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Federal Court Asked to Restart Student Loan Payments Put On Hold for COVID-19
...“This unlawful ongoing student-loan payment pause fits a familiar pattern that already played out in the context of the federal eviction moratorium. First, Congress enacts a temporary economic-relief program, then an administrative agency extends that program...
‘Paranoid’ Incidents Necessitate Newman Exam, Fed. Cir. Says
...In a second Tuesday order, the panel clarified the scope of a confidentiality order that barred Newman from discussing details of the probe that aren’t already public. Counsel for Newman didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment. The New Civil...
Student Loan Pause Update: Why Biden May Not Extend It Again, And How It Relates To Loan Forgiveness
“The CARES Act’s six-month student-loan debt payment pause reflected Congress’s considered judgment for when payments and interest must resume,” said Sheng Li, Litigation Counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal group leading the push for a preliminary...
Federal Circuit Judge Sues Colleagues Over Investigation Into Her Competency
“The undue haste with which the special committee is proceeding is indicative of the denial of due process,” the suit adds. Moore, Prost and Taranto did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Newman is being represented by attorneys John Vecchione and...
Judge Fitness Probe Cites Nonexistent Heart Attack, Newman Says
...The complaint further takes issue with the way the Federal Circuit panel is handling its probe, including issuing “a gag order threatening Judge Newman and her counsel with sanctions should any of them publicize the ongoing investigation.” The district court should...
Gun Control Groups Ask High Court To Review Bump Stocks
...The groups said that decision "rests on a novel holding that would require judgment in favor of criminal defendants whenever a court perceives any ambiguity in a criminal statute." "We agree with the Gifford Law Center that the issue is an important one and that...
Supreme Court Takes up Potential Landmark Case From New Jersey Fishermen
...One of those amicus briefs was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, on behalf of Rhode Island fishermen it represents. The NCLA has also represented Gulf of Mexico charter fishing captains who object to NMFS electronic monitoring demands. “It is thrilling...
Fauci Files: Twitter’s Courting of COVID-19 Vax Censorship
...On Nov. 23, 2022, in a sworn deposition organized on behalf of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, Dr. Anthony Fauci made the claim that he had no knowledge of how to use Twitter and showed signs of having trouble recalling if he knew anyone who worked for social...
Probe of Federal Appeals Judge Tests Aging Us Courts
...The nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing Newman and has asked the court's chief judge Kimberly Moore and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to move the investigation to a different circuit, NCLA attorney Greg Dolin told Reuters on...
U.S. Audit Regulator Asks Court to Dismiss Suit by Accountant Challenging Disciplinary Proceedings
...Doe, represented by conservative group New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), believes that the PCAOB proceedings are unconstitutional despite the enforcement authority given to the regulatory board by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The law established the PCAOB to...
High Court Says US Judges Can Hear Attacks On FTC, SEC
...In the second case, Michelle Cochran, a certified public accountant accused by the SEC of flouting auditing standards, sought to challenge that same scheme at the Wall Street regulator. Cochran won in the Fifth Circuit, setting up the government's appeal that the...
Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Challenge Structure of Federal Agencies
...Lawyers for accountant Michelle Cochran, bringing the challenge in the SEC case, and body-camera manufacturer Axon Enterprise Inc. in the FTC case, said their clients should not have to undergo years of litigation before being able to challenge the...
Supreme Court Opens Path to Curbing FTC, SEC Powers
...The opinion dealt with two related cases, Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran. While it addressed a narrow jurisdictional question, it highlighted the court’s increasing skepticism toward administrative tribunals run by federal agencies... Read the full...
Supreme Court Allows Federal Agencies to Be Taken to Court
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group that supported Cochran’s case in its journey to the high court, said the ruling will allow citizens to access federal courts when agencies violate their constitutional rights. The NCLA will continue...
Patient Privacy at Risk in Senate Bill Aimed at Pharmacy Managers
..."Patients may not even know that their data is released," Greg Dolin, a University of Baltimore law professor and senior litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that defends constitutional rights, tells Reason. Since the bill's main...
DOJ’s Bump Stock Appeal Could Have Much Broader Implications
...The Supreme Court “has been clear that we do not invoke lenity just because ‘multiple, divergent principles of statutory construction are available,’” Higginson wrote. Michael Cargill, the Texas gun shop owner who brought the lawsuit challenging the ban, is...
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plans And Payment Pause Face Multiple New Threats
...The latest lawsuit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) argues that all payment pause extensions beyond the initial six months authorized by Congress in the CARES Act — including the extensions implemented by the Trump administration before Biden took...
Lawsuit Prompts Changes in Fulbright-Hays Grant Program
...Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which brought the lawsuit, said in an interview that the department could resolve the lawsuit amicably by revising the regulations. Li said the department’s current proposal “looks pretty good,”...
Biden’s Student Loan Pause Faces Another Lawsuit
...The newest legal challenge was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank, earlier this week. In a similar lawsuit, private lender SoFi sued the Biden administration last month, also...
When Will Student Loan Payments Resume? A New Lawsuit Aims to Lift the Payment Pause
...Another lawsuit was filed Thursday aiming to force an end to a pause on payments for student loan borrowers that has stretched over three years. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Michigan, was brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of...
A Nonprofit Just Joined Forces with a Major Student-Loan Lender in Asking a Federal Court to End the Payment Pause
...On Thursday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit law firm aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center, a nonprofit think tank based in Michigan that advocates for limited government. The lawsuit targets...
Fauci Video Deposition Released Publicly
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has released six video depositions taken in a federal lawsuit that sheds light on what role government actors, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, played in censoring or, as revealed in the Twitter Files, the offshoring of...
CFPB Independent Funding Constitutional, Second Circuit Rules
...The CFPB’s document demands caused Moroney to shutter her law firm and “illustrates how a federal agency without funding constraints can quickly get out of control,” Moroney’s attorney Richard Samp said in an email. “The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fifth...
California’s COVID Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings
...But the Newsom administration has decided to wait for the appeals court to rule on the other two judges’ decisions that left the law intact for now. Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is lead counsel in the other Sacramento case in...
When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
...In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past year, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit legal group, represents students who they say have been robbed of their competitive advantage and constitutional right to equal protection under the...