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Gun Activist Asks Appeals Court to Block Bump Stock Ban
...Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, arguing for plaintiff Michael Cargill, told the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that the prohibition relied on a flawed decision to classify a bump stock as a machine gun under federal law. A...
Second Amendment Advocate Pushes Appeals Court to Reconsider Trump-Era ‘Bump Stock’ Ban
...An attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group representing Cargill, told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue is not the Second Amendment but whether bump stocks qualify as illegal "machine guns" under federal law... Read the full article
Wyoming Congressional Candidate Hageman Gets Courtroom Win Against EPA
...Hageman is senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization which claims to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the “Administrative State.” The New Civil Liberties Alliance is...
Kevin McCarthy: Biden ‘Has Divided Us Further’
...But while no such precedent for the Biden administration has been set by a judge, on the same day as Biden's "Unity," speech, a litigious civil organization, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, issued a press release detailing that the Biden administration has...
The Biden Administration Is Engaged in a Massive Censorship Campaign
...The Biden administration’s campaign to censor, demonetize, and suppress dissenting voices on social media is much broader than previously known, as demonstrated by an amended complaint filed last month in federal district court in the case of Missouri v. Biden. The...
Judge: Fauci, WH Press Secretary Must Turn Over All Emails Pertaining to Government-media Collusion
...The plaintiffs’ New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) lawyer Jenin Younes stated: "We know from the previous round of discovery that efforts to censor the speech of those who disagree with the government on covid policy have come from the top. Americans deserve to...
Judge Orders Biden Admin to Hand Over Any Censorship Records, Rejects Executive Privilege Claim
...Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry brought a First Amendment lawsuit against the Biden administration over its alleged censorship in May and have worked with lawyers from the New Civil Liberties Alliance to unearth...
Election Interference? Former Police Chief Says Democrats Have Turned the Concept Into an Art Form
...“If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the...
Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents
...“If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the...
Biden Team Worked With Social Media Companies To Censor Content, Records Show
...Mr. Schmitt said other emails show the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency reaching out to Google, Facebook’s parent company Meta, Microsoft and Twitter after the rollout of the Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation governance board, which...
Cybersecurity Chief Complains Big Tech ‘Hesitant’ To Censor on Behalf of Feds
...Missouri's Eric Schmitt, Louisiana's Jeff Landry and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing censored doctors, filed a 711-page "joint statement on discovery disputes" with the defendants, who include President Biden, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy,...
Attys’ Challenge To Conn. Conduct Rule Tossed For Standing
...Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, one of the attorneys representing Cerame and Moynahan, told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday that his clients plan to appeal the court's decision. "The court's basis for dismissing the case was to say that we had not shown...
5th Circuit Questions Claim That SEC Put Nasdaq on a ‘Woke Mission’ for Board Diversity
…The case is Alliance For Fair Board Recruitment v. SEC, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 21-60626. For National Center for Public Policy Research: Peggy Little and Sheng Li of the New Civil Liberties Alliance... Read the full article
Nasdaq Diversity Rules Challenge Puts Conservatives on Defense
…“You have to be able to say it’s arbitrary,” Judge Stephen Higginson of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit told the Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment and the New Civil Liberties Alliance during oral arguments Monday, referring to the Security and...
Showdown Over Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule Heads to 5th Circuit
…The case is Alliance For Fair Board Recruitment v. SEC, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 21-60626. For NCPPR: Peggy Little and Sheng Li of the New Civil Liberties Alliance... Read the full article
Lawyers Begin Attempt to Appeal Conviction of Social Media Influencer David Lesh
…New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a brief on Tuesday appealing Lesh’s conviction in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. His lawyers argued that prosecutors failed to prove his guilt, the bench trial denied his right to a trial by jury on criminal...
5th Circ. To Scope SEC Agenda In Nasdaq Diversity Rule Fight
…The Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment is represented by C. Boyden Gray, Jonathan Berry, R. Trent McCotter, Michael Buschbacher and Jordan Smith of Boyden Gray & Associates. The National Center for Public Policy Research is represented by Margaret Little and...
The Brewing Legal Fight Over Biden’s Debt Cancellation
…John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group that litigates against the administrative state, told Law360, "We obviously believe that this is huge overreach and illegal activity by the executive. I can't tell you we have a case, but I suspect that, to...
Nasdaq to Defend Board Diversity Push After California Setbacks
…California Superior Court judges earlier this year struck down state laws that directed companies based in the state to have women and minority or LGBTQ board members. The scrapping of California’s mandates is a bellwether that shows board diversity regulations...
Lesh Appeals Convictions, Brief Alleges ‘Overreach’
…“This case presents a classic example of Government overreach,” Younes wrote in her summary of argument. “Because authorities considered Appellant a troublemaker, they repeatedly tried to charge him with various offenses that would not stick. The convictions here are...
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Undercut by Updated CDC Guidance: Lawsuit
…Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told The Epoch Times after the CDC update that the legal group would be noting the update in future filings, including in Skoly’s case… Read the full article
Crypto Trader Can Sue IRS Over ‘John Doe’ Summons for Coinbase Records, Court Says
…The U.S. Justice Department, which represented the IRS in the Harper appeal, did not respond to a request for comment. Harper’s lead counsel, Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said the ruling upholds the basic principle that people are entitled to go...
Law Students Nationwide Learn From Top Conservative Legal Experts in D.C. With New Fellowship
…The law students visited the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and New Civil Liberties Alliance as they heard from some of the top law minds and policy expert scholars in the nation’s capital… Read the full article
SEC Disgorgement Win Bolsters Ability to Recoup Ill-Gotten Gains
…“I think this is an issue that’s going to percolate through the courts for the next couple of years,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance who represents Island and the other defendants… Read the full article
FTC Gets Backing In High Court Constitutionality Case
…Cochran is represented by Margaret A. Little, Mark S. Chenoweth, Richard A. Samp and Kara M. Rollins of the New Civil Liberties Alliance and Gregory C. Garre, Margaret A. Upshaw and Black E. Stafford of Latham & Watkins LLP… Read the full article