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A Nonprofit Just Joined Forces with a Major Student-Loan Lender in Asking a Federal Court to End the Payment Pause

April 6, 2023
…On Thursday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit law firm aimed at protecting constitutional freedoms, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center, a nonprofit think tank based in Michigan that advocates for limited government. The lawsuit targets Biden’s continued extensions of the student-loan payment pause, and it asks the federal court in the…
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Fauci Video Deposition Released Publicly

March 26, 2023
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has released six video depositions taken in a federal lawsuit that sheds light on what role government actors, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, played in censoring or, as revealed in the Twitter Files, the offshoring of government requests to private social media companies or foreign actors to censor speech around…
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CFPB Independent Funding Constitutional, Second Circuit Rules

March 23, 2023
…The CFPB’s document demands caused Moroney to shutter her law firm and “illustrates how a federal agency without funding constraints can quickly get out of control,” Moroney’s attorney Richard Samp said in an email. “The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision; we plan to bring our case to the Supreme Court…
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California’s COVID Misinformation Law Is Entangled in Lawsuits, Conflicting Rulings

March 17, 2023
…But the Newsom administration has decided to wait for the appeals court to rule on the other two judges’ decisions that left the law intact for now. Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is lead counsel in the other Sacramento case in which Shubb issued his injunction, said Newsom may be calculating…
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When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

March 15, 2023
…In a pair of lawsuits filed over the past year, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit legal group, represents students who they say have been robbed of their competitive advantage and constitutional right to equal protection under the department’s foreign language criteria…
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Charter Boat Captains Don't Have To Share Their Location Data With the Government, Court Rules

March 6, 2023
…A group of charter boat captains represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) sued, saying the rule violated rights to due process, privacy, and freedom of movement, among other things. “The reason we were against this so much is it tracked us precisely where we were going,” Allen Walburn, one of the boat captains who brought…
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