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Coronavirus Litigation: The Week In Review
A D.C. federal judge has vacated the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationwide eviction ban, Pfizer and BioNTech must face claims they poached research technology while testing their COVID-19 vaccine, and Kentucky's attorney general has a green...
Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC’s National Eviction Moratorium, Appeal Immediately Filed
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., struck down Wednesday the national eviction moratorium issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last fall, imperiling millions of renters who have suffered financially because of the coronavirus. The Department...
Judge Overturns Federal Moratorium on Pandemic-Era Evictions
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge on Wednesday struck down the nationwide halt on evictions, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overstepped its authority to help millions of renting Americans who were pushed out of work with the outbreak of...
CDC Eviction Moratorium Vacated in D.C. as Atlanta Case Due for Hearing
The week before a federal appellate court in Atlanta is to consider a challenge to the CDC’s moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus epidemic, a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday vacated the moratorium. The ruling is a setback for advocates of the...
Judge says CDC doesn’t have authority to issue an eviction moratorium. It’s unclear what happens next
A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday declared that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's moratorium on eviction -- a key element of the federal government's efforts to aid those hit hardest by the Covid pandemic and its economic effects -- must be...
Federal Regulators Require Rent Collectors To Lie About the CDC’s Illegal Eviction Moratorium
A federal rule that took effect yesterday requires that anyone attempting to collect unpaid rent tell tenants they may be protected by the residential eviction moratorium that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed in September. Yet federal...
Landlord Group Sues CFPB Over COVID-19 Eviction Rule
A group of landlords is suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a new disclosure rule that aims to inform tenants of their protections from eviction during the COVID-19 outbreak, claiming that the rule violates the landlords' First Amendment rights by...
Federal Policy Could Undermine Wyo Cattle ID Legislation
Newly passed legislation that would allow Wyoming bison and cattle ranchers to use any method of state-approved livestock identification — rather than federally mandated eartags — could soon be challenged by federal policy. The policy may erode a recent victory by...
Landlord Challenges CFPB Rule on Eviction Moratorium Notices
A rental property manager in Tennessee has sued to block a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule requiring notice be given to delinquent residential renters about a nationwide eviction ban, saying it runs counter to rulings finding the ban invalid. The...
Court-Packing Would Decimate the Court’s Credibility
NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins “National Report” on Newsmax to discuss the dangers associated with the plan to expand the Supreme Court. Key points: The Court depends on the credibility that is established by making decisions...
Crypto Crackdown Drives ‘John Doe’ Record Demands from IRS
The IRS is seeking swaths of records from cryptocurrency companies on anonymous taxpayers as part of its broader effort to crack down on tax evasion in the industry. The demands involve the potential tax liabilities of unnamed taxpayers, and for that reason are known...
Federal Court in Wyoming Asked to Block RFID Technology
Livestock producers represented by the Billings, MT cattlemen’s group known as R-CALF say they have a “right” to use “traditional low-cost methods related to animal identification and traceability.” But USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) with...
Parents Defend Electric Shock as Extreme Tool for Extreme Cases
The D.C. Circuit appeared set Friday to reverse a federal ban on electric-shock devices, which are used to treat self-injurious or aggressive behavior in only one facility in the entire nation: the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts. From Mother...
Justices Resolve Circuit Split on Challenges to Judge Appointments
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Social Security applicants who challenge the appointment of administrative law judges are not required to first bring those claims to the agency before taking their case to court. The six individuals who brought...
Supreme Court Slams Brakes on FTC’s Fraud-Recovery Options
WASHINGTON (CN) — Overturning a nearly $1.3 billion injunction against a race car driver convicted of payday-lending fraud, the Supreme Court on Thursday took away what the Federal Trade Commission has called “one of its most important and effective enforcement...
Supreme Court Rolls Back FTC Restitution Power
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gutted the Federal Trade Commission's power to seek federal court orders forcing bad marketplace actors to pay restitution, shutting down a critical tool the FTC uses to recover money from scammers and antitrust violators. In a...
Corey Friedman: A Comeback for Campus Kangaroo Courts?
Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim. After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual...
Crypto User Appeals Dismissal of Suit Over IRS Records Grab
A man whose cryptocurrency records were seized through an IRS summons is appealing a ruling that dismissed his lawsuit without addressing his core claims. James Harper argued that the John Doe summons—which demands information from a third party about an unnamed...
The History of Court-Packing
NCLA's Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins the "Thom Hartmann Program" on SiriusXM Progress 127 to debate the recent proposals to change the number of Supreme Court Justices and the history of court-packing. Key points: • For 150 years, we have had nine...
Lawsuits Threaten Future Of CDC Eviction Moratorium
The wave of litigation challenging the eviction moratorium issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resulting in disparate rulings across the country, prompting divergent applications and casting uncertainty on the moratorium's future. The...
The Court-Packing Bill and Biden’s SCOTUS Commission Are Weapons to Intimidate Current Justices
NCLA's Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins Steve Gruber’s “The Voice of Reason” on WJIM to discuss the recent court-packing proposals. Key takeaways: • The court-packing bill has an intimidating effect on the current justices. Even if the bill goes nowhere,...
Court-Packing Violates the Civil Liberties of Every American
NCLA's Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins "The Larry Elder Show" with guest-host Jennifer Horn on KRLA AM 870 to discuss the reality of the recent court-packing proposals. Key takeaways: • The court-packing bill has an intimidating effect on...
The Future of Title IX under Biden’s Administration
NCLA's Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman joins “The Laura Coates Show" on SiriusXM P.O.T.U.S., channel 124, to discuss the changes to Title IX under the Biden Administration. Key takeaways: • Title IX was never designed to address the allegations of sexual...
Department of Education Guidance under New Biden Administration
NCLA's Litigation Counsel Caleb Kruckenberg joins "Richmond's Morning News" with John Reid to discuss the recent changes in Title IX policy by the Biden administration. Key takeaways: • The Obama administration sent around a guidance document that told colleges to...
Commission on Court-Packing
NCLA's Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins "The Drew Mariani Show" to discuss President Biden's executive order that has created a commission to report on possible changes to the Supreme Court's membership, jurisdiction and lifetime terms. Key...