by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 11, 2023 | In the News
…The Supreme Court “has been clear that we do not invoke lenity just because ‘multiple, divergent principles of statutory construction are available,’” Higginson wrote. Michael Cargill, the Texas gun shop owner who brought the lawsuit challenging the ban, is...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | In the News
…The latest lawsuit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) argues that all payment pause extensions beyond the initial six months authorized by Congress in the CARES Act — including the extensions implemented by the Trump administration before Biden...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | In the News
…Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which brought the lawsuit, said in an interview that the department could resolve the lawsuit amicably by revising the regulations. Li said the department’s current proposal “looks pretty good,”...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (April 10, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in Burgess v. FDIC, et al. Friday evening. NCLA urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to redress the...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Apr 10, 2023 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
Ernest Ramirez, a car-wash technician in a small, south Texas town, led a simple but fulfilling life with his son, Ernesto Junior. Junior was a “wonderful child, full of smiles.” Ramirez had raised his son alone; he’d never known his own father and sought to provide...
