Author: Brandon Middleton Today's Wall Street Journal has a great op-ed on how Endangered Species Act restrictions have led to devasation through California's San Joaquin Valley. Definitely worth a read, especially since it mentions our "God Squad" effort and delta smelt Commerce Clause challenge! … ...
Author: Brandon Middleton For those in the DC area, it looks like AEI is hosting what is sure to be an interesting conference on the Endangered Species Act. Here is a description of the event: The Endangered Species Act (ESA), enacted in 1973 with the aim of conserving and protecting species of flora and fauna … ...
FREEDOM QUOTES QUIZ Choose who SAID these eloquent words with the powerful theme:NO to Big Government! 1. “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” A. Calvin Coolidge B. ...
Author: Brandon Middleton Last week Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke submitted this letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in response to the Governor's request that the Obama administration engage in reconsultation over two Endangered Species Act biological opinions. The Secretaries denied the ...
Author: Damien M. Schiff On Tuesday, Judge Donald Molloy of the District of Montana, in Defenders of Wildlife v. Salazar, denied a prelimary injunction motion filed by several environmental groups seeking to stop gray wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana. Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the Northern Rockies gr ...
Author: Damien M. Schiff Last month, PLF filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners, to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's unwarranted veto of a desperately needed flood control project in the lower Mississippi Delta. The latest Impact Newsletter from the Board has an excellent article detailin ...
Attention 3Ls! Apply now for a post-grad litigation Fellowship with PLF at our Sacramento headquarters, starting in September, 2010. Applications are due at the end of this month, so don't delay! … ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur This is very late, I'm sorry to say, but here is a video of remarks by PLF client Adam Sweet and myself at a luncheon that PLF and the Cascade Policy Institute sponsored in honor of Milton Friedman a few months ago. Adam, you'll remember, succeeded in overturning the cartel that Oregon law created ̷ ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur I'll be speaking tomorrow at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where my friend Stephen Hicks runs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Then on Thursday, I'll be speaking to the Federalist Society at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. On October 13, I'll be speaking to the Federalist ...