The government took his home in 2018 over a $588 property tax debt. But a few days before Christmas 2024, Kevin Fair, an ailing Nebraska widower, found out he was getting back the title to his home. Now a GoFundMe has raised over $16,000 so Kevin, who recently had a stroke, can build a ramp for his home, make some other repairs, and meet upco ...
There are legal victories, and then there are legal victories—court rulings so decisive, so sharply written, that they can only be considered a judicial knockout. Case in point: Al Hadian and Ralph Bookout's New Year's Eve victory against the California Coastal Commission. The (brief) backstory Al and Ralph sued the Commission in 2022 ...
You don't have to be a fan of flavored vapes to find the White Lion case, argued on December 2 at the Supreme Court, a fascinating example of a company struggling against an opaque and changing regulatory process. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, passed in 2009 under President Barack Obama, gives the Food and Drug Adminis ...
Kay Ray-Smith co-owns Tilt Vision, a mural painting business in Texas, with her husband Brad. Last year they filed a lawsuit against the city for banning their murals. A year into the lawsuit, Kay reflects on how the city not only jeopardized the couple's livelihood and infringed on their constitutional rights, but also deprived emerging artists of ...
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, immigrant, ...
Here's a bizarre piece of American trivia: From 1887 to 1950, the U.S. government banned the word "tornado" from weather forecasts. Warning the public about possible tornadoes would cause panic, officials said. It was better to avoid the word altogether. The ban applied to all weather forecasters in the government, but there was one man in par ...
Writing in The Dallas Morning News, Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys Luke Wake and Frank Garrison discuss the case of Robert Mayfield (which Luke argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Court earlier this month). From Luke and Frank's op-ed: As the owner of 13 Dairy Queen franchises in and around Austin, restaurateur Ro ...
Good news for property rights, individual liberty, and the sport of falconry: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says falconers' lawsuit against a California regulation can proceed. Five years ago, master falconer Peter Stavrianoudakis and several others filed a lawsuit challenging the regulation, which requires falconers to sign an agreement a ...
In recent decades, the scope of federal law has grown massively. And with that growth has come the risk that Americans will be ensnared in criminal or civil proceedings for activities they had no idea were illegal. It is often said that ignorance of the law is no excuse, and in general that is true enough. But the government has an obligation ...