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Wall Street Is Furious Over Rising Fines From SEC
..“There is no meaningful cap or calculation that ever really takes place,” said David Rosenfeld, a law professor at Northern Illinois University and former senior SEC enforcement official whose work examining SEC fines was cited by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in...
Attorney Conduct Rule Doesn’t Chill Free Speech, Connecticut Tells US Court
..."They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged," their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday's oral arguments... Read the full...
Lawyers Say Exam Shows 96-Year-Old Us Appeals Judge Still Fit to Serve
...Newman's lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an "unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman" with "no evidence of current substantial...
As U.S. Securities Regulator FINRA Faces Constitutional Challenge, Bill Barr Calls for Defanging It
...That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco,...
96-Year-Old Judge Deadlocks With Appeals Panel on Fitness Probe
...Also this week, the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in which Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones called Newman “a brilliant, capable jurist” and criticized the committee’s probe as “inexplicable.” The neurologist who examined Newman told...
Cleveland County Overtime Pay Dispute Could Head to Trial in November 2024
...The case had attracted national attention. Cleveland County appealed the 4th Circuit’s 2022 ruling to the US Supreme Court. Sixteen state governments filed a brief supporting the county’s request. So did groups called the International Municipal Lawyers Association...
Internet Divided over Biden Pushing Forward with Student Loan Debt Removal: ‘Slippery Slope’
...A federal judge in Michigan recently dismissed a challenge against Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan from a legal group, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, for lacking standing, per Axios. Biden followed up that dismissal by touting his decision to push...
Biden Student Loan Plan For 800,000 Borrowers Faces Renewed Court Challenge
...In a statement to the Washington Examiner, New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Sheng Li noted that in a case challenging an effort by the Biden administration to forgive student loans for millions of borrowers, the district court found that a group of states...
Legal Challenges to Biden’s Student Loan Plans Have Borrowers Anxious Ahead of Payment Restart
...A second lawsuit was recently filed against the Biden administration for its plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for 800,000 borrowers. The suit was filed in federal court by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) on behalf of the Cato Institute and...
Student-Loan Borrowers Keep Running into Hurdles as Biden’s Debt Relief Promises Are Piling up in Court
...However, on August 4, the New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit organization aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms — filed a lawsuit on behalf of conservative groups Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to block Biden's latest reforms...
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...