Press Releases
NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Appeals Court to Topple FINRA’s Illegal ‘Private’ Enforcement Regime
Washington, DC (September 5, 2023) – The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) investigates, prosecutes, and punishes hundreds of securities firms and brokers every year for alleged violations of federal securities laws and rules, despite operating outside the ...
NCLA Asks Federal Court to Halt Illegitimate U.S. Dep’t of Transportation Administrative Proceeding
Washington, DC (August 28, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in gh Package Product Testing and Consulting, Inc. v. Buttigieg to preliminarily enjoin an abusive Department of Transportation (DOT) ...
NCLA Decries Govt Effort to Moot Suit Against Biden’s Illegal Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate
Washington, DC (August 23, 2023) – Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a brief opposing the government’s motion to dismiss NCLA’s Vanderstelt v. Biden lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s unconstitutional Covid-19 vaccine mandate for government contractors. ...
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. ...
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