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At a minimum, it’s going to cost around $910 million dollars to establish California’s health care exchange under Obamacare.  At least that’s how much the Golden State has already received in federal grants for that purpose. As Peter Suderman writes at Reason.com, a large portion of money will be used to establish “infrastr ...

The oral argument in last week’s Prop. 8 case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, suggested that the justices may be skeptical of the Hunter-Seattle doctrine.  While PLF has taken no position on the merits of the Prop. 8 case, the United States, as amici, put forth a legal theory that relates to a doctrine in which PLF … ...

The Washington Times has an article here about our lawsuit, Sissel v. Department of Health & Human Services. You can learn more about the case here and here. … ...

PLF will be live-tweeting today’s hearing of the California Assembly Natural Resources Committee, which will be considering two bills to expand the already extreme powers of the California Coastal Commission. That hearing’s at 1:30pm, and you can follow it on The Coast Watch’s Twitter feed. … ...

I’ll be joining Amy Holmes on Real News today at 3 Pacific, 6 Eastern, to discuss our lawsuit against Obamacare. Shortly afterwards, at 3:30 Pacific, 6:30 Eastern, I’ll be talking with Detroit’s John McCulloch about that case. You can listen online here. … ...

What’s the current status of the lawsuit? We’re currently waiting for the judge to decide the government’s motion to dismiss. Around the end of last year, the government asked the court to throw out our lawsuit, and we filed our opposition to that a couple months ago. We’ve asked the court to hold a hearing … ...

Last month, Alabama decided to once again allow the government to take land from one private property owner to give it to politically influential corporations and other private parties.  As readers know, these collusive schemes between powerful corporations and governments were sanctioned by the Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London.  That ...

Yesterday, PLF attorneys filed an amicus brief in the remand proceedings in Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States. As you may recall, late last year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that temporary, government-induced flooding is not categorically exempt from the requirements of the Takings Clause. The decision recognizes that any governm ...

  After 31 years, the Supreme Court will finally take another look at the “political structure” doctrine.  If you didn’t read Monday’s post by PLF College of Public Interest Law fellow, Jonathan Wood, you may be unfamiliar with that doctrine.  In 1969, and again in 1982, the United States Supreme Court relied ...