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States challenge American Rescue Plan’s tax cut ban
The American Rescue Plan provision to limit the amount of tax reduction states can engage in if they receive federal funding is being challenged in a number of lawsuits. On the one hand, the legislation provides funding for states and localities, but it also restricts...
Calendar And Courts Conspire Against Federal Pandemic Eviction Moratorium
Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are battling it out in a separate 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case over whether the order leaves landlords powerless to take legal action to collect delinquent payments. It's now up to the...
Calendar and courts conspire against federal pandemic eviction moratorium
Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are battling it out in a separate 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case over whether the order leaves landlords powerless to take legal action to collect delinquent payments. It’s now up to the...
Department of Education Has no Power to Set Curriculum
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little joins “The Jimmy Barrett Show” on Houston’s NewsRadio 740 KTRH to discuss NCLA's recent comment objecting to the Department of Education’s “Proposed Priorities – American History and Civics Education.”
Civil Liberties Group Backs Ohio’s Bid To Ax Tax Cut Limit Law
A civil liberties organization has supported Ohio's attempt to invalidate a federal law prohibiting states from using coronavirus aid to offset tax cuts, arguing that a proposed Treasury regulation made the statute more ambiguous. In a Wednesday amicus brief, the...
At The Bar: The Bureaucratic Blob And The Deep State
Senior Policy Analyst Inez Stepman and guest-host Erin Hawley talk with Mark Chenoweth from the New Civil Liberties Alliance about the administrative state that is taking over all of our lives like blob!
Proposed legislation would help landlords, tenants with back rent
Bills are piling up for those who’ve had a hard time making ends meet over the last year and the state is bracing for a lift on the moratorium that has prevented evictions during the public health crisis. But the safety net that has allowed hard-hit renters to stay in...
Department of Education Has no Power to Set Curriculum
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little joins “The Jimmy Barrett Show” on Houston’s NewsRadio 740 KTRH to discuss NCLA's recent comment objecting to the Department of Education’s “Proposed Priorities – American History and Civics Education.”
Landlords sue Murphy over ‘unconstitutional’ mandate allowing security deposit as rent
Several South Jersey landlords are suing Gov. Phil Murphy to block a 13-month-old executive order that allows tenants to use their security deposit to make rent payments. As thousands of people lost their jobs at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and began...
Eviction Moratorium Hurting Owners, from Mom-and-Pop Landlords to Property Giants
Property owners across the country, including struggling mom-and-pop operators, are asking the nation’s courts why landlords are expected to take a financial hit while nonpaying tenants are protected by ongoing eviction moratoriums. Americans who own rental properties...
Teaching Proposals Opposed
The federal government has overstepped its bounds with recommendations for teaching American history and civics in public schools, the New Civil Liberties Alliance maintains. In a comment letter filed with the U.S. Department of Education, the alliance contends...
Jenin Younes Joins Tudor to Discuss Vaccine Passports
America's Voice Live with Tudor Dixon and Steve Gruber May 19th, 2021. Watch the interview here.
SCOTUS Asked To Review NCLA’s Case Against Gov. Baker
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Mike DeGrandis joins “Talk of the Commonwealth” with Hank Stolz on WCRN 830 AM to discuss NCLA's recent petition to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to hear our case against Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's COVID-19...
Mass. Governor to End Pandemic Restrictions Early
Facing mounting legal pressure, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced the Bay State will soon stop enforcing pandemic-related restrictions on civic life and businesses, including those that single out religious gatherings—months ahead of Baker’s previously stated...
Court Dismisses RFID Ear Tag Case Against USDA
A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed an amended lawsuit filed by R-CALF USA and four ranchers that alleged the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in its effort to mandate radio frequency identification...
No Joke: Conservative Pundits Face Investigations for Satirical Union Tweets
Conservatives are learning the hard way that joking about union organizing is no laughing matter. Commentator Ben Shapiro’s tongue-in-cheek tweet last year about striking employees spurred a federal complaint that touched off a seven-month investigation by...
Landlords To Ask Supreme Court To Lift Eviction Freeze
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon be asked to lift the nationwide eviction freeze imposed by public health officials, which has so far shielded tens of thousands of families facing financial hardships from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. About 10.7...
CFPB Eviction Disclosure Rule Survives Restraining Order Bid
A Tennessee federal judge on Friday declined to issue an emergency order blocking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule requiring landlords to inform tenants about federal protections put in place amid the pandemic, finding that the rule doesn't apply to the...
NLRB Won’t Pursue Charge Over Ben Shapiro Strike Tweet
The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed a charge accusing The Daily Wire of violating federal labor law through a tweet from its co-founder Ben Shapiro, the limited-government public interest firm... Published by Law 360
Judge Won’t Block Eviction Ban Notice Rule
A Tennessee landlord has lost a bid to block a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule requiring notice to delinquent renters of a national eviction ban, after a court said the rule does not apply where courts have blocked the ban. U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson...
Federal Labor Agency Dismisses ‘Frivolous Charges’ Against Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire
The federal agency charged with enforcing U.S. labor laws announced that it had dismissed a charge filed against Ben Shapiro which accused the conservative pundit of unlawfully interfering with the rights of employees at the right-leaning political website Shapiro...
Appeals Court to Weigh if Gov. Murphy Overstepped With Order on Rent, Security Deposits
“Gov. Murphy made clear to the Appellate Division that he believes he has the power to do literally anything he wants, so long as he unilaterally decides that his executive actions are related to the pandemic and in the public’s interest," said attorney Jared McClain....
NCLA Petitions SCOTUS
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Mike DeGrandis joins “The Steve Gruber Show” with Scot Bertram filling in for Steve Gruber on 1240 WJIM to discuss NCLA's recent petition to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to hear our case against Massachusetts...
Landlords Take Fight Against Eviction Ban to 11th Circuit
A national landlord group brought its case challenging a federal directive halting residential evictions to the 11th Circuit on Friday, arguing that the order has forced landlords to give unlimited free housing to delinquent tenants without proper legal recourse....
11th Circuit Weighs Latest Challenge to CDC Eviction Freeze
Landlords on Friday mounted the latest challenge to the Centers for Disease Control’s nationwide freeze on many residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, urging the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block the ban. Caleb Kruckenberg of New Civil Liberties...