Tuesday, Sept. 21: Fox & Friends will interview PLF client Bob Slobe
Author: Brandon Middleton Tomorrow morning at 4:45 am PDT (7:45, EDT), Fox News Channel’s nationally broadcast morning show, Fox & Friends, is scheduled to interview Bob Slobe, a Sacramento businessman who is barred from using his own property because of oppressive and unjustified federal environmental regulations. California’ ...
Jefferson County still trying to use race in school assignments
Author: Joshua Thompson The Washington Post has an interesting article this morning on Jefferson County's (Louisville, Kentucky) efforts to inject race into its school assignment decisionmaking. Three years ago, the Supreme Court struck down Jefferson County's race-based school assignment plan because it violated the Equal Protection ...
PLF on the road
Author: Timothy Sandefur I’m in Washington, D.C., today to speak at the Cato Institute book forum about my book, The Right to Earn A Living. (By the way, the digital edition has just become available on the Cato’s website.) Also speaking at the event is Prof. David Bernstein, whose book on Lochner v. New York … ...
Bad medicine for a weak economy?
Author: Luke A. Wake As we move forward with our challenge to the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and its mandate that individuals like Matt Sissel must purchase and retain health insurance, it is also worth noting the impact the law is having on the markets. The Cato Institute's Michael F. Cannon … ...
PLF's Timothy Sandefur discusses the right to earn a living
Author: Timothy Sandefur My September 1st talk about the right to earn a living has been posted by our friends at the Cascade Policy Institute: And don't forget to watch my talk at the Cato Institute on Monday at noon eastern, 9 Pacific. You can watch that online here. … ...
Video: State attorneys optimistic after health care hearing
Author: Daniel Himebaugh Fox News' On the Record has posted this video, in which attorneys representing Utah, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana discuss their impressions of Tuesday's hearing on the motion to dismiss the states' suit against the new federal health care law. PLF is representing Matt Sissel, an Iowa City business owner, in a ...
The wolf saga continues
Author: Damien M. Schiff This week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced positive "90-day" findings on four petitions to delist the Western Great Lakes distinct population segment (DPS) of the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (the DPS covers territory in Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin). ...
Why the "Four Horsemen" were right
Author: Timothy Sandefur National Review has posted my article "Comes A Horseman" this morning, and you can read it here. In it, I discuss how and why the U.S. Supreme Court resisted the New Deal initially, and came in the end to acquiesce in Roosevelt's tremendous expansion of federal power. … ...
Christian Science Monitor features Matt Sissel
Author: Luke A. Wake The Christian Science Monitor has published an op-ed by Matt Sissel, Pacific Legal Foundation's client in our federal lawsuit challenging the new national health-insurance mandate. Matt Sissel is a small-business person in Iowa City and a veteran who served eight years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He spent two years &# ...
PLF’s Fisher brief receives some attention
Author: Joshua Thompson I was recently directed to a Law.com article on the important case out of the Fifth Circuit, Fisher v. University of Texas. While the article is a bit old, it is still worth passing along. Fisher is primed to be the next big Supreme Court case dealing with racial preferences in education. In … ...