Press Releases
NCLA Amicus Brief Calls for Full Sixth Circuit to Reconsider Unconstitutional FDIC ALJ Protections
Washington, DC (August 1, 2022) – Congress has long protected federal agency Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) from removal, thus depriving Americans of their constitutional freedom to live under a government in which executive power is accountable to them through the ...
NCLA Asks Full Fifth Circuit to Toss ATF’s Bump Stock Ban and Reject Deference to the Government
Washington, DC (July 25, 2022) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed its appellant brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Michael Cargill v. Merrick B. Garland, et al. This lawsuit could determine who has the constitutional authority to change ...
U.S. Dept. of Education Alters Discriminatory Fulbright Application Process in Response to NCLA Suit
Washington, DC (July 22, 2022) – Kuwaiti-born Samar Ahmad can breathe a sigh of relief after learning that her national origin will not be used against her in the application process for a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. The New Civil ...
NCLA Appeals Title IX Lawsuit Against James Madison University to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington, DC (July 19, 2022) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Reid v. James Madison University, et al. Alyssa Reid, a former forensics ...
Supreme Court Case Challenging SEC’s Unlawful Admin. Proceedings Draws Strong Amicus Support
Washington, DC (July 8, 2022) – Liberty-minded organizations, distinguished civil liberties activists, and prominent leaders in the business community, including Phillip Goldstein, Mark Cuban, and Nelson Obus, are among the sixteen amici curiae who have filed briefs in ...
NCLA Calls on SCOTUS to Block Warrantless Exception to Home Search and Seizure
Washington, DC (July 6, 2022) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil liberties group, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al., in support of a petition for certiorari urging the high court ...
NCLA Clients, Two Fired by MSU, Appeal Its Unlawful Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate to Sixth Circuit
Washington, DC (July 5, 2022) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., et al. Jeanna Norris, Kraig Ehm, and D’Ann Rohrer, current or former employees of ...
NCLA’s Supreme Court Opening Brief Defends Ability to Challenge SEC Tribunals in Federal Court
Washington, DC (June 30, 2022) - The New Civil Liberties Alliance and Latham & Watkins have authored an opening brief on behalf of Michelle Cochran in the much-anticipated Supreme Court case, SEC v. Michelle Cochran, which will determine whether federal district courts ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, SCOTUS Limits EPA’s Regulatory Authority Under Clean Air Act
Washington, DC (June 30, 2022) – In a blockbuster 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) sweeping claim of regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The Court stated that EPA could not satisfy the “major ...
Fifth Circuit Grants en Banc Review in Lawsuit Challenging Bump-Stock Ban and Chevron
Washington, DC (June 23, 2022) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance commends the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for granting en banc review in Michael Cargill v. Merrick B. Garland, et al. today. NCLA is challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...
NCLA’s Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship for D.C. Summer Associates Honors Justices’ Legacy of Civility
Washington, DC (June 15, 2022) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, is pleased to announce the launch of the Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship, an annual summer program for law students working in Washington D.C. NCLA is launching the ...
Supreme Court Rules Against HHS’s Lowering of Reimbursements to Hospitals, in NCLA Amicus Win
Washington, DC (June 15, 2022) – Today, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated the 2003 Medicare Act by lowering drug reimbursement rates for specific hospitals. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, ...
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