On Friday, June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce (a huge win for NCLA!), the Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference—the judicially invented doctrine that required federal judges to defer to administrative agencies’ interpretation of statutory language. For some forty years, the Chevron doctrine allowed…

Many non-lawyers instinctively recoil when unelected agency bureaucrats inject hotly debated social issues into federal regulations. The common man intuitively understands what agencies do not—agencies need Congress’s permission before they enact regulations. Agencies have toppled Congress’s authority by a slight-of-hand called manipulative statutory interpretation. Legitimate statutory interpretation is a Nancy Drew-esque sleuthing escapade to determine…

According to the Supreme Court, “[d]eciding what competing values will or will not be sacrificed to the achievement of a particular [governmental] objective is the very essence of legislative choice[.]” So if Congress passes a law, but leaves that decision to an administrative agency, is the agency legislating in violation of the constitutional mandate that…

People often lament, “well, we didn’t know about that back then.” Is this a product of ignorance or merely a product of selective publication of information? After NCLA clients Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Jill Hines, and their co-plaintiffs uncovered the egregious partnership of social media companies and the government in Murthy…

During the Covid era, state and local governments across the nation flagrantly violated Americans’ constitutional rights for months in some cases and years in others in an ostensible effort to quell the virus’s spread. Yet, with some notable exceptions, the vast majority of bad government actors have avoided facing legal consequences by abusing the mootness…

The Star Chamber.  Even 383 years after its abolition, merely invoking its name brings a vague thrum of apprehension.  Not a spike of fear; no, it’s nothing quite that bracing.  More of a distantly remembered wrongness, a subliminal but constant worry that the ground might shift—without warning, without reason, without recourse.  And through some trick…