by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 13, 2020 | In the News
A Norfolk state representative says he supports a lawsuit against what he calls Gov. Charlie Baker’s “overreach” in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Shawn Dooley, R-Norfolk, said his comments are “not necessarily attacking the quarantine, the restrictions,...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 11, 2020 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (August 11, 2020) – Today’s 2-1 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Michelle Cochran v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was sorely disappointing. After winning a preliminary injunction against the SEC last fall, Ms. Cochran had hoped her...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 11, 2020 | In the News
A split panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Tuesday threw out a suit brought by an accountantwho alleged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal. Two of the three judges on the panel agreed that...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 11, 2020 | In the News
For years Barry Romeril, the former chief financial officer of Xerox, has yearned to speak out about massive accounting-fraud charges leveled against him and his company by the SEC in 2002, say his lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. But weeks after the SEC...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 9, 2020 | In the News
FreedomWorks recently announced the launch of the American Freedom Initiative (AFI), a collaboration headed by former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker. This project aims to help relieve injustices committed against Americans under the criminal justice system...
