by NCLA | Jan 4, 2020 | Blog
In 2020, the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Title VII...
by NCLA | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog
Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt has been working for over six months to relocate certain senior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) personnel out of Washington, DC to offices located in the interior west. As a native Wyomingite I can speak from personal experience...
by NCLA | Feb 6, 2020 | Blog, Kara Rollins
In Brady v. Maryland, the Supreme Court first recognized that a defendant’s due process rights are violated when a prosecutor fails to disclose material exculpatory evidence, evidence tending to show that a defendant is not guilty of a crime or punishment. The Brady...
by NCLA | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, John J. Vecchione
There is a case of importance and promise for injecting Constitutional protections in proceedings by administrative agencies. Faced with a recalcitrant Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), AXON Enterprises, Inc. (“AXON”) sued the FTC in federal court on January 3,...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 21, 2020 | Blog
One of the most pernicious tools used by the administrative state is the court-created doctrine of agency “deference.” Roughly, this doctrine says that administrative agencies are entitled to interpret ambiguous laws any way they want, and courts are required...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog
NCLA is fighting on the front lines of cutting-edge administrative law litigation–and you have an opportunity to be a part of that fight! NCLA is the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated solely to litigating administrative law issues and...
