...But the Newsom administration has decided to wait for the appeals court to rule on the other two judges’ decisions that left the law intact for now. Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is lead counsel in the other Sacramento case in...
When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
...In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past year, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit legal group, represents students who they say have been robbed of their competitive advantage and constitutional right to equal protection under the...
Bump Stocks Sales Resume in Texas after ATF Fails to File Stay to Stop Reversal of Ban
...Michael Cargill, owner of Austin’s Central Texas Gun Works, sued to challenge the ban in 2019 with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a litigation group that says it protects constitutional freedoms, including Second Amendment rights. They lost in federal court in...
Charter Boat Captains Don’t Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules
...A group of charter boat captains represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) sued, saying the rule violated rights to due process, privacy, and freedom of movement, among other things. "The reason we were against this so much is it tracked us precisely...
Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime
...“The corollary to the First Amendment right to speak is a First Amendment right to receive information,” Jenin Younes, an attorney from the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing the plaintiffs, said. The battle over AB 2098 illustrates why medical...
Lawsuit Challenging IRS Seizure of Crypto Account Records Is Back in Court
...In the meantime, the IRS continues to seek out John Doe summons. On Aug. 15, 2022, a California federal court authorized the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on SFOX, seeking information about US taxpayers who conducted at least $20,000 in crypto transactions...
Doctors Without Voices?
...Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098, a law that could cost doctors their licenses if they treated COVID in a manner at odds with “scientific consensus,” i.e. essentially whatever happened to be coming out the CDC that particular day (remember, it...
The New York Times Warns That Freedom of Speech ‘Threatens Public Health’ and ‘Democracy Itself’
...Myers may disagree with that calculation or recoil at its implications. But the First Amendment clearly bars the government from banning speech it views as hazardous to public health or democracy. The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, who include individual social...
Court Urged To Keep Suit Over IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Alive
...Richard A. Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who is representing Harper, said in a statement that the Supreme Court historically has held that "the government may not deprive citizens of their liberty interests or property interests without providing them...
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
...Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an organization representing the individual plaintiffs, said the government had sought to sidestep free-speech rights by forcing private companies to take action on discourse that is otherwise...