Insidious Design or Instrument of Progress: The Multi-Agency Initiative to Choke Off Undesirable Businesses' Access to the Financial World

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2014

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Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

Seeks to scrutinize this new reality by surveying the current federal administrative actions aimed at stifling undesirable, but nonetheless legal, businesses. Specifically, it analyzes whether the federal government exceeded its authority by executing Operation Choke Point without adequate legal justification.

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Operating choke point, America's discovery of a worrisome new initiative, Misinterpretation of FIRREA has permitted the use of enforcement powers, United States v. Bank of New York Mellon, Distinguishing Mellon and its progeny from an operation choke point lawsuit, Operating choke point's effect on the Texas economy, Recommendations for restrain and reform

Citation

Jeri Leigh McDowell, Insidious Design or Instrument of Progress: The Multi-Agency Initiative to Choke Off Undesirable Businesses' Access to the Financial World, 47 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 803 (2014-2015)