..“There is no meaningful cap or calculation that ever really takes place,” said David Rosenfeld, a law professor at Northern Illinois University and former senior SEC enforcement official whose work examining SEC fines was cited by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in...
As U.S. Securities Regulator FINRA Faces Constitutional Challenge, Bill Barr Calls for Defanging It
...That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco,...
Attorney Conduct Rule Doesn’t Chill Free Speech, Connecticut Tells US Court
..."They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged," their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday's oral arguments... Read the full...
Lawyers Say Exam Shows 96-Year-Old Us Appeals Judge Still Fit to Serve
...Newman's lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an "unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman" with "no evidence of current substantial...
96-Year-Old Judge Deadlocks With Appeals Panel on Fitness Probe
...Also this week, the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in which Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones called Newman “a brilliant, capable jurist” and criticized the committee’s probe as “inexplicable.” The neurologist who examined Newman told...
Cleveland County Overtime Pay Dispute Could Head to Trial in November 2024
...The case had attracted national attention. Cleveland County appealed the 4th Circuit’s 2022 ruling to the US Supreme Court. Sixteen state governments filed a brief supporting the county’s request. So did groups called the International Municipal Lawyers Association...
Internet Divided over Biden Pushing Forward with Student Loan Debt Removal: ‘Slippery Slope’
...A federal judge in Michigan recently dismissed a challenge against Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan from a legal group, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, for lacking standing, per Axios. Biden followed up that dismissal by touting his decision to push...
Biden Student Loan Plan For 800,000 Borrowers Faces Renewed Court Challenge
...In a statement to the Washington Examiner, New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Sheng Li noted that in a case challenging an effort by the Biden administration to forgive student loans for millions of borrowers, the district court found that a group of states...
Legal Challenges to Biden’s Student Loan Plans Have Borrowers Anxious Ahead of Payment Restart
...A second lawsuit was recently filed against the Biden administration for its plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for 800,000 borrowers. The suit was filed in federal court by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) on behalf of the Cato Institute and...
Biden DOJ to Fight Court Order That Blocked Feds from Colluding with Big Tech to Censor Speech
...Legal group New Civil Liberties Alliance, who also have plaintiffs in the lawsuit who allege were censored by Big Tech with the government's help, told Fox News Digital that they are "confident" the Fifth Circuit will agree with the District Court's findings that...