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Kamala Harris' Online Harassment Task Force Is a Bad Idea
…”By instrumentalizing tech companies, including Twitter—through pressure, coercion, and threats—to censor viewpoints that the federal executive has deemed ‘misinformation,’ the Surgeon General has turned Twitter’s censorship into state action,” writes the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a legal advocacy group that is representing the banned users… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship Wants To Train Lawyers To Get Along
…The latest addition takes a different approach. The New Civil Liberties Alliance’s Ginsburg-Scalia Fellowship is an eight-week dinner lecture series for law students working as summer associates at Washington, D.C. law firms that began in May. It aims to promote civility and collegiality in the legal profession and in intellectual discourse… Read the full article…
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FIRE Launches Massive Off-campus Expansion To Defend Free Expression Everywhere
“…FIRE, with its impeccable reputation for putting free speech first, will fill the gap, along with excellent existing groups such as the Pacific Legal Foundation and the New Civil Liberties Alliance,” he said… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Cornell, Due Process, and Liberal Education
…In Vengalattore v. Cornell University (I serve on the board of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents the plaintiff-appellant), the appeals court overruled the trial court, holding “that Title IX affords a private right of action for a university’s intentional gender-based discrimination against a faculty member, and that the Complaint sufficiently asserts such a claim.” Enacted…
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Employees, Students Disciplined Due to Non-compliance With Vaccine Directives
…According to her lawyer, Jenin Younes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, Norris was granted a religious exemption. Younes said she received the exemption shortly after the preliminary injunction was denied… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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CDC Creates COVID Infection Tracker for All U.S. Counties
…Jenin Younes, an attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance law firm who has litigated against vaccine mandates and school quarantines, said the CDC’s new tracker could spark legal challenges if public officials use it to reimpose health restrictions… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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