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Expert Amici Back NCLA Supreme Court Case Against “Petty-Offense Exception” to Jury-Trial Right

Washington, DC (January 17, 2025) – Criminal law academics, defense attorneys, and advocacy groups have filed five amici curiae briefs in support of the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s pending Lesh v. U.S. petition before the U.S. Supreme Court. NCLA’s lawsuit challenges an unjust precedent that denies jury trials for people charged with “petty offenses”—generally those...

NCLA Warns DC Court of Appeals Not to Adopt Proposed Rule that Would Restrict Lawyers’ Speech

Washington, DC (January 15, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has submitted comments urging the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to reject a proposed amendment to Rule 8.4 of the District of Columbia Rules of Professional Conduct that would violate lawyers’ First Amendment rights. The proposed rule’s vague language would subject attorneys to discipline...

NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Keep Unlawful Corporate Transparency Act Enjoined

Washington, DC (January 13, 2025) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Garland v. Texas Top Cop Shop, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the government’s request to stay a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The government cannot be allowed to maintain the...

Federal Court Holds Back NCLA’s Effort to Inform Public of Major Misconduct at SEC

Washington, DC (January 9, 2025) – The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has rejected the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s request to force the Securities and Exchange Commission to immediately release information concerning profound misconduct within that agency. SEC had refused to comply with NCLA’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for...

NCLA Defeats Illegal Investigation by Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Washington, DC (January 7, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a stipulated dismissal without prejudice of its pseudonymous client John Doe Corporation’s federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas challenging the unconstitutional investigative processes of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The dismissal follows PCAOB’s...

In NCLA Victory Against Censorship, State Department Shutters Global Engagement Center

Washington, DC (January 2, 2025) – The U.S. Department of State has closed its Global Engagement Center (GEC), which it had used to finance the development and promotion of censorship technology and enterprises that then blacklisted domestic news organizations. The New Civil Liberties Alliance celebrates this encouraging step as we lead the ongoing The Daily...

NCLA Convinces Federal Court to Stop DOL’s Illegal Undermining of Wage and Overtime Exemption

Washington, DC (December 30, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance persuaded the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to grant summary judgment in Flint Avenue v. Department of Labor, vacating a DOL rule that exceeded the agency’s statutory authority. The rule had set a $58,656 minimum-salary requirement for determining whether...

NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Read Judicial Review Statute Broadly, as Congress Wrote It

Washington, DC (December 23, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Respondents in Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Company. NCLA’s brief urges the Justices to reject FDA’s effort to insulate itself from accountability. Even though the law allows...

After NCLA Pressure, Department of Education Scraps Some Illegal Student Debt Cancellation Plans

Washington, DC (December 20, 2024) – Today, as the New Civil Liberties Alliance requested, the U.S. Department of Education announced the withdrawal of proposed rules that would have combined to unconstitutionally cancel more than $250 billion of federal student loan debt owed to the Treasury. NCLA had submitted comments in May 2024 and again in December urging...

NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Uphold Block on Unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act

Washington, DC (December 18, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reject the government’s request to stay a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The government cannot be...

NCLA Asks D.C. Court to Block SEC’s Illegal “Rubber-Stamp” Enforcement Procedure

Washington, DC (December 18, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an Amended Complaint and asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a preliminary injunction to stop the Securities and Exchange Commission’s illegitimate “follow-on” enforcement proceeding against Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson. A Massachusetts federal jury in 2021 rejected nearly all...

WATCH: Government Censors Victims of Covid Vaccine Injuries. NCLA is Fighting Back.

Washington, DC (December 17, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance is leading the Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty lawsuit against the federal government and Stanford University’s efforts to pressure and collaborate with social media companies to monitor and censor people discussing Covid vaccines on social media—including online support groups for vaccine injury victims. A...

NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case to Overturn “Petty-Offense Exception” to Jury-Trial Right

Washington, DC (December 13, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance and the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic petitioned the Supreme Court to hear David Lesh v. United States. On behalf of Mr. Lesh, NCLA seeks to overturn the Court’s unjust precedent that directly contradicts the explicit language of the Constitution by denying...

