by NCLA | Jan 7, 2020 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (January 7, 2019) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus brief today with the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in support of plaintiffs-appellees in the case of Brackeen v. Bernhardt. NCLA is urging the full Fifth Circuit to call out the...
by NCLA | Jan 7, 2020 | Case Documents
This case is particularly important to NCLA. It is disappointed that three judges on the Fifth Circuit would eschew their fundamental duty “to say what the law is” and defer to agency interpretations of statutes under the Chevron doctrine. In doing so, NCLA believes...
by NCLA | Jan 4, 2020 | Blog
In 2020, the Supreme Court is poised to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Funeral Homes v. EEOC. Title VII...
by NCLA | Dec 23, 2019 | Case Documents
It is undisputed that the “disgorgement” remedy appears nowhere in the SEC’s enabling statutes. History reveals that the disgorgement remedy was created and expanded by an strategic enforcement and litigation process allowing SEC to arrogate to itself powers not...
by NCLA | Dec 23, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 23, 2019 – An amicus brief filed today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) urges the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit decision that endorses the Security and Exchange Commission’s routine use of abusive legal remedies not...
