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Happy Holidays! My gift to you is this incredibly informative (and perfectly charming) newsletter summing up the past two weeks at the Supreme Court.  TikTok time's up?  The Court announced yesterday that it will hear arguments in TikTok's challenge to a law requiring its China-based parent company to either sell the social media platform or st ...

Note: The following is a preview of SCOTUS Scoop, a new biweekly email newsletter from Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Anastasia Boden. During the Supreme Court term, Anastasia will be helping subscribers understand what's happening at the Court, what certain cases mean for liberty, and what exactly the justices are saying.  gravityform id="6 ...

Here's a bizarre piece of American trivia: From 1887 to 1950, the U.S. government banned the word "tornado" from weather forecasts. Warning the public about possible tornadoes would cause panic, officials said. It was better to avoid the word altogether.  The ban applied to all weather forecasters in the government, but there was one man in par ...

"Lawsuits can prompt institutional learning when they carry real consequences for defendant agencies." — The Cato Institute in a January 19 amicus brief in Benning v. Oliver   "Modern connected humankind is trying to determine its position backwards." — Playwright David Mamet in a January 23 amicus brief in NetChoice v. Paxton ...

Could artificial intelligence soon replace lawyers and judges? That is a question on the minds of many in the legal profession, even Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. In his annual report, the Chief Justice mentioned that federal courts are looking into the ways artificial intelligence can be used in the courts. He even said that while " ...

"I would have thought Congress might have addressed student loan forgiveness if that were really such an important issue to one party in Congress. I would have thought maybe they would have fixed the eviction moratorium. I could go on-and-on on these issues. They don't get addressed because Chevron makes it so easy for them not to tackle the hard i ...

2023 was a particularly big year for Pacific Legal Foundation. We celebrated our 50th birthday, which gave us the opportunity to reflect on moments that made PLF what we are today. Since 1973, we have had the privilege of changing lives: We've helped our clients challenge unjust government actions in the court of law and the court of public opin ...

Bloomberg just published a feature on Pacific Legal Foundation—quoting me—that has me split. On one hand, I love that Bloomberg is talking about "PLF's mastery of the long game." But the article got only half the story right.  The article is a dual-profile of PLF and Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group. Both PLF and ...

Even before the Supreme Court's landmark June ruling that Harvard and the University of North Carolina were guilty of discriminating against Asian-Americans, some were confident schools would find a way to keep doing it. Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is now showing how. When the high court decided to take S ...