LJC In The News
Law Firm Appeals Dismissal of Challenge to City of Lincoln Gun Regulations
(KOLN)—A law firm representing a Nebraska firearms group has filed an appellate brief in the Nebraska Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning a lower court order that dismissed a case against the City of Lincoln and Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird regarding several firearm restrictions. The lawsuit, filed on Dec....
Texas Group Assisting Iowa Farmer in Challenging USDA-Related “Swampbuster” Statute
(Southeast Texas Record)—A Texas-based nonprofit group is one of two entities seeking judgment on the pleadings in their challenge to a federal law that they argue unconstitutionally takes farmers’ property without compensation. On Oct. 3, the Liberty Justice Center, along with the Pacific Legal Foundation, filed a motion for judgment...
Casper Doctor Asks Federal Court for Reinstatement to the Wyoming Board of Medicine
(Oil City News)—Casper Dr. Frederick William “Eric” Cubin III wants his old job back. In April, Gov. Mark Gordon removed him from the Wyoming Board of Medicine for his February support of a bill to regulate gender-affirming surgeries for children. On Aug. 29, Cubin sued Gordon through his attorneys in...
Liberty Justice Center Demands Kentucky School District Cease Illegal Electioneering
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) issued a formal demand letter to a Kentucky school district on Wednesday, calling for an immediate halt to its illegal use of taxpayer funds to lobby against a proposed ballot measure. The letter also alleges that the district is selectively blocking constituents on...
Attorneys Seek Injunction Forcing Governor to Restore Radiologist’s Role on State Medical Board
(Radiology Business)—Attorneys are seeking a preliminary injunction, compelling Wyoming authorities to restore a radiologist’s role on the state medical board after he was forced to resign in April. The Liberty Justice Center filed the motion on Tuesday in its ongoing lawsuit against Republican Gov. Mark Gordon. Attorneys with the nonprofit,...
Doctor’s Board Dismissal Violates First Amendment Rights, Lawsuit Says
(American Family News)—A law firm is urging a federal court in Wyoming to reinstate a doctor to a state medical board. Liberty Justice Center filed the motion for preliminary injunction Tuesday as part of its lawsuit on behalf of Dr. Eric Cubin against Gov. Mark Gordon (R-Wyoming). Cubin says he...
Casper Doctor Wants Back on Board of Medicine as Lawsuit Goes Forward
(Cowboy State Daily)—Casper radiologist Dr. Eric Cubin wants his seat back on the Wyoming Board of Medicine immediately as his lawsuit alleging Gov. Mark Gordon forced him out. In a Tuesday court filing, Cubin requests a preliminary injunction putting him back on the board while the case is being litigated....
Liberty Justice Center Files for Injunction Against Gov. Mark Gordon in Support of Ousted Wyoming Doctor
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon on behalf of Dr. Eric Cubin, a radiologist who was forced to resign from the state’s medical board after privately supporting Senate File 99, also known as “Chloe’s...
Wyoming Doctor Fired for Backing Chloe’s Law
(The Daily Signal)—Wyoming’s governor removed a doctor from the state’s board of medicine because the doctor supported a law banning “gender-affirming care” for minors. The doctor is suing, and his lawyers are filing a motion Tuesday asking the court to reinstate him on the medical board. His legal team also...
Federal Hill Fatal Shooting Highlights the Growing Role of Cameras in Law Enforcement
Is the TikTok Ban Censorship? Liberty Justice Center President Jacob Huebert on NPR
(NPR Morning Edition)—On NPR’s Morning Edition, Liberty Justice Center President Jacob Huebert discusses whether the proposed federal ban on TikTok is censorship. The Liberty Justice Center filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the ban, arguing that it violates users’ free speech rights. Learn more about the Liberty Justice Center’s lawsuit...
A Fourth Amendment for the Twenty-First Century
(Brownstone Institute)—“Twentieth-century Fourth Amendment law was really written for a world before computers,” stated Reilly Stephens, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center, in an early September interview. “It was literally written before any kind of modern computers – certainly before cell phones and all those things – and there...
LJC President Jacob Huebert Discusses Legal Challenges to TikTok Ban on Morning in America
(Morning in America)—Liberty Justice Center President Jacob Huebert discusses the lawsuits challenging the proposed federal TikTok ban in an interview on Morning in America, just a few hours before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in the combined legal challenges to the ban....
Opinion: Conservatives Who Care About Free Speech Should Hope We Beat Biden’s TikTok Ban
(The Washington Examiner)—President Joe Biden signed a law earlier this year that will effectively ban TikTok in the United States, and many conservatives applauded. They should have known better. Unless the courts stop it from taking effect, the law will produce an unprecedented infringement of people’s right to free speech,...
California Court Upholds Part of Chino Valley School District’s Parental Notification Policy
(Tampa Free Press)—The Superior Court of California ruled on Monday in the California v. Chino Valley Unified School District case, upholding a preliminary injunction that prevents the district from enforcing parts of its old parental notification policy. This policy required staff to notify parents if a student requested to use...