Docket: No. 24-40792 (5th Cir.) The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Merrick Garland, opposing the Department of Justice’s emergency motion to stay a district court’s nationwide injunction against the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). HLLI argues that the CTA is unconstitutional and that the district court’s…
HLLI filed an amicus brief with Dhillon Law Group and Young America's Foundation in support of the free speech rights of two minor students and their mother who are asking the Sixth Circuit to reverse a lower court's decision upholding their school district's ban on clothing in school with the slogan "Let's Go Brandon."
Docket number: No. 23-1340 HLLI filed an amicus brief with Pacific Legal Foundation and Manhattan Institute, in support of petitioner Waples Mobile Home Park's request that the Supreme Court grant certiorari to address the legal burden that parties must carry in cases relying on a disparate impact theory of liability under the Fair Housing Act ("FHA"). The case arose when four noncitizen families sued Waples Mobile Home Park under the FHA…
Docket number: No. 24-38 On August 12, 2024, HLLI filed a brief of amici curiae on behalf of 35 athletic officials and coaches for female athletes in support of petitioners in Little v. Hecox, who are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit enjoining an Idaho law that protecting women's sports by limiting participation to biological women. HLLI’s brief explains…
HLLI filed an amicus brief against the SEC’s unconstitutional practice of silencing American citizens and preventing the public from receiving information about the Commission’s work.
HLLI filed an amicus brief in the Eighth Circuit in Iowa v. SEC, challenging the SEC’s new regulation requiring publicly traded companies to make climate-related disclosures in securities filings.
HLLI filed an amicus brief on behalf of a graduate student worker who opposed UAW Local 4811’s apparently-unlawful strike on behalf of so-called “Palestinian Solidarity Encampments.” The union’s political demands, if successful, would make Jewish graduate student workers less safe and less able to speak freely on campus, where anti-Israel encampments have seized public spaces.
Docket number: 23-1137 (U.S.) The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed an amicus brief with the American Civil Rights Project and Manhattan Institute supporting Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp.’s petition for writ of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case challenges an admissions process used by three prestigious “exam schools” operated by Boston Public Schools that is transparently and unconstitutionally based on racial proxies, with the goal of achieving…
HLLI filed an amicus brief supporting a challenge to the Corporate Transparency Act, which violates the Fourth Amendment’s bar against unreasonable searches and seizures by requiring many businesses to submit personal information about their owners to a government database.
HLLI’s amicus brief underscores concerns about the apparent collaboration between the government and private litigants to sidestep accountability and push through policy changes that might otherwise face hurdles. This tactic, often called “sue and settle” raises constitutional and policy questions and bypasses the normal political process while allowing the executive branch to evade accountability.
