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NCLA Sues University of Tennessee for Stifling Social Science Ph.D. Candidate’s Free Speech

Washington, DC (June 2, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint today against the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and its Institutional Review Board for preventing cultural anthropology Ph.D. student Idil Issak from conducting research for her dissertation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Representing Ms. Issak, NCLA asks the U.S. District Court for the…
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NCLA Asks D.C. District Court to Retain Case, Because Trade Court Lacks Jurisdiction over Tariff Suit

Washington, DC (May 9, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed an amicus curiae brief opposing the government’s motion to transfer Learning Resources v. Trump from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (D.D.C.) to the U.S. Court of International Trade (C.I.T.). Like NCLA’s lawsuit in Florida, this suit challenges President Trump’s…
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NCLA Opposes Transfer of Expanded Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Unlawful Tariffs

Washington, DC (May 5, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an Amended Complaint today adding several Plaintiffs to the Simplified v. Trump, et al. lawsuit against President Trump’s attempt to rely on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs on imports from all U.S. trading partners. The Amended Complaint challenges the…
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Sec’y of State Marco Rubio Admits State Dept. Part of Censorship Industrial Complex, as NCLA Alleged

Washington, DC (April 17, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced in an op-ed published in The Federalist that the State Department was complicit in censoring American citizens. In an effort to prevent that despicable conduct from recurring under his watch, Secretary Rubio is completely abolishing the Global Engagement Center (GEC). While…
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NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Decide District Courts Cannot Reinstate Fired Executive Branch Officials

Washington, DC (April 14, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to stay district court injunctions purporting to reinstate National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Gwynne Wilcox and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Chair Cathy Harris after President Donald Trump fired them. The President has…
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NCLA Seeks to Reinstate Professor Terminated for Refusing Gov. Walz’s Illegal Covid Vaccine Mandate

Washington, DC (April 10, 2025) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint challenging the unlawful firing of tenured Lake Superior College (LSC) ethics and philosophy Professor Russell Stewart. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and LSC forced Prof. Stewart, who had worked at the college for 30 years, to choose between losing his job or…
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