..The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing lawyers Mario Cerame and Timothy Moynahan in a similar lawsuit against Connecticut’s Rule 8.4(7), filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Greenberg this week…

..“There is no meaningful cap or calculation that ever really takes place,” said David Rosenfeld, a law professor at Northern Illinois University and former senior SEC enforcement official whose work examining SEC fines was cited by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in its arguments to the high court. “They feel they have unfettered discretion, and so the penalty…

…”They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged,” their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday’s oral arguments…

…Newman’s lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an “unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman” with “no evidence of current substantial medical, psychiatric, or cognitive disability.”…

…That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco, a partner at Jones Day. Their brief is on behalf of the American Free Enterprise…

…Also this week, the Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor in which Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones called Newman “a brilliant, capable jurist” and criticized the committee’s probe as “inexplicable.” The neurologist who examined Newman told Bloomberg Law last week that the bombshell 111-page report, released Aug. 4, included a line describing part of his examination…