Recent News About Heartland Institute
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James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute, has expressed strong support for $666.8 million in damages awarded to Energy Transfer in its lawsuit against Greenpeace.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Legal Newsline) – Two teens who claim to have become addicted to e-cigarettes while in their late teens are suing the manufacturer they claim has teamed up with old-school tobacco to market products to young people.
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (Legal Newsline) – North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein's lawsuit filed last week against e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL isn't all it seems, a government relations expert for an Illinois-based free-market think tank said during a recent interview.
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey isn't publicly addressing the think tank founder who told her to "f... off" after she issued a subpoena seeking his group's communication with ExxonMobil regarding climate change.
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The next year could bring significant changes to the renewable energy industry in Illinois, as the legislature will likely consider a state measure to change the renewable portfolio standard as well as a federal mandate to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, released by the Obama administration last week.
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CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - A new study on intellectual property abuses has found that so-called “patent trolls” are hurting the U.S. economy in more ways than one.
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MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) – A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling dealing a bow to union collective bargaining agreements will benefit taxpayers and perhaps spread to other states, according to a Heartland Institute expert.
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WASHINGTON D.C. (Legal Newsline) - In a major blow to President Obama, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the President's "intrasession appointment" of three new members to the National Labor Relations Board was an unconstitutional abuse of power.
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Bullock WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Several state attorneys general are upset with Monday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned a Montana law preventing corporations from spending money on elections.
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Livermore NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A think tank affiliated with New York University School of Law has issued a report that "takes aim at the confusing debate over jobs and environmental regulation."
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Jackson WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Department of Commerce Secretary John Bryson announced Monday an environmental technology initiative that will help "create jobs in the growing environmental industry."
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Elrod NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - For the third time in less than a week, a federal court has reversed an order by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution.
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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a case that challenged the constitutionality of new, graphic cigarette warning labels.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Legal Newsline) - U.S. Magistrate Judge Byron Cudmore won't open records of private groups to class action lawyer Stephen Tillery unless the Illinois Supreme Court does.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) -- A recent judicial ruling expected to be appealed soon to the California State Supreme Court could have a dramatic impact on future product innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, according to legal and medical experts.
