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Pcaob And The Persistence Of The Removal Puzzle, Patricia L. Bellia
Pcaob And The Persistence Of The Removal Puzzle, Patricia L. Bellia
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In Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB"), the Supreme Court invalidated a statutory provision protecting the tenure of members of the PCAOB, a board created to oversee the auditing of public companies subject to the securities laws. The case carried the potential for a major shift in the Court's approach to separation of powers disputes. Although the Court delivered no such result, the PCAOB case provides a fascinating window on the removal puzzle. The case reflects an entanglement of multiple textually derived and nontextual separation of powers principles. One of the central principles on which the …