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Judges Keep Knocking SEC Gag Rule but Defendants Can’t Find a Way to Evade It

October 31, 2022
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which initiated both the Romeril and Novinger challenges to the SEC gag rule, is now trying a procedurally different tack. The group has returned to a Texas trial court in the Novinger case, filing a motion for a declaratory judgment that the SEC gag provision is unconstitutional. The SEC responded…
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Cyber Officials May Have to Testify About Alleged Social Media Collusion

October 25, 2022
…Plaintiffs hailed the decision from Doughty, who was nominated by Trump, as a victory that demonstrated the importance of their case. “I’m very pleased with it,” Jenin Younes, litigation counsel at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance that joined the case, told me. “High-ranking federal officials are generally shielded from having to give depositions. But…
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U.S. Government: Lesh Conviction for Illegal Snowmobiling ‘Straightforward’

October 25, 2022
…“Appellant, like all Americans, has a right to doctor photos and post them to social media for artistic purposes, to stir up controversy or for any reason at all,” said Lesh’s appeal, filed by attorney Jenin Yunes of the New Civil Liberties Alliance of Washington, D.C…Read the full article
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Lawsuit Reveals Vast Censorship Scheme by Big Tech and the Federal Government

October 23, 2022
…This civil action by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, in partnership with such red-pilled lawyers as Jenin Younes at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, overlaps with a separate lawsuit by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, whose legal victories so far have forced Twitter to reinstate his account after he was banned (although…
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Court Reminds Agency That “Constant Monitoring of Your Every Move by the Government Is Frightening to Most People”

October 13, 2022
 They say that an oral argument cannot predict a case’s outcome, but NCLA’s October 5, 2022 argument in Mexican Gulf v. U.S. Department of Commerce may prove to be an exception to that advice. There, a Fifth Circuit panel comprised of Chief Judge Richman and Judges Elrod and Oldham expressed deep skepticism at a federal…
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Biden’s End-of-Pandemic Remark Affects COVID Cases

October 13, 2022
…“When Biden says these sorts of things, the litigants do put them in their briefs,” said John Vecchione, senior counsel with New Civil Liberties Alliance. “Nobody wants to be the government attorney to go before a court and say there is an emergency when the president said otherwise.”…Read the full article
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