New Civil Liberties Alliance rejects agency’s attempt to dismiss case after removing guidance on radio frequency identification technology. Read the full article here.
RFID lawsuit: Gotta have it or make it stop?
The US Dept. of Agriculture filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the agency’s plant to implement a livestock traceability program using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. But lawyers for the plaintiffs want the court to hear the case. Read the full...
Cattle Producers to Court: RFID Mandate Not Resolved
The attorney for R-CALF USA and several individual rancher-plaintiffs, who alleged in October that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated U.S. law by attempting to force RFID technology upon the...
Growing Legal Pushback Against ATF’s Rules On Bump Stocks, Receivers
Is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepping its bounds in banning bump stocks? Is the agency wrongly defining lower receivers for AR-15’s as “firearms,” and if so, what does it mean for hundreds if not thousands of cases decided over the...
Court Satisfied RFID Mandate Completely Withdrawn
The Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Read the...
NCLA Backs Adviser’s 11th Circ. Challenge Of SEC Judges
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has thrown its support behind another challenger to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law judges, this time in the Eleventh Circuit. Read the full article here.
Mark Chenoweth on The Lars Larson Show: SAAGs Threaten the Independence of Attorney General Offices
NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth discusses the growing influence of the special interest groups on attorney general offices across the U.S.
Ranch Group Seeks Supplemental Order in RFID Case
Harriet Hageman, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox. The motion asks the court to issue a supplemental...
Court satisfied that USDA’s RFID mandate is completely withdrawn
Last week the Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The court...
Mark Chenoweth on The Dom Giordano Program: How politicians influence attorney general offices
NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth discusses how the special interest groups can influence attorney general offices and why it violates the due process requirement and ethics standards.