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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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