A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the federal government’s ban on evicting tenants can remain in place over protest from mom-and-pop landlords. A group of landlords had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to halt the eviction moratorium, saying it is unconstitutional and an overreach by the federal government. Read…

Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window. Congress first put an eviction moratorium into place from March 27 to July 24, 2020,…

A New Hampshire federal court wrongly found that a man’s efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms would unlawfully restrain the collection of tax, he told the First Circuit. James Harper’s suit requesting the IRS expunge his financial records that it obtained from unknown cryptocurrency exchanges violates neither…

On Friday, the public interest law firm New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an opening brief in the cryptocurrency case of James Harper v. Charles P. Rettig. The NCLA argues that Harper’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The U.S. tax agency is accused of obtaining Harper’s…

The FDA’s attempts to thwart the use of electrostimulation devices for self-injurious and aggressive behavior came up short in an appeals court hearing of Rotenberg v. FDA, largely because the FDA’s approach suggested the agency would control the practice of medicine. Published by BioWorld TweetShareShare0 Shares

Charter vessel operators in the Gulf of Mexico are suing federal regulators for allegedly violating their constitutional rights through a fisheries-monitoring program that mandates 24-hour electronic surveillance of the boats. The nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance helped to file the class action lawsuit in the Eastern District of Louisiana against officials at the National Oceanic…