Press Releases
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Second Circuit Appeals Court to Uphold Decision Limiting Antitrust Liability
Washington, DC (July 25, 2023) – In a major March victory, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the In re Bystolic antitrust lawsuit, citing a powerful argument in NCLA’s district court amicus curiae brief joined by ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, Fifth Circuit Blocks CFTC’s Abusive Policy Reversal Against PredictIt Market
Washington, DC (July 24, 2023) –The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s threatened crackdown on the PredictIt Market without clear explanation was “likely arbitrary and capricious.” The Court ordered the U.S. ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Challenges Supreme Court to Deep-Six Chevron Deference and at-Sea Monitor Rule
Washington, DC (July 24, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its destructive Chevron precedent in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, et al. The brief also asks the Court ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Tenth Circuit to Overturn Intrusive Dog Kennel Inspection Regime
Washington, DC (July 18, 2023) – A Kansas state law egregiously authorizes warrantless searches of dog training and handling businesses and forces owners to be available for government inspections of their kennels at the drop of a hat or risk possible fines and losing their ...
NCLA Urges Appeals Court Not to Stay Injunction Barring Government Social Media Censorship
Washington, DC (July 18, 2023) – Federal government defendants in the case of Missouri, et al., v. Biden, et al. made a motion to stay a preliminary injunction that would prohibit specific federal agencies and White House officials from pressuring or coordinating with ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down CFPB’s Unconstitutional Funding Method
Washington, DC (July 10, 2023) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau operates with an illegitimate funding method, outside of direct Congressional control. Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief joined by The Buckeye Institute and the ...
Watch: Government Spyware on Your Phone? Unfortunately, There’s an App for That
Washington, DC (July 9, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance is challenging the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) in federal court for coordinating with Google to automatically install spyware on the smartphones of more than one million Commonwealth ...
Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media
Washington, DC (July 5, 2023) – Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting several federal agencies and specific White House officials from pressuring or coordinating with social ...
NCLA Notches Supreme Court Amicus Win Against Biden’s Student Loan Debt Handout
Washington, DC (June 30, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance applauds today’s Supreme Court decision blocking the Biden Administration’s plan to cancel nearly a half-trillion dollars in outstanding student loans owed to the U.S. Treasury. As NCLA urged in an amicus ...
NCLA Asks U.S. District Court to Stop Unconstitutional Suspension of Circuit Judge Pauline Newman
Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) — Chief Judge Kimberly Moore and the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have indefinitely suspended highly-respected veteran Judge Pauline Newman from hearing new cases—and they did so before investigating ...
NCLA Suit Aims to Take Down Unconstitutional Enforcement Regime at the U.S. Dep’t of Transportation
Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) – The Department of Transportation (DOT) is flexing its muscles against a small, family-owned and operated company, ignoring the federal law that only allows civil penalties when a company “knowingly violates” a regulation. So, the New Civil ...
NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Rein in SEC Practice of Seeking Penalties in Excess of Statutory Caps
Washington, DC (June 26, 2023) – Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) penalties have exploded in size in recent years, in large part because the agency ignores statutory penalty caps Congress set in 1990. SEC civil penalties have become wildly inconsistent and ...
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