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SEC Faces Renewed Petition Over ‘Gag Orders’
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency's rule "has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity." ... Read the full...
Reps. Urge High Court To Take On Ore. Monument Challenges
More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama's expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the...
Biden’s Reforms and 813,000 Student-Loan Borrowers
... In July 2023, ED announced borrowers who had made the required 20 or 25 years of qualifying payments on income-driven repayment plans would be notified of their debt cancellation and 30 days later their debt servicers would begin discharging their loans. ED was...
House Republicans Shine A Light On The Feds’ Egregious Censorship-Industrial Complex
... Also highlighted during Wednesday’s hearing was Missouri v. Biden, an ongoing court case to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court that documents efforts by the Biden administration to coerce Big Tech platforms to engage in similar censorship activities. In his...
Top Republicans throw support behind major Biden ‘censorship’ lawsuit by conservative media
EXCLUSIVE — Congressional Republicans investigating the Biden administration over allegations that agencies suppressed speech online are backing a new lawsuit accusing the United States government of funding an unconstitutional "censorship scheme." Texas joined...
NMFS to pay $160,000 legal fees to settle Gulf charter captains’ lawsuit
… The settlement approved by the U.S. Fifth District Court of Appeals calls for the U.S. Department of Commerce and NMFS to pay $160,000 for lawyers of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit legal foundation who represented lead plaintiff Allen Walburn, a...
US State Department funds censorship firms that favor left-wing media, NY Post on ‘risky’ list: lawsuit
... The Federalist and the Daily Wire — a pair of self-described “right of center media” groups — jointly filed the complaint with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group, in the US Eastern District of...
Biden State Dept blacklists conservative news outlets, lawsuit claims: ‘Censorship regime’
The State Department is facing a lawsuit for funding a "censorship regime" built by technologies that blacklist conservative media outlets. In a suit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the State Department is accused of "funding and promotion of...
Texas claims US State Department funds tech that censors conservative news
... "This agency will not get away with their illegal campaign to silence citizens and publications they disagree with," Paxton said in a statement. He filed the lawsuit alongside lawyers at the conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing The...
State Department faces lawsuit from conservative media over funding ‘censorship scheme’
A pair of conservative media outlets are accusing the State Department in a new lawsuit of funding an unconstitutional "censorship scheme" suppressing voices on the Right, according to a complaint. The lawsuit, which counts Texas as a plaintiff, was filed Tuesday by...
Supreme Court questions federal agencies’ ability to serve as judge and jury
... "The court focused almost exclusively on the jury trial question, with the justices plumbing different approaches to the difficult line-drawing questions," said Peggy Little, an attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance. "There's a decent chance the 5th Circuit...
An Administrative Court Scandal at the SEC
... "Without a doubt, the mass dismissal of these open cases is an evasion of the review promised by the Supreme Court," says Peggy Little, senior counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA). "Conveniently, it also seeks to extinguish discovery on the breadth,...
Conservative Groups Want Another Shot at Overturning Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule
...After a three-judge panel last month rejected their lawsuit seeking to overturn Nasdaq's board diversity rule, the conservative groups behind the legal challenge would like an entire federal appeals court to hear the case. The New Civil Liberties Alliance,...
Investment Advisory Firm Case Hits Supreme Court This Week
...The Supreme Court’s examination will focus on these three key issues. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, representing the government, argues that the Seventh Amendment does not extend to administrative adjudications by federal agencies. Peggy Little, senior...
All the President’s Misinformation: Employees’ Rebuke of Biden Exposes Peril of Feds’ Speech Police
...Missouri and Louisiana, the New Civil Liberties Alliance and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson are all suing the feds for alleged First Amendment violations related to coercion of social media platforms to suppress disfavored content. America First Legal...
Coinbase’s SEC Fight Renews Interest in ‘Grossly’ Underused Tool
...Having the ability to suggest new regulations and rule changes directly to the agency is powerful, said Kara Rollins of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a Washington, D.C.-based civil rights group. Still, rulemaking petitions are a “grossly underutilized...
Supreme Court to Review Trump-Era Ban on Gun ‘Bump Stocks’
...Richard Samp, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal group representing Cargill, said, “ATF for many years recognized that bump-stock-equipped semi-automatic weapons are not ‘machineguns.’ Its sudden reversal can only be explained as a decision to...
US Supreme Court to Decide Legality of Federal Ban on Gun ‘Bump Stocks’
...Cargill sued to challenge the rule, which required him to surrender his two bump stocks. Attorney Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance conservative legal group, representing Cargill, praised the court's decision to hear the case. "ATF for many years...
A Small Fish and an Uncollected Fee Add Up to Big-Government Challenge at the Supreme Court
...Critics say an expansive reading of that provision would leave fishing businesses vulnerable to crushing fees. “Once they’ve got it fixed in the legal firmament, they can go charge whatever they want,” said John Vecchione, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties...
Supreme Court Wades Into Social Media Wars over Free Speech
..."Many of these cases talk about how social media is the modern public square to try to convey to the justices, who may not be as familiar with social media, just how important this is in the present day and age," said Jenin Younes, a lawyer at the New Civil...
Newman Tells D.C. District Court Her Removal from Bench is ‘Unprecedented in American Judicial History’
...Late yesterday evening, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA)—the firm representing U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Pauline Newman in her district court case against CAFC Chief Judge Moore and other members of the panel of the Judicial...
How Biden Is Continuing to Cancel Student Loan Debt Despite Supreme Court Ruling
...The Biden administration is facing at least one lawsuit over the account adjustments, filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the conservative groups Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The plaintiffs recently filed an...
Supreme Court Sets Up Doubleheader to Scrutinize Federal Government Authority
...“The people of New England famously rebelled against George III because he ‘erected’ ‘New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass’ them ‘and eat out their substance,’” John Vecchione, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance representing the...
California Quietly Repeals Restrictions on Doctors’ COVID-19 Advice
...In McDonald v. Lawson, which the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on October 4, 2022, Judge Fred Slaughter declined to issue a preliminary injunction, concluding in a December 28 order that A.B....
FINRA Authority Fight Carries Weight But May Be a ‘Hard Ask’
...But even if it’s not a state actor, there are problems with the SEC’s supervision of FINRA, said Russ Ryan of the New Civil Liberties Alliance in Washington, which submitted an amicus brief supporting Alpine. The brief said the SEC’s supervisory role in enforcement...