by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 22, 2023 | Blog, Sheng Li
NCLA lawsuits have forced the Department of Transportation to abandon an abusive administrative enforcement action against a small family-owned business for the third time this year. These cases provide a roadmap for others to follow when DOT drags them...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 18, 2023 | Blog, Margot Cleveland
Justices Sotomayor and Thomas agree. Professors Neal Katyal and Philip Hamburger agree. And the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) agree. The United States Supreme Court should reconsider its qualified immunity...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 8, 2023 | Andrew Morris, Blog
A new kind of administrative threat has emerged: use of the federal judiciary’s internal administrative machinery to bypass the Constitution’s impeachment process and sideline a disfavored judge. That’s what is happening in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Nov 17, 2023 | Blog, Garrett Snedeker
Photo: Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism “We do it this way on all other campuses. If we cannot do it this way, we’ll leave Amherst.” That was the ultimatum served to me by a representative of MASSPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group) fourteen...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Nov 9, 2023 | Blog, Daniel Kelly
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument,’” Alice objected. “When...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog, Casey Norman
Freedom of speech has been placed increasingly at risk as we transition to the neoteric “Age of Information/Misinformation/Disinformation,” dominated by the proliferation of social media platforms, hyperbolic news feeds, and a mounting degree of intolerance for speech...