There’s an interesting blog posting by Eliza Krigman of NationalJournal.com, and responses to her posting, about the final regulations that the Department of Education promulgated last week for its $350 million assessment grant competition. Krigman notes that “[a]ccording to Education Week, the rules make clear the administration’s desire to shift away from multiple-choice testing in […]
For anyone who still has difficulty in sorting out which provisions of the new health care legislation take effect at which times, the website Visual Economics has a chart that concisely lays out the timeline for the major provisions. This post was originally published on the legacy ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice […]
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals issued an interesting decision in a case involving the “unit of prosecution,” a doctrine well-known in criminal enforcement but less frequently raised in civil regulatory enforcement. In National Association of Home Builders v. OSHA, No. 09-1053, three trade associations had challenged the Secretary of Labor’s amendment of regulations under […]
This blog is intended to deliver content that is timely, interesting, and useful (or at least some combination thereof) on all fields of regulatory practice and administrative law and procedure. Although the primary focus will be U.S. law at all levels of government, Arbitrary and Capricious will also present items involving foreign substantive and procedural […]