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Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship Wants To Train Lawyers To Get Along
...The latest addition takes a different approach. The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship is an eight-week dinner lecture series for law students working as summer associates at Washington, D.C. law firms that began in May. It aims to promote...
FIRE Launches Massive Off-campus Expansion To Defend Free Expression Everywhere
“...FIRE, with its impeccable reputation for putting free speech first, will fill the gap, along with excellent existing groups such as the Pacific Legal Foundation and the New Civil Liberties Alliance,” he said... Read the full article
Cornell, Due Process, and Liberal Education
...In Vengalattore v. Cornell University (I serve on the board of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents the plaintiff-appellant), the appeals court overruled the trial court, holding “that Title IX affords a private right of action for a university’s...
Employees, Students Disciplined Due to Non-compliance With Vaccine Directives
...According to her lawyer, Jenin Younes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, Norris was granted a religious exemption. Younes said she received the exemption shortly after the preliminary injunction was denied... Read the full article
CDC Creates COVID Infection Tracker for All U.S. Counties
...Jenin Younes, an attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance law firm who has litigated against vaccine mandates and school quarantines, said the CDC’s new tracker could spark legal challenges if public officials use it to reimpose health restrictions... Read the...
On Eve of Biden Title IX Rules, Appeals Court Suspects Anti-male Bias Resulting From Obama Rules
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents the professor, thanked the court for giving him "the opportunity to expose the extreme lack of due process he suffered at Cornell's hands..." Read the full article
Second Circuit Allows Title IX Claim by Professor Who Alleged Biased Sexual Misconduct Investigation
...Congratulations to Caleb Kruckenberg, Margaret A. Little, and Richard A. Samp with the New Civil Liberties Alliance (Kruckenberg is now at the Pacific legal Foundation), who represented Vengalattore... Read the full article
Feds Want SEC And FTC Cases Coordinated At High Court
...An attorney for Cochran, Peggy Little of the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Law360 on Friday they support the solicitor general's current request. "We concurred in the SG's request for coordinated briefing with Axon but separate argument on Cochran,...
CFPB’s Latest Existential Threat: Legal Challenges to Its Funding
“...It is likely that eventually the Supreme Court will have to decide the funding issue eventually,” said Rich Samp, senior litigation attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit law firm that litigates against federal administrative agencies... Read...
Louisiana Charter Boat Captains File Suit Involving GPS Tracking
...The charter boat captains, represented by attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, are suing the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Marine Fisheries Service over a requirement for owners to...
Team Biden Dumps Ditzy Disinfo Czar Nina Jankowicz— But Its Board Remains a Threat To Free Speech
...The core of the media defense of Jankowicz was that only right-wing nuts fear the US government would censor Americans. But it is already happening. The Biden White House threatened antitrust investigations against social-media companies that failed to...
Supreme Court Takes Up Where to Hear SEC Judge Challenges
...The en banc decision created a circuit split, the SEC said. The Second, Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh, and D.C. circuits rejected attempts to bypass the statutory review scheme. The New Civil Liberties Alliance and Latham & Watkins LLP represent Cochran... Read the...
Supreme Court Accepts Case Challenging Constitutionality of SEC’s In-house Judges
..."Federal courts have an unflagging duty to enforce the Constitution before Americans like Michelle must endure years-long administrative adjudications that are predestined to be vacated on constitutional grounds," said New Civil Liberties Alliance senior litigation...
Charter Boat Captains File Suit Over GPS Tracking
...The charter boat captains, represented by attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, are suing the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Marine Fisheries Service over a requirement for owners to...
High Court To Hear Case Tied to SEC Judges’ Removability
...Another attorney for Cochran, Peggy Little of the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance, also applauded the certiorari grant... Read the full article
Free-spoken Billionaires Musk, Cuban Ask SCOTUS to Rein In SEC Gag Orders
...It's the second constitutional challenge to the SEC filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which also alleges its system of in-house judges violates the constitutional separation of powers... Read the full article
Louisiana Charter Boat Captains File Suit Involving GPS Tracking
...The charter boat captains, represented by attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, are suing the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Marine Fisheries Service over a requirement for owners to...
Twitter Launches New Purge of COVID Contrarians While Reckoning With Musk, Free Speech Litigation
...Kotzin testified at an April 28 preliminary injunction hearing. New Civil Liberties Alliance lawyer Jenin Younes, who is representing the trio, told Just the News she didn't know why their motion hadn't been decided yet... Read the full article
Title IX and the Future of Education: Reform or Overhaul?
...The “constitutionalists,” whose ranks include the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), and other leading civil liberties organizations, are strongly committed to respecting constitutional constraints and...
Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, and Others Urge Supreme Court to Review SEC Gag Policy
...Romeril petitioned the Supreme Court in March, criticizing the SEC’s policy, rooted in its “Gag Rule,” as a “sweeping restriction on freedom of speech” implemented without Congressional authorization. He is represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance... Read...
Another State Win Against ARPA Tax Mandate
...Has the Tax Cut Ban already affected state tax rates? “It’s difficult to say what the precise counterfactual would be if the Tax Cut Ban had not been included in ARPA,” said Sheng Li, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed amicus briefs...
Evictions on the Rise but Lawsuits, Nonpaying Tenants Still Vex the Rental Housing Market
...But John J. Vecchione, a lawyer with the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said some states made it harder for landlords by imposing longer moratoriums than the CDC required. That has put added pressure on property owners to choose between evictions...
As Musk Tussles With SEC Over Tweets, Single Mom Asks SCOTUS To Review Agency’s In-house Judges
..The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created a circuit split when it ruled in December that certified public accountant Michelle Cochran can challenge the SEC's system "before a real Article III federal court rather than be subjected to an endless series of...
SEC Finds Enforcement Staff Accessed Privileged Docs
...Cochran's counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance last week asked the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit's ruling that she can challenge the constitutionality of the SEC's administrative legal proceedings, rebutting the agency's attempts to pause the...
Lawsuit Challenges Federal Crackdown on COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
A civil liberties group says the federal government has no business putting pressure on the nation’s technology companies to stamp out COVID-19 misinformation. The Washington, D.C.-based New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a lawsuit in a Columbus, Ohio, federal...