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Federal Appeals Court To Rehear Case That Could Devastate Biden Admin’s Censorship Regime

September 25, 2023
…Jenin Younes, lead counsel representing the four private plaintiffs on the Missouri v. Biden case for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told the Daily Caller News Foundation she believes the court’s decision to rehear the case indicates a willingness to reconsider excluding CISA and other agencies. “In terms of the Supreme Court application, it’s not…
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Speech Code for Lawyers? Appeals Courts Poised to Clash on Constitutionality of State Rules

September 22, 2023
..The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing lawyers Mario Cerame and Timothy Moynahan in a similar lawsuit against Connecticut’s Rule 8.4(7), filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Greenberg this week…
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Wall Street Is Furious Over Rising Fines From SEC

September 16, 2023
..“There is no meaningful cap or calculation that ever really takes place,” said David Rosenfeld, a law professor at Northern Illinois University and former senior SEC enforcement official whose work examining SEC fines was cited by the New Civil Liberties Alliance in its arguments to the high court. “They feel they have unfettered discretion, and so the penalty…
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Attorney Conduct Rule Doesn’t Chill Free Speech, Connecticut Tells US Court

September 8, 2023
…”They are very much afraid that if they continue to make the sort of forceful comments they used to regularly make, it would lead them to be charged,” their lawyer Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance said at Friday’s oral arguments…
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Lawyers Say Exam Shows 96-Year-Old Us Appeals Judge Still Fit to Serve

September 7, 2023
…Newman’s lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance on Thursday released a report by Dr. Regina Carney, a Miami-based forensic psychiatrist, that described Newman as an “unusually cognitively intact 96-year-old woman” with “no evidence of current substantial medical, psychiatric, or cognitive disability.”…
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As U.S. Securities Regulator FINRA Faces Constitutional Challenge, Bill Barr Calls for Defanging It

September 7, 2023
…That filing, in turn, prompted two briefs filed on Wednesday in support of Alpine, one from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit that frequently represents defendants targeted in SEC proceedings; and the other from Barr, now at Torridon Law, and Francisco, a partner at Jones Day. Their brief is on behalf of the American Free Enterprise…
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