Equality and Opportunity

You'll be hearing a lot in coming months about the Slaughterhouse Cases, given that the Supreme Court is poised to reconsider that decision in McDonald v. Chicago. Slaughterhouse, you'll recall, is the 1872 decision in which the Supreme Court essentially erased the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges or immunities clause—the provision that the its au ...

"Growlers" are jugs of beer that patrons buy at craft beer establishments and then bring home to drink, and later carry to other taverns, breweries or restaurants, for refills with various varieties of custom brewed beer. In the vast majority of America, a 64-ounce growler is the industry standard, and enthusiasts collect and re-fill their growl ...

When Pacific Legal Foundation agreed to represent The Crafted Keg in its challenge to the State of Florida's ban on craft-beer growlers, PLF had no idea of the attention that the case would receive. PLF should have known of course, since experts in the field of beer recognize its importance to human culture. A variety of publications have picked ...

Yesterday, the State of Florida filed its response to Pacific Legal Foundation's lawsuit on behalf of The Crafted Keg. In that suit, PLF seeks to overturn Florida's irrational ban on 64-ounce beer growlers. Not surprisingly, the government has moved to dismiss the case, once again reflecting that governments rarely meet a PLF case that they like. ...

Disparate impact theory tells employers that they have broken the law when a concededly neutral hiring practice produces too many employees of one race and not enough of another. Let's say you're an employer looking to hire 20 people from a pool of 100 applicants. You give the same standardized test to all 100 applicants and pick the top 20 scor ...

Earlier today, Pacific Legal Foundation filed its response in opposition to the State of Florida's motion to dismiss PLF's lawsuit challenging the State's irrational law banning beer growlers. The growler, of course, is the industry-standard half-gallon containers of beer that craft beer enthusiasts prefer throughout the United States, and, per CBS ...

In the last two weeks, the Florida State Senate and House of Representatives both unanimously approved a bill to legalize the 64-ounce growler.  The Legislature made this move after years of failing to fix the law; that ongoing failure hurt the small businesses that make up the exploding craft beer industry. The Legislature finally took action afte ...

Today Pacific Legal Foundation and The Crafted Keg received long-awaited news: caption id="" align="alignleft" width="344" Pass the beer nuts, Woody. The Governor freed the growler!/caption Governor Rick Scott signed the bill freeing the 64-ounce beer growler in the State of Florida! For years, Florida law prohibited craft beer brewers and ...

We've released a bunch of fun materials to familiarize people with those unfair and unconstitutional statutes---and to show exactly what PLF is doing to fight them. This video explains where the Competitor's Veto came from in just 60 seconds. We released this infographic, which explain our new lawsuit in the birthplace of the Constitution. ...