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Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Federal District Courts Have Jurisdiction to Hear Challenges to Unconstitutional Aspects of Federal Agencies’ Administrative Proceedings
Washington, DC (April 14, 2023) – In an historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning held that Texas Accountant Michelle Cochran has the right to challenge the constitutionality of her Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) removal protections in federal court before ...
Watch: The Punishment Is the Process – Administrative Law Judge Proceedings Are Unconstitutional
Washington, DC (April 14, 2023) – Michelle Cochran’s daughters were little girls when she decided to start the seven-year uphill journey against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to clear her name. The targets of SEC’s administrative enforcement proceedings do ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Blasts FDIC for Depriving Ex-CEO of Jury Trial Rights in Enforcement Action
Washington, DC (April 10, 2023) - The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in Burgess v. FDIC, et al. Friday evening. NCLA urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to redress the Federal Deposit ...
NCLA and Mackinac Center Challenge Unlawful Extensions of Federal Student Loan Deferments
Washington, DC (April 6, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a lawsuit to stop the U.S. Department of Education’s unlawful pause on student loan payments. The lawsuit, Mackinac Center for Public Policy v. U.S. ...
NCLA Challenges IG Committee’s Structure and Illegal Interference with Inspector General Operations
Washington, DC (April 4, 2023) – For three years, Joseph V. Cuffari, a Presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed Inspector General (IG) has been endlessly harassed and had his office’s resources drained by a series of baseless inquiries headed by the Council of the ...
Federal Judge Grants Injunction to NCLA Client, Vacates Dept. of Ed.’s Discriminatory Fulbright Rule
Washington, DC (March 27, 2023) – Judge David C. Guaderrama of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has granted Plaintiff Veronica Gonzalez’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s discriminatory ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, en Banc Fifth Circuit Rules Against Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
Washington, DC (March 27, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance and its class-action clients in James Joseph Rodden, et al. v. Dr. Anthony Fauci, et al., praise the decision of the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to protect the fundamental rights of ...
SDNY Federal Judge Relies on NCLA’s Amicus Curiae Brief in Key Ruling Limiting Antitrust Liability
Washington, DC (March 24, 2023) – Today, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed an opinion in In re Bystolic Antitrust Litigation, dismissing a major antitrust lawsuit for failing to state a claim against eight ...
NCLA Releases Video Depositions in Social Media Censorship Suit After Judge Orders Case to Be Heard
Washington, DC (March 23, 2023) – NCLA has released six video depositions taken in its federal lawsuit, State of Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., which provide more clarity on the role that government actors, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, played in censoring ...
In NCLA Win, Federal Judge Rejects Motion to Dismiss Government-Induced Censorship Lawsuit
Washington, DC (March 20, 2023) – In a thorough and well-reasoned decision, Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has denied government defendants’ motion to dismiss in State of Missouri, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et ...
NCLA Comment Encourages Sentencing Commission to Alleviate Harms Inflicted by Judicial Deference
Washington, DC (March 14, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a Comment today partially supporting the United States Sentencing Commission’s proposed amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines. The amendments would ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Calls for Supreme Court to Review Unconstitutional FDIC ALJ Tenure Protections
Washington, DC (March 6, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court to review a case, Calcutt v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, that challenges the tenure ...
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