by mason.riggs | Jan 3, 2021 | In the News
Law360 (January 3, 2021, 12:02 PM EST) — President-elect Joe Biden may need to flex his administration’s regulatory muscle to fulfill many of his ambitious campaign pledges, a strategy that could run headlong into a conservative U.S. Supreme Court wary of...
by mason.riggs | Dec 17, 2020 | In the News
James Madison once said that the concentration of all government powers in one branch is “the very definition of tyranny.” Yet, today, administrative agencies regularly exercise all three of those powers. They issue rules with the force of law. They enforce laws. And...
by mason.riggs | Dec 16, 2020 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (December 16, 2020) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, today filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari in Marcus Broadway v. United States. Mr. Broadway is challenging the lower...
by mason.riggs | Dec 16, 2020 | In the News
Law360 (December 16, 2020, 4:43 PM EST) — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and members of his cabinet were hit with a lawsuit Tuesday by a group of landlords challenging his executive order allowing tenants to use their security deposits to cover back rent during the...
by mason.riggs | Dec 15, 2020 | In the News
When it comes to a public-health crisis of this magnitude, you can’t fight city hall — in this case the state’s chief executive officer. As expected, the state’s highest court last week upheld Gov. Charlie Baker’s exercise of emergency powers enacted in response to...
