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		<title>Vermont Proposes a Non-Solution to &#8220;All-Natural&#8221; Class Action Lawsuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our February 8 post, Courts Not a “Natural” at Regulating Food Ads and Labels, I argued that legislatures, or regulatory bodies acting as an “agents” of the legislature, are far better suited to define politicized, complex terms like “natural” than are judges and juries through class action litigation. The context of this argument: class action [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3922&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: FTC Urges Court to Dismiss EPIC&#8217;s Effort to Compel Action Vs. Google</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/21/update-ftc-urges-court-to-dismiss-epics-effort-to-compel-action-vs-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our February 15 post, Court Should Dismiss Privacy Group’s Suit Vs. FTC Over Google Buzz Settlement, noted that the Federal Trade Commission would be filing its response to EPIC&#8217;s demand that FTC file a legal action against Goole for alleged violations of last year&#8217;s FTC-Google privacy settlement involving Google Buzz. FTC filed its motion to dismiss on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3917&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finger on the Pulse: From Our Blogroll and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/17/finger-on-the-pulse-from-our-blogroll-and-beyond-73/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Free Enterprise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[State court tosses $40 million punitive damage in Florida smokers’ case (California Punitive Damages; Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts) University of Texas study finds no direct connection between water pollution and hydraulic fracturing (CBS Dallas-Fort Worth) Do regulations shift around jobs, destroy jobs, or create jobs? The answer: yes (Cato @ Liberty) What’s ATLA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3913&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Court Should Dismiss Privacy Group&#8217;s Suit Vs. FTC Over Google Buzz Settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Lammi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF contributor site On Friday, a federal court in Washington, D.C. will hear what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) thinks about a lawsuit the online privacy advocate EPIC has filed demanding that FTC charge Google with violations of a settlement agreement between FTC and Google involving Google Buzz. EPIC isn&#8217;t suing Google, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3901&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Cert Petition Spotlights Speech Limits on Securities Market</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/14/supreme-court-cert-petition-spotlights-speech-limits-on-securities-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Lammi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Free Speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF&#8217;s contributor site Distinguished First Amendment scholar Frederick Schaeur once wrote in the Harvard Law Review, &#8220;It might be hyperbole to describe the Securities and Exchange Commission as the Content Regulation Commission, but such a description would not be wholly inaccurate.&#8221; SEC has yet to heed a suggestion from one of its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3885&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finger on the Pulse: From Our Blogroll and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/10/finger-on-the-pulse-from-our-blogroll-and-beyond-72/</link>
		<comments>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/10/finger-on-the-pulse-from-our-blogroll-and-beyond-72/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Free Enterprise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cameras finally coming to the US Supreme Court? (Blog of Legal Times) Odd procedural argument won’t stop Justices from ruling on constitutionality of Affordable Care Act (Cato @ Liberty) Does the current FCPA enforcement climate make it more or less likely that companies will self-report violations? (Corruption, Crime &#38; Compliance) Pennsylvania adopts clear regulatory standards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3883&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Courts Not a &#8220;Natural&#8221; at Regulating Food Ads and Labels</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/08/courts-not-the-natural-branch-for-regulating-food-ads-and-labels/</link>
		<comments>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/08/courts-not-the-natural-branch-for-regulating-food-ads-and-labels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Richer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In AEP v. Connecticut, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declared that questions of a political nature are best decided by the democratic legislative process, not by litigation through the courts. Unfortunately, the AEP message did not get to everyone. Plaintiffs in recently launched lawsuits against Frito-Lay are asking the judiciary to clarify a term which has become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3870&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Appellate Experts Assess Supreme Court at Mid-term Point</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/08/appellate-experts-assess-supreme-court-at-mid-term-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Washington Legal Foundation held its annual &#8220;High Court Halftime&#8221; briefing program to look back on some decisions from the Supreme Court&#8217;s October 2011 term and to preview upcoming arguments. The video of this program is available here for on-demand viewing. Hosted by WLF advisory board chairman, The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, and headlined by veteran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3864&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SEC&#8217;s Strict Liability Claw Strikes Again</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/06/secs-strict-liability-claw-strikes-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Lammi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oooo, the Claw Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF&#8217;s contributor page In a July 2011 Legal Pulse post, SEC to Join HHS in Effort to Drop the Claw of Strict Liability on Business Managers, we decried the federal punishment of business executives based solely on their status, rather than on whether they actually violated the law. Such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3854&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WLF Advisory Board Member Named as U.S. Golf Association President</title>
		<link>http://wlflegalpulse.com/2012/02/03/wlf-advisory-board-member-named-as-u-s-golf-association-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Legal Pulse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Legal Foundation congratulates Jones Day partner and WLF Legal Policy Advisory Board member Glen D. Nager who, as of Saturday, February 4, will be President of the United States Golf Association. Glen has been the USGA&#8217;s Vice President and he served as its General Counsel from 2006 to 2008.  His elevation to President was discussed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wlflegalpulse.com&amp;blog=12924779&amp;post=3844&amp;subd=wlflegalpulse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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