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In the second decade of the 21st century, can an African-American student still be turned away from a public school because of his or her skin color? … ...

More than 1,000 homes sit on roughly two miles of coastal bluffs in the Southern California town, protected from erosion by seawalls. In 2014, the City enacted a land use ordinance that prohibits or restricts bluff-top homeowners from building, repairing, or replacing those seawalls. Some of the restrictions require homeowners to dedicate private s ...

When the Service rejected a delisting petition for the coastal California gnatcatcher, it acknowledged that it was not going to define “subspecies,” the very term upon which the denial rests, even while acknowledging that the term enjoys no commonly accepted meaning among scientists. Thus, by not defining that key term, the Service effe ...

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects not only our right to speak and associate with whomever we choose, but also the commensurate right to refuse to speak and associate. Indeed, the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized that freedom of association, like the freedom of speech, “lies at the foundation R ...

Chief Justice John Marshall, on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, stated the obvious: “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” But over the last 100 years or so, the judicial department has voluntarily ceded this “duty” to the executive branch. … ...

Judge Beth Andrus granted Seattle’s motion to dismiss our clients’ First Amendment challenge to the city’s democracy-voucher program. Judge Andrus held that forcing property owners to pay for private residents’ campaign contributions does not burden property owners’ speech rights. … ...

In 2014, the federal government designated thousands of acres in New Mexico as “critical habitat” for the jaguar. The designation is absurd, because jaguars prefer the wet, tropical climates of Central and South America forests, to the dry, arid wilderness of the Southwest. … ...

While most states are busy unleashing their entrepreneurs to create jobs and innovative services, Maryland is bucking the trend. … ...

PLF asks the Supreme Court to bury Williamson County, Seattle attempts to force unionization on Uber/Lyft Drivers, and PLF files a complaint to require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to define “subspecies”. … ...