The Heartland Institute

On August 26 the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the Boston police for arresting a man who recorded their brutal treatment of a teenager. The ruling is only one stage of an important lawsuit, but it may have sweeping consequences for two concepts crucial to civil liberties ...

The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, also known as the Dodd-Frank Act, is a law with consequences for every part of the financial system. Its new regulations are far-reaching, imposing many new restrictions on financial instruments and activities and a new group of government regulators with enforcement powers ...

Section 629 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 authorized the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the television hardware market. On June 11, 1998, the FCC first mandated that cable companies provide a separable security access device (later “CableCARD”) to open the hardware market to third parties. The device would ...

In the wake of the 3-2 vote by the Federal Communications Commission to impose network neutrality regulations on the Internet this past December, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives may change the terms of the debate significantly. Members of the incoming congressional leadership expressed displeasure with ...