BG&A partner Jonathan Berry was quoted in a recent Bloomberg Law Daily Labor Report about the Department of Labor’s plan to propose and finalize a worker classification regulation defining when workers are independent contractors or employees under federal wage law.
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Jonathan Berry was featured in an article from Bloomberg’s Daily Labor Report on June 3, 2020 about the recently announced plan for Labor Department Inspector General Scott Dahl to depart on June 21. […]
“When it comes to addressing the economic urgency, I think that DOL’s going to take some special care to make workplace obligations as crystal clear as humanly possible,” said Jonathan Berry of Boyden Gray & Associates.
On May 12, 2020, BG&A filed an opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in AFPM v. EPA (No. 19-1124), a case concerning EPA’s E15 Rule allowing the year-round sale of […]
A regulatory litigator and Supreme Court clerk, Mr. Berry joins the firm after heading the policy office at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he oversaw major regulatory reforms credited with saving the American people billions of dollars.
On February 25, 2020, BG&A filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College, No. 19-2005, on behalf of ten economists and econometrics scholars: Dr. Michael P. Keane […]
On December 31, 2019, BG&A filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in June Medical Services v. Gee, Nos. 18-1323, 18-1460, on behalf of nine African American pro-life organizations: The Radiance Foundation, Civil Rights for the Unborn, […]
On December 16, 2019, BG&A and its co-counsel O’Melveny & Myers filed an amicus brief in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (S. Ct. No. 19-7), on behalf of the State National Bank of […]
Today Michelle Valent voluntarily dismissed her Supreme Court case against the Social Security Administration after the agency agreed to a settlement granting her complete relief. Ms. Valent, a disabled beneficiary of the Social Security Act, was […]
On August 16, 2019, in the case of Valent v. Saul, Commissioner of Social Security, BG&A filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule or limit the doctrine of Chevron […]
On August 9, 2019, BG&A filed a petition for D.C. Circuit review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule entitled Modifications to Fuel Regulations To Provide Flexibility for E15, on behalf of a coalition of public interest […]
On August 8, 2019, BG&A filed a supplemental brief before the Oregon Court of Appeals on behalf Aaron & Melissa Klein. The new brief follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s grant of their petition for writ of […]
On June 19, 2019, the Supreme Court granted Melissa and Aaron Klein’s petition for writ of certiorari in Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries, vacated the judgment of the Oregon Court of Appeals, and […]
BG&A partner Adam Gustafson testified today at a hearing before the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations. The hearing concerned EPA’s reconsideration of the Obama Administration’s supplemental finding that EPA’s Mercury and […]
BG&A partner Adam Gustafson will speak tomorrow on litigation against government agencies at the Republican National Lawyers Association’s 19th Annual National Policy Conference. Gustafson will join Professor Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law), Mark Chenoweth […]
Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray spoke on PBS NewsHour about Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, and what happens next. On the false narrative of Russian collusion, Gray said: “There’s a […]
BG&A partner Adam Gustafson was interviewed for the Member Profile feature of the Federalist Society’s publication The Federalist Paper.
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Adam Gustafson discussed pending litigation and forthcoming rulemakings concerning biofuels at the Iowa Renewable Fuel Summit, in a conversation with Iowa RFA Executive Director Monte Shaw. Gustafson expressed hope for market […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Adam Gustafson will speak on the future of federal biofuels policy as part of a panel of experts at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit this month. His fellow panelists are Donnell […]
Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray will deliver the keynote address tomorrow at a conference of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State: New Normals? The Trump Administration, the Courts, […]
Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray wrote and spoke about the legacy and person of President George H.W. Bush in the days following his passing. President Bush’s policies and judicial appointees set the stage for […]
Andrew Varcoe, a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates, was recently named as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group. “It’s a great honor to assume this […]
BG&A filed three sets of comments on NHTSA and EPA’s Proposed Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. It their notice of proposed rulemaking, the agencies requested comment on “the potential benefits and disbenefits of high-octane fuel” […]
BG&A partner Andrew Varcoe is speaking on a panel on climate change litigation on October 11, 2018, at the Oregon State Bar Environmental and Natural Resources Section’s annual year-in-review continuing legal education (CLE) event. The central […]
On Monday, Boyden Gray & Associates filed comments on behalf of Urban Air Initiative urging EPA to correct its erroneous modeling of ethanol’s effect on gasoline emissions. The comments came in response to EPA’s Advanced Notice of […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Andrew Varcoe is moderating a panel on gene editing in crops and animals at a conference co-sponsored by the National Agricultural Law Center, the National Association of Attorneys General, and Arkansas […]
On July 30, 2018, Boyden Gray & Associates filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of prominent economists in a lawsuit against Harvard University for alleged racial discrimination in the college admissions process. The case, Students […]
On behalf of Urban Air Initiative and a coalition of ethanol producers and agricultural stakeholders, and separately on behalf of Illinois Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Growers Association, BG&A persuaded EPA to consider the role of midlevel ethanol […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Adam Gustafson has been named a Vice Chair of the Air Quality Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. At BG&A, Mr. Gustafson has practiced in […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Andrew Varcoe will be speaking on November 13 on regulatory issues relating to high-octane, low-carbon fuels as part of a Capitol Hill panel briefing, sponsored by the Environmental and Energy Study […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Adam Gustafson was named to the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Administrative Law & Regulation Practice Group. Executive Committee members help direct the efforts of the practice group by organizing […]
Boyden Gray & Associates partner Andrew Varcoe has been selected to speak at a panel on environmental law and food law at the 25th Anniversary Fall Conference of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Section of Environment, […]
Today Boyden Gray & Associates partner Adam Gustafson represented Urban Air Initiative at an EPA hearing on the Midterm Evaluation of EPA’s greenhouse gas standards for new vehicles. Mr. Gustafson commended EPA for reopening the Midterm […]
On behalf of the Urban Air Initiative, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, 25x’25 Alliance, Nebraska Ethanol Board, and Nebraska Ethanol Industry Coalition, Boyden Gray & Associates filed comments on EPA’s Proposed Renewable Fuel Standard Rule for 2018, […]
On behalf of Kevin Donovan, M.D., BG&A filed an amicus brief last week in support of the State of Texas in Planned Parenthood v. Smith (5th Cir.), an appeal of a district court decision rejecting Texas’s disqualification of certain Planned Parenthood entities […]
Adam Gustafson will speak at the annual conference of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) on Thursday, in Omaha, Nebraska. He will discuss the regulatory opportunities and challenges that confront the auto industry and others who […]
In recent articles in The Recorder, Boyden Gray & Associates partner Andrew Varcoe and Professor Douglas Kysar, the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offered dueling views on a rare mandamus […]
Adam Gustafson will speak about the future of the biofuel market at the Fuel Ethanol Workshop in Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 20. Mr. Gustafson is a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates. His fellow panelists are Tammy Klein […]
Andrew Varcoe, a partner at Boyden Gray & Associates, was recently named to the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group. The Federalist Society, founded in 1982, provides a forum […]
Boyden Gray spoke at the Free State Foundation’s Ninth Annual Telecom Policy Conference last month at the National Press Club. He addressed judicial deference to agency interpretations, the major questions doctrine, the “Net Neutrality” case decided by […]