WASHINGTON – It took barely a couple of hours  after oral argument on the motion in New Orleans, for a panel of the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue an order staying the SEC’s enforcement proceedings against NCLA client Michelle Cochran, according to a press release. The order in Cochran v. Securities…

The federal government wants the publisher of conservative online magazine The Federalist to delete his apparently anti-union June 6 tweet. Ben Domenech tagged the magazine’s handle and relayed a thought about the first person who might want to organize their co-workers and form a union in The Federalist’s workplace: “I swear I’ll send you back…

California’s law requiring charitable organizations to disclose donor information is unnecessary to regulate such organizations and should be blocked, 14 states supporting a conservative advocacy group affiliated with billionaire activist Charles Koch told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. California’s required “blanket and preemptive” disclosures are not sufficiently related to state Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s…

WASHINGTON—A civil rights group filed papers with the Supreme Court on Sept. 23 urging it to tear away at the legal underpinnings of the modern administrative state. The Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a petition for certiorari, or review, with the court in hopes of overturning the so-called Brand X doctrine that the Supreme…

The Orlando Police Department could soon have access to a massive database of license plate numbers of cars collected by privately owned cameras across the country. City council members on Monday approved a request by OPD to purchase access to a commercial database operated by Vigilant Solutions, a company that sells license plate reader hardware,…

An accountant alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal has told the Fifth Circuit that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling suggests a lower court was wrong…  Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares