PLF’s Timothy Sandefur joins Armstrong & Getty Monday morning
PLF principal attorney Timothy Sandefur (aka “Tim the Lawyer”) will be joining northern California radio duo Armstrong and Getty Monday morning at 8:45, to discuss the many ways government interferes with our right to earn a living. Update: The podcast of this morning’s interview has been posted on the web. You can listen to part ...
Big PLF win: Texas Supreme Ct. says storms can’t take beach property
AUSTIN, TX, Nov. 5, 2010 — Ruling today in the Pacific Legal Foundation case of Severance v. Patterson, the Texas Supreme Court rejected the state’s claim that beach easements “roll” with the vegetation line. In other words, the state may not seize private beach land and homes for a “public” beach when storms blow ...
How will the election affect EPA litigation?
Author: Luke A. Wake Commentators are saying that, with a split in Congress, it is now unlikely that we will see significant environmental or energy legislation passed in the near future. Accordingly, we may expect to see the Obama Administration change its approach toward these issues. Specifically, we may see the administration take a more ...
Fed-Soc presents Sac Bee's Dan Walters on the elections and gov't pensions
Author: Harold Johnson Next Wednesday, Nov. 10, the Sacramento chapter of the Federalist Society hosts a special post-election presentation: “??PENSIONS, POLITICS AND THE POLLS: What the election results mean for California’s budget and pension-liability issues.” Speaker: Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Walters. Time: ...
Happy birthday, Stephen J. Field!
Author: Timothy Sandefur Today is the birthday of one of the great figures in the history of American liberty—Stephen Johnson Field, who was born on this day in 1816. … ...
Oral argument in Prop. 64 “unfair competition” case
Author: Timothy Sandefur The UCL Practitioner has a summary of the oral argument in Benson v. Kwikset, the California Supreme Court case dealing with the state’s Unfair Competition Law, and how Proposition 64 amended that law a few years ago. PLF filed a friend of the court brief in this case, and it’s actually quite … ...
Polar bear hearing set
Author: Reed Hopper As we noted in our Oct 25 post, What's it all mean?, the D.C. District Court has rescheduled oral argument in the listing challenge to the polar bear. The new date is February 23, 2011. This is to allow time for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to offer an interpretation of the term … ...
Florida anti-growth initiative (Amendment 4) goes down in defeat
Author: Alan DeSerio Florida voters were faced this week with a myriad of ballot choices affecting the future of the State. One of them was Amendment 4. Draped with banners of "home town democracy," the proposal seemed innocuous enough, promising to give "the people" the ability to control future growth in Florida. ...
Seattle trimming its tree retention ordinance
Author: Daniel Himebaugh The City of Seattle is taking some concrete steps toward eliminating its "exceptional tree ordinance," reports The Seattle Times. New proposed rules that would repeal retention standards for large trees and do away with permitting for tree removal have been released for public comment, and will soon be pres ...
How will this election cycle affect the health care challenges?
Author: Luke A. Wake It is interesting to consider what yesterday's vote may mean for citizens like Matt Sissel. We are representing Matt in a challenge to the new federal mandate that every American must purchase health insurance, on pain of financial penalty. Matt is an uninsured small businessman, and objects to being conscripted into ...