The Messenger : The Supreme Court’s New Term—Fishing, Free Speech on the Internet, Wealth Tax and More
One of the biggest cases of the Supreme Court's October term involves a fishing boat, in which the owner has thrown out a line to the court hoping to snag the Chevron Doctrine. To regulate the fishing industry, the federal government demands that fishing boats allow federal "observers" on board to watch how and which fish are caught. Boat owners ar ...
Center Square : Race-conscious diversity training has negative consequences for employees and the public
Many employers are on a mission to incorporate "diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" into every aspect of their daily operations — some going so far as to expend significant resources to develop a "DEI" team whose sole aim is to deeply entrench these concepts within the workplace. But what do these terms mean, and how are human resources depa ...
USA Today : New Orleans social worker asks Supreme Court to protect freedom to work
Pacific Legal Foundation recently petitioned the Supreme Court the case of New Orleans social worker Ursula Newell-Davis, who argues that Louisiana's certificate-of-need laws violate the right to earn a living. Writing for USA Today, former Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Anastasia Boden, who is still working with PLF on this case, explains t ...
California’s law on who can use the title ‘dr.’ threatens livelihoods of healthcare professionals
When Sarah Erny was born, her father took one look at his infant daughter and knew she'd be a doctor someday. He even wrote it down in her baby book. Some kids get toys for their birthday, but Sarah got MCAT prep books. While it would be nearly 40 years before she went down the healthcare path, Sarah would eventually fulfill her father's hope, ...
The Dispatch : The Supreme Court Can Fix Its Oldest Mistake This Year
Ursula Newell-Davis has been a social worker in New Orleans for more than 20 years with a particular passion for special needs children (including her own), so she knows special needs families are often desperate for affordable and reliable respite care. It allows parents time to work, run errands, or just attend to themselves, confident that their ...
Can colleges still use race in admissions?
It's a brave new world out there for college admissions officers. Gone are the days when they could use racial stereotypes as a stand-in for an applicant's personal qualities or deduct points for being Asian American. When the Supreme Court finally put an end to these racist and unconstitutional admissions practices in June, it left many wondering: ...
Washington Examiner : Education Department turns a blind eye to universities’ continued racial discrimination
Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it, as the Supreme Court held just two months ago in the Students for Fair Admissions cases striking down race-preferential admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Yet many universities have _ essentially revealed _ they plan to disregard the intent of the ruling and con ...
Victory for Ohio family! Sixth Circuit rolls back certificate-of-need laws
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just delivered a blow to economic protectionism in a case Pacific Legal Foundation has been litigating for four years. Phillip Truesdell and his children run Legacy Medical Transport, a small, non-emergency ambulance service in Aberdeen, Ohio, a stone's throw from the Kentucky border. The company is fully lic ...
The Orange County Register : How California turns doctors into outlaws
In California, dentists do it, and so do veterinarians. Psychologists, chiropractors, pharmacists, and physical therapists do it. Heck, even Dr. Phil, Dr. Laura, and Dr. Jill Biden do it. Despite their vastly different professions, all these people use the title "Dr." in their fields. So why then are Doctors of Nursing Practice prohibited from d ...