NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little joins “The Jimmy Barrett Show” on Houston’s NewsRadio 740 KTRH to discuss NCLA's recent comment objecting to the Department of Education’s “Proposed Priorities – American History and Civics Education.”
CDC eviction ban reaches Supreme Court; Atlanta case a vital piece in Covid debate
A lawyer handling the federal appeal in Atlanta of the CDC eviction moratorium on tenants during the Covid pandemic said Friday he holds little hope the Supreme Court will use a case it received Thursday to stop the moratorium. “I doubt it will be successful, I hope...
Deja Vu as Ed Department Once Again Revisits the Contentious Landscape of Title IX
Reversing the rule could “once again force schools to deprive accused students and faculty of constitutionally guaranteed safeguards like the right to confront the evidence used against them,” said Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance....
Department of Education Has no Power to Set Curriculum
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little joins “The Jimmy Barrett Show” on Houston’s NewsRadio 740 KTRH to discuss NCLA's recent comment objecting to the Department of Education’s “Proposed Priorities – American History and Civics Education.”
Proposed legislation would help landlords, tenants with back rent
Bills are piling up for those who’ve had a hard time making ends meet over the last year and the state is bracing for a lift on the moratorium that has prevented evictions during the public health crisis. But the safety net that has allowed hard-hit renters to stay in...
Civil Liberties Group Backs Ohio’s Bid To Ax Tax Cut Limit Law
A civil liberties organization has supported Ohio's attempt to invalidate a federal law prohibiting states from using coronavirus aid to offset tax cuts, arguing that a proposed Treasury regulation made the statute more ambiguous. In a Wednesday amicus brief, the...
At The Bar: The Bureaucratic Blob And The Deep State
Senior Policy Analyst Inez Stepman and guest-host Erin Hawley talk with Mark Chenoweth from the New Civil Liberties Alliance about the administrative state that is taking over all of our lives like blob!
Calendar and courts conspire against federal pandemic eviction moratorium
Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are battling it out in a separate 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case over whether the order leaves landlords powerless to take legal action to collect delinquent payments. It’s now up to the...
Eviction Moratorium Hurting Owners, from Mom-and-Pop Landlords to Property Giants
Property owners across the country, including struggling mom-and-pop operators, are asking the nation’s courts why landlords are expected to take a financial hit while nonpaying tenants are protected by ongoing eviction moratoriums. Americans who own rental properties...
Landlords sue Murphy over ‘unconstitutional’ mandate allowing security deposit as rent
Several South Jersey landlords are suing Gov. Phil Murphy to block a 13-month-old executive order that allows tenants to use their security deposit to make rent payments. As thousands of people lost their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and began...