The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island against the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), as well...
The U.S. Department of Commerce is illegally charging herring fishers for the cost of a monitoring program that measures compliance with federal fishing standards, fishers claim in a new lawsuit. Seafreeze Fleet LLC and two subsidiaries that own trawlers that fish the...
President Trump promised as part of his deregulation campaign to end bureaucratic “guidance” that dodges normal rule-making. Someone should tell the U.S. Department of Agriculture as it tries to impose burdensome new cattle-identification requirements. To prevent the...
The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island against the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), as well...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, whether the burden of persuasion in qualified immunity cases should be on the plaintiff or on the defendant, whether the due process clause is violated when the...
Judges often advise appellate lawyers to provide in their briefs a clear path to the outcome they want. The Supreme Court of the United States recently denied review in a case that exemplified that lesson yet again. In Baldwin v. United States, No. 19–402,...
Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, argued that the decision should be overruled... Read the full article here.
The Trump administration's stance that American employers with "religious or moral" objections to birth control needn't offer no-cost contraception in their health insurance plans has gotten a boost in a U.S.... Read the full article here.
A second lawsuit has been filed in a U.S. federal courthouse against a rule, scheduled to take effect Monday, 9 March, that would require Atlantic herring fishermen to pay for independent monitors aboard their vessels. Seafreeze Fleet LLC and two vessels it owns filed...
Harriet Hageman, Senior Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, has filed a new 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 new motion reveals that despite the U.S....