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Governor Cuomo’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Passport Program
Covid-19 Articlescategory_listJenin Younescategory_listZoie Mestayer
At the end of March 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that he was launching the nation’s only Vaccine Passport Program. In order to gain entry to venues that host large-scale events, including sports stadiums and concert halls, people must scan proof that they have had a COVID-19 vaccine or recently tested negative…
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James Madison University’s Title IX Investigation Flouts Due Process Rights
Harriet Hageman
Alyssa Reid began her professional career in the summer of 2012 when James Madison University (JMU) hired her as the Assistant Director of the “Individual Events Team” in the School of Communication. Reid was passionate about education and teaching. She felt especially compelled to help her students craft their own voices to advocate for…
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Supreme Court Agrees with NCLA and Cuts Back the FTC’s Power Grab Through Section 13(b)
John J. Vecchione
The Supreme Court in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC vastly cut back the FTC’s ability to freeze and then seize its targets’ assets to the tune of billions of dollars. NCLA filed an amicus brief on behalf of AMG and the Court largely adopted our view of the case. Last week I discussed…
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Lunch and Law: The Administrative State - Reagan, Trump, and Biden
NCLA
In April we celebrate Earth Day. Appropriately, this month NCLA invited distinguished guest panelist William Perry Pendley, who served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for Policy and Programs, to sit down with NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman for our monthly Lunch and Law panel series, “The Administrative State…
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The Problem with “Percolation”
Caleb Kruckenberg
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 void.” Without judges willing to do their duty, “all the reservations…
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Federal Securities Law Unconstitutionally Deprives Defendants of Jury-Trial Rights While Granting Those Rights to Itself
Richard Samp
The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil suits filed in federal court. Federal officials have never liked it when the target of a federal enforcement action insists on a jury trial; they apparently fear that some juries are likely to sympathize with the defendant. So…
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