Retired Judges’ Amicus Brief Supports Judge Newman in NCLA Suit Against Her Suspension

Washington, DC (December 13, 2024) – Six retired federal judges have filed an amicus curiae brief in Newman v. Moore supporting the unlawfully suspended Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, who is represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance. The Hon. Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Circuit), Hon. Paul Michel (Federal Circuit), Hon. Randall Rader (Federal Circuit),...

NCLA Persuades en Banc Fifth Circuit to Vacate Legally Defective Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules

Washington, DC (December 11, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance convinced the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in National Center for Public Policy Research v. Securities and Exchange Commission to vacate SEC’s approval of Nasdaq’s “Board Diversity Rules,” which the agency lacked statutory authority to do. These Rules imposed...

Second Circuit Revives NCLA’s Lawsuit Against Ethics Rule Muzzling Connecticut Attorneys’ Speech

Washington, DC (December 9, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the district court’s dismissal of Cerame v. Slack, an NCLA lawsuit challenging a Connecticut Rule of Professional Conduct that imposes a content- and viewpoint-based speech restriction. Rule 8.4(7) defines “professional misconduct” by a Connecticut attorney as including speech...

NCLA Asks D.C. Circuit to Rule Against Unlawful Suspension of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman

Washington, DC (December 5, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an opening brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reverse a district court judgment that upheld the ongoing illegal suspension of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman. Without due process, the Judicial Council of the Federal Circuit indefinitely...

NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Overturn Banking Administration Board’s Denial of Jury Trial

Washington, DC (December 3, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Moats v. National Credit Union Administration Board urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse an order depriving former Texas credit union CEO Jeffrey Moats of a jury trial. The National Credit Union...

NCLA Asks First Circuit to Overturn Decision Enabling Excessive SEC-Demanded Sanctions

Washington, DC (November 27, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed our opening brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to reverse a lower court’s denial of costs and attorney’s fees that Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson incurred in successfully defending himself against outrageously excessive sanctions demands by the Securities and...

NCLA Sues CPSC, Trumka, HHS, CDC, NIH for Illegal, Unfounded Attacks on Weighted Infant Sleep Products

Washington, DC (November 20, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint to stop the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr., and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from continuing unproven, unlawful attacks on weighted infant sleep products, including our client Dreamland Baby Co.’s products. The CPSC, Trumka,...

NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Rope in Horseracing Authority’s Unconstitutional Executive Power

Washington, DC (November 14, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Walmsley, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. and eliminate the private Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s unfettered regulatory enforcement power over the horseracing industry. Congress passed the Horseracing Integrity...

NCLA Challenges WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife’s Illegal 24-Hour Surveillance of Crabbing Boats

Washington, DC (November 14, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a lawsuit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Electronic Monitoring Program using GPS technology to constantly track the location and movements of every state-licensed boat that fishes for Coastal Dungeness Crab, whether they are crabbing or not. The Department sustains...

NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Overturn Currency Comptroller’s Violation of Jury Trial Rights

Washington, DC (November 12, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to hear Ortega & Rogers v. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). NCLA asks the Fifth Circuit to overturn an OCC decision punishing former Texas bank...

NCLA Wins Further Discovery in Historic Suit Against Government’s Censorship Industrial Complex

Washington, DC (November 8, 2024) – Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s request for further jurisdictional discovery in the landmark Missouri v. Biden lawsuit against government-induced social media censorship. In June, the Supreme Court vacated the preliminary injunction in the case (called Murthy v. Missouri...

NCLA Asks Second Circuit to Rule Against HHS’s Coercive Medicare Drug Price ‘Negotiation’ Program

Washington, DC (November 8, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals v. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). NCLA urges the Second Circuit to rule it is unlawful for HHS to hold a company’s business hostage until it...

After Supreme Court Win, NCLA Convinces District Court to Vacate ATF’s Unlawful Bump-Stock Ban

Washington, DC (November 4, 2024) – Today, the U.S. District for the Western District of Texas amended its final judgment for New Civil Liberties Alliance client Michael Cargill to vacate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ unilateral Final Rule banning bump stocks. NCLA had persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in June...

