NCLA Files Suit Against Discriminatory Fulbright Rule; Govt Tracking of Boats Case Garners Support

NCLA Files Lawsuit Against Discriminatory Fulbright Rule

A complaint filed by NCLA argues the U.S. Department of Education’s application process for the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship unlawfully discriminates based on applicants’ nation of origin. NCLA represents the plaintiffs in Samar Ahmad and Edgar Ulloa Lujan v. U.S. Department of Education, et al., which asks the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to declare this process unconstitutional and not authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961. Mark and Vec discuss NCLA’s new case.

Government Tracking of Charter Boats Case Garners Strong Amicus Support

The states of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina, and two public interest organizations are among the amici curiae who have filed briefs in support of the arguments presented by NCLA in the lawsuit challenging government agencies—Commerce, NOAA, and NMFS—forcing charter boats that take customers fishing and sightseeing in the Gulf of Mexico to purchase a vessel monitoring system (VMS) and submit to 24-7 warrantless surveillance. Vec discusses the amicus briefs in support of Mexican Gulf v. Commerce in the Fifth Circuit.