Lewis v. Chicago: Chicago Fire Department douses claims of discrimination
Author: Ralph W. Kasarda The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Lewis v. City of Chicago. In this case, African-American fire department applicants sued the City of Chicago under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They claimed that a written examination was discriminatory when it resulted in Chicago’s decision ...
Preparing for the McDonald oral argument
Author: Timothy Sandefur The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing arguments on Tuesday in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, a crucial case about constitutional protections for Americans' right to possess firearms. But as I explain in the video below, the decision may end up being equally important for entrepreneurs and business owners. Monday afte ...
Has EPA reached a ‘critical mass’ in Endangerment Finding Challenges?
Author: Luke A. Wake Since filing our petition for reconsideration of EPA’s Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases, there has been a good deal of buzz in Washington over how EPA will respond. We have received numerous emails from major firms and groups interested in challenging the Endangerment Finding, and it appears EPA is now def ...
Is EPA hiding the ball on its Endangerment Finding?
Author: Luke A. Wake On February 5, 2010, Pacific Legal Foundation officially petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to finalize its Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases. In its Endangerment Finding, EPA had concluded that greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming and therein pose a danger to ...
Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy & Reliability, et al. v. U.S. Department of Interior, et al.
The federal government has expanded its reach using the Endangered Species Act to cover spurious “subspecies.” The ESA does not define “subspecies” and the Fish and Wildlife Service has offered no definition of its own. Instead, it simply announces when it has determined a “subspecies” to exist and, relying on th ...
Separate and UN-equal in Michigan
Author: Joshua Thompson In one of the most outrageous instances of flat-out unconstitutional intentional discrimination that I have come across in a while, I present Dicken Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It seems that a group of black students were given a field trip to go see a renowned rocket scientist. Only the blac ...
Update on Ann Arbor's separate and unequal field trips
Author: Joshua Thompson Late last week, I mentioned the outrageous story of Dicken Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As you recall, that school decided to send a group of African-American students on a field trip to see a renowned rocket scientist. All other students, white and minority alike, were prohibited from going on the ...
PLF awaits EPA response to petition for reconsideration
Author: Luke A. Wake In February, Pacific Legal Foundation filed a petition for reconsideration of EPA's Endangerment Finding for green house gases, which lays the ground work for federal regulation of those gases under the Clean Air Act. Our petition argued that EPA failed to submit global warming data for independent review with the Sci ...
Bad news for the economy: EPA refuses review of CO2 "endangerment" finding
Author: Ted Hadzi-Antich On July 28, 2010, EPA denied the petition by Pacific Legal Foundation to reconsider the agency's "endangerment" finding under the Clean Air Act, a finding that lays the groundwork for stringent regulation of greenhouse gases and could impose a crippling impact on the American economy. The denial w ...
PLF files suit against EPA for failure to reconsider the Endangerment Finding
Author: Theodore Hadzi-Antich Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit this week challenging EPA's refusal to reconsider its finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gasses, mostly carbon dioxide, endanger public health and welfare. In violation of a statute that has been on the books for decades, EP ...