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Other people's money : Davenport back in state supreme court

December 30, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Daniel Himebaugh The Supreme Court of Washington has once again granted review in Davenport v. Washington Education Association, a case that began as a class action on behalf of public school teachers almost ten years ago. In 2007, PLF supported the teachers as amicus curiae at the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court upheld … ...

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60 Minutes recap

December 29, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton Aquafornia has posted several reactions to the 60 Minutes story on California's water crisis. … ...

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High Court to Consider Government's Low Tactics

December 28, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Steven Gieseler That's the title of my column posted today on the American Thinker's website.  The tactics in question are the subject of a petition to the United States Supreme Court, filed by PLF attorneys, seeking review of a particularly egregious federal abuse of the eminent domain power in South Florida. On ...

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plans Regulatory Overhaul of ESA

December 28, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

According to the NYT, the Fish and Wildlife Service is considering "wide-ranging revisions" to the 1973 Endangered Species Act: "Efforts to make major changes in ESA have not gone far in the past, in part, because of strong feelings about the law from both landowners and environmentalists. "Western Republican lawmakers, landowne ...

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CBS's 60 Minutes : "Why California is Running Dry"

December 28, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton For those interested, Aquafornia has the clips of last night's 60 Minutes segment on the California water crisis. … ...

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Happy holidays to all friends of freedom!

December 25, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

All of us here at Pacific Legal Foundation would like to extend our sincerest wishes for a warm, relaxing, and happy holiday season to all our friends and supporters out there. May 2010 be a great year for freedom! … ...

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The two big problems with the Indiana bat decision

December 23, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brandon Middleton In response to a federal court's decision to halt a West Virginia wind energy project due to the potential resulting harm the project may have on Indiana bats, the Baltimore Sun's Tim Wheeler asks what the ramifications of the court's decision will be for simlar projects in Maryland: "Will opponents of win ...

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Post-Kelo reform still blighted

December 22, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: R. S. Radford In the 2009 volume of the Supreme Court Economic Review, Vanderbilt professor James W. Ely, Jr., takes a look at political responses to the Supreme Court’s horrendous decision in Kelo v. City of New London, and generally finds them lacking. Kelo, for those who may have slept through the past five … ...

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Adieu Process : Court of Appeals favors post-hoc agency rationale over due process

December 22, 2009 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Brian T. Hodges Earlier this week, Division I of Washington’s Court of Appeals issued a decision expanding government agencies’ authority to enforce vague laws against its citizens that should send a shiver down our collective spines. Until yesterday, our courts held that a basic tenet of the constitutional guarantee of due proc ...