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Massachusetts Sued For Working With Google To Secretly Put Spyware On Residents’ Phones
...A video published by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) — a self-described civil rights group devoted to protecting Americans from administrative overreach — walks viewers through the core tenets of the organization’s ongoing lawsuit against DPH and Democrat...
Fed. Cir. Judges Urged to Try Mediation in Newman Fitness Probe
...Cooper gave the parties two days to discuss the mediation route. If they’re unable to reach a consensus on the approach, the claims will proceed to a federal court briefing on Newman’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Separately, a closed-doors hearing at the...
Judge Terry Doughty Praised After Biden’s Social Media Ban: ‘Big Win’
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit group which claims to "protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the administrative state," joined the suit, representing a number of groups and individuals who claimed to have been censored on social media....
2nd Circ. Pauses Firm’s CFPB Fight For High Court Appeal
...The Second Circuit agreed to hold off on a mandate enforcing an investigative demand the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued to a collection firm, after the firm argued that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to hear the constitutional issues being debated....
Suspended Federal Circuit Judge Fights to Retain Bench Seat
...On Tuesday, Newman's attorney's from the nonpartisan civil rights organization the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amended complaint and a motion seeking to restore her position in the court, after she was suspended by her colleagues from hearing new cases...
US Judge Facing Competency Probe Asks Court to Block Her Suspension
...Newman's attorney Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said in an interview that the judge "has been and continues to be in sufficiently good health — as now verified by a qualified neurologist — to continue her work." Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly...
Fishing Co. Takes Industry-Paid Monitors Fight to High Court
...Seafreeze's counsel, John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Law360 on Tuesday the justices could narrow the doctrine so that it will have to take more than silence from Congress in a particular statute for courts to defer to agencies. His...
Rhode Island Fishermen Ask Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Observer Fees
...The legal activist group New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned the court June 14 for a “writ of certiorari” in its case representing Point Judith, R.I. companies Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and Seafreeze Fleet LLC. Their case challenges a 2020 rule imposed by...
Twitter Users Suspended for COVID Tweets Argue to Reinstate Case against Feds
...Attorney John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance in Washington, D.C., argued Thursday on behalf of the Twitter users and first addressed the concrete nature of the injuries sustained by his clients. "In my clients' case," he said, "something has...
Sixth Circuit Grapples with US Role In Twitter Users’ Bans
...Three users of Twitter, who said the federal government caused the social media platform to discipline them for spreading Covid-19 disinformation, received a chilly response from a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday. Senior US Circuit Judge Danny J. Boggs asked the...
Fishermen Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Second Challenge to NOAA At-Sea Monitoring Rule
...In 2020, NOAA Fisheries implemented a new rule requiring fishermen to pay for human at-sea monitors aboard their vessels. While the agency claimed the monitors are necessary to ensure compliance, fishermen balked at the cost, which they claim can be more than USD...
Lawyer for Federal Appeals Judge Barred from New Cases Finds Orders ‘Incredible’ and ‘Stunning’
...Newman is refusing to cooperate in the investigation until she is assigned new cases and the investigation is transferred to a different court. Orders in the case are available here. Newman is represented by Gregory Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a...
Plaintiffs Oppose Marco Island’s Motion to Dismiss ALPRs Lawsuit
...Attorney Richard Samp with the New Civil Liberties Alliance law firm of Washington D.C., told the Daily News in April that if the judge grants the motion to dismiss, he will appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia. In the original complaint,...
SEC Dismisses Enforcement Cases After Improper Document Handling
...Three of the cases dismissed involved current or former New Civil Liberties Alliance clients, including Michelle Cochran, an accountant facing SEC administrative charges of violating federal accounting standards. Ms. Cochran in 2019 filed a legal challenge to the...
SEC Drops 42 Enforcement Cases After Employees Accessed Restricted Records
...Cochran’s attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said Friday the dismissals were unprecedented and reflected the SEC’s worries about defendants using the Supreme Court’s decision to further attack the SEC’s court system. One investment adviser whose case was...
COVID Vaccine-Injured Sue Biden Administration Over Censorship
...“The government claims that it suppresses so-called misinformation for the sake of public safety and welfare. It is the government’s view that Americans cannot be trusted with their own minds and must be shielded at all costs from mis-, dis-, and...
COVID Vaccine Injury Victims Sue Biden Officials, Alleging They’ve Been Victimized by Censorship
...The plaintiffs are represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents censored doctors in related litigation by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general Andrew Bailey and Jeff Landry. They are "not anti-vaxxers," the alliance says in a press release,...
Federal Court Asked to Restart Student Loan Payments Put On Hold for COVID-19
...“This unlawful ongoing student-loan payment pause fits a familiar pattern that already played out in the context of the federal eviction moratorium. First, Congress enacts a temporary economic-relief program, then an administrative agency extends that program...
‘Paranoid’ Incidents Necessitate Newman Exam, Fed. Cir. Says
...In a second Tuesday order, the panel clarified the scope of a confidentiality order that barred Newman from discussing details of the probe that aren’t already public. Counsel for Newman didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment. The New Civil...
Student Loan Pause Update: Why Biden May Not Extend It Again, And How It Relates To Loan Forgiveness
“The CARES Act’s six-month student-loan debt payment pause reflected Congress’s considered judgment for when payments and interest must resume,” said Sheng Li, Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal group leading the push for a preliminary...
Federal Circuit Judge Sues Colleagues Over Investigation Into Her Competency
“The undue haste with which the special committee is proceeding is indicative of the denial of due process,” the suit adds. Moore, Prost and Taranto did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Newman is being represented by attorneys John Vecchione and...
Judge Fitness Probe Cites Nonexistent Heart Attack, Newman Says
...The complaint further takes issue with the way the Federal Circuit panel is handling its probe, including issuing “a gag order threatening Judge Newman and her counsel with sanctions should any of them publicize the ongoing investigation.” The district court should...
Gun Control Groups Ask High Court To Review Bump Stocks
...The groups said that decision "rests on a novel holding that would require judgment in favor of criminal defendants whenever a court perceives any ambiguity in a criminal statute." "We agree with the Gifford Law Center that the issue is an important one and that...
Supreme Court Takes up Potential Landmark Case From New Jersey Fishermen
...One of those amicus briefs was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, on behalf of Rhode Island fishermen it represents. The NCLA has also represented Gulf of Mexico charter fishing captains who object to NMFS electronic monitoring demands. “It is thrilling...
Fauci Files: Twitter’s Courting of COVID-19 Vax Censorship
...On Nov. 23, 2022, in a sworn deposition organized on behalf of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, Dr. Anthony Fauci made the claim that he had no knowledge of how to use Twitter and showed signs of having trouble recalling if he knew anyone who worked for social...