American Hero Yi Fang Chen fights for equal opportunity in New York City schools
Yi Fang Chen came to America from China as a teenager with limited English. Through hard work and academic achievement, she earned a PhD from Stanford and built a better life for her family. Her journey showed her the power of merit-based opportunity—and why it must remain open to every student. When New York City expanded a supplemental admis ...
The Docket : August 14, 2026
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Surf instructor wins fight to teach in Newport Beach
After a long legal battle, Pacific Legal Foundation client and surf instructor Jason Murchison just won the right to teach surfing lessons on city beaches. The California native has been surfing since he was in kindergarten. Always pulled toward the ocean, Jason chose to attend college at the University of Hawaii and later spent time as a diver ...
The Docket : August 7, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. New England fishermen fight to protect their livelihoods against an illegal fishing ban; a Washing ...
A can of spray paint is not an argument
Someone in upstate New York took an electric saw to them. In California, they've been knocked down and vandalized. In Idaho, a man rammed a truck into two of them. This summer, a 19-year-old worked his way down Florida's First Coast with cans of silver and gold spray paint, hitting cameras along the way; he told police he doesn't trust license-plat ...
A secret deadline might cost this family their farm
Ron Fodé never planned to be a farmer. But in 1984, his father suffered a brain aneurysm and could no longer run the family's farm in Grant County, Washington. Ron packed up his life as a student at Washington State University and came home to help. The learning curve was steep. He had to teach himself how to grow potatoes, onions, wheat, and s ...
The Docket : July 31, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. A district judge declares Rhode Island town's eminent domain attempt "constitutionally deficient"; ...
Americans still believe in property rights. ‘Squatters’ proves it.
A new A&E series, Squatters, is bringing a frustrating reality into living rooms across America: homeowners who find themselves locked out of their own property while managing a confusing and often slow legal process to regain possession from trespassers. The show's popularity says something interesting about our culture. Americans don't spe ...
Proposed bill restores protections for farmers and ranchers
Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis recently introduced legislation to protect farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other property owners from overly broad interpretations of the Clean Water Act (CWA). Shortly after CWA was passed in 1972, Congress carved out an exemption to protect routine land management practices like plowing fields, maintaining drai ...