Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday continued his campaign for the Supreme Court to reconsider a pair of landmark administrative law cases courts have long relied on to evaluate federal regulations. Read the full article here.

Justice Thomas said the court should revisit an earlier decision granting so-called Chevron deference, under which courts must defer to an agency's interpretation of its regulations if the underlying statute is ambiguous, as well as his own 2005 opinion in National...

NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth discusses how the special interest groups can influence attorney general offices and why it violates the due process requirement and ethics standards.  

Last week the Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The court...

Harriet Hageman, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, filed a motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox. The motion asks the court to issue a supplemental...

NCLA Executive Director & General Counsel, Mark Chenoweth discusses the growing influence of the special interest groups on attorney general offices across the U.S.  

The New Civil Liberties Alliance has thrown its support behind another challenger to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law judges, this time in the Eleventh Circuit. Read the full article here.

The Wyoming federal district court dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by R-CALF USA, and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Read the...

Is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepping its bounds in banning bump stocks? Is the agency wrongly defining lower receivers for AR-15’s as “firearms,” and if so, what does it mean for hundreds if not thousands of cases decided over the...

The attorney for R-CALF USA and several individual rancher-plaintiffs, who alleged in October that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated U.S. law by attempting to force RFID technology upon the...

The US Dept. of Agriculture filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the agency’s plant to implement a livestock traceability program using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. But lawyers for the plaintiffs want the court to hear the case. Read the full...

New Civil Liberties Alliance rejects agency’s attempt to dismiss case after removing guidance on radio frequency identification technology. Read the full article here.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and two prominent hedge fund managers are throwing their support behind former investment adviser Raymond Lucia in his latest challenge to the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fought back Monday against a preliminary injunction bid by a New York debt collection law firm that's accused the agency of “blatantly lawless behavior” in investigating it, painting the firm’s case as procedurally improper and...

Federal agencies haven’t had much luck at the U.S. Supreme Court lately, but it could soon get much worse. The justices are now considering taking up two cases that could dramatically limit when courts must defer to regulators about the meaning of statutes. Read the...

Machine guns are prohibited under federal law. But what about bump stocks, a plastic accessory that can make a perfectly legal semi-automatic weapon behave like a machine gun? Read the full article here.

Texas, Louisiana and Indiana urged the full Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to reject a bid by several Native American tribes and the federal government to overturn a ruling that the Indian Child Welfare Act is unconstitutionally race-based, arguing that Congress' power to...

A new U.S. Supreme Court is giving conservative legal groups the confidence to look beyond "Chevron deference" and attack the independence of agencies like the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission as part of their broader war on the...

A New Jersey lawyer who operates a debt-collection service has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying the agency is unconstitutional and has harassed her firm and its clients by seeking privileged communications. Read the full article here.

The Supreme Court should decline an appeal by married movie producers who say witness testimony suffices as proof they timely mailed a tax refund request because they didn't follow IRS rules requiring supporting documentation, the U.S. has told the court. Read the...

Caleb Kruckenberg, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing Canosa in his suit against Coral Gables, said he is skeptical of that claim. “In practice, what they’ve done is they’ve set up at least 30 cameras around the city, and it’s not...

A New York federal judge on Monday denied a former Xerox executive's request for release from a 16-year-old gag rule in a securities case, telling him the request came far too late and didn't actually challenge the court's authority over him or make any claims of...

A civil rights group and the Wyoming ranchers it represents are celebrating the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to walk back its new cattle-tagging regulations after the ranchers challenged the rules in court. A guidance document, which has since been taken...

Last April, The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) posted a fact sheet to provide producers with information about the agency’s guidelines and goals related to Animal Disease Traceability. Since the fact sheet was...