by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 8, 2023 | In the News
…”They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged,” their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday’s oral...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 7, 2023 | In the News
…Newman’s lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an “unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman” with “no evidence...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Sep 7, 2023 | In the News
…That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Aug 17, 2023 | In the News
…Also this week, the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in which Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones called Newman “a brilliant, capable jurist” and criticized the committee’s probe as “inexplicable.” The neurologist who examined Newman told...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Aug 17, 2023 | In the News
…The case had attracted national attention. Cleveland County appealed the 4th Circuit’s 2022 ruling to the US Supreme Court. Sixteen state governments filed a brief supporting the county’s request. So did groups called the International Municipal Lawyers...