... A group called the New Civil Liberties Alliance sued to challenge the bump stock ban on behalf of Michael Cargill, a Texas gun shop owner. According to court records, Cargill bought two bump stocks in 2018 and then surrendered them once the federal ban took...
Energy Dept. Halts Crypto Mining Survey To End Industry Suit
The crypto industry group challenging a U.S. Department of Energy survey on crypto mining has reached an agreement that will see the government offices destroy any data they've already collected and circulate the survey for comment from stakeholders — a step the...
Talking Administrative Law: Why A Legal Advocate Says the SEC’s In-House Courts are ‘Something Out of Kafka’
Also, FDIC IG says agency continues to lag in recruiting and retaining workers; FSOC meets in private to discuss financial risks; OCC names an acting chief counsel Friday Q&A: The issue of federal agency power has become one of the hottest topics in financial...
Full 5th Circ. To Hear Appeal Of Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule
The Fifth Circuit agreed Tuesday to rehear en banc a lawsuit challenging a Nasdaq board diversity rule that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had approved, granting conservative groups that brought the lawsuit another shot at overturning a rule that requires...
Cleveland: State Department’s Censorship Scheme Suppresses Conservative News
“The State Department, through its Global Engagement Center, was funding the development, the research, the promotion of different types of technology that are used to censor publications,” said New Civil Liberties Alliance counsel Margot Cleveland during a “Real...
Supreme Court watchlist: Agency power, air rules, water rights
... In a pair of cases argued in January — Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Commerce — the justices seemed receptive to conservative lawyers’ arguments to at least limit the Chevron doctrine, a legal theory established in a 1984 Supreme Court case that gives...
Texas AG Sues to Stop Biden Censorship of Conservative Media
... Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel of New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is serving as co-counsel, said in the press release: "The State Department supposedly developed these speech-suppressing technologies to combat foreign propaganda overseas. That...
Daily Wire, Texas AG Ask Court To Block State Department’s Domestic ‘Misinformation’ Efforts
... “The U.S. Department of State, through its Global Engagement Center (GEC), is actively intervening in the news-media market to limit the reach of, the circulation of, and render unprofitable, disfavored press outlets by funding the infrastructure, development, and...
‘A Terrible Precedent to Set’: Newman Suspension Upheld on Appeal
... Newman’s counsel, Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), told IPWatchdog in September that he believes the order is flatly illegal, citing to Rule 20, which requires a “fixed period” for suspending a judge from being assigned new cases. According...
Legal activist group plots challenge over SEC’s ‘Gag Rule’
A legal activist group aiming to weaken the administrative state plans to sue the SEC over its long-standing practice of barring defendants who settle charges from later denying the allegations levied by the agency. The New Civil Liberties Alliance said Tuesday that...