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Gordon and Molly Beyer were lifelong sweethearts. Gordon, a Korean War veteran and U.S. Marine, dedicated his life to his country, serving in the U.S. diplomatic corps after his discharge from the Marines. Molly, a teacher, followed Gordon all over the world from post to post. Gordon and Molly raised three children along the way—Theresa, Hugh, a ...

Earlier this year, the story of PLF client JP Krause's battle to become Senior Class President of Vero Beach High School went viral virtually overnight. Papers from London to Miami to New York and tv programs across the nation shared his story. JP, a young leader who won his school election but was disqualified afterwards by school administrators b ...

Brief filed on behalf of landlords forbidden to choose their own tenants This week we filed our opening brief in Yim v. City of Seattle, a lawsuit challenging Seattle's outright ban on landlords' right to select their tenants. Under Seattle's "first-in-time" rule, landlords must offer housing to the first person who files an adequate rental appl ...

Yesterday, the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal published an op-ed by me and my colleague Christina Martin taking the California Coastal Commission to task for violating the rule of law. The article reports on our representation of the non-profit Coastal Rights Coalition in a petition to California's Office of Administrative law (OAL). The pet ...

Today, Forbes writer George Leef published an article on Brott v. United States, a case before the Supreme Court in which PLF participated as amicus. The Forbes piece discusses PLF's brief and urges the high court to review the unconstitutional practice of denying a jury to victims of federal land grabs. ...

In 2007, the expectant mother of twins used a generic form of an asthma medication for the off-label purpose of preventing pre-term labor. Novartis innovated, developed and manufactured the brand-name version of the medication, then sold its rights to the product in 2001. The twins were diagnosed with autism in 2012, allegedly tied to the medicatio ...

Today—on behalf of itself and its clients Kurt Whitehead, Joe Letarte, the Alaska Outdoor Council, and Big Game Forever—PLF filed a reply brief in support of its Renewed Motion to Dismiss Center for Biological Diversity v. Zinke, a case that challenges Congress' use of the Congressional Review Act to overturn a Department of Interior re ...

caption id="attachment_51597" align="alignright" width="300" Would you like a bureaucrat tinkering inside here?/caption If government can strip you of choice just because unconscious bias might influence that choice, its power would have no bounds. But that is precisely what Seattle is doing to its landlords. In Yim v. City of Seattle, PLF is ch ...

On Friday, I participated in a teleforum hosted by the Federalist Society on the Juliana case, currently pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case is a challenge brought by several youth and an environmental organization challenging the federal government's alleged failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in a manner adequate t ...