…The nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing Newman and has asked the court’s chief judge Kimberly Moore and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to move the investigation to a different circuit, NCLA attorney Greg Dolin told Reuters on Friday…

…Doe, represented by conservative group New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), believes that the PCAOB proceedings are unconstitutional despite the enforcement authority given to the regulatory board by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The law established the PCAOB to protect investors in response to accounting scandals at companies like Enron and WorldCom…

…In the second case, Michelle Cochran, a certified public accountant accused by the SEC of flouting auditing standards, sought to challenge that same scheme at the Wall Street regulator. Cochran won in the Fifth Circuit, setting up the government’s appeal that the Securities and Exchange Act similarly stripped the court that heard the case of…

…Lawyers for accountant Michelle Cochran, bringing the challenge in the SEC case, and body-camera manufacturer Axon Enterprise Inc. in the FTC case, said their clients should not have to undergo years of litigation before being able to challenge the constitutionality of the administrative law judges and, thus, the agencies’ enforcement actions themselves…

…The opinion dealt with two related cases, Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran. While it addressed a narrow jurisdictional question, it highlighted the court’s increasing skepticism toward administrative tribunals run by federal agencies…

…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group that supported Cochran’s case in its journey to the high court, said the ruling will allow citizens to access federal courts when agencies violate their constitutional rights. The NCLA will continue to represent Cochran as her case proceeds in the lower courts…