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CSPAN to carry PLF attorney’s talk live Monday

March 01, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

CSPAN has announced that it will carry the Cato Institute’s forum on McDonald v. Chicago, at which PLF principal attorney Timothy Sandefur will be speaking, live on Monday afteroon at 4 pm Eastern, 1 pm Pacific. Details here. … ...

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Forbes : Mush may turn to gold for Skilling

March 01, 2010 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Author: Timothy Sandefur Forbes’ “Business in The Beltway” blog has a report on the Jeffrey Skilling case, argued in the Supreme Court this afternoon: Congress passed Section 1346 in 1988 after the Supreme Court rejected a common interpretation of the wire fraud statute that made it a crime to deprive somebody of “intangible ...

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Clean Water Act point-counterpoint

March 01, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Today's New York Times has this article contending that, at least from the US Environmental Protection Agency's perspective, that agency's ability to enforce the Clean Water Act and prevent the Nation's waters from becoming polluted has been seriously constrained by recent federal court rulings. The a ...

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My McDonald talk

March 01, 2010 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Author: Timothy Sandefur My talk about McDonald starts in two minutes. You can watch online here. Update: CSPAN has archived the talk here. … ...

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Report on the McDonald argument

March 02, 2010 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

PLF attorney Timothy Sandefur (R) with Alan Gura, attorney for Chicago gun-owners Author: Timothy Sandefur I attended the oral argument in McDonald v. Chicago this morning. As the early reports indicate, the justices asked relatively few questions about the meaning of privileges or immunities, and those questions showed a great deal of discomfort o ...

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Playing hard ball with the California Coastal Commission

March 02, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last month, PLF filed a lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission on behalf of a concerned group of citizens, arguing that the Commission has no authority to stop a needed cleanup of a blighted brownfield property in downtown Eureka, California.  Well, shortly after filing, the Eureka Times-Standard ran a ...

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Has EPA reached a ‘critical mass’ in Endangerment Finding Challenges?

March 02, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Luke A. Wake Since filing our petition for reconsideration of EPA’s Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases, there has been a good deal of buzz in Washington over how EPA will respond. We have received numerous emails from major firms and groups interested in challenging the Endangerment Finding, and it appears EPA is now def ...

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Why McDonald matters

March 03, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The Cato Institute’s daily podcast features a conversation with PLF attorney Timothy Sandefur about the case of McDonald v. Chicago. … ...

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The Economist's lamentable ignorance

March 03, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff In a brief online article published Monday, The Economist reviewed a New York Times article (about which I blogged here) that purports to explain how recent Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Clean Water Act have seriously constrained the power of the federal government to regulate water quality.  Well, s ...