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Lawsuit argues Congress unconstitutionally delegated legislative authority to the EPA

January 12, 2024
… “Congress needs to do its job, and not delegate these important sort of life and death decisions for companies to a non-responsive agency,” Zhonette Brown, general counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told Just The News. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit that seeks to protect constitutional freedoms from violations of…
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Supreme Court will consider overruling landmark Chevron deference decision in a fishy case

January 11, 2024
… John J. Vecchione, senior litigation counsel with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a legal organization… that is representing the Rhode Island fishers, says that Chevron has been ineffective and not rooted in the Constitution. “If judges find ambiguity and get to [Chevron] step 2, the government wins something like 95 percent of time,” he says. “So…
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Coolant Cos. Fight ‘Unconstitutional’ Law On HFC Reduction

January 8, 2024
Refrigerant industry players urged the D.C. Circuit either to void part of a 2020 law that directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons or to force the agency to reconsider its regulatory approach…
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How Supreme Court Practice Has Changed (And Stayed the Same) Heading Into 2024

December 26, 2023
… Over the last several years, groups such as the Pacific Legal Foundation, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Alliance Defending Freedom and the Institute for Justice have found tremendous success in bringing constitutional challenges to like-minded Supreme Court justices. “They’ve done really well,” said Unikowsky…
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SEC Faces Renewed Petition Over ‘Gag Orders’

December 21, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been hit with a renewed petition seeking to end its so-called post-settlement gag orders, with the petitioners arguing that the agency’s rule “has gagged countless enforcement targets in perpetuity.” …
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Reps. Urge High Court To Take On Ore. Monument Challenges

December 20, 2023
More than two dozen Republican lawmakers are asking the Supreme Court to take up challenges to rulings upholding former President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon-California border, and rein in presidential uses of the Antiquities Act of 1906…
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