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Cato Institute Sues to Stop Biden $400 Billion Student Loan Bailout
…The libertarian Cato Institute filed a lawsuit to stop President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout with the help of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. The cost of the bailout has been estimated at around $400 billion.The federal lawsuit argues that Biden’s student debt cancellation plan will put the think tank at a disadvantage when hiring and retaining employees…Read…
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States Continue to Fight Tax Cut Ban
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in the Fifth Circuit on Oct. 31, 2022 in State of Texas, et al. v. Janet Yellen, et al. It argues that the ban, as it applies to Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, “places a coercive condition on spending, commandeers…
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Newsom Sued over COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law That Doctors Say Tramples First Amendment Rights
…In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, five doctors asked a district court in California to prevent the law from taking effect and said it violates their First Amendment rights and constitutional right to due process. The doctors are represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm…Read the full article
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Doctor Resistance Mounts to California Law Restricting Advice to Patients on COVID
…The five plaintiffs counter that it is impossible for the law or the medical board to accurately define the “contemporary scientific consensus” about COVID as new strains emerge.Attorneys from the nonpartisan New Civil Liberties Alliance, a public interest law firm, are representing Drs. Tracy Hoeg, Ram Duriseti, Aaron Kheriaty, Pete Mazolewski and Azadeh Khatibi in…
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Doctors Say a California Law Targeting Clinicians Who Share COVID-19 'Misinformation' Is Unconstitutional
…But as the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) points out in a federal lawsuit it filed yesterday, Newsom’s signing statement does not alter the broad language of A.B. 2098, which will be enforced as written. The NCLA, which is representing five California physicians who object to the new law, argues that it violates the First Amendment by punishing doctors…
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Doctors Sue California for COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law That Enforces Amorphous ‘Consensus'
…The lawsuit against California AB 2098, which like the social media collusion lawsuit was filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, says the board already had authority to sanction doctors who truly threaten patients by, for example, advising them to inject bleach to treat COVID…Read the full article
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