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States challenge American Rescue Plan’s tax cut ban

The American Rescue Plan provision to limit the amount of tax reduction states can engage in if they receive federal funding is being challenged in a number of lawsuits. On the one hand, the legislation provides funding for states and localities, but it also restricts the use of funding, according to Jeff Friedman, partner at…
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Calendar And Courts Conspire Against Federal Pandemic Eviction Moratorium

Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are battling it out in a separate 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case over whether the order leaves landlords powerless to take legal action to collect delinquent payments. It’s now up to the appellate court panel to determine if it’ll grant an injunction to suspend…
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Calendar and courts conspire against federal pandemic eviction moratorium

Meanwhile, the Justice Department and the New Civil Liberties Alliance are battling it out in a separate 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case over whether the order leaves landlords powerless to take legal action to collect delinquent payments. It’s now up to the appellate court panel to determine if it’ll grant an injunction to suspend…
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Department of Education Has no Power to Set Curriculum

NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel Peggy Little joins “The Jimmy Barrett Show” on Houston’s NewsRadio 740 KTRH to discuss NCLA’s recent comment objecting to the Department of Education’s “Proposed Priorities – American History and Civics Education.” TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Civil Liberties Group Backs Ohio's Bid To Ax Tax Cut Limit Law

A civil liberties organization has supported Ohio’s attempt to invalidate a federal law prohibiting states from using coronavirus aid to offset tax cuts, arguing that a proposed Treasury regulation made the statute more ambiguous. In a Wednesday amicus brief, the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance said the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s interim final rule…
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