LJC In The News
U.S. Supreme Court Gives Miners, Farmers New Shot at Overturning Regulations
(Reuters)—Challengers to federal rules covering a range of industries including mining and farming got a fresh shot on Tuesday at rolling back regulations as the U.S. Supreme Court applied a new standard for reviewing the power of federal agencies. Nine lower-court rulings were vacated by the Supreme Court and sent...
Judge Combines TikTok Lawsuits, Opening Legal Brief Filed
(The Sacramento Bee)—The conservative Liberty Justice Center this week fired its opening salvo in the legal battle to save the social media platform TikTok, which Congress voted to ban unless the Chinese-owned app is sold. The Liberty Justice Center filed its opening brief in the case on June 28, arguing...
TikTok Ban Faces First Amendment Challenge: Legal Briefs Filed, Court Date Set
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) is suing the federal government over the TikTok ban, claiming that it violates free speech rights. Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Content Creators: On June 6th, the LJC filed suit challenging the ban on behalf of “BASED Politics,” a group using TikTok to...
Liberty Justice Center Challenges SEC’s “Gag Rule” in First Amendment Fight
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center is taking aim at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) controversial “gag rule” in a recent amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The rule, implemented in 1972, compels individuals who settle enforcement cases with the SEC to...
Liberty Justice Center on Automatic License Plate Readers Lawsuit: “The Fourth Amendment Was Written Long Before We Had the Technology to Track Peoples’ Movements”
(Cook County Record)—A public interest law firm is suing Illinois law enforcement officials for monitoring the movements of Illinoisans with automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The Liberty Justice Center (LJC), through two Cook County plaintiffs, is arguing that the monitoring, which began in Cook County and is now expanding statewide,...
Liberty Justice Center Urges Court to Uphold a California School District’s Revised Parental Notification Policy
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center, representing the Chino Valley Unified School District, has filed a motion for summary judgment, urging the Superior Court of California to issue a final ruling upholding the District’s revised parental notification policy. The case, California v. Chino Valley Unified School District, began in August...
Will Student Privacy or Parental Rights Prevail?
(American Family News)—An attorney says California lawmakers want to sow distrust in parents with a bill that would bar school employees from notifying them if their child wants to go by a new pronoun at school. Emily Rae of Liberty Justice Center, a law firm defending Chino Valley Unified School...
Opinion: Minnesota State University System Supports Group that Lobbies Government to Bail out Students
(St. Cloud Times)—It’s harder than it used to be to get through college without taking out loans. But I did it. When I was in 11th and 12th grade, I took classes at St. Cloud State University through a Minnesota program that allows high-school students to earn college credit tuition-free....
North Carolina Mom Sues Woke School District
(Sara Gonzales Unfiltered)—In an interview on Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, North Carolina mom Leah McGhee and the Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discuss the latest developments in a lawsuit defending Leah’s son Christian, who was wrongfully branded a racist and given a three-day out of school suspension—just for...
Appeals Court to Hear Challenges to Potential US TikTok Ban on September 16
(Reuters)—A U.S. appeals court on Monday said it will hold oral arguments on Sept. 16 on legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. On May 14, a group of TikTok creators filed suit to block the...
License Plate Cameras Help Solve Crimes, But Are Creating a Backlash over Privacy Concerns
(The Chicago Tribune)—In 2022, a teenager accused of fatally shooting a young mother in the back of the head in Morris was caught driving a stolen car with the help of a license plate camera. That same year, a man wanted for a slaying in Maywood was arrested in Northbrook...
Illinois License Plate Cameras Are Violating People’s Constitutional Rights, Says New Suit
(Reason)—Can state police track drivers everywhere they go via hundreds of license plate cameras? A new lawsuit says that Illinois’ widespread use of such cameras—called automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)—violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches because it breaches citizens’ reasonable expectations of privacy. The complaint—filed by two residents...
Latest in Case Defending Student Suspended for Saying “Illegal Alien”
(Lou Dobbs Tonight)—The Liberty Justice Center’s Educational Freedom Attorney Dean McGee discusses the latest developments in a federal lawsuit defending Christian McGhee, a North Carolina student who was suspended for asking a question containing the phrase “illegal alien.” The Liberty Justice Center recently filed a preliminary injunction urging the court...
Opinion: I’m Suing the Biden Administration to Save Gen Z’s Free Speech
(Newsweek)—TikTok is not just cat videos, cringe-worthy dancing, and bad lip-syncing. Millions of Gen Z Americans like myself use TikTok to express ourselves, share news, and debate our ideas. Yet the federal government is trying to take this unique communication platform away from us. In April, President Joe Biden signed...
Ban TikTok? Not So Fast, Lawsuit from Conservative Group Says
(The Sacramento Bee)—The clock is ticking for TikTok, the social media video-sharing app from Beijing-based ByteDance. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law, signed by President Joe Biden, forcing ByteDance to either sell the app or shut it down. Such a measure was bound to draw legal challenges. TikTok has...