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Probe of Federal Appeals Judge Tests Aging Us Courts
...The nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing Newman and has asked the court's chief judge Kimberly Moore and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to move the investigation to a different circuit, NCLA attorney Greg Dolin told Reuters on...
U.S. Audit Regulator Asks Court to Dismiss Suit by Accountant Challenging Disciplinary Proceedings
...Doe, represented by conservative group New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), believes that the PCAOB proceedings are unconstitutional despite the enforcement authority given to the regulatory board by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The law established the PCAOB to...
High Court Says US Judges Can Hear Attacks On FTC, SEC
...In the second case, Michelle Cochran, a certified public accountant accused by the SEC of flouting auditing standards, sought to challenge that same scheme at the Wall Street regulator. Cochran won in the Fifth Circuit, setting up the government's appeal that the...
Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Challenge Structure of Federal Agencies
...Lawyers for accountant Michelle Cochran, bringing the challenge in the SEC case, and body-camera manufacturer Axon Enterprise Inc. in the FTC case, said their clients should not have to undergo years of litigation before being able to challenge the...
Supreme Court Opens Path to Curbing FTC, SEC Powers
...The opinion dealt with two related cases, Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran. While it addressed a narrow jurisdictional question, it highlighted the court’s increasing skepticism toward administrative tribunals run by federal agencies... Read the full...
Supreme Court Allows Federal Agencies to Be Taken to Court
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group that supported Cochran’s case in its journey to the high court, said the ruling will allow citizens to access federal courts when agencies violate their constitutional rights. The NCLA will continue...
Patient Privacy at Risk in Senate Bill Aimed at Pharmacy Managers
..."Patients may not even know that their data is released," Greg Dolin, a University of Baltimore law professor and senior litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that defends constitutional rights, tells Reason. Since the bill's main...
DOJ’s Bump Stock Appeal Could Have Much Broader Implications
...The Supreme Court “has been clear that we do not invoke lenity just because ‘multiple, divergent principles of statutory construction are available,’” Higginson wrote. Michael Cargill, the Texas gun shop owner who brought the lawsuit challenging the ban, is...
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plans And Payment Pause Face Multiple New Threats
...The latest lawsuit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) argues that all payment pause extensions beyond the initial six months authorized by Congress in the CARES Act — including the extensions implemented by the Trump administration before Biden took...
Lawsuit Prompts Changes in Fulbright-Hays Grant Program
...Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which brought the lawsuit, said in an interview that the department could resolve the lawsuit amicably by revising the regulations. Li said the department’s current proposal “looks pretty good,”...
Biden’s Student Loan Pause Faces Another Lawsuit
...The newest legal challenge was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank, earlier this week. In a similar lawsuit, private lender SoFi sued the Biden administration last month, also...
When Will Student Loan Payments Resume? A New Lawsuit Aims to Lift the Payment Pause
...Another lawsuit was filed Thursday aiming to force an end to a pause on payments for student loan borrowers that has stretched over three years. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Michigan, was brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of...
A Nonprofit Just Joined Forces with a Major Student-Loan Lender in Asking a Federal Court to End the Payment Pause
...On Thursday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit law firm aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center, a nonprofit think tank based in Michigan that advocates for limited government. The lawsuit targets...
Fauci Video Deposition Released Publicly
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has released six video depositions taken in a federal lawsuit that sheds light on what role government actors, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, played in censoring or, as revealed in the Twitter Files, the offshoring of...
CFPB Independent Funding Constitutional, Second Circuit Rules
...The CFPB’s document demands caused Moroney to shutter her law firm and “illustrates how a federal agency without funding constraints can quickly get out of control,” Moroney’s attorney Richard Samp said in an email. “The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fifth...
California’s COVID Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings
...But the Newsom administration has decided to wait for the appeals court to rule on the other two judges’ decisions that left the law intact for now. Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is lead counsel in the other Sacramento case in...
When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
...In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past year, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit legal group, represents students who they say have been robbed of their competitive advantage and constitutional right to equal protection under the...
Charter Boat Captains Don’t Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules
...A group of charter boat captains represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) sued, saying the rule violated rights to due process, privacy, and freedom of movement, among other things. "The reason we were against this so much is it tracked us precisely...
Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime
...“The corollary to the First Amendment right to speak is a First Amendment right to receive information,” Jenin Younes, an attorney from the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing the plaintiffs, said. The battle over AB 2098 illustrates why medical...
Bump Stocks Sales Resume in Texas after ATF Fails to File Stay to Stop Reversal of Ban
...Michael Cargill, owner of Austin’s Central Texas Gun Works, sued to challenge the ban in 2019 with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a litigation group that says it protects constitutional freedoms, including Second Amendment rights. They lost in federal court in...
Lawsuit Challenging IRS Seizure of Crypto Account Records Is Back in Court
...In the meantime, the IRS continues to seek out John Doe summons. On Aug. 15, 2022, a California federal court authorized the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on SFOX, seeking information about US taxpayers who conducted at least $20,000 in crypto transactions...
Doctors Without Voices?
...Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098, a law that could cost doctors their licenses if they treated COVID in a manner at odds with “scientific consensus,” i.e. essentially whatever happened to be coming out the CDC that particular day (remember, it...
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
...Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an organization representing the individual plaintiffs, said the government had sought to sidestep free-speech rights by forcing private companies to take action on discourse that is otherwise...
The New York Times Warns That Freedom of Speech ‘Threatens Public Health’ and ‘Democracy Itself’
...Myers may disagree with that calculation or recoil at its implications. But the First Amendment clearly bars the government from banning speech it views as hazardous to public health or democracy. The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, who include individual social...
Court Urged To Keep Suit Over IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Alive
...Richard A. Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who is representing Harper, said in a statement that the Supreme Court historically has held that "the government may not deprive citizens of their liberty interests or property interests without providing them...