The Center for Individual Rights

Time 2020-07-02 07:05:13

Web Name: The Center for Individual Rights

WebSite: http://www.cir-usa.org

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CIR is starting off the decade with two major new cases!  In California, CIR is fighting a gag-law that prohibits public employers from criticizing unions.  At the federal level, CIR is challenging a race-based set-aside law for government contracts.You can read all about CIR’s latest work in the newest issue of the Docket Report. Read More May 19, 2020 You want me to intervene? On May 7, the US District Court for the Central District of California granted five unions motion to intervene as defendants in Barke v. Banks.  Earlier this year, CIR sued members of California s Public Employment Relations Board to declare unconstitutional and stop the enforcement of Section 3550, which prohibits public employers from criticizing public employee unions, in violation of their First Amendment right to free speech.  On March 24, five ... Read More June 25, 2020 Terms of Ensnarement In Barke v. Banks, CIR is challenging California law Section 3550, which directly prohibits public employers from criticizing government unions.  But legislatures around the country are silencing union criticism in other ways—namely by mandating labor peace agreements.  An LPA is a contract that an employer signs with a union before the union begins to organize.  The union agrees not to disrupt business—through strikes, picketing, boycotts, etc.—and the employer helps facilitate ... Read More May 05, 2020 Dave Davis Wins the Day The Supreme Court has denied Guam’s petition for certiorari, in Davis v. Guam, bringing a successful close to CIR’s nine-year fight to overturn the territory’s racially restrictive plebiscite law.  With this order, CIR’s recent Ninth Circuit victory will stand in its entirety, and Guam will not be allowed to conduct a vote that discriminates on the basis of race.In July, lead counsel Gibson Dunn s Luke Townsend won a major victory ... Read More March 05, 2020 CIR Files Suit Challenging Racial Set-Aside Law The Center for Individual Rights has filed suit challenging a racial set-aside program for federal government contracts.  Section 8(a) allows the Small Business Administration to set aside contracts for companies owned by “socially and economically disadvantaged” individuals.  The SBA presumes that companies owned by members of certain racial and ethnic groups qualify as socially disadvantaged. CIR represents Ultima Services, Corp., a company owned by business woman and entrepreneur, Celeste Bennett.  Ultima ... Read More July 11, 2019 CIR Files for Summary Judgment in Free Speech Case On July 11, CIR filed a motion for partial summary judgment on behalf of New York civil servant Salvatore Davi.  After months of discovery, including depositions of numerous New York officials and review of thousands of documents, the record demonstrates that Davi was engaged in a private, after-hours discussion on Facebook in which he never mentioned his job and which concerned a significant issue of public policy: the appropriate goal ... Read More December 18, 2019 Background: CIR s Victory in Guam Guam is an American territory in the western Pacific Ocean. The small island was ceded to the U.S. in 1898, at the close of the Spanish-American War. Since that time, it has become a home to nearly 170,000 people of various ethnic and national back-grounds.In recent years, left-wing historians have tried to build a narrative that would tarnish America’s reputation in Guam. The story goes that in the seventeenth century, ... Read More Washington Examiner (Op-Ed) California public officials are being silenced by gag law Nothing is more fundamental to representative democracy than the unfettered ability of elected officials to speak candidly with their constituents The Orange County Register Conservatives sue over state law that limits public employers’ anti-union talk Saying their free speech rights are being trampled, seven local leaders from cities in Southern California are challenging a state law that prohibits them from The Center for Individual Rights is a nonprofit public interest law firm that defends individual rights, with particular emphasis on civil rights and free speech. CIR provides free legal representation to deserving clients whose individual rights are threatened.

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