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Texas AG Sues to Stop Biden Censorship of Conservative Media
... Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel of New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is serving as co-counsel, said in the press release: "The State Department supposedly developed these speech-suppressing technologies to combat foreign propaganda overseas. That...
Daily Wire, Texas AG Ask Court To Block State Department’s Domestic ‘Misinformation’ Efforts
... “The U.S. Department of State, through its Global Engagement Center (GEC), is actively intervening in the news-media market to limit the reach of, the circulation of, and render unprofitable, disfavored press outlets by funding the infrastructure, development, and...
‘A Terrible Precedent to Set’: Newman Suspension Upheld on Appeal
... Newman’s counsel, Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), told IPWatchdog in September that he believes the order is flatly illegal, citing to Rule 20, which requires a “fixed period” for suspending a judge from being assigned new cases. According...
IRS Seizure of Crypto Records Sets Up Privacy Rights Showdown at 1st Circuit
... The case before the First Circuit was brought by investor James Harper, whose financial records the IRS obtained through a judicially enforced “John Doe summons” asking Coinbase to turn over information on thousands of account holders. John Doe summons, which...
Legal activist group plots challenge over SEC’s ‘Gag Rule’
A legal activist group aiming to weaken the administrative state plans to sue the SEC over its long-standing practice of barring defendants who settle charges from later denying the allegations levied by the agency. The New Civil Liberties Alliance said Tuesday that...
Org Dedicated to ‘Transparency’ Hides Tax Filings
A State Department-funded organization that purports to combat opaque operations within websites and media stands accused of hypocritically and illegally hiding its own funders and officers. The stated mission of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit...
Musk’s Tesla Union Tweet Sets Up Speech Clash at Fifth Circuit
... People like Musk are the only ones who can afford to fight the government over a single tweet, but the impact of the case “goes far beyond Elon Musk,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed an amicus brief backing Tesla....
SEC ‘Gag Orders’ at Risk as Skeptical Court Takes Up Challenge
... “We view this as one of the biggest, clearest First Amendment breaches by an agency that’s ever been done,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents Novinger and his company, ICAN Investment Group LLC... The policy is...
Fishermen await Supreme Court rulings that could change the regulatory authority of federal agencies
... The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonprofit civil rights organization, is representing three fishing companies: Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and Seafreeze Fleet LLC... "On a daily basis, before you leave the dock, you have to tell the government what...
Sense Of Duty Drives GC To Take On ‘Administrative State’
Zhonette Brown grew up on a farm in Nebraska, where she says she absorbed the values of accountability, self-sufficiency, and duty to one's family and community... Read the full article
Supreme Court hears fishermen’s challenge that could upend agency powers
... On the Washington D.C. courthouse steps after the hearing, Meghan Lapp, fisheries liaison at Seafreeze Ltd. In Point Judith, R.I., the homeport of Relentless, said the protests wound their way through fisheries council meetings and NMFS officials to no avail. So...
Fishermen head to Supreme Court to cast Chevron overboard
... Representing the New Jersey fishermen will be veteran attorney Paul Clement, a former solicitor general under the Bush administration. Another lawsuit brought by fishermen based in Rhode Island will be argued by attorneys for the New Civil Liberties Alliance......
Lawsuit argues Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative authority to the EPA
... “Congress needs to do its job, and not delegate these important sort of life and death decisions for companies to a non-responsive agency,” Zhonette Brown, general counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Just The News. The New Civil Liberties Alliance...
Supreme Court will consider overruling landmark Chevron deference decision in a fishy case
... John J. Vecchione, senior litigation counsel with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal organization... that is representing the Rhode Island fishers, says that Chevron has been ineffective and not rooted in the Constitution. “If judges find ambiguity and get...
Coolant Cos. Fight ‘Unconstitutional’ Law On HFC Reduction
Refrigerant industry players urged the D.C. Circuit either to void part of a 2020 law that directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons or to force the agency to reconsider its regulatory approach... Read the full...
How Supreme Court Practice Has Changed (And Stayed the Same) Heading Into 2024
... Over the last several years, groups such as the Pacific Legal Foundation, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Alliance Defending Freedom and the Institute for Justice have found tremendous success in bringing constitutional challenges to like-minded Supreme Court...
SEC Faces Renewed Petition Over ‘Gag Orders’
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency's rule "has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity." ... Read the full...
Reps. Urge High Court To Take On Ore. Monument Challenges
More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama's expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the...
Biden’s Reforms and 813,000 Student-Loan Borrowers
... In July 2023, ED announced borrowers who had made the required 20 or 25 years of qualifying payments on income-driven repayment plans would be notified of their debt cancellation and 30 days later their debt servicers would begin discharging their loans. ED was...
House Republicans Shine A Light On The Feds’ Egregious Censorship-Industrial Complex
... Also highlighted during Wednesday’s hearing was Missouri v. Biden, an ongoing court case to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court that documents efforts by the Biden administration to coerce Big Tech platforms to engage in similar censorship activities. In his...
Top Republicans throw support behind major Biden ‘censorship’ lawsuit by conservative media
EXCLUSIVE — Congressional Republicans investigating the Biden administration over allegations that agencies suppressed speech online are backing a new lawsuit accusing the United States government of funding an unconstitutional "censorship scheme." Texas joined...
NMFS to pay $160,000 legal fees to settle Gulf charter captains’ lawsuit
… The settlement approved by the U.S. Fifth District Court of Appeals calls for the U.S. Department of Commerce and NMFS to pay $160,000 for lawyers of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit legal foundation who represented lead plaintiff Allen Walburn, a...
US State Department funds censorship firms that favor left-wing media, NY Post on ‘risky’ list: lawsuit
... The Federalist and the Daily Wire — a pair of self-described “right of center media” groups — jointly filed the complaint with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group, in the US Eastern District of...
Biden State Dept blacklists conservative news outlets, lawsuit claims: ‘Censorship regime’
The State Department is facing a lawsuit for funding a "censorship regime" built by technologies that blacklist conservative media outlets. In a suit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the State Department is accused of "funding and promotion of...
Texas claims US State Department funds tech that censors conservative news
... "This agency will not get away with their illegal campaign to silence citizens and publications they disagree with," Paxton said in a statement. He filed the lawsuit alongside lawyers at the conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing The...