by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | Blog
In Federalist Number 78 Alexander Hamilton wrote about the importance of not only an independent judiciary, but one that had the courage to protect liberty. Judges, he said, have a “duty” “to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 22, 2021 | In the News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gutted the Federal Trade Commission’s power to seek federal court orders forcing bad marketplace actors to pay restitution, shutting down a critical tool the FTC uses to recover money from scammers and antitrust violators. In a...
by mason.riggs | Apr 21, 2021 | In the News
Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim. After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 20, 2021 | In the News
A man whose cryptocurrency records were seized through an IRS summons is appealing a ruling that dismissed his lawsuit without addressing his core claims. James Harper argued that the John Doe summons—which demands information from a third party about an unnamed...
by mason.riggs | Apr 20, 2021 | In the News
NCLA’s Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins the “Thom Hartmann Program” on SiriusXM Progress 127 to debate the recent proposals to change the number of Supreme Court Justices and the history of court-packing. Key points: • For 150 years, we...
