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The DOJ’s Monopolization Case Against Apple
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Posts · 2,988 words · PDF available
On March 21, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ), together with 15 states and the District of Columbia, filed a complaint in federal district court accusing Apple of monopolizing smartphone markets ...
Congressional Court Watcher: Recent Appellate Decisions of Interest to Lawmakers (April 15–April 21, 2024)
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Posts · 1,670 words · PDF available
The federal courts issue hundreds of decisions every week in cases involving diverse legal disputes. This Sidebar series selects decisions from the past week that may be of particular interest to fede...
Fourth Circuit Rules Parochial School’s 501(c)(3) Tax Exemption Does Not Trigger Title IX Obligations
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Posts · 2,290 words · PDF available
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits entities “receiving federal financial assistance” from discriminating based on sex in education programs and activities. The statute a...
USDA Rural Utilities Service’s Support for Tribes and Other Indigenous Entities
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Reports · 9,612 words · PDF available
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Rural Development (RD) mission area administers a range of programs that help offset the costs of building and repair...
The Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule on Investment Advice in Private Sector Pension Plans and Individual Retirement Accounts
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Reports · 11,453 words · PDF available
Following the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA; P.L. 93-406), regulations issued in 1975 (“the 1975 rule”) defined investment advice using a five-part test. To b...
Private Credit: Trends and Policy Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Resources · 1,434 words · PDF available
Private credit generally refers to a type of lending undertaken by nonbank financial institutions and made to small- and medium-sized private companies that are not publicly traded. As a rapidly growi...
Bank Failures: The FDIC’s Systemic Risk Exception
Congressional Research Service · 2024-04-23 · Resources · 1,855 words · PDF available
When Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank failed, the Treasury Secretary, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced on March 12, 2023, that the ...
Recent executive actions have built a more equitable and effective disaster policy. But the rest must come from legislative change.
Brookings Institution · 2024-04-23 · Article · 2,390 words · PDF available
This is the epilogue to asix-part series on federal disaster policy reformspublished in summer 2023. Previous posts outlinedprinciplesfor reform, examinedchangesto the declaration process, recommended...
What can be done about the high and rising national debt?
Brookings Institution · 2024-04-23 · Article · 1,210 words
The national debt has potentially dire consequences. Participants at a recent event offered proposals to avoid them.