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NCLA Explains Federal Circuit May Not Lawfully Exclude Judge Newman from Hearing en Banc Case
Washington, DC (January 27, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to comply with the mandatory statute governing the en banc process. The Federal Circuit must either permit the unlawfully suspended Judge Pauline Newman to participate in consideration of…
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NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Uphold Jury-Trial Rights in FDIC Enforcement Cases
Washington, DC (January 23, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief in Burgess v. Whang, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold a preliminary injunction stopping the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) unconstitutional administrative enforcement proceeding against Cornelius Campbell Burgess. FDIC is trying to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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