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NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Repair (or Abolish) Fatally-Flawed Qualified Immunity Doctrine
Washington, DC (September 6, 2024) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Desiree Martinez v. Channon High. NCLA urges the Justices to reexamine the modern qualified immunity doctrine and abolish the atextual, ahistorical standard for qualified immunity that requires violations of the law to…
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NCLA Asks Third Circuit to Eliminate Unlawful DOT Penalty After Landmark Jarkesy Ruling
Washington, DC (September 5, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in Axalta Coating Systems v. Department of Transportation asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to vacate an illegal civil penalty order issued by an agency official in a juryless proceeding. The Supreme Court’s June…
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NCLA Asks D.C. Circuit to Scrub NOAA’s at-Sea Monitor Rule After Toppling Chevron Deference
Washington, DC (September 5, 2024) – On behalf of its clients Relentless Inc., Huntress Inc. and SeaFreeze Fleet LLC, the New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Alongside NCLA’s Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce lawsuit, this…
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NCLA Suit Demands NIH Change PubMed Name-Change Policy that Harms Women Authors in Science
Washington, DC (August 28, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Reyngold v. NIH, aimed at forcing the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine to allow all versions of scientific researchers’ names to appear in…
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Powerful Amici Briefs Endorse NCLA Suit Against SEC’s Unauthorized and Illegal Mass Data Dragnet
Washington, DC (August 26, 2024) – Nineteen states, current and former government officials, research organizations, advocacy groups, and litigators have filed seven forceful amici curiae briefs in support of NCLA’s lawsuit seeking to block the Securities and Exchange Commission’s unlawful “Consolidated Audit Trail”—or “CAT”—program. The CAT is the largest government-mandated mass collection of personal financial…
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NCLA Fights SEC’s Unconstitutional “Rubber-Stamp” Follow-on Enforcement Proceedings
Washington, DC (August 21, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Securities and Exchange Commission’s illegitimate “follow-on” enforcement proceeding against Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson, an ordained Greek Orthodox priest and activist investor. A Massachusetts federal jury in 2021 rejected nearly…
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