…California Superior Court judges earlier this year struck down state laws that directed companies based in the state to have women and minority or LGBTQ board members. The scrapping of California’s mandates is a bellwether that shows board diversity regulations struggle under judicial scrutiny, said Peggy Little, senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties…

…“This case presents a classic example of Government overreach,” Younes wrote in her summary of argument. “Because authorities considered Appellant a troublemaker, they repeatedly tried to charge him with various offenses that would not stick. The convictions here are fatally flawed, too.”…Read the full article

 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…

…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

…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…

…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