...Has the Tax Cut Ban already affected state tax rates? “It’s difficult to say what the precise counterfactual would be if the Tax Cut Ban had not been included in ARPA,” said Sheng Li, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed amicus briefs...
...But John J. Vecchione, a lawyer with the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said some states made it harder for landlords by imposing longer moratoriums than the CDC required. That has put added pressure on property owners to choose between evictions...
..The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created a circuit split when it ruled in December that certified public accountant Michelle Cochran can challenge the SEC's system "before a real Article III federal court rather than be subjected to an endless series of...
...Cochran's counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance last week asked the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit's ruling that she can challenge the constitutionality of the SEC's administrative legal proceedings, rebutting the agency's attempts to pause the...
A civil liberties group says the federal government has no business putting pressure on the nation’s technology companies to stamp out COVID-19 misinformation. The Washington, D.C.-based New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a lawsuit in a Columbus, Ohio, federal...
A nonprofit civil rights organization wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that its client can challenge the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative legal proceedings, rebutting the agency's attempts...
...Twitter suspended plaintiff Daniel Kotzin on March 7 and banned plaintiff Michael Senger permanently on March 8, according to court documents. It suspended Mark Changizi in April, June and December last year. “The timing of these events, along with the one-sided...
The U.S. Surgeon General and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of the Biden administration have directed social-media platforms, including Twitter, to suppress alleged “misinformation” about Covid, alleges a federal lawsuit filed on March 24. The New...
...The Second Circuit’s decision purportedly runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s “long-standing jurisprudence prohibiting such prior restraints, content- and viewpoint-based discrimination, and unconstitutional conditions which violate the First Amendment, and due...
The government's sustained pressure on social media platforms to censor and report purported COVID-19 misinformation amounts to "state action" that violates the First Amendment, according to a lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of three Twitter users. The New Civil...