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NCLA Challenges Constitutionality of CFPB’s Unique, Congress-Free Funding Structure

Washington, DC (March 8, 2021) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed its opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the case of Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection v. Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, P.C. NCLA argues that the district court erred when it allowed CFPB to enforce a…
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NCLA Appeals Bump Stock Ban Ruling that Allowed ATF to Get Away with Rewriting Criminal Law

Washington, DC (March 8, 2021) — Congress has not prohibited bump stocks, and it is thus unlawful for a prosecutorial entity like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to rewrite the law in Congress’ place. That’s the basic argument the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, makes in its opening…
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Chevron Is Admin. Law’s “Lord Voldemort” Say Tenth Cir. En Banc Dissenters in Bump Stock Ban Case

Washington, DC (March 5, 2021) – A majority en banc panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit voted 6-5 today to vacate the court’s Sept. 4, 2020 order granting en banc rehearing of Aposhian v. Wilkinson. It also reinstated the court’s deeply flawed May 7, 2020 opinion, which invoked the Chevron doctrine to deny NCLA client Clark Aposhian’s appeal of his challenge to…
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NCLA Urges Supreme Court to Protect Landmark Civil Rights Precedent Against “Cancel Culture”

Washington, DC (March 1, 2021) — The landmark 1958 case NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson was undoubtedly one of the most significant U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the civil rights era. More than 60 years later, it is once again front and center as the highest court in the land prepares to hear oral arguments in Americans for…
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NCLA Amicus Brief Says ‘Police Power’ Belongs with Arizona Legislature, Not with the Governor

Washington, DC (February 26, 2021) – “Police Power” in the hands of the governor does not include the power to legislate, argues the amicus brief filed today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, in the Arizona Supreme Court. NCLA’s brief in the case of Javier Aguila, et al. v. Doug Ducey, et al.,…
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Watch: NCLA Case Video Reveals How CPSC Hides Safety Standards from Public Behind Paywall

Washington, DC (February 24, 2021) – A video released today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, reveals a mother’s fight to see the law. NCLA represents Lisa Milice in her petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to make the…
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