by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 29, 2023 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
Just because you work in a regulated industry doesn’t mean the government can watch you all the time. NCLA successfully challenged an unlawful and unconstitutional regulation by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which required 24-hour GPS...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 14, 2023 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
NCLA successfully challenged the Department of Transportation’s unlawful and unconstitutional in-house tribunals. DOT subjected NCLA’s client, Polyweave Packaging Inc., to a six-year prosecution in one such tribunal for violating a law that does not exist. The...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 27, 2023 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
After seven years of an uphill battle challenging the adjudicatory process at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Michelle Cochran’s backbreaking journey has paid off. In a historic and unanimous Supreme Court victory in Axon v. FTC consolidated with...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 1, 2023 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
The President does not have the legal authority to forgive student loans on his own. Only Congress can enact laws authorizing debt-forgiveness programs. And only Congress has the power of the purse to pay for debt forgiveness. That is why NCLA has filed a...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Dec 13, 2022 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
Imagine a world where Congress empowers a private corporation to secretly investigate and punish members of a particular industry. Enter the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) — often derided as “peekaboo” due to its acronym and infamous secrecy....
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Nov 8, 2022 | Lunch & Law Speaker Series
Agencies wield tremendous power over almost all aspects of American life, enacting thousands of regulations every year that have the force of law. Many agencies, like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), use...