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96-Year-Old Judge Deadlocks With Appeals Panel on Fitness Probe

August 17, 2023
…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…
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Cleveland County Overtime Pay Dispute Could Head to Trial in November 2024

August 17, 2023
…The case had attracted national attention. Cleveland County appealed the 4th Circuit’s 2022 ruling to the US Supreme Court. Sixteen state governments filed a brief supporting the county’s request. So did groups called the International Municipal Lawyers Association and the New Civil Liberties Alliance…
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Internet Divided over Biden Pushing Forward with Student Loan Debt Removal: ‘Slippery Slope’

August 15, 2023
…A federal judge in Michigan recently dismissed a challenge against Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan from a legal group, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, for lacking standing, per Axios. Biden followed up that dismissal by touting his decision to push ahead with student loan forgiveness anyway, claiming that he would find another path to student…
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Biden Student Loan Plan For 800,000 Borrowers Faces Renewed Court Challenge

August 15, 2023
…In a statement to the Washington Examiner, New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Sheng Li noted that in a case challenging an effort by the Biden administration to forgive student loans for millions of borrowers, the district court found that a group of states challenging the action did not have standing, but the Supreme Court later reversed…
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Legal Challenges to Biden’s Student Loan Plans Have Borrowers Anxious Ahead of Payment Restart

August 13, 2023
…A second lawsuit was recently filed against the Biden administration for its plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for 800,000 borrowers. The suit was filed in federal court by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) on behalf of the Cato Institute and Mackinac Center…
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Student-Loan Borrowers Keep Running into Hurdles as Biden’s Debt Relief Promises Are Piling up in Court

August 13, 2023
…However, on August 4, the New Civil Liberties Alliance — a nonprofit organization aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms — filed a lawsuit on behalf of conservative groups Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy to block Biden’s latest reforms for borrowers on income-driven repayment plans. The groups said in their complaint that the relief was an…
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