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CFPB Independent Funding Constitutional, Second Circuit Rules

March 23, 2023
…The CFPB’s document demands caused Moroney to shutter her law firm and “illustrates how a federal agency without funding constraints can quickly get out of control,” Moroney’s attorney Richard Samp said in an email. “The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision; we plan to bring our case to the Supreme Court…
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California’s COVID Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings

March 17, 2023
…But the Newsom administration has decided to wait for the appeals court to rule on the other two judges’ decisions that left the law intact for now. Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is lead counsel in the other Sacramento case in which Shubb issued his injunction, said Newsom may be calculating…
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When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

March 15, 2023
…In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past year, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit legal group, represents students who they say have been robbed of their competitive advantage and constitutional right to equal protection under the department’s foreign language criteria…
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Charter Boat Captains Don't Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules

March 6, 2023
…A group of charter boat captains represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) sued, saying the rule violated rights to due process, privacy, and freedom of movement, among other things. “The reason we were against this so much is it tracked us precisely where we were going,” Allen Walburn, one of the boat captains who brought…
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Collapse of the COVID Truth Regime

March 5, 2023
…“The corollary to the First Amendment right to speak is a First Amendment right to receive information,” Jenin Younes, an attorney from the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing the plaintiffs, said. The battle over AB 2098 illustrates why medical censorship was about much more than doctors’ and scientists’ speech rights—it was also about…
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Bump Stocks Sales Resume in Texas after ATF Fails to File Stay to Stop Reversal of Ban

March 3, 2023
…Michael Cargill, owner of Austin’s Central Texas Gun Works, sued to challenge the ban in 2019 with New Civil Liberties Alliance, a litigation group that says it protects constitutional freedoms, including Second Amendment rights. They lost in federal court in Austin, and before a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit, one of the country’s most conservative…
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