Eviction Moratorium in Illinois Continues through January 11, 2021 In an expected move, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker once again extended the state’s eviction ban for another 30 days on December 11, 2020. The revised executive order defined new financial conditions...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rendered its decision in the Desrosiers v. Baker case upholding Governor Baker’s pandemic orders as consistent with the Civil Defense Act (CDA). The order delivers a blow to the plaintiffs who include mom-and-pop businesses,...

Samantha Vernon paid what she could in rent but she was evicted anyway. Landlords say they shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill for the pandemic crisis.  

NCLA client, Clark Aposhian is challenging ATFs ban on bumpstocks in the case Aposhian v. Barr. May a federal agency rewrite a federal statute? May that rewrite turn otherwise innocent Americans into criminals? Those questions are what this case is about. A federal...

Rick Brown is not Jennifer Pierson's landlord. He does own eight similar properties in Winchester, Va., mainly single-family homes in roughly the same price range as Pierson's. He tries to maintain those homes himself. He said half of his tenants aren't paying their...

The courts aren’t allowed to rule on a lawsuit alleging that the IRS’s seizure of cryptocurrency records was unconstitutional, the IRS said in a motion to have the case tossed. New Hampshire resident James Harper, in a lawsuit filed in July and amended in August,...

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael DeGrandis joins The Answer on Philadelphia's AM 990 with Chris Stigall to address the issue of government overreach during the pandemic with executive orders that are trampling over our civil rights under the auspices of a...

The text of the National Labor Relations Act does not, so far as we can tell, require the National Labor Relations Board or its personnel to have their sense of humor surgically removed. Nor does it prohibit the NLRB’s judicial proceedings from considering context,...

A group challenging COVID-19 rules in Massachusetts told the state's top court that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision striking down restrictions on New York church gatherings overrides legal precedent relied on by Gov. Charlie Baker. In a supplemental brief on...

Three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national order that banned certain residential evictions until the end of this year. The move was intended to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have accepted...

NCLA's Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael P. DeGrandis joins The Wilkow Report on Sirius XM to discuss how the SCOTUS decision in the case of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo could impact pending cases like NCLA's case against Governor Charlie Baker's Civil...

A group suing over Gov. Charlie Baker’s pandemic executive orders is citing last week’s U.S. Supreme Court order to stop capping religious gatherings in coronavirus hot zones in New York. In that case, the court ruled 5-4 that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo could not...

Pandemic restrictions on places of worship in Massachusetts won’t run afoul of a US Supreme Court ruling this week that barred certain capacity limits on religious gatherings in areas of New York where coronavirus infections were rising, according to legal scholars...

The publisher of conservative media organization The Federalist responded to a government ruling that stated he violated labor law when he tweeted workers who wanted to unionize would be sent “back to the salt mine.” Read the full article

The publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist unlawfully threatened workers when he said via Twitter that he’d send them “back to the salt mine” if they attempted to form a union, the National Labor Relations Board held. Read the full article

If you’ll recall, last year, Federalist publisher Ben Domenech responded to Vox writers staging a walkout with this jokey tweet: Little did he know how much trouble he was in. Read the full article

NCLA Litigation Counsel, Caleb Kruckenberg joined Stacy Washington on Sirius XM Patriot to address why CDC's national eviction moratorium order is unconstitutional.  

Landlord groups like the National Apartment Association and property owners have joined a lawsuit brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a civil rights group, aiming to strike down the order. They argue that rental housing providers have been irreparably damaged...

In an expected move, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker once again extended the state’s eviction ban for another 30 days on November 13, 2020. The revised executive order 2020-72 defines new financial conditions for individuals covered under the eviction ban. Renters who...

One group that has been fighting the USDA’s plans to make radio-frequency animal identification (RFID) the law of the land (see main story) is R-CALF USA. Ken Fox, who runs an Angus/Angus-cross cow-calf operation in South Dakota with his wife, three sons and...

The USDA has reopened the debate in the cattle industry on radio-frequency tags with a new proposal that has the stated goal of increasing overall traceability in case of disease outbreaks in cattle. It asked the industry to weigh in with comments on its plan to make...

Mark Chenoweth addresses the potential of lawsuits in key battleground states post-elections.  

Voting deadlines, problems with voting machines, mail-in ballots and other issues that might hit the court.  

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given Michelle Cochran one more chance to block the Securities and Exchange Commission from pushing ahead with an administrative proceeding against her. Cochran, a certified public accountant from Texas, has already been...

The National Association of Home Builders has filed a complaint against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over its eviction moratorium order. In partnership with Pacific Legal Foundation, the NAHB – along with Skyworks Ltd, Cedarwood Village, and...