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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 ...

After dealing with trespassers in their backyard, Malibu homeowners Dennis and Leah Seider just wanted to post a simple sign alerting people that public access was permitted only on a portion of the beach while the rest remained private. But because they live in California’s coastal zone, they needed a coastal development permit for something ...

We received heartbreaking news this week when the Supreme Court denied our petition for a writ of certiorari in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board. The case challenged the school board’s overhaul of admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology—one of the best public high schools in America—undertaken t ...

With just one word, the Massachusetts Legislature might upend almost 400 years of stable property rights along the state’s coastline. Lawmakers should think twice before going down this perilous road. In the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the General Court extended private ownership of coastal lands to the mean low-tide line (the ...

California growers Cedar Point Nursery and Fowler Packing Company pride themselves on treating their employees with dignity and respect. Neither company’s employees wanted to unionize. Perhaps that is why the United Farm Workers invoked a California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) regulation that grants union organizers the right to ...

The following article appeared in a SCOTUSblog symposium on Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. PLF filed an amicus brief in support of the Arizona attorney general and the Arizona Republican Party. Our case preview is here. In the aftermath of the chaos that was the 2020 election-related litigation, it is easy to forget that the … ...

Whether you live in a city, a suburb, or out in the country, you have probably seen a “private property” or “no trespassing” sign. Such signs are ubiquitous across America and can be extremely helpful in protecting and preserving property rights. But some property owners find that it is harder than expected to put up … ...

The Voting Rights Act is one of the most successful pieces of legislation ever enacted. In the years immediately after its passage, record numbers of African-American registered and voted. Indeed, by 2012 African-American voting rates were the highest of any demographic in the country. Nevertheless, each election cycle Americans have grown accustom ...

Randy and Kimberley Pavlock built their small family home along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Porter, Indiana, with their own hands. The Pavlocks have owned the property for five generations, and love being “beach people.” Their home and private beach on Lake Michigan are the center of their family life, as they often hold fish … ...