NCLA Sues to Stop USDA’s Illegal, Unnecessary Rule Mandating Electronic Eartags for Cattle and Bison

Washington, DC (October 31, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) unlawful new rule requiring electronically readable (EID) eartags for certain cattle and bison transported across state lines, rather than long-used visual tags. Representing ranchers,...

NCLA Asks Court to Uphold Suit Against San Antonio’s Illegal Firing of Poet for Free Speech

Washington, DC (October 28, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a brief urging the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas not to dismiss NCLA client Nephtali De León’s claims against the City of San Antonio and official Krystal Jones for defamation and violating free speech rights. The City unjustly fired...

In NCLA Amicus Win, Fifth Circuit Vacates Order for Elon Musk to Delete X Post About Labor

Washington, DC (October 28, 2024) – The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) order requiring Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete a post he issued using his personal X (formerly Twitter) account, ruling that the order violated the First Amendment. NLRB based its...

NCLA Asks Eighth Circuit to Stop Education Dept.’s Latest Illegal Plot to Cancel Student Loan Debt

Washington, DC (October 1, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Missouri, et al. v. Biden urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to affirm its panel’s earlier preliminary injunction stopping the Department of Education’s “SAVE” plan. The Biden Administration plan rewrites the 1993 amendments to...

NCLA Pushes Court to Reel in Unlawful Fishery Monitoring Rule After Supreme Court Sinks Chevron Deference

Washington, DC (September 27, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Supplemental Brief urging the court to vacate the Industry-Funded Monitoring (IFM) Omnibus Amendment, issued by the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) and applied to nearly all fisheries in the region. Implemented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) February 2020...

“Judge Newman Fit to Judge,” Reports Harvard-Trained Neurosurgeon Expert

Washington, DC (September 24, 2024) – Dr. Aaron G. Filler, MD, PhD, JD confirms Judge Newman is fully fit to perform the duties of the office to which she has been confirmed by the Senate and appointed by the President. Dr. Filler is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and inventor, trained at the University of Chicago and Harvard...

NCLA Demands Further Discovery in Historic Suit Against Government’s Censorship Industrial Complex

Washington, DC (September 18, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a brief in response to an order of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, urging the court not to dismiss Missouri v. Biden and requesting further discovery in this landmark lawsuit against government-induced social media censorship. In June,...

NCLA Suit Demands End to Gov’t Censorship of Support Groups for Victims of Covid Vaccine Injuries

Washington, DC (September 13, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an Amended Complaint in the Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al. lawsuit against the federal government’s ongoing efforts to collude with social media companies to monitor and censor online support groups for those injured by Covid vaccines. This censorship campaign has...

NCLA Asks Fifth Circuit to Return Erroneously Transferred Lawsuit Against PCAOB to Texas Court

Washington, DC (September 12, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of mandamus to help return its anonymous client John Doe Corporation’s lawsuit against the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. NCLA filed...

NCLA Secures Trial in Ex-Professor’s Case Against Cornell’s Title IX Kangaroo Court

Washington, DC (September 10, 2024) – Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York denied Cornell University’s effort to avoid a trial in New Civil Liberties Alliance client Dr. Mukund Vengalattore’s lawsuit alleging that Cornell’s biased and faulty sexual misconduct investigation discriminated against him in violation of Title IX. Dr. Vengalattore was...

NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Repair (or Abolish) Fatally-Flawed Qualified Immunity Doctrine

Washington, DC (September 6, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Desiree Martinez v. Channon High. NCLA urges the Justices to reexamine the modern qualified immunity doctrine and abolish the atextual, ahistorical standard for qualified immunity that requires violations of the law to...

NCLA Asks Third Circuit to Eliminate Unlawful DOT Penalty After Landmark Jarkesy Ruling

Washington, DC (September 5, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Axalta Coating Systems v. Department of Transportation asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to vacate an illegal civil penalty order issued by an agency official in a juryless proceeding. The Supreme Court’s June...

