Whether or not Mukund Vengalattore dated a graduate student under his supervision, Cornell University failed him and his accuser when it, as Vengalattore says, passed judgment without properly investigating the claim. After the grad student filed a 2014 sexual misconduct complaint against Vengalattore, an atomic physicist and tenure-track College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor, Title IX investigators found him…

A man whose cryptocurrency records were seized through an IRS summons is appealing a ruling that dismissed his lawsuit without addressing his core claims. James Harper argued that the John Doe summons—which demands information from a third party about an unnamed taxpayer’s potential tax liability—violated his constitutional rights to privacy and to due process before…

NCLA’s Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins the “Thom Hartmann Program” on SiriusXM Progress 127 to debate the recent proposals to change the number of Supreme Court Justices and the history of court-packing. Key points: • For 150 years, we have had nine members of the Supreme Court. That number was established by the Judiciary…

The wave of litigation challenging the eviction moratorium issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is resulting in disparate rulings across the country, prompting divergent applications and casting uncertainty on the moratorium’s future. The temporary halt to residential evictions, which protects renters from eviction and keeps them out of congregate settings like homeless…

NCLA’s Senior Litigation Counsel John Vecchione joins Steve Gruber’s “The Voice of Reason” on WJIM to discuss the recent court-packing proposals. Key takeaways: • The court-packing bill has an intimidating effect on the current justices. Even if the bill goes nowhere, it is still an intimidation tactic to make the Supreme Court less rigorous in…

NCLA’s Executive Director and General Counsel Mark Chenoweth joins “The Larry Elder Show” with guest-host Jennifer Horn on KRLA AM 870 to discuss the reality of the recent court-packing proposals. Key takeaways: • The court-packing bill has an intimidating effect on the current justices. Even if the bill goes nowhere, it is still an intimidation…