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Appeals Court Pauses Ban on Biden Administration Social Media Contacts
…Representatives of the two state attorneys general did not immediately respond to a request for comment. John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a lead attorney for the individual plaintiffs, emphasized in a statement that Friday’s order “is not any indication of the merits of the arguments.”…
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Judge Tells Feds to Take Free Speech Training Before Asking Social Media to Censor
…The government is ignoring the “plain terms” of the injunction, the AGs and the doctors’ lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said in their opposition Sunday. It’s disingenuous for DOJ to claim an injunction is outdated because federal censorship is in the rearview mirror, they said. The feds “produced the vast majority of their…
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Massachusetts Sued For Working With Google To Secretly Put Spyware On Residents’ Phones
…A video published by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) — a self-described civil rights group devoted to protecting Americans from administrative overreach — walks viewers through the core tenets of the organization’s ongoing lawsuit against DPH and Democrat Gov. Maura Healey, which claims Massachusetts violated state residents and workers’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by installing a Covid “contact-tracing app”…
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Fed. Cir. Judges Urged to Try Mediation in Newman Fitness Probe
…Cooper gave the parties two days to discuss the mediation route. If they’re unable to reach a consensus on the approach, the claims will proceed to a federal court briefing on Newman’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Separately, a closed-doors hearing at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is set for July 13 to…
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Judge Terry Doughty Praised After Biden’s Social Media Ban: ‘Big Win’
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a non-profit group which claims to “protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the administrative state,” joined the suit, representing a number of groups and individuals who claimed to have been censored on social media. In a statement sent to Newsweek, NCLA president Mark Chenoweth said: “Judge Doughty’s ruling in the Missouri v.…
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2nd Circ. Pauses Firm’s CFPB Fight For High Court Appeal
…The Second Circuit agreed to hold off on a mandate enforcing an investigative demand the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued to a collection firm, after the firm argued that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to hear the constitutional issues being debated. The court granted The Law Offices of Crystal Moroney PC’s request to stay…
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