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Sheng Li

Litigation Counsel


Sheng Li is Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Prior to joining NCLA, Sheng served as Counselor to the Administrator of Wage and Hour at the U.S. Department of Labor. In that role, he led numerous efforts to remove or simplify unduly burdensome regulations. He has also worked in the private sector as a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and at Kirkland & Ellis.

Sheng is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and Yale Law School, where he was managing editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. After graduating law school, Sheng served as law clerk to the Hon. Danny J. Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Sheng enjoys biking, playing ultimate frisbee, and spending time with his wife and two cats.

Not licensed in Virginia; admitted to practice in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and select federal jurisdictions.

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

By: Sheng Li April 10, 2025
COVID-19 | FIve Years Page
The Covid-19 vaccines were scientific triumphs that saved countless lives. By contrast, Covid-19 vaccination mandates were unconstitutional travesties that trampled individual rights. Imposed by the Biden administration, some state governments, and many public and private colleges, they represented an egregious overreach of administrative power and a blatant disregard of the rule of law. While courts…
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Could Jarkesy Help Resolve Circuit Split on NLRB’s Authority to Impose Monetary Remedies?

By: Sheng Li March 20, 2025
Blogs
Judge Bumatay’s dissent in Int’l Union of Operating Eng’rs, Stationary Eng’rs, Loc. 39 v. NLRB, 127 F.4th 58, 79 (9th Cir. 2025), suggests that SEC v. Jarkesy, 603 U.S. 109 (2024)—which held that the SEC’s in-house adjudication of civil-penalty claims violated the accused’s right to a jury trial in an Article III court—may be key…
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An Insider’s Look at the Implications of ATF’s Bump Stock Ban Being Vacated

By: Sheng Li November 14, 2024
In Orwell’s 1984, after years of war against Eurasia as Eastasia’s ally, Oceania abruptly switches sides, becoming Eurasia’s ally against Eastasia. Instead of articulating a policy change, the government simply rewrote history to declare that “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” The modern Administrative State uses the same Orwellian tactic to rewrite the law.…
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