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Are you a law student looking to spend the summer working to defend constitutional liberty and limited government?  Pacific Legal Foundation has positions available for full-time summer law clerkships in its Sacramento headquarters this summer. … ...

Earlier this week, Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity, writing on the Huffington Post, criticized Pacific Legal Foundation’s effort to delist the Southern Resident population of killer whale from the Endangered Species Act.  Of course, this is not CBD’s first criticism of our delisting petition.  But, as you� ...

In case you haven’t had enough, the Federalist Society has published a podcast of me discussing Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. NRDC, a Clean Water Act case dealing with stormwater pollution, argued earlier this week. … ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing the status of the African lion for possible listing under the endangered species act.  This decision was made in response to a petition filed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and other conservation groups.  As Jeffrey Flocken of IFAW explained at the Huffington Post, the petition argues R ...

Property Rights — Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States We had a major win earlier this week when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the United States could be liable for a taking after it systematically and regularly flooded trees belonging to the State of Arkansas for a number of years, destroying millions … ...

In an article forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Professors Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky complain that the Supreme Court’s decision in Knox v. SEIU unfairly discriminates against the expressive rights of labor unions, and argue in favor allowing unions “to spend funds on political activities without needing to let dissentin ...

Over at the Seattle PI blog, Howard Garrett of the Orca Network criticizes PLF’s petition to delist the Southern Resident population of orca whale from the Endangered Species Act.  Unfortunately, Mr. Garrett’s criticisms, like those of many others, are either irrelevant or innacurate. … ...

A few months ago we told you about our lawsuit on behalf of internet entrepreneur Leslie Young, whose business helps people advertise their homes “for sale by owner.” According to bureaucrats with the Nebraska Real Estate Commission, it’s against the law—indeed, a criminal offense!—to tell the public that there’s a home ...

Last week, I wrote about the broad support that our client in Koontz v. St. John’s River water Management District received from landowners, developers, industry associations, legal scholars, land use attorneys, and think tanks from across the nation. Since then, two law bloggers have provided excellent summaries of the amicus briefs. Robert ...