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The government may not deny a benefit, even a discretionary one, based on a person’s exercise of constitutional rights. Represented at no charge by Pacific Legal Foundation, Jenna and Oom are now fighting back with a state lawsuit challenging Seattle’s unconstitutional permitting condition.   … ...

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a majority of the Supreme Court in last summer’s Students for Fair Admissions opinions, which held that affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution. While colleges can no ...

Malibu, CA; May 9, 2024: Last week, the California Supreme Court declined to review a recent California Court of Appeals decision which held that the City’s coastal policies do not prohibit homeowners from building attached accessory dwelling units (ADUs).  “The City of Malibu went to extreme lengths to block a small ADU for an octogen ...

President Biden turns 150-year-old family ranch into national monument PLF’s relentless fight to stop Presidential Antiquities Act abuses Chris Heaton’s family arrived in America’s west in 1871 and have ranched in Utah and Arizona ever since. Six generations later, Chris and his wife Cassie run a 50,000-acre cattle ranch, continui ...

This series will focus on what “persons,” “houses,” “papers,” and “effects” mean, tackling each in turn, and examining how they stack up against the increasingly sophisticated ways that cities, bureaucrats, police officers, and even municipal code inspectors investigate Americans in the 21st century. ...

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The federal government asserts most of its modern regulatory power over the individual ostensibly under the Commerce Clause, and therefore, it’s important for anyone who loves liberty to understand its true scope. This article looks at the clause’s background and then the two main powers that it gives the federal government. Background ...

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In 1981, scholar R.J. Smith argued private property rights were key to preserving natural resources and wildlife.  “The problems of environmental degradation, overexploitation of natural resources, and depletion of wildlife all derive from their existence as common property resources,” he wrote in “Resolving the Tragedy of the Co ...