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NCLA Reply Brief in Relentless Case Counters Government’s Claims on Judicial Deference to Agencies
Washington, DC (January 5, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a reply brief in Relentless Inc., et al. v. Dept. of Commerce, et al., a potential landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, calling for an end to the unconstitutional Chevron doctrine. NCLA addresses two core problems with Chevron deference that NCLA founder Philip Hamburger has emphasized for years. First,…
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NCLA Renews Ask for SEC to Amend or Revoke Gag Rule on Targets of Settled Enforcement Cases
Washington, DC (December 20, 2023) – For over five decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has violated the First Amendment by gagging every American with whom it settles a regulatory enforcement case, forbidding them from uttering even truthful criticism of their cases in public. More than five years ago, the New Civil Liberties Alliance petitioned SEC…
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In NCLA Victory, Dep’t of Transportation Scraps Illegitimate Administrative Proceeding vs. gh Package
Washington, DC (December 19, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance agreed to a stipulated dismissal of its gh Package v. Buttigieg lawsuit challenging the Department of Transportation’s unconstitutional and abusive administrative enforcement regime. NCLA’s federal-court lawsuit successfully pressured DOT to dismiss with prejudice its case against a family-run company, gh Package Product Testing and Consulting, Inc., which tests…
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NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Stop Presidential Edicts from Superseding Land Use Laws
Washington, DC (December 18, 2023) – Presidents do not have the power to dispense with statutes. Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief emphasizing that point and urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Murphy Company v. Biden. In this case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a presidential proclamation…
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NCLA Launches Lawsuit Against U.S. State Department-Funded Censorship Regime
Washington, DC (December 6, 2023) – The U.S. State Department funds the development, testing, and marketing of censorship technology used to suppress First Amendment-protected speech by conservative media outlets including The Daily Wire and The Federalist based on viewpoints expressed in their content. The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a lawsuit on behalf of these outlets in…
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NCLA Asks Court to Uphold Lawsuit Against Dep’t of Education’s Illegal Student Loan Payment Pause
Washington, DC (December 5, 2023) – The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to dismiss an NCLA lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against the Dept. of Education’s unlawful 35-month suspension of monthly student loan payment obligations. The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a response urging the U.S. District Court for the…
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