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Professor fired after refusing COVID vaccine sues Minnesota Gov. Walz

August 8, 2025
Nearly five years since the COVID-19 virus took the world by storm, those claiming injury from government vaccine mandates continue to come forward with new cases for litigation. Such is the position of Professor Russell Stewart (pictured), who lost his job after his opposition to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s vaccine mandates. Now, the professor is suing the…
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Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health'

August 4, 2025
Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health. But the breadth of the license granted by that decision is a matter of dispute, even as applied to superficially similar COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Critics…
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Texas Companies, Gaming Association Sue Trump Over Tariffs

July 23, 2025
The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s use of alleged emergency powers to impose tariffs. It contends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorize…
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Lawyers Are Watching as Attorneys Challenge Ethics Rule

July 23, 2025
Two attorneys claim a 2020 provision of the Connecticut Rules of Professional Conduct violates the First and Fourteenth amendments. But state bar officials want…
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Supreme Court allows Trump to fire members of product safety agency

July 23, 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency Congress set up to be independent of political pressures… Kara Rollins, litigation counsel for the nonprofit legal group New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is not directly involved in the case but is engaged in other legal battles…
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'At the nadir of his constitutional powers': Public interest law firm urges appeals court to reject Trump's argument he has 'unlimited tariff authority'

July 9, 2025
A nonprofit public interest law firm is imploring a federal court of appeals to side with a coalition of businesses against President Donald Trump in a legal battle over the administration’s emergency tariffs. In a 35-page amicus brief filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) says all tariffs enacted this year violate federal law, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals…
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