by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 10, 2020 | Blog, Peggy Little
The issue of packing the Supreme Court is generating a lot of attention these days—often of the comic sort, if you enjoy watching Democratic candidates from President-elect Biden to the current Georgia runoff candidates bob and weave while not answering the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Peggy Little
An important case will be heard this term at the Supreme Court out of the Ninth Circuit—and the stakes could not be higher. Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra challenges a California Office of Attorney General’s lawless demand for non-profits’ donor...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog, Peggy Little
One of the more disturbing tactics of the plaintiffs’ bar when advancing novel theories in mass tort and climate litigation is to put children in the vanguard of their pleading and media storm. The all-too-successful ploy draws media and public sympathy for...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog, Peggy Little
So, we have a nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, and, as with all such nominations, the prognosticators, pundits, and public want to know how this candidate will approach the issues they believe the Supreme Court is most likely to hear in coming...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 18, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles, Peggy Little
“When the tyrant first appears, he is a protector.” Plato, The Republic On March 24, 2020, Wisconsin’s Interim Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm issued a stunningly broad order taking control of the lives and activities of every single individual and...
by nclaadmin | Sep 13, 2019 | Blog, Peggy Little
New Civil Liberties Alliance recently hosted a showing of Little Pink House, a 2017 fact-based film dramatization of the events leading to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Kelo v. New London. When that case was handed down in 2005, immediate, nationwide outrage...