The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) has filed a lawsuit, Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, against the federal government and Stanford University, alleging unconstitutional censorship of individuals discussing COVID-19 vaccines on social media. Plaintiffs, including vaccine trial volunteer Brianne Dressen, co-founder of React19, physical therapist Nikki Holland, and Ernest Ramirez, whose son tragically died following…

A federal appeals court has overturned Nasdaq’s initiatives to impose diversity targets on the boards of its listed companies, another blow to the push for corporate diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Wednesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission erred in its 2021 approval of Nasdaq’s board diversity…

U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has received more support at the D.C. Circuit in her case over the suspension her colleagues imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge, this time from a group of former federal judges and the Bar Association of…

A federal appeals court rejected Nasdaq’s yearslong push to set racial and gender targets for the boards of its listed companies, dealing a major blow to one of most prominent efforts to promote diversity in corporate America… The Nasdaq rules vacated by Wednesday’s ruling “strip people of their individuality and force companies to classify them…

… Connecticut lawyers Mario Cerame and Timothy Moynahan argued that they had standing to challenge the rule because state officials could infringe their First Amendment rights by disciplining them for protected statements they have made related to subjects such as race, gender and religion… The New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represented Cerame and Moynahan, called…

Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge, asked the D.C. Circuit to end a suspension imposed by her colleagues that prevents her from hearing cases at the Federal Circuit. The 97-year-old judge argued the suspension was essentially a way to strip her of her core duties without formal impeachment proceedings and was, therefore, unconstitutional,…