Three doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case challenging Michigan State University's vaccine mandate after the Sixth Circuit backed the suit's dismissal, arguing that the circuit court should have applied a stricter standard when considering whether...
Biden Details Student Loan ‘Plan B’ as He Woos Young Voters
President Joe Biden offered details of a sweeping alternative student debt plan that would offer relief to tens of millions of American borrowers during a visit to the college town of Madison, Wisconsin, as he seeks to excite young voters frustrated after his original...
Lawsuit Seeks To Stop The SEC’s Decade-Long Assault On Your Investment Data And Basic Rights
A new lawsuit exposes an extreme and multifaceted disregard for the Constitution by the administrative state. The Securities and Exchange Commission unconstitutionally mandated the seizure of data of every purchase or sale of securities in the U.S. markets, a lawsuit...
96-year-old judge cites colleagues’ ‘pattern of harassment’ in bid to preserve lawsuit
April 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked a Washington, D.C., federal court on Friday to reject a bid from her fellow judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to end her lawsuit over their decision to suspend her from the bench......
A Look At Recent Challenges To SEC’s Settlement ‘Gag Rule’
The settlement policy of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not allow settling while denying the allegations the commission has brought against the defendant or respondent... Mike Blankenship is a partner and Regina Maze is an associate at Winston &...
Facing Court Challenges, Vow of Congress To Reverse, SEC Pauses Implementation of Climate Disclosure Regulation
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pausing implementation of a rule that would have forced companies to disclose their climate impact, citing court cases challenging the legality of the administrative action. “The Commission has discretion to stay its rules...
Abridging, Not Coercing, Is The First Amendment’s Yardstick for Speech Violations
Philip Hamburger, a professor at Columbia, is the CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents most of the individual plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri. Hamburger wrote the following post in response to a post at Volokh by Ilya Somin: Is coercion the First...
Anonymous Audit Firm Sues PCAOB to Block ‘Excessively Intrusive and Burdensome’ Investigative Demand
... The firm is represented by Dickinson Wright PLLC, as well as the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), an organization that is also involved in separate John Doe challenges to the PCAOB in Tennessee and Washington, D.C.... Read the full article
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Biden Admin’s Censorship of Social Media Posts
Oral Arguments are set for March 18 before the Supreme Court in a case that accuses the Biden Administration of a censorship-by-proxy scheme. ... Read the full article
Government Was ‘Going After Lawful Speech,’ Which First Amendment Explicitly Forbids: NCLA President
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in what is being called the “most consequential” First Amendment case in America’s history. The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, and five individuals, claim that federal officials violated their First Amendment...