Lunch & Law Speaker Series
Join the new civil liberties movement. Protect Americans from the Administrative State!
The NCLA Lunch and Law speaker series hosts dynamic panelists that address timely issues pertaining to the Administrative State and the cases brought about as a result of its threat to our civil liberties. These events are usually held monthly at NCLA’s Washington, DC headquarters, but due to COVID-19, we are hosting them online.
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DOT Backs Down After NCLA Sues Over Unfair In-House Tribunals
NCLA successfully challenged the Department of Transportation’s unlawful and unconstitutional in-house tribunals. DOT subjected NCLA’s client, Polyweave Packaging Inc., to a six-year prosecution in one such tribunal for violating a law that does not exist. The...
SCOTUS Confirms Right to Challenge Agencies in Court
After seven years of an uphill battle challenging the adjudicatory process at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Michelle Cochran's backbreaking journey has paid off. In a historic and unanimous Supreme Court victory in Axon v. FTC consolidated with SEC v....
The Surveillance State Suffers Defeat
Just because you work in a regulated industry doesn't mean the government can watch you all the time. NCLA successfully challenged an unlawful and unconstitutional regulation by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which required 24-hour GPS tracking...
Unforgivable Student Loan Forgiveness
The President does not have the legal authority to forgive student loans on his own. Only Congress can enact laws authorizing debt-forgiveness programs. And only Congress has the power of the purse to pay for debt forgiveness. That is why NCLA has filed a...
How a Private Corporation Is Acting as a Government-Backed Star Chamber
Imagine a world where Congress empowers a private corporation to secretly investigate and punish members of a particular industry. Enter the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) — often derided as “peekaboo” due to its acronym and infamous secrecy....
How the SEC and FTC Stack the Deck in Their Favor with ALJs
Agencies wield tremendous power over almost all aspects of American life, enacting thousands of regulations every year that have the force of law. Many agencies, like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), use...
Why the Govt Can’t Use Social Media to Do Its Dirty Work
NCLA joined the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general in suing President Biden, Anthony Fauci, and HHS for their role in government-sponsored censorship. Discovery in State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Biden, et al. revealed just how much of Big...
SCOTUS Has ‘Major Questions’ About ‘Pen & Phone’ Lawmaking
In a blockbuster 6-3 decision on June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s claim of sweeping regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act in the case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Invoking the “major...
Why Is SCOTUS Putting Off Chevron Deference Cases?
Despite making SCOTUSblog’s “Petitions We’re Watching” on multiple occasions this term, the U.S. Supreme Court failed to act on three different cert petitions in which NCLA asks to reconsider Chevron deference. Our expert panelists, NCLA Senior Litigation...
An Insider Tells All About the Administrative State
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman sits down with former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to discuss the many ways that powerful federal and state agencies ignore the Constitution and violate our civil liberties. He reveals how runaway...