NCLA Amicus Brief Asks Fifth Circuit to Overturn Currency Comptroller's Violation of Jury Trial Rights

Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to hear Ortega & Rogers v. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). NCLA asks the Fifth Circuit to overturn an OCC decision punishing former Texas bank officers Saul Ortega and David Rogers, Jr. without a jury trial, which violates the Seventh Amendment. OCC closed the bank where Ortega and Rogers worked in 2013, and four year ...