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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...
Charter Boat Captains Don’t Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules
...A group of charter boat captains represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) sued, saying the rule violated rights to due process, privacy, and freedom of movement, among other things. "The reason we were against this so much is it tracked us precisely...
Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime
...“The corollary to the First Amendment right to speak is a First Amendment right to receive information,” Jenin Younes, an attorney from the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing the plaintiffs, said. The battle over AB 2098 illustrates why medical...
Bump Stocks Sales Resume in Texas after ATF Fails to File Stay to Stop Reversal of Ban
...Michael Cargill, owner of Austin’s Central Texas Gun Works, sued to challenge the ban in 2019 with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a litigation group that says it protects constitutional freedoms, including Second Amendment rights. They lost in federal court in...
Lawsuit Challenging IRS Seizure of Crypto Account Records Is Back in Court
...In the meantime, the IRS continues to seek out John Doe summons. On Aug. 15, 2022, a California federal court authorized the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on SFOX, seeking information about US taxpayers who conducted at least $20,000 in crypto transactions...
Doctors Without Voices?
...Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098, a law that could cost doctors their licenses if they treated COVID in a manner at odds with “scientific consensus,” i.e. essentially whatever happened to be coming out the CDC that particular day (remember, it...
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
...Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, an organization representing the individual plaintiffs, said the government had sought to sidestep free-speech rights by forcing private companies to take action on discourse that is otherwise...
The New York Times Warns That Freedom of Speech ‘Threatens Public Health’ and ‘Democracy Itself’
...Myers may disagree with that calculation or recoil at its implications. But the First Amendment clearly bars the government from banning speech it views as hazardous to public health or democracy. The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, who include individual social...
Court Urged To Keep Suit Over IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Alive
...Richard A. Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who is representing Harper, said in a statement that the Supreme Court historically has held that "the government may not deprive citizens of their liberty interests or property interests without providing them...
California’s Medical Misinformation Law Struck Down
..."This Act is a blatant attempt to silence doctors whose views, though based on thorough scientific research, deviate from the government-approved 'party line,'" said Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lawyer for the doctors, in a statement. "At no...
A Federal Court Blocks California’s New Medical Misinformation Law
...In December, another judge in the Central District of California denied an injunction in a similar case. The split verdicts raise the likelihood that the law’s fate could ultimately be decided at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. “I...
California Law Aiming to Curb COVID Misinformation Blocked by Judge
..."This Act is a blatant attempt to silence doctors whose views, though based on thorough scientific research, deviate from the government-approved 'party line,'" said Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lawyer for the doctors, in a statement. "At no...
Federal Court Halts California Law Punishing Doctors for COVID ‘Misinformation’
...Judge William B. Schubb of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California granted the motion filed by a group of doctors for a preliminary injunction. Schubb said that, because the “scientific consensus” (on COVID, in this case) is ill-defined and...
California Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law: Reports
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance represent the doctors, or NCLA, which is a nonpartisan civil rights firm. In November, Jenin Younes, counsel for the NCLA said California’s new "misinformation" law is the result of the increasing censorious mentality that has...
Judge Questions Clarity of New California Law Targeting Doctors Who Share COVID-19 Misinformation
...Jenin Younes, an attorney representing Høeg and five other doctors in one of the cases, said during the hearing that the law was “about silencing doctors that have a different view from the state.” Younes works for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a Washington,...
How the CDC Became the Speech Police
...The deposition was part of Schmitt v. Biden, a lawsuit that accuses the federal government of improperly pushing private social media companies to restrict so-called misinformation relating to COVID-19. Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, professors of medicine...
‘You Are Calling the President a Liar’: White House Scolds Social Media for Treatment of Biden
...The email threads are among dozens between the White House and tech platforms that Just the News received from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which along with Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general is suing the feds for social media censorship. The plaintiffs...
‘Any Messaging You Want’: Facebook Asked Biden Admin For Talking Points After FDA Vaccine Blood Clots Warning
...A Facebook employee wrote an email later that day asking Biden administration COVID-19 czar Andrew Slavitt for “any messaging” that the White House might want the company to promote, looping in White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty and Director of...
Federal Courts Divided as U.S. 5th Circuit Strikes Ban on Gun Bump Stocks
...The legal team behind the federal regulation challenge, Michael Cargill v. Merrick B. Garland, was New Civil Liberties Alliance... Read the full article
Bump Stock Ruling Highlights Appellate Dispute: Can Agencies Decide What Is a Crime?
...Will the Supreme Court take up that issue? The ATF declined to comment on Friday’s ruling, but Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who won the 5th Circuit appeal for bump stock user Michael Cargill, said his side wouldn’t shy away from Supreme Court...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down ATF Rule Banning Rapid-fire Bump Stocks
...The plaintiff in the case, Texas gun shop owner and firearms instructor Michael Cargill, had surrendered two nonmechanical bump stocks after the new rule banned them. He was represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights organization......
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down Ban on Bump Stocks
..."The resulting circuit split should bring this decision to the U.S. Supreme Court's attention promptly and supply a suitable vehicle for deciding this issue once and for all," said Mark Chenoweth, the president of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative...
En Banc 5th Circ. Nixes Gun ‘Bump Stock’ Ban In Reversal
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Cargill in the case, said in a statement Friday that it is pleased that a circuit court has recognized "that Congress must be the one to pass any bump stock ban." "The resulting circuit split should bring this...
Fulbright Applicant Wants ‘Discriminatory’ Policy Blocked
..."The native-language penalty is unconstitutional because it treats applicants' national origin as a decisive factor in access to federal education assistance," the New Civil Liberties Alliance said... Read the full article
New California Law to Punish Doctors for ‘Covid Misinformation Conduct’
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, and attorney Laura Powell filed a complaint and motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of five California doctors in Høeg, et al. v. Newsom, et al., asking the U.S. District Court...