recordkeeping and anti-retaliation rule. The motion argues that provisions of the rule...
U.S. District Court - Western District of Oklahoma
May 17, 2019
ISSUES: Administrative Law & Government Litigation, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Supreme Court to overrule Ninth Circuit’s extra-statutory expansion of the Clean Water Act’s point source permitting program
U.S. Supreme Court
May 16, 2019
ISSUES: Clean Water Act (CWA)
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