…Three of the cases dismissed involved current or former New Civil Liberties Alliance clients, including Michelle Cochran, an accountant facing SEC administrative charges of violating federal accounting standards. Ms. Cochran in 2019 filed a legal challenge to the constitutionality of the SEC’s use of administrative law judges, or ALJs, which handle administrative enforcement cases in-house…

…Cochran’s attorneys at the New Civil Liberties Alliance said Friday the dismissals were unprecedented and reflected the SEC’s worries about defendants using the Supreme Court’s decision to further attack the SEC’s court system. One investment adviser whose case was dismissed Friday had already sued the SEC in Atlanta federal court challenging the SEC in-house proceeding…

…“The government claims that it suppresses so-called misinformation for the sake of public safety and welfare. It is the government’s view that Americans cannot be trusted with their own minds and must be shielded at all costs from mis-, dis-, and malinformation—which is whatever the government deems it to be. Fortunately, the First Amendment says…

…The plaintiffs are represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represents censored doctors in related litigation by Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general Andrew Bailey and Jeff Landry. They are “not anti-vaxxers,” the alliance says in a press release, noting Dressen volunteered in trials for the AstraZeneca vaccine and Ramirez received a Moderna vaccine “without incident.”…

…“This unlawful ongoing student-loan payment pause fits a familiar pattern that already played out in the context of the federal eviction moratorium. First, Congress enacts a temporary economic-relief program, then an administrative agency extends that program indefinitely, and finally, courts step in to halt the unlawful scheme,” said Shen Li, a lawyer for the New…

…In a second Tuesday order, the panel clarified the scope of a confidentiality order that barred Newman from discussing details of the probe that aren’t already public. Counsel for Newman didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment. The New Civil Liberties Alliance represents Newman in her lawsuit…