It took until July 1, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices managed to close the book on a momentous October 2023 term in time to decamp Washington before the Fourth of July holiday and kick off their three-month summer recess…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) civil rights group is not giving up on the free speech fight it has been conducting on behalf of the respondents/plaintiffs in the Murthy v. Missouri case. The tactic is now to go for expanded discovery, aimed at demonstrating direct harm caused by government censorship. A statement to this effect…

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 40-year-old precedent that has guided how federal agencies protect the environment, workers, consumers and more, making it easier for regulations to be challenged in court… Mark Chenoweth, president of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represented the challengers, said the herring fishermen “have landed the biggest catch of their…

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday morning released its opinion in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, et al. and delivered a stinging rebuke to federal bureaucrats and the administrative state. The case dealt with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s practice of seeking civil penalties against defendants accused of securities fraud in-house before administrative law judges…

Plaintiffs in the landmark Murthy v. Missouri online-censorship case will continue fighting against the government’s ability to pressure social-media platforms into restricting certain forms of speech after the Supreme Court ruled against them on Wednesday. The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the plaintiffs in the case, five social-media users and two states, lacked standing to sue the government for…

Justice Samuel Alito excoriated the Supreme Court majority for “shirk[ing]” its duty to restrain the government’s coercive censorship efforts in “one of the most important free speech cases” to reach the high court in years. The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided 6-3 with the Biden administration in Murthy v. Missouri, finding that two states and five…