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Biden DOJ to Fight Court Order That Blocked Feds from Colluding with Big Tech to Censor Speech
...Legal group New Civil Liberties Alliance, who also have plaintiffs in the lawsuit who allege were censored by Big Tech with the government's help, told Fox News Digital that they are "confident" the Fifth Circuit will agree with the District Court's findings that...
Major Censorship Case on Gov Collusion with Big Tech Heads to Federal Appeals Court
...Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed the initial lawsuit in May 2022. Three doctors and an activist censored for their views on COVID-19 treatments and policies, who are represented by The New Civil Liberties...
Big Tech Censors Criticism of Government COVID Policies, Scientific Research as Pandemic Fades
...The removal notice said the New Civil Liberties Alliance's July 26 event about the lawsuit, which alleges unconstitutional coercion of social media platforms and is led by Missouri and Louisiana on behalf of their residents, "contradict[ed] expert consensus" on...
Lawsuit Filed to Stop New Student Debt Relief Plan
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed a lawsuit Friday against the Biden administration’s new student debt relief plan. The lawsuit comes after the Department of Education said it would cancel the student loans for more than 804,000 borrowers, totaling $39...
New Civil Liberties Alliance Sues Biden Administration Over New Student Loan Plan
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit Friday, representing the Mackinac Center and the Cato Institute, to challenge President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. The groups are asking the court to block the program, claiming it...
Priest Asks US Supreme Court to Bar SEC Penalty on Free Speech Grounds
...Jurors rejected the fraud claims but found he made three untrue statements, including by saying during a radio interview that Promacta was "literally going to go away" and that company representatives "basically agreed with him." The case is Lemelson v. Securities...
When Will the Federal Circuit’s Special Committee Release the Transcript of the July 13 Hearing in the Newman Investigation?
...Newman’s counsel, Gregory Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said in the June 15 letter that “[t]hough good reasons may exist for keeping disciplinary proceedings secret when exposing such proceedings to the public may intimidate witnesses or...
Education Department Kicks off Student Loan Forgiveness Plan, Round 2
...The first public speaker of the day was Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which describes itself as a legal group aiming to protect constitutional freedoms and root out executive overreach. NCLA supported the lawsuit...
Appeals Court Pauses Ban on Biden Administration Social Media Contacts
...Representatives of the two state attorneys general did not immediately respond to a request for comment. John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lead attorney for the individual plaintiffs, emphasized in a statement that Friday's order "is not any...
Judge Tells Feds to Take Free Speech Training Before Asking Social Media to Censor
...The government is ignoring the "plain terms" of the injunction, the AGs and the doctors' lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said in their opposition Sunday. It's disingenuous for DOJ to claim an injunction is outdated because federal censorship is in the...
Massachusetts Sued For Working With Google To Secretly Put Spyware On Residents’ Phones
...A video published by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) — a self-described civil rights group devoted to protecting Americans from administrative overreach — walks viewers through the core tenets of the organization’s ongoing lawsuit against DPH and Democrat...
Fed. Cir. Judges Urged to Try Mediation in Newman Fitness Probe
...Cooper gave the parties two days to discuss the mediation route. If they’re unable to reach a consensus on the approach, the claims will proceed to a federal court briefing on Newman’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Separately, a closed-doors hearing at the...
Judge Terry Doughty Praised After Biden’s Social Media Ban: ‘Big Win’
...The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit group which claims to "protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the administrative state," joined the suit, representing a number of groups and individuals who claimed to have been censored on social media....
2nd Circ. Pauses Firm’s CFPB Fight For High Court Appeal
...The Second Circuit agreed to hold off on a mandate enforcing an investigative demand the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued to a collection firm, after the firm argued that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to hear the constitutional issues being debated....
Suspended Federal Circuit Judge Fights to Retain Bench Seat
...On Tuesday, Newman's attorney's from the nonpartisan civil rights organization the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amended complaint and a motion seeking to restore her position in the court, after she was suspended by her colleagues from hearing new cases...
US Judge Facing Competency Probe Asks Court to Block Her Suspension
...Newman's attorney Greg Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said in an interview that the judge "has been and continues to be in sufficiently good health — as now verified by a qualified neurologist — to continue her work." Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly...
Fishing Co. Takes Industry-Paid Monitors Fight to High Court
...Seafreeze's counsel, John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Law360 on Tuesday the justices could narrow the doctrine so that it will have to take more than silence from Congress in a particular statute for courts to defer to agencies. His...
Rhode Island Fishermen Ask Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Observer Fees
...The legal activist group New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned the court June 14 for a “writ of certiorari” in its case representing Point Judith, R.I. companies Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and Seafreeze Fleet LLC. Their case challenges a 2020 rule imposed by...
Twitter Users Suspended for COVID Tweets Argue to Reinstate Case against Feds
...Attorney John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance in Washington, D.C., argued Thursday on behalf of the Twitter users and first addressed the concrete nature of the injuries sustained by his clients. "In my clients' case," he said, "something has...
Sixth Circuit Grapples with US Role In Twitter Users’ Bans
...Three users of Twitter, who said the federal government caused the social media platform to discipline them for spreading Covid-19 disinformation, received a chilly response from a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday. Senior US Circuit Judge Danny J. Boggs asked the...
Fishermen Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Second Challenge to NOAA At-Sea Monitoring Rule
...In 2020, NOAA Fisheries implemented a new rule requiring fishermen to pay for human at-sea monitors aboard their vessels. While the agency claimed the monitors are necessary to ensure compliance, fishermen balked at the cost, which they claim can be more than USD...
Lawyer for Federal Appeals Judge Barred from New Cases Finds Orders ‘Incredible’ and ‘Stunning’
...Newman is refusing to cooperate in the investigation until she is assigned new cases and the investigation is transferred to a different court. Orders in the case are available here. Newman is represented by Gregory Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a...
Plaintiffs Oppose Marco Island’s Motion to Dismiss ALPRs Lawsuit
...Attorney Richard Samp with the New Civil Liberties Alliance law firm of Washington D.C., told the Daily News in April that if the judge grants the motion to dismiss, he will appeal to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia. In the original complaint,...
SEC Dismisses Enforcement Cases After Improper Document Handling
...Three of the cases dismissed involved current or former New Civil Liberties Alliance clients, including Michelle Cochran, an accountant facing SEC administrative charges of violating federal accounting standards. Ms. Cochran in 2019 filed a legal challenge to the...
SEC Drops 42 Enforcement Cases After Employees Accessed Restricted Records
...Cochran’s attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said Friday the dismissals were unprecedented and reflected the SEC’s worries about defendants using the Supreme Court’s decision to further attack the SEC’s court system. One investment adviser whose case was...