by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (April 22, 2021) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance celebrates a victory today as amicus curiae in the U.S. Supreme Court case, AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission. Justice Stephen Breyer handed down a unanimous decision...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (April 22, 2021) – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the lower courts erred in imposing an issue-exhaustion requirement on Social Security disability claimants. In Carr v. Saul, claimants challenged a judge-made version of the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | Blog
In Federalist Number 78 Alexander Hamilton wrote about the importance of not only an independent judiciary, but one that had the courage to protect liberty. Judges, he said, have a “duty” “to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | In the News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gutted the Federal Trade Commission’s power to seek federal court orders forcing bad marketplace actors to pay restitution, shutting down a critical tool the FTC uses to recover money from scammers and antitrust violators. In a...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 20, 2021 | In the News
A man whose cryptocurrency records were seized through an IRS summons is appealing a ruling that dismissed his lawsuit without addressing his core claims. James Harper argued that the John Doe summons—which demands information from a third party about an unnamed...
