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Today, Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) attorneys argued a landmark free speech case before the United States Supreme Court regarding the ability of states to ban all forms of “political” apparel at polling places on election day, limited only by the subjective assessments of on site poll workers. While we are hopeful that the ultimate re ...

This week PLF filed an amicus brief in Washington v. United States, arguing that the United States Supreme Court should overturn the Ninth Circuit’s incorrect reading of the Stevens Treaties. The Ninth Circuit’s reading not only massively expands the Treaties’ traditional interpretation, but it also improperly imposes an environme ...

In the 80s, Congress enacted a statute authorizing the Service to move otters to southern California on the condition that it implement protections for the surrounding fishery and the fishermen whose livelihoods depend on it, including requirements that the Service exclude otters from parts of the fishery and exempt fishermen from criminal prosecut ...

Supreme Court oral argument in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky Ninth Circuit: Unelected bureaucrats can do whatever they want, no matter what the law or facts say. See Chevron. Santa Barbara Fights to Keep its Home Inspection Program. Balancing the Rights of Washington’s Citizens Supreme Court oral argument in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. ...

Pacific Legal Foundation’s David Breemer presented our case to the United States Supreme Court on February 28th, 2018. … ...

How can “We the People” hold government officials accountable? That’s one of the big questions that the Supreme Court will consider when it addresses a rather technical constitutional question—whether administrative law judges (ALJs) are “Officers of the United States” under the Constitution’s Appointments Clau ...

You need doggedness and determination, and real subject matter expertise. You’ve got to be able to write great cert petitions because that’s the way you get in the door, but you also need to find clients that judges can rule in favor of. … ...

This week PLF appealed the district court’s decision in BIA Bay Area v. City of Oakland to the Ninth Circuit. This case challenges Oakland’s law compelling home builders to buy art commissions from (preferably local) artists if they want a building permit. This law violates the First Amendment, by compelling artistic speech, and the Fif ...

This is the first in a series discussing the principles of the American founding, their embodiment in the United States Constitution, and the ways in which the Supreme Court has all too often negated these principles to the detriment of individual liberty: Many Americans have lost sight of our founding principles in the fog and … ...