In a 6-2 decision written by Justice Elena Kagan, the Court held that FERC acted well within its authority to ensure "just and reasonable" rates in the wholesale energy market when it regulated the compensation for demand response for bids clear the market.
The court, he wrote, has a "dismal record of protecting free speech in cases involving challenges to the institutional authority of the government when it is regulating the speech of its employees, its students and its prisoners, and when it is claiming national security justifications".
Why should it be immune from the Freedom of Information Act when the industry it regulates is such a committed user?
The agency has been trying for years to rewrite its basic rule on duty times, but as is often the case when the parties it regulates cannot reach agreement -- in this case, the pilots and the airlines -- it has not published a new rule.
But if we want people to trust government statistics – and that is really important in a democracy – we need to understand that the free movement of labour will only work to society's advantage when it is regulated by a strong and energetic state.
Under its "Euro 6" standards, due to come into force next year, diesel cars' NOX emissions will have to be 84% below the limits set when it started regulating them in 2000, and their soot output must be 96% below the initial limits set in 1992.
Moreover, the fabricated sensor shows higher selectivity to DNT than other explosives when it is regulated to the melting point of DNT, and to detect DNT concentrations above 150ppb, run-to-run repeatability and device-to-device reproducibility are better than 4%9%%.
It says that a husband can demand sex from his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse, and it regulates when and for what reasons a wife may leave her home on her own.
It would be a sad irony if the Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act because it regulates too much in too many places, when the truth is that it regulates too little in too few.
One, that the FCC may have overstepped its bounds when it comes to "regulating" the Internet, something the NYU School of Law sorta agreed with.
