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Legislators challenge campaign finance rules
"SANTA FE – Four Republican state lawmakers are asking the state Supreme Court to block the enforcement of 2017 campaign finance rules that require more disclosure of political spending by independent groups. In a petition filed Thursday, the legislators accused...
Legislators challenge campaign finance rules
"SANTA FE – Four Republican state lawmakers are asking the state Supreme Court to block the enforcement of 2017 campaign finance rules that require more disclosure of political spending by independent groups. In a petition filed Thursday, the legislators accused...
Lucia sues the SEC again – challenging ALJ Constitutionality and seeking dismissal
Lucia sues the SEC again – challenging ALJ Constitutionality and seeking dismissal A new lawsuit filed in federal court in California seeks to have further SEC ALJ proceedings against former IA Ray Lucia dismissed, claiming the ALJ system remains unconstitutional...
NCLA client, Raul Mas Canosa sues City of Coral Gables for their use of ALPRs
Use of Automatic License Plate Readers In Jacksonville, FL
The use of automatic license plate readers is raising eyebrows in Jacksonville, FL. Brittney Donovan of CBS WJAZ-TV 47 cites NCLA complaint representing Raul Mas Canosa vs. City of Coral Gables, FL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_PfCWT1-c&t=5s
Florida Record: Coral Gables’ use of license plate readers goes against Constitution, New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney says
Coral Gables resident Raul Mas Canosa is suing the city and the state in a complaint that alleges he has been followed for years through the use of the state's license plate readers, and his attorney believes his client's constitutional rights have been violated. "If...
Miami Herald: Gables resident sues city over ‘Big Brother’ surveillance of cars on the street
Gables resident sues city over ‘Big Brother’ surveillance of cars on the street BY SARAH BLASKEY October 26, 2018 07:30 AM Updated October 26, 2018 06:30 AM A Coral Gables resident is suing the “City Beautiful” over a license plate reader system that law enforcement...
Government Technology: Resident Sues Florida City Over License Plate Readers
The plaintiff alleges the collection and retention of vehicle movement data by the system is a violation of the right to privacy. BY SARAH BLASKEY / OCTOBER 26, 2018 (TNS) — A resident of Coral Gables, Fla., is suing the “City Beautiful” over a license plate reader...
CBS Miami: Local Man Suing City Of Coral Gables Over License Plate Reading Cameras
CORAL GABLES (CBSMiami) – Automatic license plate recognition cameras have been in South Florida for years. Police consider them a useful crime fighting tool. But now they are being called into question over how the data collected is eventually being used. “I think we...
Miami New Times: Coral Gables Resident Sues Florida Over License-Plate Readers
In the seven years since Coral Gables began installing automatic license-plate readers, resident Raul Mas Canosa estimates the city has captured images of his car "thousands of times." It's a reasonable guess: By the end of the year, the City Beautiful is on track to...
Fox News: Florida man claims license-plate readers let cops know your ‘daily routine’ in suit
A Florida man earlier this month filed a lawsuit against his city and its law enforcement, claiming that its use of license-plate-reading technology is unconstitutional, The Miami New Times reported. Raul Mas Canosa, a Coral Gables resident, claimed in a lawsuit filed...
Regulatory Transparency Project: Free Lunch Podcast Episode 29 – Arizona Dumps Deference: The Beginning of the End for Chevron?
Philip Hamburger Discusses With The Regulatory Transparency Project Listen Now “We live in a system where regulators make rules, investigate alleged violations of the rules, and then adjudicate those violations before an Administrative Law Judge who is a member of the...
Ithaca Journal: Former assistant professor sues Cornell, U.S. Department of Education
A former Cornell University professor who faced a sexual misconduct allegation is suing the university, the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. In the lawsuit, Mukund Vengalatorre, a former assistant professor of physics, claims the...
Overlawyered blog, CATO Institute
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has evaluated the likely picks on the basis of their posture toward the powers of the administrative state. Click here to read more
SCOTUS Blog: Monday Round-Up
New Civil Liberties Alliance surveys six possible candidates, giving a slight edge to Kethledge over Kavanaugh. Click here to read more
Law and Liberty: Judge Kethledge is the Best Choice to Curtail the Administrative State
The Trump administration has made a priority of shrinking the administrative state. A recent study authored by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which is headed by the prominent constitutional-law scholar Philip Hamburger, concludes that “If President Trump...
SCOTUS blog: Academic highlight: Hamburger and Siegel on the constitutionality of Chevron deference
Academic highlight: Hamburger and Siegel on the constitutionality of Chevron deference "Is Chevron deference unconstitutional? Congress, several justices and legal academics are debating the legitimacy of this decades-old principle of administrative law. In Chevron...
The Economist: Who Has the Right to Judge Americans
"An amicus brief filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit group, asserts that the SEC, in effect, gamed the civil-service process to obtain sympathetic judges, and that another agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was similarly adept in...