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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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NCLA Questions Constitutionality of Arizona Department of Child Safety’s Administrative Proceedings
Washington, D.C. – The New Civil Liberties Alliance is taking a case to right a wrong committed by the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS). A core principle of the American justice system holds that defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty. But under the administrative review system in place at DCS, a mere finding…
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NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Renounce ‘Great Deference’ to EEOC Interpretations
Washington, D.C. – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the employers in three consolidated cases scheduled for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on October 8: Bostock v. Clayton Co., Georgia; Altitude Express, Inc. v. Zarda; and Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. At issue in the cases is what Title VII of…
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NCLA Challenges ED’s Title IX Guidance for Campus Disciplinary Proceedings
WASHINGTON DC – The New Civil Liberties Alliance today filed a Memorandum of Law opposing the Departmentof Education’s Motion to Dismiss the Complaint NCLA filed last fall on behalf of Dr. MukundVengalattore. NCLA’s client was an assistant physics professor at Cornell on track for tenurewhen in 2014 a graduate student working in his labs falsely…
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