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The looming eviction crisis
December 6, 2020
Rick Brown is not Jennifer Pierson's landlord. He does own eight similar properties in Winchester, Va., mainly single-family homes in roughly the same price range as Pierson's. He tries to maintain those homes himself. He said half of his tenants aren't paying their rent now. Read the full article
IRS Seeks Dismissal of Cryptocurrency Records Seizure Lawsuit
December 4, 2020
The courts aren’t allowed to rule on a lawsuit alleging that the IRS’s seizure of cryptocurrency records was unconstitutional, the IRS said in a motion to have the case tossed. New Hampshire resident James Harper, in a lawsuit filed in July and amended in August, alleged that the IRS conducted an unconstitutional search…
Free People Don't Social Distance Themselves From Civil Liberties During a Pandemic, Mike Degrandis
December 3, 2020
NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel, Michael DeGrandis joins The Answer on Philadelphia's AM 990 with Chris Stigall to address the issue of government overreach during the pandemic with executive orders that are trampling over our civil rights under the auspices of a pandemic. DeGrandis represents petitioners in the case of Desrosiers…
En Banc Third Circuit Knocks the U.S. Sentencing Commission Down a Few Pegs
December 3, 2020
Filed In: U.S. v. Malik Nasir
Determining an appropriate punishment for criminal convictions is a delicate business. Traditionally judges have had a lot of latitude in figuring out what makes the most sense based on a particular case. But judges are people too, and they carry the same biases and limitations as everyone else. This, unfortunately,…
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The NLRB’s Humorless Insensibility
December 2, 2020
The text of the National Labor Relations Act does not, so far as we can tell, require the National Labor Relations Board or its personnel to have their sense of humor surgically removed. Nor does it prohibit the NLRB’s judicial proceedings from considering context, common sense, or elementary reality in…
SJC Told High Court's Church Ruling Nixes Mass. Virus Rules
December 1, 2020
A group challenging COVID-19 rules in Massachusetts told the state's top court that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision striking down restrictions on New York church gatherings overrides legal precedent relied on by Gov. Charlie Baker. In a supplemental brief on Saturday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance argued to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial…
EDITORIAL: CDC’s eviction moratorium on shaky legal ground
December 1, 2020
Three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national order that banned certain residential evictions until the end of this year. The move was intended to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have accepted various government orders intended to limit the spread…