For veteran Floyd Johnson, justice delayed is justice denied
Floyd Johnson served in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 1985 and was honorably discharged after a training exercise in Germany turned deadly. Decades later, while incarcerated in Florida, he was diagnosed with PTSD. The VA rates disabilities on a scale from 0% to 100%, measuring how severely a condition impairs a veteran's ability to function in dail ...
The Docket : June 5, 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. A California law mandating race- and sex-based profiling is challenged in federal court; a Washing ...
The Docket : May 29, 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's Anastasia Boden launches a new podcast, In Dissent; a Honolulu retiree files a lawsuit chall ...
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 ...