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Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last week, PLF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the appellant in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit corporation that specializes in political documentaries with a right-of-center perspective, produced Hillary: The Movie, a feature-length movie, DVD ...

Author: Joshua Thompson I highly recommend this LA Times opinion piece from Sunday.  The author recounts a sad episode in 1941 when her father, the lone African-American on Harvard's lacrosse team, was prohibited from playing in a match against the Naval Academy.  Harvard sent her father home, and played the game with their wh ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff Temple of Mut has a good post on the deficiencies in toxic air pollutant regulations put out by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), in conjunction with its Scientific Review Panel (SRP).  Specifically, the post takes aim at the faulty scientific foundations for CARB's landmark 1998 designation of dies ...

PLF attorney Damien M. Schiff will be appearing on Libertarian Counterpoint tonight, 8/6, at 8:00 PM and again next Thursday, 8/13, at 8:00 PM. On the 8/13 show he will be discussing the Delta smelt case.  These shows stream live at www.accesssacramento.org, click on channel 17.  Replays are at noon on 8/7 and 8/14 and … ...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a commonsense decision that the firing of lead bullets over dry land does not violate the Clean Water Act prohibition on the discharge of a pollutant into waters of the United States. … ...

Author:    Damien M. Schiff Last week in Simsbury-Avon Preservation Society v. Metacon Gun Club, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a commonsense decision that the firing of lead bullets over dry land does not violate the Clean Water Act prohibition on the discharge of a pollutant into waters of the United States.  In the case, local ...

Author: Joshua Thompson The President of the one-and-only State Bar of California, the agency that tells me I can practice law in California, recently wrote this "article."  The piece revolves around the nomination of Judge Sotomayor.  The article starts fine, saying, "intelligence, practicality, knowledge of the law and ...

Author: Joshua Thompson Leslie Eastman has a two-part series (Part 1, Part 2) on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that is worth a read.  Part 1 discusses how CARB regulations, recently enacted diesel regulations in particular, hurt California business.  Part 2 is centered on how CARB regulations fail to addres ...

Author:    Damien M. Schiff Last week, PLF's attorneys filed suit in federal court in Mississippi challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's veto, under the Clean Water Act, of a vitally important flood control project in the Mississippi South Delta.  The case is captioned Board of Mississippi Levee Comm ...