The text of the National Labor Relations Act does not, so far as we can tell, require the National Labor Relations Board or its personnel to have their sense of humor surgically removed. Nor does it prohibit the NLRB’s judicial proceedings from considering context, common sense, or elementary reality in making decisions. But you could…

A group challenging COVID-19 rules in Massachusetts told the state’s top court that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down restrictions on New York church gatherings overrides legal precedent relied on by Gov. Charlie Baker. In a supplemental brief on Saturday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance argued to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that the view from the…

Three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national order that banned certain residential evictions until the end of this year. The move was intended to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have accepted various government orders intended to limit the spread of the virus or mitigate…

NCLA’s Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael P. DeGrandis joins The Wilkow Report on Sirius XM to discuss how the SCOTUS decision in the case of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo could impact pending cases like NCLA’s case against Governor Charlie Baker’s Civil Defense State of Emergency.   TweetShareShare0 Shares

A group suing over Gov. Charlie Baker’s pandemic executive orders is citing last week’s U.S. Supreme Court order to stop capping religious gatherings in coronavirus hot zones in New York. In that case, the court ruled 5-4 that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo could not limit the size of gatherings at churches and synagogues in…

Pandemic restrictions on places of worship in Massachusetts won’t run afoul of a US Supreme Court ruling this week that barred certain capacity limits on religious gatherings in areas of New York where coronavirus infections were rising, according to legal scholars and Governor Charlie Baker’s office. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares