by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
In its decision earlier this month in Wooden v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 1063 (2022), the Supreme Court had little difficulty rejecting the Solicitor General’s expansive interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA). That statute mandates a 15-year...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 22, 2022 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (March 22, 2022) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has made a federal case out of a joke on Twitter. FDRLST Media is under federal investigation after Ben Domenech, publisher of the online magazine, posted a satirical tweet that didn’t sit...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (March 21, 2022) – Settling defendants whom the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has muzzled for decades might get a chance at finally having their voices heard. Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a petition for a writ of...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | COVID-19, Press Releases
Washington, DC (March 21, 2022) – The “Tax Cut Ban” provision of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) encroaches in an unprecedented way on a core power exclusively assigned to the states—the power to change or reduce a state’s taxation of its own citizens....
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What will be the fate of free speech in the United States? The answer is coming soon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Netchoice v. Paxton. Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the...
