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Federal Judge Rules Against Natural Immunity Claim Challenging COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

October 10, 2021
A federal judge on Oct. 8 denied a request to block Michigan State University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on the basis of natural immunity. An employee at the school, Jeanna Norris, filed a lawsuit against the mandate and asked a judge to intervene. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Court: Lack of Natural Immunity Exception Doesn’t Make MSU Vaccine Mandate Irrational

October 10, 2021
A Michigan State University employee was denied a preliminary injunction in her challenge of a university employee vaccine mandate policy. Among the challenger’s arguments was that the mandate doesn’t meet a rational basis test because it doesn’t make an exception for natural immunity obtained from having caught COVID-19 and recovered. Read the full article TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Public Interest Groups Challenge Nasdaq Diversity Rule in Federal Court

October 8, 2021
…The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) filed a petition this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, challenging the adoption of the Nasdaq diversity rule. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) is representing NCPPR and is arguing that the rule falls outside of the agency’s statutory authority and violates the due process and…
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Women Score Gains on Philly Corporate Boards but Remain Far From Parity

October 8, 2021
…The National Center for Public Policy Research filed a lawsuit over the SEC’s approval of the Nasdaq board diversity rules. The National Center, represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, argues that the SEC’s regulatory authority, established by the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act, is limited to regulation of securities to ensure honest markets and…
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Care for Neediest Hangs in Balance in High Court HHS Case

October 8, 2021
…Others agree. The New Civil Liberties Alliance says it’s “particularly disturbed by the appeals court’s decision not to exercise its independent judgment regarding the best reading of the statute at issue.” Likewise, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation says deference doctrines like Chevron “wrongly place a thumb on the scale in favor of the nation’s most…
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SEC Sued over Nasdaq’s ‘Diversity’ Rule for Race, Gender, LGBTQ Quotas on Boards

October 7, 2021
The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank advocating free market policies, sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday after it approved the Nasdaq’s controversial “diversity” rule. The policy attempts to avoid the problem of racial, gender, and sexual quotas — which are often illegal — by allowing companies…
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