The Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week over the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and whether, as currently structured, it is too far removed from executive oversight. The plaintiff’s attorney in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB argued that “never before in American history has Congress given so much executive power to a single individual,”…

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Harriet Hageman hosts Lunch & Law with Jennifer Braceras, the Director of the Independent Women’s Forum Law Center, Hanna Stotland, an admissions consultant, and Caleb Kruckenberg, NCLA Litigation Counsel who is handling Vengalattore v. Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Education. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

Harriet Hageman, Senior Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, has filed a new motion in the Wyoming federal district court on behalf of R-CALF USA and ranchers Tracy and Donna Hunt and Kenny and Roxy Fox. The new motion reveals that despite the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) assurances to the court that…

The Trump administration’s stance that American employers with “religious or moral” objections to birth control needn’t offer no-cost contraception in their health insurance plans has gotten a boost in a U.S…. Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares

A second lawsuit has been filed in a U.S. federal courthouse against a rule, scheduled to take effect Monday, 9 March, that would require Atlantic herring fishermen to pay for independent monitors aboard their vessels. Seafreeze Fleet LLC and two vessels it owns filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic…

Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, argued that the decision should be overruled… Read the full article here. TweetShareShare0 Shares