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Justice Thomas Repudiates Brand X Decision He Authored, but High Court Denies Cert

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2020 – Howard and Karen Baldwin got their day in court—and won—but then the Brand X doctrine took it all away. The New Civil Liberties Alliance commends Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for dissenting from the Court’s denial of a writ of certiorari this morning sought by NCLA’s clients in their case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).…
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NCLA Amicus Brief Supporting Cert Petition Criticizes CFTC’s Enforcement Power Grab

Washington, DC (February 20, 2020) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights organization, has filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners’ request for a Writ of Certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court in Monex Deposit Company, et al. v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In this case, CFTC is testing the furthest reaches of…
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WY Federal District Judge Confirms USDA Cannot Impose RFID on Livestock Producers, NCLA Files New Motion to Keep the Agencies Accountable

Washington, DC (February 19, 2020) – A court order issued late last week by Nancy D. Freudenthal, U.S. District Judge for the District of Wyoming, dismissed the case of R-CALF et al. v. USDA et al. as moot because the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) withdrew the offending guidance “Factsheet”…
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NCLA Asks Eleventh Circuit to Rehear Case that Consigns SEC Defendants to Repeated Proceedings Before Unconstitutional ALJs

Washington, DC (February 14, 2020) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public-interest litigation group, filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the case of Christopher M. Gibson v. SEC.  Mr. Gibson’s case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is disturbingly similar to scores…
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NCLA Rejects USDAs Attempt to Moot Its Lawsuit Against Proposed RFID Mandate

WASHINGTON, DC —(February 6, 2020)-The New Civil Liberties Alliance replied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) motion to dismiss NCLA’s lawsuit over unlawful an guidance those agencies published mandating the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The agencies claim that NCLA’s lawsuit on behalf of R-CALF USA…
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NCLA Challenges Woefully Inadequate Probable-Cause Standard in Arizona Child Safety Case

Washington, DC – The New Civil Liberties Alliance is asking the state Superior Court of Maricopa County to reverse an unjust decision by the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) that overturned an independent administrative law judge’s (ALJ) ruling and wrongfully placed an innocent man on the Arizona Central Registry of child abusers for 25…
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