A New Jersey landlord is challenging Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order allowing tenants to use their security deposits to pay their rent during the coronavirus crisis. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Matthew Johnson claims the governor’s order violates his constitutional rights and the contract he signed with his tenant for a $600 security deposit at his…

Massachusetts has come to the point that legal action is needed, not to save itself from the coronavirus, but from power hungry politicians. Massachusetts and the rest of the country are fortunate to see all health trends pointing in the right direction. The curve is flattened. Emergency health care facilities are not overrun and have…

Restaurant owners, hair salon owners, pastors, and a Christian school are asking a state court to overturn Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s executive orders that seriously limit what they can do during the coronavirus emergency. The plaintiffs, whose lawyers filed a complaint in Worcester Superior Court on Monday, June 1, say Baker has been violating the state constitution…

A group has sued Governor Baker over what they say is unjustified “draconian, “one-size-fits-all” measures across the Commonwealth” concerning his COVID-19 response involving businesses. Monday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, based out of Washington D.C., filed a complaint in Massachusetts Superior Court representing local entrepreneurs, church pastors, and the headmaster of a private school against…

Almost 10 weeks after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker shuttered non-essential businesses and organizations in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, a group of business owners, pastors, and private school leaders have filed suit to lift the restrictions, arguing that the orders lack legal authority. Michael P. DeGrandis of the New Civil Liberties Alliance represents the…

A 10th Circuit panel on Thursday upheld the federal government’s ban on bump stock accessories for guns, striking down a Salt Lake City resident’s challenge to the federal ban on the device that allows semiautomatic guns to fire ammunition at the same speed as automatic weapons. After a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas left 58 people…