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Since Proposal 2 was passed back in 2006, PLF has been defending its constitutionality in the courts.  Proposal 2, of course, is Michigan’s Proposition 209 analog, banning the use of race in government education, contracting, and employment. And PLF, as a national organization dedicated to protecting a colorblind constitution, it made sense ...

This morning, Pacific Legal Foundation—joined again by our friends at Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, and our client Matt Sissel—filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to review Virginia’s lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s health care law. This is the sec ...

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court ordered the University of Texas to file a response to Abigail Fisher’s petition for certiorari.  And, in other news, the sun rose in the east this morning. Yes, this was widely expected, but the speed with which the Supreme Court acted, strongly suggests that this case has piqued the interest of at … ...

The Ninth Circuit rattled the entire timber industry earlier this year when it held that channeled runoff from forest roads must be regulated as industrial discharge in Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. Brown.  That’s because the court’s decision could force the forest products sector – from large corporations to small pr ...

I was on San Diego’s AM 600 KOGO with Chris Reed to talk about economic liberty and taxi regulation, a subject I blogged about the other day, and which also sparked this excellent op-ed by former San Diego City Council member Larry Stirling. You can listen to the interview here—my segment starts at about 18:00. … ...

Robert Thomas, PLF’s man in Hawaii, and blogger at inversecondemnation.com, will be joining the lineup of December 1 Strafford live phone/web seminar on Eminent Domain: Redevelopment Challenges for Local Government. For more information on the conference and how to register, click here. … ...

PLF has long been concerned with the powerful role that unions play in dictating government spending policies across America. One area where the problem is particularly acute is in public education, where PLF has challenged government enforced teacher monopolies and the right of parents to choose alternative education options for their children. He ...

A big “Thank You “goes out to the Santa Barbara County Republican Party for naming PLF’s website their “website of the week” on October 7, letting readers of their Freedom Blog know about PLF and giving a special mention to our Sackett v. EPA case, featuring our latest video on that case. … ...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, has upheld the constitutionality of the Individual Mandate in Seven-Sky v. Holder. You can find the decision here. (You can read our brief in the case here.) There are three opinions, just like there were in the Sixth Circuit case: an opinion of the court, … ...