Press Releases
Watch: NCLA Video Explains Why U.S. Supreme Court Must Resolve Chevron Deference Discord
Washington, DC (October 14, 2021) – A recent petition for a writ of certiorari filed in August in the U.S. Supreme Court by the New Civil Liberties Alliance calls upon the highest court in the land to address the discord in lower courts regarding the application ...
NCLA Challenges SEC’s Power to Authorize Nasdaq’s Board of Directors Diversity Rules
Washington, DC (October 5, 2021) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is receiving pushback over its recent approval of Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rules, which require all companies listed on the exchange to not only publicly disclose board diversity statistics ...
Sovereignty Is Not for Sale: NCLA Challenges Congress’ Seizure of States’ Taxing Authority
Washington, DC (October 4, 2021) – The “Tax Cut Ban” provision within the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) upends the structure of American Constitutionalism as we know it. Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, Arizona Supreme Court Rejects Agency Deference in Ratemaking Lawsuit
Washington, DC (October 1, 2021) – Today, a unanimous Supreme Court of the State of Arizona ruled that the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is “not entitled to ‘extreme deference’ in its utility ratemaking determinations.” The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a ...
CDC Seeks to Prevent Ruling on Merits of the Eviction Moratorium, NCLA Opposes Motion to Dismiss
Washington, DC (September 28, 2021) – For nearly a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed an unlawful nationwide eviction moratorium on the nation’s home providers. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, ...
Second Circuit Decision in SEC Gag Rule Case Fails to Address Unconstitutionality of Lifetime Gags
Washington, DC (September 27, 2021) – Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly denied the motion for relief from judgment in the case of former Xerox Chief Financial Officer Barry Romeril. Mr. Romeril had argued that a ...
Chevron Deference Should Be Abandoned Says NCLA in Hospital Reimbursement Lawsuit Amicus Brief
Washington, DC (September 10, 2021) – A case on the Supreme Court’s docket for its 2021-22 term could spell the beginning of the end of Chevron deference. In an amicus brief filed today in American Hospital Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, et al., the New Civil ...
Twenty States Among Amici Curiae Supporting NCLA’s Chevron Deference Cert. Petition at SCOTUS
Washington, DC (September 7, 2021) – Twenty states, fifteen organizations across the political spectrum, and six private citizens have filed amici curiae briefs in support of the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s petition for a writ of certiorari in Aposhian v. Garland, et al. ...
Something Is Fishy in the Gulf: NOAA Forces Charter Boat Captains to Install ‘Anchor Bracelets’
Washington, DC (September 3, 2021) – A video released today by the New Civil Liberties Alliance dives into a lawsuit brought by charter boat captains, including Allen Walburn, who has been chartering deep-sea fishing vessels in Naples, FL, for the past 42 years. Captain ...
NCLA Files for Summary Judgment in Class-Action Lawsuit Against CDC’s Eviction Moratorium
Washington, DC (August 31, 2021) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has moved for summary judgment in Mossman v. CDC, the class-action lawsuit challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction ...
NCLA Represents COVID-19 Survivors in Class-Action Lawsuit Against Mich. State U. Vaccine Mandate
Washington, DC (August 27, 2021) – Jeanna Norris is a supervisory Administrative Associate and Fiscal Officer at Michigan State University (MSU). She has naturally-acquired immunity to COVID-19 after recovering from the virus late last year. However, the university has ...
US Supreme Ct Validates NCLA Argument that CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Lacks Statutory Authority
Washington, DC (August 27, 2021) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance represented the very first plaintiffs to file a complaint against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the agency’s nationwide eviction moratorium. In the Brown v. CDC lawsuit, ...
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