A group has sued Governor Baker over what they say is unjustified “draconian, “one-size-fits-all” measures across the Commonwealth” concerning his COVID-19 response involving businesses. Monday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, based out of Washington D.C., filed a complaint in Massachusetts Superior Court representing local entrepreneurs, church pastors, and the headmaster of a private school against…

Almost 10 weeks after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker shuttered non-essential businesses and organizations in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, a group of business owners, pastors, and private school leaders have filed suit to lift the restrictions, arguing that the orders lack legal authority. Michael P. DeGrandis of the New Civil Liberties Alliance represents the…

A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the federal government’s ban on bump stock accessories for guns, striking down a Salt Lake City resident’s challenge to the federal ban on the device that allows semiautomatic guns to fire ammunition at the same speed as automatic weapons. After a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas left 58 people…

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a Utah gun rights advocate who challenged the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. A three judge panel from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said a lower court was right to reject…

The Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, devices that increase the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms, is likely lawful, a divided Tenth Circuit held Thursday, rejecting a request to temporarily lift the ban. Federal regulators properly interpreted a machine gun-related provision of the National Firearms Act to ban the devices, a majority of the…

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, host Ben Domenech is joined by Mark Chenoweth and Adi Dynar, his lawyers at New Civil Liberties Alliance. In 2019, after employees at Vox Media Inc. staged a walkout demanding a new collective bargaining agreement, Domenech tweeted a joke about the progressive media company’s union. “FYI @fdrlst…