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Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media
Washington, DC (July 5, 2023) – Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting several federal agencies and specific White House officials from pressuring or coordinating with social media companies to suppress constitutionally-protected speech. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit…
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NCLA Notches Supreme Court Amicus Win Against Biden's Student Loan Debt Handout
Washington, DC (June 30, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance applauds today’s Supreme Court decision blocking the Biden Administration’s plan to cancel nearly a half-trillion dollars in outstanding student loans owed to the U.S. Treasury. As NCLA urged in an amicus curiae brief it filed in the case of Biden v. Nebraska, the court…
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NCLA Asks U.S. District Court to Stop Unconstitutional Suspension of Circuit Judge Pauline Newman
Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) — Chief Judge Kimberly Moore and the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have indefinitely suspended highly-respected veteran Judge Pauline Newman from hearing new cases—and they did so before investigating her. The 1980 Judicial Conduct and Disability Act does not authorize such indefinite or…
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NCLA Suit Aims to Take Down Unconstitutional Enforcement Regime at the U.S. Dep’t of Transportation
Washington, DC (June 28, 2023) – The Department of Transportation (DOT) is flexing its muscles against a small, family-owned and operated company, ignoring the federal law that only allows civil penalties when a company “knowingly violates” a regulation. So, the New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the…
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NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Rein in SEC Practice of Seeking Penalties in Excess of Statutory Caps
Washington, DC (June 26, 2023) – Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) penalties have exploded in size in recent years, in large part because the agency ignores statutory penalty caps Congress set in 1990. SEC civil penalties have become wildly inconsistent and unpredictable from case to case, depriving regulated parties of any semblance of fair notice…
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NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Reverse Second Circuit, Hold CFPB’s Funding Method Unconstitutional
Washington, DC (June 22, 2023) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an outlier agency, and the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its illegitimate funding method, the New Civil Liberties Alliance argues in a petition for a writ of certiorari filed in the case of Law Offices of Crystal Moroney v. CFPB. In October,…
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