Press Releases
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in NCLA’s Relentless Case Seeking to Overturn Chevron Deference
Washington, DC (January 17, 2024) – Today, Latham & Watkins partner Roman Martinez presented oral argument to the Supreme Court in Relentless Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce, calling for an end to the unconstitutional Chevron doctrine. The lawsuit, argued in tandem with Loper ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Apply Proper First Amendment Standard in NRA Case
Washington, DC (January 16, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief in NRA v. Vullo, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to determine that New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Maria Vullo abridged the National Rifle ...
In NCLA Amicus Win, Supreme Court Will Hear Case Against NLRB’s Odd Prelim Injunction Standard
Washington, DC (January 12, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court took NCLA’s advice and agreed to hear Starbucks’s case against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for depriving the company of property without due process of law via an administrative enforcement ...
NCLA Reply Brief in Relentless Case Counters Government’s Claims on Judicial Deference to Agencies
Washington, DC (January 5, 2024) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a reply brief in Relentless Inc., et al. v. Dept. of Commerce, et al., a potential landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, calling for an end to the unconstitutional Chevron doctrine. NCLA ...
NCLA Renews Ask for SEC to Amend or Revoke Gag Rule on Targets of Settled Enforcement Cases
Washington, DC (December 20, 2023) – For over five decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has violated the First Amendment by gagging every American with whom it settles a regulatory enforcement case, forbidding them from uttering even truthful criticism of their ...
In NCLA Victory, Dep’t of Transportation Scraps Illegitimate Administrative Proceeding vs. gh Package
Washington, DC (December 19, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance agreed to a stipulated dismissal of its gh Package v. Buttigieg lawsuit challenging the Department of Transportation’s unconstitutional and abusive administrative enforcement regime. NCLA’s ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Supreme Court to Stop Presidential Edicts from Superseding Land Use Laws
Washington, DC (December 18, 2023) – Presidents do not have the power to dispense with statutes. Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief emphasizing that point and urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Murphy Company v. Biden. In ...
NCLA Launches Lawsuit Against U.S. State Department-Funded Censorship Regime
Washington, DC (December 6, 2023) – The U.S. State Department funds the development, testing, and marketing of censorship technology used to suppress First Amendment-protected speech by conservative media outlets including The Daily Wire and The Federalist based on ...
NCLA Asks Court to Uphold Lawsuit Against Dep’t of Education’s Illegal Student Loan Payment Pause
Washington, DC (December 5, 2023) – The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to dismiss an NCLA lawsuit on behalf of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against the Dept. of Education’s unlawful 35-month suspension of monthly student loan payment obligations. The New ...
NCLA Amicus Brief Encourages Supreme Court to Hear Case Against FCC’s Universal Service Fund
Washington, DC (November 30, 2023) – Every year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collects billions of dollars from telecommunications customers—anyone with a telephone—to fund “universal service.” The program subsidizes high-cost areas and certain educational and ...
NCLA Triumph in Unlawful Charter Boat Surveillance Rule Case Leads Gov’t to Pay Attorneys’ Fees
Washington, DC (November 29, 2023) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance has agreed to dismiss its motion for fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act in Mexican Gulf Fishing Company v. U.S. Department of Commerce. In lieu of a court judgment on the pending motion, the U.S. ...
NCLA Asks en Banc Fifth Circuit to Overturn Nasdaq Board Diversity Rules as Unauthorized by Statute
Washington, DC (November 27, 2023) – The Securities and Exchange Commission-approved “Board Diversity Rules” impose race, gender and sexual orientation-based quotas on the corporate boards of companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, the New Civil Liberties ...
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