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12/14/2011

MSNBC.com: FDA Cracks Down on DIY Sperm Donor

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“The Food and Drug administration is working to put an end to a California’ man’s free sperm donation operation. Trent Arsenault, who has provided more than 350 donations and fathered 14 children through them, tells KNTV’s Traci Grant he’s just “helping people in need.”

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Last year, federal Food and Drug Administration officials delivered a letter ordering Arsenault to “cease manufacturing,” or halt his service, because the computer security expert had not followed regulations governing safety precautions for transmission of human cells or tissues through donor clinics.“We have legitimate concerns,” said Shelly Burgess, a spokeswoman for the FDA.But Arsenault was allowed to continue the operation while the agency decided whether to grant him a hearing on the matter, according to his lawyers.The lawyers, who work for the nonprofit legal firm Cause of Action in Washington, D.C., argue that Arsenault shouldn’t be held to clinic sperm donor standards because his contracts with recipients are individual intimate partner arrangements allowed under the law.”

 


 

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11/30/2011

Fox News.com: ACORN Misused Federal Grant Funds, Report Says

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“This report confirms that ACORN and its rebranded affiliates have used fiscal sponsorship in an illegal and abusive manner to launder taxpayer funds into its own coffers,” said Daniel Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, a Washington, D.C.-based independent, nonprofit government watchdog that has monitored the actions of ACORN over the years.”

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11/10/2011

Politico’s Morning Energy Report: CoA Files Amicus Brief re: EPA

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“The Institute for Liberty, Americans for Prosperity, Center for Rule of Law, Cause of Action and National Black Chamber of Commerce are also worried about the effect of EPA’s final utility MACT rule for mercury and air toxics, which is due out Dec. 16. In an amicus brief filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the groups say EPA needs another year to study the rule’s impacts on electric-grid reliability because the agency has rushed into a rulemaking without a clear understanding of how many power plants will close and what the effect will be on power generation.”

 

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11/7/2011

The Washington Examiner: Cause of Action: NLRB former Chairman and General Counsel engage in ex parte communications

Cause of Action:  NLRB former Chairman and General Counsel engage in ex parte communications

“Cause of Action, a government accountability nonprofit, has obtained emails through a Freedom of Information Act request showing then-NLRB Chairwoman Wilma Liebman, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon and NLRB Public Affairs Director Nancy Cleeland coordinating the board’s response to its own decision to sue Boeing for opening a factory in the right to work state of South Carolina. . . Cause of Action has obtained at least four emails sent to both Solomon and Liebman explicitly about the Boeing litigation. There is also a fifth email about the Boeing litigation, sent from Liebman herself, to Cleeland and Solomon. All of these communications appear to violate NLRB’s own rules.

Cause of Action has asked NLRB’s inspector general to investigate the apparently illegal coordination by Liebman, Cleeland and Solomon on the Boeing suit. But Congress must do more.”

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