NCLA Asks D.C. Circuit to Scrub NOAA’s at-Sea Monitor Rule After Toppling Chevron Deference

Washington, DC (September 5, 2024) – On behalf of its clients Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and SeaFreeze Fleet LLC, the New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Alongside NCLA’s Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce lawsuit, this...

NCLA Suit Demands NIH Change PubMed Name-Change Policy that Harms Women Authors in Science

Washington, DC (August 28, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Reyngold v. NIH, aimed at forcing the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine to allow all versions of scientific researchers’ names to appear in...

Powerful Amici Briefs Endorse NCLA Suit Against SEC’s Unauthorized and Illegal Mass Data Dragnet

Washington, DC (August 26, 2024) – Nineteen states, current and former government officials, research organizations, advocacy groups, and litigators have filed seven forceful amici curiae briefs in support of NCLA’s lawsuit seeking to block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s unlawful “Consolidated Audit Trail”—or “CAT”—program. The CAT is the largest government-mandated mass collection of personal financial...

NCLA Fights SEC’s Unconstitutional “Rubber-Stamp” Follow-on Enforcement Proceedings

Washington, DC (August 21, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s illegitimate “follow-on” enforcement proceeding against Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson, an ordained Greek Orthodox priest and activist investor. A Massachusetts federal jury in 2021 rejected nearly...

NCLA Seeks to Halt FDIC’s Attempted Illegal Prosecution of Enforcement Target Without Jury Trial

Washington, DC (August 19, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint urging the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) from keeping our client, John C. Ponte, trapped in an unlawful administrative enforcement proceeding. Mr. Ponte is neither a banker nor does...

Seven Supreme Court Victories Underscore NCLA’s Success in Limiting Unlawful Administrative Power

Washington, DC (Summer 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance achieved truly historic results at the U.S. Supreme Court this past term. Representing courageous clients in three pivotal cases and scoring major victories before the high court in five amicus cases, NCLA advanced the civil liberties of Americans nationwide, moved the country in a more constitutional...

NCLA Asks Court to Uphold Suit, Stop SEC’s Unauthorized and Unlawful Mass Data Dragnet

Washington, DC (August 16, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has made the latest key filing in its Davidson, Restivo, NCPPR v. Gensler, et al. lawsuit, which seeks to block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s unlawful “Consolidated Audit Trail” program—also known as the “CAT.” NCLA’s clients are suing SEC and CAT LLC, the company...

District Court Orders ATF to Return NCLA Client’s Bump Stock After Supreme Court Win

Washington, DC (August 14, 2024) – The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah has granted the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s request for summary judgment in Aposhian v. Garland, NCLA’s original case challenging the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ unilateral bump-stock ban. Citing the Supreme Court’s historic June ruling against the ban...

NCLA Asks CA Supreme Court to Clarify State’s Nondelegation Doctrine in Wake of Pandemic Abuse

Washington, DC (August 12, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance sent an amicus curiae letter asking the Supreme Court of California to hear Ghost Golf, Inc. v. Newsom and restore clear standards for applying the California Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine. The Emergency Services Act (ESA) allows the Governor to unilaterally declare a state of...

NCLA Asks Court to End DOL’s Illegal Power Grab, Overturn Wage and Overtime Exemption Rule

Washington, DC (August 8, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has requested summary judgment in Flint Avenue v. Department of Labor, urging the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to vacate a new rule that exceeds DOL’s statutory authority. The Final Rule sets a $58,656 minimum-salary requirement for determining whether “white...

In NCLA Amicus Win, Federal Circuit Revives Lawsuit Against CDC’s Illegal Eviction Moratorium

Washington, DC (August 7, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that dismissed the Darby Development Company v. U.S. lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium. The New Civil Liberties Alliance had filed an amicus...

NCLA Asks Federal Court to Vacate the Dept. of Labor’s Unlawful New Independent Contractor Rule

Washington, DC (August 5, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a motion for summary judgment in Colt & Joe Trucking v. U.S. Department of Labor, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico to vacate DOL’s vague new independent contractor rule. Promulgated earlier this year, the rule distorts the...

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