... The case before the First Circuit was brought by investor James Harper, whose financial records the IRS obtained through a judicially enforced “John Doe summons” asking Coinbase to turn over information on thousands of account holders. John Doe summons, which...
Org Dedicated to ‘Transparency’ Hides Tax Filings
A State Department-funded organization that purports to combat opaque operations within websites and media stands accused of hypocritically and illegally hiding its own funders and officers. The stated mission of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit...
Reps. Urge High Court To Take On Ore. Monument Challenges
More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama's expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the...
SEC Faces Renewed Petition Over ‘Gag Orders’
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency's rule "has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity." ... Read the full...
Coolant Cos. Fight ‘Unconstitutional’ Law On HFC Reduction
Refrigerant industry players urged the D.C. Circuit either to void part of a 2020 law that directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons or to force the agency to reconsider its regulatory approach... Read the full...
SEC ‘Gag Orders’ at Risk as Skeptical Court Takes Up Challenge
... “We view this as one of the biggest, clearest First Amendment breaches by an agency that’s ever been done,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Novinger and his company, ICAN Investment Group LLC... The policy is...
Musk’s Tesla Union Tweet Sets Up Speech Clash at Fifth Circuit
... People like Musk are the only ones who can afford to fight the government over a single tweet, but the impact of the case “goes far beyond Elon Musk,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed an amicus brief backing Tesla....
Fishermen head to Supreme Court to cast Chevron overboard
... Representing the New Jersey fishermen will be veteran attorney Paul Clement, a former solicitor general under the Bush administration. Another lawsuit brought by fishermen based in Rhode Island will be argued by attorneys for the New Civil Liberties Alliance......
Supreme Court will consider overruling landmark Chevron deference decision in a fishy case
... John J. Vecchione, senior litigation counsel with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal organization... that is representing the Rhode Island fishers, says that Chevron has been ineffective and not rooted in the Constitution. “If judges find ambiguity and get...
Sense Of Duty Drives GC To Take On ‘Administrative State’
Zhonette Brown grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she says she absorbed the values of accountability, self-sufficiency, and duty to one's family and community... Read the full article