The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rendered its decision in the Desrosiers v. Baker case upholding Governor Baker’s pandemic orders as consistent with the Civil Defense Act (CDA). The order delivers a blow to the plaintiffs who include mom-and-pop businesses, two church pastors; the head of a religious academy, and others. The constitutional rights to due process of law and…

Samantha Vernon paid what she could in rent but she was evicted anyway. Landlords say they shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill for the pandemic crisis.   TweetShareShare0 Shares

NCLA client, Clark Aposhian is challenging ATFs ban on bumpstocks in the case Aposhian v. Barr. May a federal agency rewrite a federal statute? May that rewrite turn otherwise innocent Americans into criminals? Those questions are what this case is about. A federal statute bars Americans from owning machine guns but does not preclude them…

Rick Brown is not Jennifer Pierson’s landlord. He does own eight similar properties in Winchester, Va., mainly single-family homes in roughly the same price range as Pierson’s. He tries to maintain those homes himself. He said half of his tenants aren’t paying their rent now. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares

The courts aren’t allowed to rule on a lawsuit alleging that the IRS’s seizure of cryptocurrency records was unconstitutional, the IRS said in a motion to have the case tossed. New Hampshire resident James Harper, in a lawsuit filed in July and amended in August, alleged that the IRS conducted an unconstitutional search and seizure when it issued…

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael DeGrandis joins The Answer on Philadelphia’s AM 990 with Chris Stigall to address the issue of government overreach during the pandemic with executive orders that are trampling over our civil rights under the auspices of a pandemic. DeGrandis represents petitioners in the case of Desrosiers v Baker.   TweetShareShare0 Shares