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NCLA Video Shows Problem with Use of License Plate Readers
Washington, D.C. – Today the New Civil Liberties Alliance released a case video featuring NCLA client Raul Mas Canosa that depicts the serious privacy concerns that surround automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). Canosa’s lawsuit against the City of Coral Gables, Florida, the Florida Department of State and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement challenges the unconstitutional…
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NCLA Wins Stay Pending Appeal from Fifth Circuit in Post-Lucia SEC Case
Washington, D.C. – It took barely a couple of hours after oral argument on the motion in New Orleans, for a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to issue an order staying the SEC’s enforcement proceedings against NCLA client Michelle Cochran. The order in Cochran v. Securities and Exchange Commission…
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NCLA Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Landmark Civil Rights Precedent
Washington, D.C. – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus brief supporting two Writs of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra and Thomas More Law Center v. Becerra. The Petitioners in these related cases are asking the Supreme Court to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and protect…
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NCLA Files Petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Seeking to Abolish Brand X Deference
WASHINGTON, DC, — The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a Petition fora Writ of Certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the so-called Brand X doctrine. Under theCourt’s 2005 case, National Cable & Telecommunications Ass’n v. Brand X Internet Services, federal courtsare supposed to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable statutory interpretations even…
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NCLA Refutes Cornell University’s Motion to Dismiss Its Former Professor’s Title IX Lawsuit
Washington, DC (September 18, 2019) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has fileda response opposing Cornell University’s Motion to Dismiss the Complaint NCLA submittedon behalf of Dr. Mukund Vengalattore last year. Professor Vengalattore, a former tenure-trackphysics professor at Cornell, was subjected to a Title IX disciplinary proceeding utterly lackingin due process and infected by racial…
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ATF Admits It Lacked Authority to Issue Legislative Rule, NCLA Condemns the Agency’s Attempt to Ban Bump Stocks Anyway
Washington, D.C. – Congress has not prohibited bump stocks, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has made them illegal with a Final Rule issued without statutory authority. In a noteworthy development, ATF’s latest court filing admits that it lacked rulemaking authority under the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act to issue…
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