PLF regularly files briefs in support of parents’ ability to take their children out of the public school system and send them to charter schools. Charter schools are particularly important for poor and minority children who have no choice but to attend low-performing neighborhood schools. Without choice in the lower grades, those childr ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Courts is holding a hearing Tuesday called “Opportunity Denied: How Overregulation Harms Minorities.” I’ll be testifying about how occupational licensing laws and Competitor’s Veto laws exclude would-be entrepreneurs ...
The Endangered Species & Wetlands Report has obtained the recording of the Monday’s oral argument in the Utah prairie dog case. As you’ll recall, this is the constitutional challenge to the federal government’s authority to regulate any activity that affects any living thing under the Commerce Clause. As we argue, the Commerce ...
Last year the City of Cincinnati agreed to pay a California-based company about $1 million to analyze city contracts for evidence of discrimination. The disparity study, which was actually completed in July, was finally released to the public this week. According to one news report, the study found disparities in City contracting that may & ...
In an article published today by Engage, PLF attorneys Brian T. Hodges and Christopher M. Kieser consider the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent property rights case, Horne v. United States Department of Agriculture, in the context of the Roberts Court’s property rights jurisprudence. Spoiler alert: the Court’s track record is bette ...
PLF attorney Tony Francois will be one of the speakers at the Taking Back Our Water rally this Friday, October 2, 11 am – noon, at Rojas-Pierce Park in Mendota, California. If you are in the area, come and join us to learn more about how the US Fish and Wildlife Service has devastated the … ...
Pacific Legal Foundation does a lot of work protecting property owners from overbearing environmental regulation. Since that is how we roll, it was impossible not to notice the enthusiasm with which the environmental movement in the United States greeted last week’s visit of a certain world religious leader. PLF does not involve itself in re ...
PLF’s DC Center is proud to organize our second annual Supreme Court Preview event this Friday, October 2, at noon EDT, which we are co-hosting again with National Review and the National Review Institute. After a brief welcome and introduction by PLF, National Review’s senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru will moderate the discussion. Like las ...
Supreme Court and wetlands determinations — again? After we won Sackett on the question whether a landowner is entitled to judicial review of a wetlands ruling before facing ruinous penalties and permitting costs we had hoped the federal government would get the message. It hasn’t. So now we have two new petitions before the Suprem ...