The Docket : May 22, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. PLF announces the Next Civil Rights Act; the Arizona Supreme Court delivers a landmark r ...
The Docket : May 15, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. New PLF research explores why it's almost impossible to open a mine in the U.S.; Iowa an ...
The Docket : May 8, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. PLF clients celebrate a historic home birth in Nebraska; the California Coastal Commissi ...
The Docket : May 1, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases and clients shaping the future of liberty in America. Subscribe today to follow along. PLF asks FWS to restore protections for California fishermen; Los Angeles property owners challenge City's public monument declaration as a Fifth Amendment taking; and PLF's Amy P ...
PLF asks the Supreme Court to affirm that licensure shouldn’t come at the expense of free speech
Dr. Azadeh Khatibi was six years old when her family fled Tehran, leaving behind the fear and repression of revolutionary Iran. Her parents dared to hope that America would be different for their two daughters, and America delivered on that promise. Dr. Khatibi—whose first name means "freedom" in Farsi—learned English within two months and q ...
Can California silence a doctor-patient phone call?
Trinidad, California, sits at the edge of the continent, a small coastal town nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco. In many ways, its remoteness is part of its charm. For Shellye Horowitz, who has a rare and potentially life-threatening bleeding disorder, it comes with a serious drawback: a state law that restricts her ability to communicate wit ...
A court finally tells FinCEN there is nothing questionable about buying in cash
When a federal court struck down FinCEN's real estate surveillance rule, Celia Flowers finally got an answer to the question that had been haunting her business for two years: Could the government force her to hand over her clients' private information? In 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) finaliz ...
Does the Constitution protect a cancer patient’s right to call his doctor?
When Jun Abell was just 18 months old, he was diagnosed with pineoblastoma—a rare, aggressive brain tumor. After multiple surgeries and rounds of chemotherapy, he was referred to Dr. Shannon MacDonald, a leading pediatric radiation oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Jun's family moved to Boston for two months while he underwent proton ...
Court lets surf school’s First Amendment challenge ride
Helina Beck has been trying to teach surf lessons on California's public beaches for years. On Tuesday, a federal court said her fight can continue, denying California's motion to dismiss her case and handing her a meaningful early victory in a fight over who gets to teach on shorelines that belong to all Californians. The ruling, issued Februar ...