by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 11, 2023 | Kara Rollins, Richard Samp, Uncategorized
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) and the Concerned Veterans for America Foundation (CVAF) hereby petition the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to amend its regulation regarding the payment of benefits to veterans who have been adjudged eligible for...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 28, 2022 | Blog, Kara Rollins
The Federal Trade Commission has a well-documented history of asserting regulatory powers beyond anything granted to it by Congress. Just last year, in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Commission’s decades-long claim that...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Aug 3, 2022 | Kara Rollins, Opinion, Peggy Little
“Agencies that combine enforcement and adjudication—as many do—are unconstitutional. But convenient for the government,” law blogger Glenn Harlan Reynolds posted earlier this year. For those who follow SEC enforcement, particularly adjudication by in-house...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 10, 2022 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Photo: The Apex Building, headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission, on Constitution Avenue and 7th Streets in Washington, D.C. A little over a year ago, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, Kara Rollins
It seems logical that a person acquitted of a crime cannot, and should not, serve time for that crime, but on the federal level, and in many states, that is not always the case. In criminal cases, an acquittal means that the government has failed to prove an...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 8, 2022 | Jared McClain, Kara Rollins, Opinion
When Vox Media employees walked out during a bargaining dispute in 2019, Twitter users tweeted along.[2] Among the commentators was Ben Domenech, the publisher of the web magazine The Federalist. He tweeted from his personal account, “FYI @fdrlst first one of you...