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The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a massive hit to the U.S. economy, and California is no exception. The March jobs report showed the Golden State is shedding jobs at a furious rate. Yet a California law remains on the books that further frustrates the ability of freelancers to find work. On January 1, Assembly Bill 5 went into effect, which d ...

Appellate victory for high school dancers The federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled in favor of PLF clients Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald, reversing a trial court judgment and ordering Minnesota officials not to ban boys from competitive high school dance teams. In D.M. and Z.G. v. Minnesota State High School League, Dmitri a ...

Henderson Hodgens and other small property owners are turning to the Supreme Court for help after they were victimized by Michigan's abusive foreclosure law. Hodgens' childhood home was taken by Van Buren County and sold for a $42,000 profit, which the county pocketed, leaving Hodgen's with nothing except his father's old tractor. ...

PLF's Director of Communications Harold Johnson hosts a discussion with PLF Attorney Christina Martin and Reginald Hill, a Church Deacon at Wayside Church. Several small property owners, including Reginald, are turning to the Supreme Court for help after they were victimized by Michigan's abusive foreclosure law. Their appeal—a petition fo ...

Pacific Legal Foundation has teamed up with the Dale E. Fowler School of Law at Chapman University to train the next generation of lawyers to defend the Constitution. PLF's new Liberty Clinic program establishes the nation's only law school clinic giving law students a hands-on role litigating important property rights and economic liberty cases in ...