A civil rights group is calling on George Mason University (GMU) executives to reconsider their vaccination requirement for staff and students in the fall semester, claiming it is a scientifically “irrational” policy that violates constitutional rights and medical...

George Mason University's refusal to recognize natural immunity from COVID-19 or grant merit pay to employees who don't share their vaccination status could land the Virginia public university in court. A law professor who recovered from COVID-19, and whose doctor...

Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order allowing security deposits to be used towards rent is constitutional, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday. Executive Order No. 128, which Murphy signed in April 2020, aims to help tenants struggling to pay rent during the...

Jeffrey Clark, Jenin Younes and Sheng Li have joined the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Clark will be chief of litigation and director of strategy and is the former assistant A.G. Younes will be litigation counsel and previously was an appellate public defender in New...

An effort by a national landlord group to strike down the federal directive halting residential evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic was rebuffed Wednesday by a divided 11th Circuit panel, which ruled that the landlords failed to show they would suffer irreparable...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid by a group of landlords seeking to overturn the Centers for Disease Control's nationwide freeze on many residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full article

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the federal government’s ban on evicting tenants can remain in place over protest from mom-and-pop landlords. A group of landlords had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to halt the eviction moratorium,...

Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window. Congress first put an...

A New Hampshire federal court wrongly found that a man's efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms would unlawfully restrain the collection of tax, he told the First Circuit. James Harper's suit requesting...

On Friday, the public interest law firm New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an opening brief in the cryptocurrency case of James Harper v. Charles P. Rettig. The NCLA argues that Harper’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the...

The FDA’s attempts to thwart the use of electrostimulation devices for self-injurious and aggressive behavior came up short in an appeals court hearing of Rotenberg v. FDA, largely because the FDA’s approach suggested the agency would control the practice of medicine....

Charter vessel operators in the Gulf of Mexico are suing federal regulators for allegedly violating their constitutional rights through a fisheries-monitoring program that mandates 24-hour electronic surveillance of the boats. The nonprofit New Civil Liberties...

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said a Libertarian think tank cannot block the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from enforcing settlements that ban defendants from denying the agency's claims. Read the full article

One winning force in the fight against the Left’s relentless assault on freedom is a group taking aim at the unconstitutional abuses of federal and state bureaucracies. Several victories have been won in recent weeks against the leftist axis of Team Biden, Big Tech...

A consumer can’t pursue her bid for free access to a full industry standard on infant bath seats that was incorporated into government safety regulations because she didn’t file her challenge early enough, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday. Published by Bloomberg Law

What in the world are historians going to call this Supreme Court? Chief Justice Roberts has been so all over the map, ideologically, that it would be hard to call it the “Roberts Court.” They could try the “Thomas Court,” after the towering conservative who is its...

The Globe this week attended a panel discussion by the New Civil Liberties Alliance and a panel of experts to discuss vaccine passports. With California Gov. Gavin Newsom continuing to claim he isn’t requiring vaccine passports in the state, he has instituted...

Here are some upcoming events of interest to the securities law community. Unless otherwise noted, all times are local, and court appearances are virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full article

In a closely watched case for nonprofit political groups that want privacy for their supporters, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a California law that says groups seeking tax-exempt status must tell the state the names of some of their biggest donors....

North Carolina's eviction moratorium ends Thursday, but many believe landlords and tenants will continue to struggle even after the extended national moratorium expires. Republican members of the North Carolina Council of State rejected a one-month extension of the...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost won a federal injunction Thursday to prevent enforcement of a provision in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act he claimed held stimulus funds hostage and allowed the federal government to "commandeer state taxing authority." Read...

Landlords still filed for hundreds of thousands of evictions under the moratorium, according to the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, which has been tracking the issue. Caleb Kruckenberg, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said he has a client...

The National Labor Relations Board overstepped its bounds by ordering The Federalist's publisher to delete a joking tweet threatening to punish workers for unionizing even though no employees complained, the outlet argued in its Third Circuit challenge to the board's...

As the state’s fiscal year comes to an end, lawmakers are awaiting Gov. Phil Murphy’s signature on a number of key bills, one of which would give more support to renters facing a mass eviction crisis. Legislators last week agreed to end the state’s eviction moratorium...

The CDC extended the national moratorium on evictions through the end of July 2021... again. The agency indicated that “this is intended to be the final extension of the moratorium,” but the agency has extended the moratorium multiple times since it was first issued...