Louisiana cosmetologists and manicurists sue licensing board for violating their right to a jury trial

September 19, 2024

Baton Rouge, LA; September 19, 2024: Today, Amy Cao and four other licensed cosmetologists and manicurists filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology for violating her right to a jury trial. “The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right to a jury trial in civil cases,” said Adi Dynar, an attorney ...

Amy Cao et al. v. Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology

September 19, 2024

Licensed cosmetologist Amy Cao, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation and the Pelican Institute, is fighting back in a state lawsuit to affirm the right to jury trials to challenge licensing board fines. … ...

At Stake: California school punishes first-grader for innocent “Any Life” matters drawing

September 18, 2024

When six-year-old B. B.* drew a picture for her classmate, she saw it through the lens of childhood innocence—a kind, comforting gesture. Her school, however, viewed it through a race-tinted lens and harshly punished the little girl, igniting a constitutional crisis and upending her family’s life.   The California first-grader had just lea ...

Reparations Roundup: September 2024

September 17, 2024

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America’s history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantag ...

Merrifield v. Lockyer

September 17, 2024

This landmark victory freed California’s nonpesticide animal control services from unnecessary, burdensome licensing mandates, gave consumers more choice in pest control techniques and providers, and cleared the way for entrepreneurs in the states comprising the Ninth Circuit.to pursue the occupations of their choosing and exercise their cons ...

Fighting for the Constitution is a family business

September 17, 2024

 Countless families tell stories about long-ago ancestors. Some are well documented, while others have been passed down and modified from generation to generation like a years-long game of telephone. That latter category often includes stories about those who came to the New World on the Mayflower or were a Cherokee Indian princess. Most of those ...

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September 13, 2024

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September 13, 2024

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National Review: Supreme Court should revisit racial equity in high-school admissions

September 13, 2024

Racial balancing in competitive high school admissions is heading back to the Supreme Court. Just months after the Court declined to take up a parent group’s challenge to the admissions overhaul at then-top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (TJ) in Fairfax, Virginia, another set of parents is waging a similar ba ...

PLF wins North American Liberty Award for defeating home equity theft at the Supreme Court

September 13, 2024

Pacific Legal Foundation’s 2023 Supreme Court victory in Tyler v. Hennepin County changed lives—and is now being recognized for advancing freedom and human progress in America.   For years, local governments across the country manipulated tax forfeiture laws to steal from vulnerable Americans—most of them ill, elderly, jobless, immigra ...