Press Releases
Mackinac Center Asks Federal Court to Immediately Halt ED’s Unlawful Student Loan Payment Pause
Washington, DC (May 11, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Mackinac Center for Public Policy v. U.S. Department of Education, Miguel Cardona, and Richard Cordray. The Motion ...
NCLA Clients Vindicated as Biden Ends Covid Vaccine Mandates that Federal Courts Already Enjoined
Washington, DC (May 11, 2023) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is officially ending the disgraceful Covid-19 vaccine mandates it never should have implemented for federal employees and federal contractors. These unlawful mandates, which were ordered without a vote ...
Safety Advocates and Hobby Industry Groups Challenge CPSC’s Unlawful, Irrational Magnet Ban
Washington, DC (April 27, 2023) – The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a draconian new “magnet safety standard” for non-toy products, which broadly bans high-powered hobby magnets for adults. CPSC relied on flawed studies and failed, contrary to the ...
NCLA Challenges SEC’s ‘Hotel California’ Administrative Adjudication Regime
Washington, DC (April 24, 2023) – Since 2014, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been inspecting, investigating, and prosecuting Marian Young and her former investment business Saving2Retire, LLC, with no end in sight. SEC’s adjudication regime has ...
Renowned Federal Judge Retains NCLA to Oppose CAFC Chief Judge’s Unlawful Efforts to Oust Her
Washington, DC (April 21, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil liberties group, has written to Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit expressing concern with her efforts to remove fellow U.S. ...
NCLA Comment Warns Against FTC’s Novel Assertion of Power in Proposed Non-Compete Rule
Washington, DC (April 19, 2023) – The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed “Non-Compete Clause Rule” would ban the use of non-compete clauses as “an unfair method of competition.” The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a ...
Victory! U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Federal District Courts Have Jurisdiction to Hear Challenges to Unconstitutional Aspects of Federal Agencies’ Administrative Proceedings
Washington, DC (April 14, 2023) – In an historic ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning held that Texas Accountant Michelle Cochran has the right to challenge the constitutionality of her Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) removal protections in federal court before ...
Watch: The Punishment Is the Process – Administrative Law Judge Proceedings Are Unconstitutional
Washington, DC (April 14, 2023) – Michelle Cochran’s daughters were little girls when she decided to start the seven-year uphill journey against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to clear her name. The targets of SEC’s administrative enforcement proceedings do ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Blasts FDIC for Depriving Ex-CEO of Jury Trial Rights in Enforcement Action
Washington, DC (April 10, 2023) - The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in Burgess v. FDIC, et al. Friday evening. NCLA urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to redress the Federal Deposit ...
NCLA and Mackinac Center Challenge Unlawful Extensions of Federal Student Loan Deferments
Washington, DC (April 6, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a lawsuit to stop the U.S. Department of Education’s unlawful pause on student loan payments. The lawsuit, Mackinac Center for Public Policy v. U.S. ...
NCLA Challenges IG Committee’s Structure and Illegal Interference with Inspector General Operations
Washington, DC (April 4, 2023) – For three years, Joseph V. Cuffari, a Presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed Inspector General (IG) has been endlessly harassed and had his office’s resources drained by a series of baseless inquiries headed by the Council of the ...
Federal Judge Grants Injunction to NCLA Client, Vacates Dept. of Ed.’s Discriminatory Fulbright Rule
Washington, DC (March 27, 2023) – Judge David C. Guaderrama of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has granted Plaintiff Veronica Gonzalez’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s discriminatory ...
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