NEWS ALERT:
"New US Chamber of Commerce GC Seeks Higher Profile for Litigation Center," Corporate Counsel (November 21, 2018).
U.S. Chamber files brief urging the Supreme Court to ensure that private entities meet the rigorous standard for state action before subjecting them to liability under the First Amendment
U.S. Supreme Court
December 11, 2018
ISSUES: Free Speech
Supreme Court grants cert. petition in veterans benefits case addressing Seminole Rock and Auer deference
U.S. Supreme Court
December 10, 2018
ISSUES: Administrative Law & Government Litigation
U.S. Chamber files coalition amicus brief arguing Ninth Circuit should grant rehearing en banc in decades-long Alien Tort Statute litigation against domestic corporation to reverse panel decision...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
December 7, 2018
ISSUES: Alien Tort Statute (ATS)
U.S. Chamber files amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court to grant cert. and hold that a domestic securities transaction is a necessary—but not sufficient—basis for applying U.S. securities laws...
U.S. Supreme Court
December 6, 2018
ISSUES: Securities Litigation, International: Tort Tourism & Cross Border Issues
U.S. Supreme Court vacates Fifth Circuit opinion with instructions to reconsider landowner’s claims that the government unlawfully designated land as “critical habitat” for endangered species
U.S. Supreme Court
December 3, 2018
ISSUES: Endangered Species Act (ESA), Federal Preemption & Commerce Clause
U.S. Chamber joins coalition amicus brief arguing Court of Appeal should affirm trial court’s judgment that California Section 17501’s prohibition against retailer advertising of price discounts is...
California Court of Appeals
December 3, 2018
ISSUES: Free Speech
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