by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 6, 2020 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (October 6, 2020) –The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is substantively rewriting federal criminal law with its Final Rule on bump stock-type devices, concluded the New Civil Liberties Alliance in two recent court filings...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 5, 2020 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (October 5, 2020) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group draws strong support for its petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Christopher M. Gibson v. U.S. Securities and...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 5, 2020 | In the News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a decision upholding reduced Medicaid reimbursement for children’s hospitals, turning away a chance to revisit the so-called Chevron deference — the longstanding practice of having judges defer to reasonable...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Press Releases
Washington, DC (October 5, 2020) – For more than 30 years, the Federal Trade Commission has claimed imaginary powers to obtain millions, if not billions, of dollars in damages under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act, which only authorizes injunctions against present or...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 2, 2020 | In the News
Free-market think tanks urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to curtail the Federal Trade Commission’s traditional reliance on monetary sanctions as a weapon against bad marketplace behavior, including consumer fraud and anti-competitive conduct. Justices will...
