… In July, the Mackinac Center, along with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, Cato Institute and the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, filed an amicus brief asking the court to reinstitute a separate nationwide preliminary injunction, which had previously been lifted by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a separate order, the…

… New Civil Liberties Alliance litigation counsel Jenin Younes said Zuckerberg’s admission doesn’t change the Supreme Court’s standing analysis for the plaintiffs in Murthy, though it “certainly strengthens the First Amendment claim.” “The Court would likely say this doesn’t establish that any of the specific plaintiffs were censored because of the government, even though Zuckerberg…

… The New Civil Liberties Alliance, representing the National Center for Public Policy Research and individuals Erik Davidson and John Restivo, on April 16 filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Waco, Texas, arguing that the SEC’s data collection under the CAT violates the First, Fourth and Fifth amendments, as well as the Administrative Procedure…

The DeFi Education Fund and the Blockchain Association jointly filed an amicus brief in a case brought by two individuals and the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), its chairman Gary Gensler and the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The complaint does not mention cryptocurrency or blockchain, but…

A former small business financier battling Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. enforcement claims has asked a D.C. federal court to issue an emergency order staying the agency’s “Kafkaesque” administrative proceeding against him, arguing that it deprives him of his constitutional right to a jury trial…

… When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) banned residential evictions for non-payment of rent in 2020, property owners responded with a flurry of lawsuits, arguing that the federal government owed them compensation for what amounted to a physical taking of their property. While those lawsuits were ongoing, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in…