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The right to a jury trial is one of the core tenets of our United States legal system. Its significance to the Founding Fathers was such that King George's denial of jury trials was included as a grievance in the Declaration of Independence and served as an impetus for revolution. Later, the Constitution's Framers carefully safeguarded this right i ...

Annie Snider, writing for Politico Pro's Morning Energy newsletter, profiled the launch of our new Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) practice group yesterday: The small but mighty property rights group Pacific Legal Foundation that has scored a half dozen environmental wins at the Supreme Court over the past two decades is gearing up to ...

At Pacific Legal Foundation, we believe people are the ultimate resource. Our Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) practice roots itself in the conviction that when human creativity is unleashed through liberty, it solves problems and expands the world's potential. The future isn't built on fear or control—it's built on freedom and innovation. ...

President Trump's Make America Beautiful Again Commission reflects many of the goals we pursue in PLF's Environment and Natural Resources practice group: Americans should be free to use and care for our lands and resources in ways that promote prosperity and human flourishing. The plan for this Commission gets quite a bit right. It recognizes that ...

The causes of our housing crisis didn't just happen by accident — they were built on purpose. In the first installment of this series, we saw how misguided government policies have made decent housing unaffordable and unattainable for too many Americans. But to fully understand how we got here, we have to go back to the beginning — to the first ...

The term hath endeth! The justices are slathering on the SPF, teaching classes in Italy, gallivanting in their RVs, and doing whatever else it is that the justices do for the summer. Justices, they're just like us—but with robes. After this scoop of SCOTUS, we'll have one final recap of the term before I, too, break for summer. Except my "break" ...

The City of St. Louis is seizing ownership of the downtown Railway Exchange Building away from its current private owners. The iconic building still evokes nostalgic holiday memories of its once-grand Famous-Barr flagship store's Christmas decorations. The store was reminiscent of A Christmas Story, where Ralphie was mesmerized by the Higbee's depa ...

In the last few days of 2024, the Biden administration quietly released Public Land Order 7956 — an administrative maneuver that halted mineral development across more than 20,000 acres in western South Dakota. The move immediately blocked F3 Gold's mineral exploration plans, even though the company had secured a lawful permit from the U.S. Depar ...

California has been having a rough year: In a short six months it was hit with wildfires, urban unrest, and even some small earthquakes. But this week the Golden State made a decision that should change its luck: It reformed its most powerful environmental regulation, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), to ease the way for new constru ...