Jones Day’s Government Regulation attorneys are leaders in the area of administrative and agency litigation. With a prominent record of success, we are retained by clients who seek a demonstrated ability to obtain results in matters involving challenges to, or the interpretation or enforcement of, state and federal statutes and regulations.

From disputes over ambiguous statutory or regulatory language, through challenges to statutes, regulations and government actions on constitutional, statutory, or administrative grounds, to the defense of contentious government enforcement actions, Jones Day's understanding of government processes and our highly ranked litigation team enable us to develop inventive and effective strategies for our clients.

Jones Day’s administrative and agency litigators represent clients in complex governmental litigation at all levels of the state and federal courts. We have often served as primary counsel in merits cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. We have filed numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and in the lower courts. We have brought and litigated though each level of appeal significant challenges on constitutional and other grounds to governmental schemes that negatively affect our clients’ interests. We regularly confront a broad array of statutory and regulatory interpretation issues at the trial and appellate levels.

Jones Day lawyers have litigated matters involving, among other offices and agencies:

• The U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Justice, State and Transportation
• The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
• The Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• The Environmental Protection Agency
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• The Federal Aviation Administration
• The Federal Communications Commission 
• The Federal Election Commission
• The Federal Trade Commission
• The International Trade Commission
• The National Credit Union Administration
• The U.S. Park Service
• The U.S. Postal Service

Our experience spans a wide range of subject areas, including employment or educational discrimination, campaign finance reform, free speech, ERISA, truth in lending, federal court jurisdiction, federal arbitration, interstate commerce, state regulation of international commerce, and rent control. Several of our representative matters include:

• Wining a victory in the United States Supreme Court for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) – an entity created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and charged with setting public company auditing standards and investigating and disciplining public company auditing firms
• Winning a victory in the United States Supreme Court for energy companies challenging an appellate decision holding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) could retrospectively abrogate arms-length contracts for power entered into by sophisticated business entities absent a showing of an excessive burden to consumers.
• Litigating at the appellate level U.S. v. Winstar, a case that vindicated the contractual rights of thrift savings institutions negatively affected by the Federal Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) 
• Challenging arbitrary assessments under the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992, which culminated in partial invalidation of the statute 
• Winning a victory for seven airlines that challenged a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rule that would have regulated the airlines in new and onerous ways, but which did not comply with the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act. 
• Handling numerous cases involving electoral redistricting and claims under the Voting Rights Act.

With respect to federal and state enforcement actions, Jones Day Government Regulation lawyers have handled, among other matters, a series of claims brought against the tobacco industry; federal and state Attorney General actions brought against the eye care, pharmaceutical, and health care industries; cases involving voting rights and redistricting; actions brought by the Federal Communications Commission and the National Labor Relations Board; and a variety of cases brought under the False Claims Act by individuals empowered under the statute to sue on behalf of the United States.

Internationally, Jones Day’s attorneys in Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Tokyo have considerable experience in a wide variety of administrative and agency litigation.