..The full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created a circuit split when it ruled in December that certified public accountant Michelle Cochran can challenge the SEC’s system “before a real Article III federal court rather than be subjected to an endless series of unlawful agency hearings,” her lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance…

…Cochran’s counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance last week asked the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that she can challenge the constitutionality of the SEC’s administrative legal proceedings, rebutting the agency’s attempts to pause the case until the court opines on a similar lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission… Read the full…

A civil liberties group says the federal government has no business putting pressure on the nation’s technology companies to stamp out COVID-19 misinformation. The Washington, D.C.-based New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a lawsuit in a Columbus, Ohio, federal court against US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. The lawsuit…

…Twitter suspended plaintiff Daniel Kotzin on March 7 and banned plaintiff Michael Senger permanently on March 8, according to court documents. It suspended Mark Changizi in April, June and December last year. “The timing of these events, along with the one-sided nature of the censorship, establishes that Twitter suspended Plaintiffs because it feared reprisal from…

A nonprofit civil rights organization wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that its client can challenge the constitutionality of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s administrative legal proceedings, rebutting the agency’s attempts to pause the case until the court opines on a similar lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission. Instead…

The U.S. Surgeon General and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of the Biden administration have directed social-media platforms, including Twitter, to suppress alleged “misinformation” about Covid, alleges a federal lawsuit filed on March 24. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a conservative civil-rights group, filed the lawsuit in an Ohio federal court on behalf…