http://www.cir-usa.org/ The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments. http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#213 April 27, 2012 -- Today CIR General Counsel Michael Rosman will speak at Catholic University in Washington, DC.  He is to be one of several speakers at a conference titled "Child Abuse, Family Rights, ... 2012-04-30 10:00:29 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#212 April 23, 2012 -- Even as the Supreme Court considers whether Congress exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause when it passed the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Justice Department, ... 2012-04-23 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#211 April 19, 2012 -- CIR's spring Docket Report covers recent developments in CIR's litigation.  Featured topics include our move to discourage defections by conservative Supreme Court justices in the Obamacare battle; the ... 2012-04-19 17:23:23 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#210 April 17, 2012 -- Inevitably, the Obamacare litigation in the Supreme Court has occasioned much discussion, and no doubt much understandable confusion, on the web and elsewhere.  For the perplexed, CIR ... 2012-04-17 15:14:34 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#208 April 12, 2012 -- This January CIR fired off an amicus brief in Blessing v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. That case is a class action, and U.S. District Court Judge ... 2012-04-12 16:29:06 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#209 April 2, 2012 -- Today, in BAMN v. Brown, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed an earlier CIR victory in that Court that established the constitutionality of Proposition 209, which bans the State ... 2012-04-02 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#207 February 21, 2012-- Together with lead counsel Michael Carvin, CIR today filed a brief challenging a last ditch effort by the Department of Justice to prevent the Court of Appeals from ... 2012-02-21 16:32:59 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#206 February 21, 2012--The Supreme Court announced today that it granted the petition for certiorari filed by the plantiffs in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case which challenges the use ... 2012-02-21 14:42:32 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#205 February 14, 2012 -- The Department of Justice today filed a motion to dismiss LaRoque v. Holder, CIR's case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Right Act, on grounds that ... 2012-02-14 15:21:50 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#204 February 13, 2012 -- Together with former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, CIR filed an amicus brief in Florida v. HHS, now pending before the Supreme Court.  Today's brief was filed on behalf ... 2012-02-14 13:15:44 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#203 February 13, 2012 -- Late Friday night, the Department of Justice filed with the Court of Appeals a copy of a letter informing Kinston, North Carolina officials that it had ... 2012-02-13 10:47:32 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#202 January 30, 2012 -- Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit advising that he is going to reconsider his denial of preclearance for ... 2012-02-10 13:09:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#200 January 27, 2012 -- Today the Michigan Supreme Court, in the case In re Mays, agreed with CIR and reversed the termination of a Michigan father's parental rights.  In the trial court that ... 2012-01-31 12:31:39 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#201 January 19, 2012 The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit granted CIR's motion for expedited appeal as well as its motion to assign such appeal to the same merits ... 2012-01-19 00:00:00 http://www.cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#199 January 10, 2012 -- In early December, the Government of Guam moved to dismiss CIR's case challenging its Chamorro-only plebiscite on grounds that plaintiff Dave Davis cannot possibly have been harmed ... 2012-01-10 13:53:48