LJC In The News
Liberty Justice Center Sues CPSC Over Regulatory Actions Affecting Nested Bean
(Legal Newsline)—The Liberty Justice Center has initiated legal proceedings against the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), representing Nested Bean, Inc. This lawsuit addresses allegations of the CPSC’s excessive regulatory actions, particularly attributed to Commissioner Trumka, which reportedly have harmed Nested Bean’s operations and reputation. Nested Bean, established in 2011...
Nebraska Supreme Court to Decide if Gun Owners Have Standing to Challenge Lincoln Ban of Firearms on City Property
(Nebraska Public Media)—The Nebraska Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a case likely to determine if a person must violate a law before they have standing to challenge the law in court. The case stems from a lawsuit brought by gun owners against the City of Lincoln over an...
Nebraska Justices Take Aim at Standing in Challenge to City Property Gun Ban
(Courthouse News Service)—An attorney for Second Amendment advocates told the Nebraska Supreme Court on Thursday that his clients should not be required to face an armed encounter with law enforcement officers in order to challenge the city of Lincoln’s prohibition on firearms in city-owned property. But if a lower court’s...
Nebraska Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Lincoln’s Weapons Ban Challenge
(Nebraska Television Network)—The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday regarding a lawsuit filed by the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) challenging an executive order issued by Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. The order, enacted in September 2023, bans weapons on city property. Jacob Huebert, president of the LJC, said the mayor’s...
Nebraska Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Lincoln’s Firearm Restrictions
(1011 Now/KOLN)—The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday over a legal challenge to an executive order and city ordinances regulating firearms on city property in Lincoln. The lawsuit targets Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird’s executive order banning weapons in city parks, trails, and other public spaces, along with several city...
Lincoln-Area Gun Owners Tell Nebraska Supreme Court They Have Standing to Sue City
(Nebraska Examiner)—The lawyer for four Lincoln-area gun owners told the Nebraska Supreme Court during oral arguments Thursday that his clients shouldn’t need to break a Lincoln city ordinance to gain the legal standing to sue and stop a weapons ban on city property. Jacob Huebert, a Texas-based lawyer for the...
Nebraska Supreme Court Hearing Arguments in Gun Ban On City Property
(Lincoln Journal Star)—The Nebraska Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Thursday morning in a legal challenge brought against the city of Lincoln over the city’s ban on guns in public places. The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association and four gun owners — three from Lincoln and a fourth from Seward...
Why Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs are Illegal
(Reason)—Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced his gargantuan “Liberation Day” tariffs. They impose 10% tariffs on imports from almost every nation in the world (with the notable exception of Russia), plus additional “reciprocity” tariffs on some 60 additional countries, based on an utterly nonsensical formula that isn’t actually about reciprocity at...
Looking for Plaintiffs to Challenge Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs in Court
(Reason)—I have previously written about how Trump’s abusive use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) to start a massive trade war can be challenged under the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. See also this analysis by Georgetown law Prof. Jennifer Hillman. The Liberty Justice Center, a...
SEC Puts Final Nail in Climate Rule Coffin
(National Legal and Policy Center)—Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that it will not defend its controversial climate disclosure rule, thus handing a victory to the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), which was a plaintiff in a...
Police License Plate Recordings Are Not Unconstitutional Searches, Federal Judge Finds
(CWB Chicago)—A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two Cook County residents who claimed that a network of license plate readers operated by the state amounts to the unlawful search of motorists. Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, are widely used by government and private entities to record the...
Illinois Automated License Plate Reader Camera Scans Aren’t Unconstitutional Searches, Judge Says
(Cook County Record)—A federal judge has curbed, for now, a class action lawsuit that seeks to put an end to the widespread and growing use by police in Illinois of automated license plate reader systems to combat crime, which the plaintiffs say amounts to unconstitutional high tech “dragnet surveillance” against...
Federal Judge in Iowa Swampbuster Case Questions if Dispute is Just a Miscommunication
(Des Moines Register)—A federal judge has heard oral arguments in a case that could overturn a decades-old statute tying wetland conservation to federal farm benefit eligibility. The plaintiff CTM Holdings, which owns and rents land to Iowa farmers, sued over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “swampbuster” law, alleging its implementation...
Nebraska Supreme Court To Hear Challenge Against Lincoln’s Gun Ban Amid “Constitutional Carry” Clash
(Tampa Free Press)—The Nebraska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Thursday in a high-profile legal battle over gun rights, as the Liberty Justice Center challenges Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird’s executive order banning firearms on city property, including public parks and trails. The case pits local authority against newly established...
Wyoming Doctor Appeals After Being Fired From Board For Opposing Child Gender Transitions
(Read Lion)—A Wyoming doctor forced off the state’s medical board after supporting a ban on gender transition procedures is continuing to fight his way through the courts – filing a federal appeal last week. Dr. Eric Cubin, a Wyoming radiologist, was reportedly forced to resign from the Wyoming Board of...