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Author: Brandon Middleton The gray wolf controversy has received quite a bit of coverage in the Rocky Mountain states, justifiably so.  Unfortunately, it looks like folks in Michigan have also had to deal with gray wolves and the harsh unintended consequences of the Endangered Species Act: Michigan's gray wolves have attacked Upper Penins ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff On Friday, Pacific Legal Foundation filed a petition for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court, on behalf of several home building and agricultural groups, asking the high court to review the Ninth Circuit's deision in Home Builders Association of Northern California v. United States Fish &# ...

Author: Brian T. Hodges Last week, I wrote about PLF’s victory in the regulatory takings case, Dunlap v. City of Nooksack.  Well, I want to take a moment to recognize the property owners in this case, Kipp and Marilyn Dunlap.  The Dunlaps are cattle farmers who own land in the City of Nooksack, a small … ...

Author:  Luke A. Wake It is interesting to consider what yesterday's vote may mean for citizens like Matt Sissel. We are representing Matt in a challenge to the new federal mandate that every American must purchase health insurance, on pain of financial penalty. Matt is an uninsured small businessman, and objects to being conscripted into ...

Author: Daniel Himebaugh The City of Seattle is taking some concrete steps toward eliminating its "exceptional tree ordinance," reports The Seattle Times.  New proposed rules that would repeal retention standards for large trees and do away with permitting for tree removal have been released for public comment, and will soon be pres ...

Author: Alan DeSerio Florida voters were faced this week with a myriad of ballot choices affecting the future of the State. One of them was Amendment 4. Draped with banners of "home town democracy," the proposal seemed innocuous enough, promising to give "the people" the ability to control future growth in Florida.  ...

Author: Reed Hopper As we noted in our Oct 25 post, What's it all mean?, the D.C. District Court has rescheduled oral argument in the listing challenge to the polar bear.  The new date is February 23, 2011.  This is to allow time for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to offer an interpretation of the term … ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur The UCL Practitioner has a summary of the oral argument in Benson v. Kwikset, the California Supreme Court case dealing with the state’s Unfair Competition Law, and how Proposition 64 amended that law a few years ago. PLF filed a friend of the court brief in this case, and it’s actually quite … ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Today is the birthday of one of the great figures in the history of American liberty—Stephen Johnson Field, who was born on this day in 1816. … ...