The headwaters of the Animas River begin in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. The confluence of streams—Mineral Creek, Cement Creek, and the Upper Animas—define the Upper Animas River basin. The river basin contains hundreds of inactive or abandoned mines. Among them is the Gold King Mine, located on the slope of Bonita Peak.…

As the Wall Street Journal recently noted, the FTC’s recent lawsuit against Walmart raises a fundamental constitutional issue regarding the FTC’s authority to initiate lawsuits. The point at issue concerns Congress’s authority to limit the President’s power to remove executive officers, an issue that has been in contention since Reconstruction and, perhaps, will be resolved…

…”They can require nets. It doesn’t say who pays for the nets; the agency requires the nets and your clients have to pay,” Judge Kayatta told John Vecchione of New Civil Liberties Alliance, an attorney for a group of New England herring fishermen…Read the full article

…Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, arguing for plaintiff Michael Cargill, told the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that the prohibition relied on a flawed decision to classify a bump stock as a machine gun under federal law. A bump stock, he said, is not a machine gun…

…An attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group representing Cargill, told the Washington Examiner that the matter at issue is not the Second Amendment but whether bump stocks qualify as illegal “machine guns” under federal law…Read the full article

…Hageman is senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization which claims to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the “Administrative State.”The New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing Colorado resident Todd Hennis in a lawsuit against the United States for the physical taking of his property without just…