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Author: Brandon Middleton I blogged a couple of months ago about the Kaiser Eagle Mountain case, where Kaiser (a private company) has faced an incredible amount of regulatory hurdles in its attempt to help address a significant public policy issue in Southern California.  While Southern California has seen substantial population growth over t ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Capital Public Radio’s John Sepulvado has a brief report here (reprinted here) about the Obamacare lawsuits that misrepresents my actual comments and inaccurately says that if Obamacare is overturned California would “lose billions of federal dollars.” We’ll take the second point first. California al ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur Here's a shoutout to the excellent documentary about eminent domain abuse in Missouri, Begging for Billionaires, now available on DVD on Amazon.com. An excellent holiday gift for the property rights advocate in your family. Here's a preview, featuring PLF client Homer Tourkakis talking about his fight against ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur There are now 20 federal lawsuits going forward challenging the Obama Administration’s health care law—variously known as “Obamacare” or “PPACA.” Four lawsuits—one filed in Arizona, another in D.C.,one in Tennessee, and one in Arkansas—have been dismissed. That leaves cases pending in fed ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur I’ll be speaking at an event sponsored by Missouri’s Show Me Institute on December 6th at 6 p.m. in downtown Kansas City, Mo. I hope I’ll see some of PLF’s many nationwide friends there! Click here for more information, and to register, click here. On Dec. 7th, I’ll be speaking in Topeka ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur We spend a lot of time calling attention to injustices committed by governments all across this country—taking people’s property, depriving them of economic liberty, judging them by the color of their skin. Sometimes it can get you down about the state of things, and it doesn’t help that political rhetoric som ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final critical habitat designation for the polar bear.  The designation covers over 180,000 square miles.  Yet the Service estimates that the economic impact of the designation, over a 29-year period, will amount to less than $700,000 total, or just $54,00 ...

Author: Timothy Sandefur The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York issued a decision yesterday striking down a Vermont law that barred the sale of certain information to drug companies unless the prescriber–say, the pharmacist—consented.  Drug companies use such information to find out who’s prescribing what and where, and thi ...

Author: Daniel Himebaugh Today we learned that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service–the agency in charge of administering the Endangered Species Act–will be initiating status review of four species listed as endangered or threatened in Washington State: the northern spotted owl, Oregon silverspot butterfly, showy stickseed, and Wenatchee ...