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California’s Perilous Bid to Censor Your Doctor’s Advice
...In a federal lawsuit it filed this month on behalf of five California physicians, the NCLA argues that AB 2098 is unconstitutionally vague and inconsistent with the First Amendment. The Liberty Justice Center (LJC), which is representing two other doctors, makes...
Health Care or Spyware? Lawsuit Attacks Mass. Covid-Tracking App
...Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said that this involuntary download policy violates the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which forbids government agencies from taking a citizen’s property without just compensation. The memory...
Judge Turns Down Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Effort to Quash Subpoena
...“Ms. Psaki’s lawyers tried to argue that she is above the law and that her time is too precious to bother with such frivolities as a deposition in a First Amendment case. They persisted with this contention, although the judge presiding over the case in the Western...
Can Joe Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan Survive the Supreme Court?
..."It would be difficult to predict how the Justices would rule on something as tricky as standing, especially given that each of the relevant States presents different theories about how they are injured," Sheng Li, an attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance...
Massachusetts DPH, Google ‘Secretly’ Installed COVID ‘Spyware’ onto 1M Phones, Lawsuit Says
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, filed a lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court on behalf of two Bay State Android users, who allege that a DPH contact tracing app was downloaded onto their phones on or around July 1, 2021,...
Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts and Google Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ on 1 Million Devices
...Plaintiffs Robert Wright and Johnny Kula were among 1 million Massachusetts residents who had the state’s “COVID Exposure Settings: US-MA” app auto-installed without their consent, according to the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the nonpartisan civil rights...
Mass. Health Officials Worked with Google to Covertly Install COVID ‘Spyware’ into 1M Phones, Lawsuit Claims
...In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, accused the Bay State’s health department of "brazen disregard for civil liberties" by installing "spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and...
Mass. Agency Covertly Installed COVID Tracing App, Suit Says
..."Many states and foreign countries have successfully deployed contact tracing apps by obtaining the consent of their citizens before downloading software onto their smartphones," said Sheng Li, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is...
The ACLU Says California’s Ban on COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’ From Doctors Is Gratuitous and Unconstitutional
...In Hoeg v. Newsom, a lawsuit it filed this month in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on behalf of five physicians, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) argues that A.B. 2098 is unconstitutionally vague and violates the First...
Cato Institute Sues to Stop Biden $400 Billion Student Loan Bailout
...The libertarian Cato Institute filed a lawsuit to stop President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout with the help of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. The cost of the bailout has been estimated at around $400 billion. The federal lawsuit argues that Biden’s student...
States Continue to Fight Tax Cut Ban
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Fifth Circuit on Oct. 31, 2022 in State of Texas, et al. v. Janet Yellen, et al. It argues that the ban, as it applies to Texas, Mississippi, and...
Newsom Sued over COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law That Doctors Say Tramples First Amendment Rights
...In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, five doctors asked a district court in California to prevent the law from taking effect and said it violates their First Amendment rights and constitutional right to due process. The doctors are represented by the New Civil Liberties...
Doctor Resistance Mounts to California Law Restricting Advice to Patients on COVID
...The five plaintiffs counter that it is impossible for the law or the medical board to accurately define the "contemporary scientific consensus" about COVID as new strains emerge. Attorneys from the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance, a public interest law...
Doctors Say a California Law Targeting Clinicians Who Share COVID-19 ‘Misinformation’ Is Unconstitutional
...But as the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) points out in a federal lawsuit it filed yesterday, Newsom's signing statement does not alter the broad language of A.B. 2098, which will be enforced as written. The NCLA, which is representing five California...
Doctors Sue California for COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law That Enforces Amorphous ‘Consensus’
...The lawsuit against California AB 2098, which like the social media collusion lawsuit was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, says the board already had authority to sanction doctors who truly threaten patients by, for example, advising them to inject bleach...
Judges Keep Knocking SEC Gag Rule but Defendants Can’t Find a Way to Evade It
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which initiated both the Romeril and Novinger challenges to the SEC gag rule, is now trying a procedurally different tack. The group has returned to a Texas trial court in the Novinger case, filing a motion for a declaratory...
Cyber Officials May Have to Testify About Alleged Social Media Collusion
...Plaintiffs hailed the decision from Doughty, who was nominated by Trump, as a victory that demonstrated the importance of their case. “I’m very pleased with it,” Jenin Younes, litigation counsel at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance that joined the case,...
U.S. Government: Lesh Conviction for Illegal Snowmobiling ‘Straightforward’
...“Appellant, like all Americans, has a right to doctor photos and post them to social media for artistic purposes, to stir up controversy or for any reason at all,” said Lesh’s appeal, filed by attorney Jenin Yunes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance of Washington,...
Lawsuit Reveals Vast Censorship Scheme by Big Tech and the Federal Government
...This civil action by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, in partnership with such red-pilled lawyers as Jenin Younes at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, overlaps with a separate lawsuit by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, whose legal...
Biden’s End-of-Pandemic Remark Affects COVID Cases
...“When Biden says these sorts of things, the litigants do put them in their briefs,” said John Vecchione, senior counsel with New Civil Liberties Alliance. “Nobody wants to be the government attorney to go before a court and say there is an emergency when the...
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Cases Over Trump-era ‘Bump Stock’ Bans
...An attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group representing Texas-based advocate Michael Cargill, told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue in the Fifth Circuit case is not the Second Amendment but if bump stocks qualify as illegal "machine guns"...
Emergency Rule Emergency? How Authorities Are Invoking Crises to Exercise Unprecedented Power
..."Administrative agencies use the issue of the day to do what they wanted to do anyway," said John Vecchione, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. "With student loans, they're trying to get more juice out of COVID. They're going to try...
MyPillow, Bump Stocks, Filter Teams: Supreme Court Justices Return To Deliberate Petitions
...While the issue is not technically a Second Amendment case, an attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue is whether bump stocks qualify as illegal "machine guns" under federal law... Read the full article
Cleveland County Wage Dispute Could Strike Blow Against Administrative State
...The local government appealed to the nation’s highest court in June. That appeal attracted attention from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group founded “to challenge multiple constitutional defects in the modern administrative state.”... Read the full...
Fishery Monitor Cost Similar To Nets, 1st Circ. Says
..."They can require nets. It doesn't say who pays for the nets; the agency requires the nets and your clients have to pay," Judge Kayatta told John Vecchione of New Civil Liberties Alliance, an attorney for a group of New England herring fishermen... Read the full...