WASHINGTON—A civil rights group filed papers with the Supreme Court on Sept. 23 urging it to tear away at the legal underpinnings of the modern administrative state.The Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a petition for certiorari, or review, with the court in hopes of overturning the so-called Brand X doctrine that the Supreme Court…

The Orlando Police Department could soon have access to a massive database of license plate numbers of cars collected by privately owned cameras across the country. City council members on Monday approved a request by OPD to purchase access to a commercial database operated by Vigilant Solutions, a company that sells license plate reader hardware,…

An accountant alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal has told the Fifth Circuit that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling suggests a lower court was wrong…  Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares

A Washington, D.C., organization is challenging the ability of the heads of state agencies in Arizona to discard the conclusions of independent hearing officers. The new lawsuit filed Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court contends that a caregiver at a group home was denied his rights when Greg McKay, director of the Department of Child…

Raymond Lucia, who successfully argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s administrative law judges had been appointed unconstitutionally, was less triumphant in California federal court on Wednesday… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defended its in-house judges Friday, telling the Fifth Circuit the U.S. solicitor general has explained the processes for removing the agency’s administrative law judges can be interpreted as constitutional… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares