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Yesterday, the California Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of California's "mandatory mediation and conciliation" process for labor disputes between agricultural employers and unions. In Gewaran Farming, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the state's high court ruled that compulsory interest arbitration---whereby an arbitrator ca ...

caption id="attachment_40734" align="alignleft" width="222" Photo courtesy of FWS/caption The Center for Biological Diversity is threatening to sue the Fish & Wildlife Service for not imposing ruinous and unnecessary restrictions on private property owners throughout 37 states to protect the Northern long-eared bat. It contends that heavy-hand ...

I found myself asking the titular question earlier this week while testifying at a Joint Western Caucus hearing on Capitol Hill.  During his principal comments, Senator Mike Lee, junior senator from Utah, suggested that one reason why EPA and other agencies have run amok is that Congress has granted them significant rulemaking power with little o ...