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New Civil Liberties Alliance Sues Biden Administration Over New Student Loan Plan
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a lawsuit Friday, representing the Mackinac Center and the Cato Institute, to challenge President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. The groups are asking the court to block the program, claiming it violates federal law by not allowing for public comment or participation in the rulemaking process…
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Priest Asks US Supreme Court to Bar SEC Penalty on Free Speech Grounds
…Jurors rejected the fraud claims but found he made three untrue statements, including by saying during a radio interview that Promacta was “literally going to go away” and that company representatives “basically agreed with him.” The case is Lemelson v. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Supreme Court, No. Unknown. For Lemelson: Russell Ryan of New…
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When Will the Federal Circuit’s Special Committee Release the Transcript of the July 13 Hearing in the Newman Investigation?
…Newman’s counsel, Gregory Dolin of the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said in the June 15 letter that “[t]hough good reasons may exist for keeping disciplinary proceedings secret when exposing such proceedings to the public may intimidate witnesses or unnecessarily cast doubts on the honorable service of an accused judge, the upcoming hearing raises no…
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Education Department Kicks off Student Loan Forgiveness Plan, Round 2
…The first public speaker of the day was Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which describes itself as a legal group aiming to protect constitutional freedoms and root out executive overreach. NCLA supported the lawsuit against Biden’s initial loan plan that reached the Supreme Court…
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Appeals Court Pauses Ban on Biden Administration Social Media Contacts
…Representatives of the two state attorneys general did not immediately respond to a request for comment. John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lead attorney for the individual plaintiffs, emphasized in a statement that Friday’s order “is not any indication of the merits of the arguments.”…
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Judge Tells Feds to Take Free Speech Training Before Asking Social Media to Censor
…The government is ignoring the “plain terms” of the injunction, the AGs and the doctors’ lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said in their opposition Sunday. It’s disingenuous for DOJ to claim an injunction is outdated because federal censorship is in the rearview mirror, they said. The feds “produced the vast majority of their…
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