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Adi Dynar has extensive experience protecting people’s civil liberties as a litigator, speaker, and activist. He believes that the federal and state constitutions structurally guarantee freedom and protection of individual rights. Separation of powers and due process are structural protections that are as important as the substantive rights t ...

Frank Black embodies the quintessential American success story. From humble beginnings in a poor family, he rose to establish a thriving investment firm that created not only jobs but also economic prosperity. Today, at 82, Frank remains as enthusiastic about his work as he was a half-century ago. Unfortunately, he’s caught in a rigged, in-ho ...

Today, Grant Krueger and Union Hospitality Group filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) to block a proposed rule that would mandate only cage-free eggs be sold in Arizona. Grant manages a restaurant group that operates several restaurants in Tucson, Arizona. He buys on average 2,167 eggs per week to supply his restaura ...

FINRA hauled Frank before its in-house tribunal, which, unsurprisingly, rubberstamped the charges, fined his firm $243,000, and banned Frank from working in the securities industry for life. Frank spent years appealing his case through FINRA and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to no avail. Pacific Legal Foundation is representing Frank — ...

An Arizona mother unjustly accused of child neglect has reason to celebrate, after a trial judge allowed the state’s Department of Child Safety to drop their charges against her.  In 2021, Pacific Legal Foundation client Sarra L* was unjustly accused of child neglect after she let her son play alone at a safe neighborhood park … ...

In-house agency adjudication discards impartial judges for administrative law judges who are employees of the very agencies whose charges they are supposed to adjudicate. It also discards the rules of evidence and procedure that have been fine-tuned over centuries to protect the rights of the accused. Finally, in-house tribunals ignore the Constitu ...

To safeguard the American people against tyranny, the Framers of our Constitution created a political system with three distinct branches of government—executive, legislative, and judicial—each tasked with its own unique and specific powers. To ensure that no one branch could usurp the role of another, a system of checks and balances was instit ...

Washington, DC; July 17, 2023: Today Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed an amicus brief in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, asking the Supreme Court to overrule Chevron v. NRDC and end judicial deference to federal agencies. “For decades, Chevron has distorted our system of government. It puts a thumb on the scales of justice at ̷ ...

This post was originally published on the Goldwater Institute’s blog. The author, Timothy Sandefur, is Vice President for Legal Affairs at Goldwater. He was previously an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation. A Tucson mother falsely accused of child neglect for letting her 7-year-old son play by himself in their neighborhood park was vindicat ...

Phoenix; July 20, 2022: On Friday, an Arizona mother filed suit against the Arizona Department of Child Safety to defend her right to due process and clear her name. While shopping for groceries in 2020, Sarra L. left her son and his friend to play at a nearby, safe park. But someone called the police, … ...