Author: Damien M. Schiff The Treehugger Blog reports that many in the environmental community are disappointed by the new Administration's environmental track record. The Obama Administration has listed only two out of 250 candidate species for Endangered Species Act protection since taking over the reins from th ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur Today I signed an agreement to publish my article, Privileges, Immunities, And Substantive Due Process, in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty. The article is about the Slaughter-House Cases, and draws from my brief in McDonald v. Chicago. The current draft is still pretty rough, and I’m in the process of … ...
Author: Joshua Thompson I am proud to applaud my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, for an article that appears in the The Badger Herald, the school newspaper. The article discusses whether preferences (which the author, Alec Slocum, properly describes as "discrimination") should be allowed for (public) ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur The Tampa Tribune today featured my article (coauthored with Steve Geiseler) on the Florida beach renourishment case: America's Constitution requires states to pay "just compensation" when they take private property for the use of the public. But what if a state's judges simply declare that a person's ...
Author: Daniel Himebaugh Beginning next fall, Seattle Public Schools will return to a neighborhood-based system for assigning students to schools, according to the Seattle Times. Students can still apply to any school in the district, but placement preference will go to those students who live within each school's geographic boundaries. ...
Author: Brian T. Hodges In what has been coined "a quiet revolution," the Nisga’a tribe of Northwest British Columbia rejected a collectivist property scheme in favor of private property and economic development. Until recently, home ownership has been denied to treaty Indians living on reserves in Canada. All land in the Nisga̵ ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur Reason magazine’s Brian Doherty has this article today about the McDonald v. Chicago case. The article quotes me and several others involved in the effort to revive the privileges or immunities clause. … ...
Author: Paul J. Beard II The staff at the California Coastal Commission has once again made clear that flexing the agency's regulatory muscles is far more important than even advancing its primary goal: protecting coastal resources. A property owner in the City of Eureka, California, has been directed by a state agency & ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur On a note similar to Paul Beard’s post yesterday, check out the decision of the California Court of Appeal in Schellinger Bros. v. City of Sebastopol. It’s an example of the abuse of endangered species protections—the kind of abuse that probably goes on a lot more than people realize: At issue here … ...