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Fired College Professor Sues Tim Walz over Minnesota’s Covid Vaccine Mandate

April 10, 2025
A former ethics professor at a taxpayer funded community college in Minnesota is suing Governor Tim Walz after he was fired for refusing to comply with the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for government employees and expressing his opinions on the matter to his students. Professor Russell Stewart filed a complaint in federal court Wednesday against…
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Lawsuit Could End Trump Tariffs And Stock Market Rout

April 6, 2025
A new lawsuit aims to end the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs by arguing the president’s use of emergency powers is unlawful. When Donald Trump signed an order to impose sweeping tariffs on countries worldwide, he did not use traditional trade law. Instead, Trump claimed authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. However, no president…
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Trump Sued Over Emergency Powers To Impose Tariffs On China

April 4, 2025
A nonprofit group sued US President Donald Trump and his administration on Thursday over alleged misuse of emergency powers to impose tariffs on all imports from China earlier this year. The lawsuit disputed the legality of Trump’s executive order from February 1, not the broader set of tariffs announced on Wednesday that also target a…
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China

April 3, 2025
The New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit group that describes itself as battling “violations by the administrative state” — sued the federal government on Thursday over the means by which it imposed steep new levies on Chinese imports earlier this year…
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Justices Ask US To Respond To IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Case

March 31, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the federal government Monday to weigh in on a cryptocurrency investor’s challenge to the IRS’ seizure of his account records, a request that followed a spate of support for the investor, including by attorneys general and Elon Musk’s X Corp…
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New Civil Liberties Alliance Urges High Court To Hear FINRA Constitutionality Case

March 28, 2025
The New Civil LIberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an amicus curiae brief i support of a broker’s petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to address the constitutionality of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as what constitutes an irreperable injury for the purpose of a preliminary injunction…
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