The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will hear oral arguments regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) gag rule on Thursday. The rule flagrantly violates the First Amendment by prohibiting all defendants who settle with the SEC from publicly pleading their innocence in perpetuity. Thomas Powell alleges that he was the victim…

Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge, reiterated her argument the DC Circuit should revive the lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional her suspension from hearing cases at the Federal Circuit… Newman is represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance…

A former Cornell University professor settled his Title IX lawsuit against the school, the New Civil Liberties Alliance announced Thursday, ending a yearslong case in which the professor accused the school…

“The Federal Circuit must allow Judge Newman to sit on the bench as part of any en banc rehearing. The Court’s only other lawful option is to reinstate the panel decision previously issued in this case.” – NCLA brief Judge Pauline Newman’s counsel, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), announced yesterday that it has filed an amicus brief with…

The New Civil Liberties Alliance told the Fifth Circuit on Monday to spurn the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s attempt to level a fraud judgment against a banker, saying the agency’s in-house court sidesteps the constitutional right to a jury trial…

The legal nonprofit that represents suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman argued her colleagues are violating the law by excluding her from deliberations as the full court takes up a patent damages appeal. Newman is still an “active” judge under the US Supreme Court’s definition of the word even while she’s subject to a suspension,…