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Labor Regulation Flouts the Fair Labor Standards Act and Requires Supervisor Making $200,000 to Be Paid Overtime

August 24, 2022
 Did you know you can make over $200,000 a year and still be entitled to overtime pay? In Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, the en banc Fifth Circuit recently concluded as such. This surprising result was made possible by a Department of Labor regulation that requires some hourly employees to be paid overtime…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Undercut by Updated CDC Guidance: Lawsuit

August 22, 2022
…Mark Chenoweth, president and general counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told The Epoch Times after the CDC update that the legal group would be noting the update in future filings, including in Skoly’s case…Read the full article
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Crypto Trader Can Sue IRS Over ‘John Doe’ Summons for Coinbase Records, Court Says

August 19, 2022
…The U.S. Justice Department, which represented the IRS in the Harper appeal, did not respond to a request for comment. Harper’s lead counsel, Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said the ruling upholds the basic principle that people are entitled to go to court to protect their constitutional privacy rights… Read the full…
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Law Students Nationwide Learn From Top Conservative Legal Experts in D.C. With New Fellowship

August 19, 2022
…The law students visited the Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation and New Civil Liberties Alliance as they heard from some of the top law minds and policy expert scholars in the nation’s capital… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Brave Citizens vs. SEC Overreach

August 18, 2022
  Because our elected branches of government can’t always be trusted to zealously keep one another in check, litigation by individual private citizens has long been among the most effective ways to enforce separation of powers and other structural constitutional boundaries. At least four recent cases involving the Securities and Exchange Commission underscore the power…
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SEC Disgorgement Win Bolsters Ability to Recoup Ill-Gotten Gains

August 17, 2022
…“I think this is an issue that’s going to percolate through the courts for the next couple of years,” said Kara Rollins, an attorney at the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance who represents Island and the other defendants… Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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