Press Releases
NCLA Asks Fifth Circuit to Approve Pathway to Challenge Unlawful SEC-Imposed Lifetime Speech Ban
Washington, DC (August 16, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a brief calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to strike down SEC’s lifetime speech ban against its client, Christopher Novinger, in SEC v. Novinger and ICAN Investment ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Calls on Fifth Circuit to End FCC’s Unlawful Control over Universal Service Fund
Washington, DC (August 7, 2023) – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) administers the Universal Service Fund (USF), which provides telecommunications services to rural and impoverished areas of the United States as well as to schools, libraries, and healthcare ...
NCLA Asks Fifth Circuit to Affirm Injunction Against Government Social Media Censorship
Washington, DC (August 7, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, alongside the attorneys-general of Missouri and Louisiana, have filed a brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to affirm U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s preliminary injunction ...
NCLA Suit for Cato and Mackinac Center Contests Biden’s New Student Loan Debt Canceling Scheme
Washington, DC (August 4, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a Complaint on behalf of the Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to stop President Biden’s utter disregard for ...
Fed. Circuit Special Committee’s Actions Once Again Undermine Due Process for Hon. Pauline Newman
Washington, DC (August 4, 2023) – Today, without warning, a Special Committee of the Federal Circuit published documents from their investigation attacking highly-respected veteran circuit judge, the Hon. Pauline Newman. This surprise document drop included a 319-page ...
NCLA Appeals EPA’s Lawless Stranglehold on Refrigeration Companies Amid Dangerous Heat Wave
Washington, DC (August 4, 2023) – The Environmental Protection Agency is picking and choosing which companies are allowed to produce and sell hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—refrigeration chemicals commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators—by using power that Congress ...
NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Hear Securities Law Appeal with Major First Amendment Implications
Washington, DC (August 1, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in Lemelson, et al. v. SEC, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that poses an important First Amendment dilemma. May the SEC punish commentary about ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Second Circuit Appeals Court to Uphold Decision Limiting Antitrust Liability
Washington, DC (July 25, 2023) – In a major March victory, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the In re Bystolic antitrust lawsuit, citing a powerful argument in NCLA’s district court amicus curiae brief joined by ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, Fifth Circuit Blocks CFTC’s Abusive Policy Reversal Against PredictIt Market
Washington, DC (July 24, 2023) –The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s threatened crackdown on the PredictIt Market without clear explanation was “likely arbitrary and capricious.” The Court ordered the U.S. ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Challenges Supreme Court to Deep-Six Chevron Deference and at-Sea Monitor Rule
Washington, DC (July 24, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its destructive Chevron precedent in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. v. Gina Raimondo, et al. The brief also asks the Court ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Tenth Circuit to Overturn Intrusive Dog Kennel Inspection Regime
Washington, DC (July 18, 2023) – A Kansas state law egregiously authorizes warrantless searches of dog training and handling businesses and forces owners to be available for government inspections of their kennels at the drop of a hat or risk possible fines and losing their ...
NCLA Urges Appeals Court Not to Stay Injunction Barring Government Social Media Censorship
Washington, DC (July 18, 2023) – Federal government defendants in the case of Missouri, et al., v. Biden, et al. made a motion to stay a preliminary injunction that would prohibit specific federal agencies and White House officials from pressuring or coordinating with ...
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