{"id":52465,"date":"2026-11-09T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allonlinebanglanewspapers.com\/news\/ncla-to-scotus-restore-court-hearings-in-regulatory-cases-toss-public-rights-exception\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T19:40:21","slug":"ncla-to-scotus-restore-court-hearings-in-regulatory-cases-toss-public-rights-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allonlinebanglanewspapers.com\/news\/ncla-to-scotus-restore-court-hearings-in-regulatory-cases-toss-public-rights-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"NCLA to SCOTUS: Restore Court Hearings in Regulatory Cases, Toss \u201cPublic Rights\u201d Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, DC, Nov. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae <\/i>brief<\/a> today in Sligo Creek Center v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> <\/i>at the U.S. Supreme Court. NCLA asks the Justices to find that Congress unconstitutionally gave HHS judicial power to adjudicate Medicare and Medicaid regulatory enforcement cases against Americans and their businesses. The Supreme Court should rule that regulatory enforcement targets must have their cases heard in an Article III court, and overturn its 1977 Atlas Roofing v. OSHRC <\/i>decision\u2019s application of the fatally flawed \u201cpublic rights\u201d exception to this vital constitutional principle.<\/p>\n

Article III of the Constitution vests judicial power exclusively in Article III courts. Congress does not possess judicial power, so it cannot relocate or \u201cdelegate\u201d that power to HHS or anywhere else outside of the Judicial Branch. The Supreme Court held in Atlas Roofing<\/i> that Congress did not violate Americans\u2019 Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in an Article III court by giving an agency the power to adjudicate cases involving \u201cpublic rights,\u201d including punitive law-enforcement proceedings supposedly prosecuted in the public interest. That much-criticized holding is just wrong\u2014and should be overturned. In the decades since, the Court has not even explained what a \u201cpublic right\u201d is, nor could it. The government does not have \u201crights\u201d when it interacts with people, only powers<\/i> given to it by the Constitution.<\/p>\n

In its 2024 SEC v. Jarkesy<\/i><\/a> decision, which NCLA supported, the Court held that the \u201cpublic rights\u201d exception to Article III court jurisdiction \u201chas no textual basis in the Constitution.\u201d NCLA asks the Court to dispense with the \u201cpublic rights\u201d exception and affirm that judicial power is exclusively assigned by our founding document to courts, not prosecutors.<\/p>\n

NCLA released the following statements: <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe founders recognized that the combination of prosecutorial and judicial powers in a single agency is the very definition of tyranny. It is long past time to restore judicial power exclusively to the courts to protect both the civil liberties of Americans and the fair, equal and impartial administration of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peggy Little, Senior Litigation Counsel, NCLA<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cMost people understand that one should not give away something that belongs to another. But in this regime, the legislature<\/i> has chosen to grant judicial<\/i> power to HHS, an executive<\/i> agency. The Supreme Court should grant cert and make clear that Congress has no business delegating power that is not its own.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Caitlin M. Moyna, Senior Litigation Counsel, NCLA<\/b><\/p>\n

For more information visit the amicus<\/i> page <\/b>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT NCLA<\/b><\/p>\n

NCLA<\/a> is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group founded by prominent legal scholar\u00a0Philip Hamburger<\/a> to protect constitutional freedoms from violations by the Administrative State. NCLA\u2019s public-interest litigation and other pro bono advocacy strive to tame the unlawful power of state and federal agencies and to foster a new civil liberties movement that will help restore Americans\u2019 fundamental rights. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC, Nov. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief today in Sligo Creek Center v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the U.S. Supreme Court. NCLA asks the Justices to find that Congress unconstitutionally gave HHS judicial power to adjudicate Medicare and Medicaid regulatory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/c3814bc6-7104-4128-8c7a-8b95c416e9f6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-globenewswire"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t