Siding with a Texas accountant accused of violating accounting standards, the full Fifth Circuit ruled that the administrative law judge presiding over her enforcement proceeding was unconstitutionally protected from removal... Read the full article
High Court Told Law Barring Fraud Coverage Is Constitutional
A Starr Insurance unit urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a challenge to a Ninth Circuit ruling on the constitutionality of a California law that prevents insurers from defending claims over alleged violations of the state's unfair competition and false...
Creating a Split, En Banc 5th Circuit OKs Court Challenge to SEC Proceeding
A Texas accountant named Michelle Cochran and her lawyers from the New Civil Liberties Alliance pulled off a remarkable feat on Monday: They persuaded the en banc 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to split with five other federal circuits and allow Cochran to bring a...
Full 5th Circ. Reopens Challenge To SEC Judges’ Removability
The full Fifth Circuit on Monday ruled that an accountant can proceed with her claims that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal, teeing up a circuit split... Read the full article
The Crisis That Didn’t Happen: How Dems Got It Wrong About Ending the COVID-19 Eviction Ban
The flood of evictions that politicians and housing advocates desperately warned of has yet to materialize three months after the Supreme Court revoked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 eviction ban. Eviction filings remain below pre-pandemic levels despite dire...
1st Circ. May Revive Suit Over IRS Crypto Doc Seizure
The First Circuit suggested a New Hampshire man is able to sue the IRS to keep the government from getting its hands on his cryptocurrency records, saying during oral arguments Wednesday that the law preventing such suits doesn't apply when there's no tax penalty at...
Cryptocurrency Expert Tells Court IRS ‘Fishing Expedition’ Violates Privacy Rights
A federal appeals court on Wednesday signaled it may allow a bitcoin user to challenge the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of his financial information from Coinbase Global Inc and other virtual currency exchanges, in a case that could have broad implications for...
Judge Blocks Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Workers
NCLA Litigation Counsel Jenin Younes joins "The Buck Sexton Show" on WFMD-AM to discuss the block to the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers by a federal judge.
South Florida Cities Use License Plate Readers To Track Drivers, Search for Criminals
Wherever you drive in South Florida, there’s a good chance you are being watched, your license plate and movements recorded and stored away for future use. “Everybody’s license plate is being scanned and everybody’s license plate geo-positioned and time of day is...
Decentralized Revolution—Ep. 67
Jenin Younes talks about her career as a public defender in New York, how and why she became the “Lefty Lockdown Skeptic” on Twitter, and her work fighting for civil liberties in the new landscape of the last couple of years.