NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Mike DeGrandis joins “Talk of the Commonwealth” with Hank Stolz on WCRN 830 AM to discuss NCLA’s recent petition to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to hear our case against Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 restrictions. Key points: • NCLA is asking the Supreme Court to review the…

Facing mounting legal pressure, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced the Bay State will soon stop enforcing pandemic-related restrictions on civic life and businesses, including those that single out religious gatherings—months ahead of Baker’s previously stated reopening deadline of Aug. 1. Baker’s announcement came days after First Liberty Institute and the Massachusetts Family Institute filed a federal lawsuit challenging the…

A federal judge in Wyoming has dismissed an amended lawsuit filed by R-CALF USA and four ranchers that alleged the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act in its effort to mandate radio frequency identification eartags on adult cattle entering into interstate commerce. South Dakota ranchers Kenny and Roxy…

Conservatives are learning the hard way that joking about union organizing is no laughing matter. Commentator Ben Shapiro’s tongue-in-cheek tweet last year about striking employees spurred a federal complaint that touched off a seven-month investigation by the National Labor Relations Board, which ultimately dismissed the matter in a decision announced Monday. What was the tweet? Referring…

The U.S. Supreme Court may soon be asked to lift the nationwide eviction freeze imposed by public health officials, which has so far shielded tens of thousands of families facing financial hardships from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. About 10.7 million adults living in rental housing were behind on rent, according a Center on…

A Tennessee federal judge on Friday declined to issue an emergency order blocking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s rule requiring landlords to inform tenants about federal protections put in place amid the pandemic, finding that the rule doesn’t apply to the Sixth Circuit and the landlords’ theory is “internally inconsistent.” The group of landlords was seeking…