PLF represents parents of a child in a faith-based school and an association of Christian schools in a challenge to a regulation implementing Montana's scholarship tax credit law. The regulation forbids religiously affiliated schools from participating in the tax credit program. PLF challenged the regulation as violating the First Amendment's prote ...
Gerawan Farming is a family-owned company that grows grapes and stone fruit in the San Joaquin Valley. Unique in the nation, a California statute compels agricultural employers and their employees' unions to assent to collective bargaining agreements. Rather than being negotiated at arm's length, these agreements' terms are dictated to the parties ...
A San Francisco ordinance requires advertisements related to sugar-sweetened beverages to devote 20% of the space to city-specified speech: "WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco." A coalition of beverage trade associations sued ...
California law requires contractors on public projects to pay employees the "prevailing wage" (generally equal to a union wage) through a combination of cash wages and other benefits, including making donations to "industry advancement" advocacy organizations. A new law allows only pro-union organizations to receive such donations, eliminating the ...
The Illinois Public Labor Relations Act deems home healthcare and childcare providers who receive state subsidies to be "public employees" and requires a union to be the providers' exclusive representative for bargaining with (e.g., lobbying) the state over regulations and policies related to the state care-services programs. Plaintiffs are provide ...
In May of his junior year at Vero Beach High School, J.P. Krause was on the verge of winning the senior class president election when he gave an impromptu campaign speech in his AP U.S. History class, with his teacher's permission. The 90-second humorous speech skewered some of the tropes of the Trump campaign – "my opponent will raise taxes!" ...
Peggy Fontenot is an award-winning American Indian photographer and artist, specializing in hand-made beaded jewelry and cultural items. A member of Virginia's Patawomeck tribe, she has made her living for 30 years traveling the country to show and sell her American Indian art. She regularly participated in Oklahoma art festivals until local, polit ...
In the wake of a First Amendment challenge by Bay Area book seller Bill Petrocelli and his renowned store, Book Passage, California rescinded the state's onerous "certificate of authenticity" requirement for the sale of autographed books. The regulation would have made it extremely risky, if not impossible, for stores to sell signed books or host a ...
Representing Seattle residents and property owners, PLF sued to overturn Seattle's ordinance mandating public campaign financing. Under the city's "democracy voucher" program, each Seattle resident receives four $25 vouchers to support eligible candidates for local political office. The money to fund the voucher program is taken from the city's pro ...