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Quiz from the January 26 Docket newsletter. Who said each legal quote (Answers): (A) “I mean, are you just rearguing the point that the Court rejected?” — Chief Justice Roberts in Devillier oral arguments (B) “Modern connected humankind is trying to determine its position backwards.” — Playwright David Mamet in an amicus ...

**Editor’s note on upcoming PLF event** 2020 was a difficult year. Around the world, we saw governments buckle under the weight of a pandemic, and communities and institutions struggled to meet the demands of the crisis.   While government leaders sought to alleviate the ills of the pandemic, they frequently exacerbated the problem with arbi ...

Strength, ingenuity, and adaptability are the lifeblood of entrepreneurs and small business owners. In 2020, those qualities have become more essential than ever. Pacific Legal Foundation represents clients from across the country and from every corner of society. But entrepreneurs make up a large portion of PLF’s clients because they are ver ...

Last week, in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court held that states cannot exclude religious schools from tax-credit scholarship programs. Parents who want to send their kids to schools that align with their values cannot be shut out of school choice programs, ensuring more educational opportunity for kids around the country ...

If the fundamental change in California’s labor market wasn’t bad enough, the legislature also exempted many groups of workers and professionals, seemingly at random. In PLF’s friend-of-the-court brief, we argue that the Ninth Circuit should reverse a district court decision denying a preliminary injunction sought by a group of Ub ...

Late last year, Debbie Pulley sued the Georgia Board of Nursing after it ordered her to stop describing herself as a Certified Professional Midwife. This week, her challenge came to a successful end after the board agreed to end its speech ban and stop punishing Georgia midwives like Debbie, who accurately describe themselves and their … ...

If a poison causes a disease, the obvious cure has to be even more poison, right? To most of us, that prescription sounds insane—but it’s a fair description of California’s approach to addressing the disease that is the state’s affordable housing shortage. Because much of the existing shortage is caused by government interferenc ...

Court ruling robs five generations of private beach PLF challenges unconstitutional double-whammy land grab Having grown up on Chicago’s southside, Rady Pavlock credits his wife, Kimberley, for his first campfire and lasting love of the beach. “Kimberley introduced me to the beach when I first met her,” Randy recalled. “We w ...

As the country grappled with the coronavirus pandemic, widespread shutdowns forced businesses to close – some permanently. With so many businesses closing at once, Americans were left searching for a way to make enough money to get by. As social distancing and working from home became the new normal, many jobless Americans turned to home-based & ...

Before the last few weeks, many Americans had probably never heard of “qualified immunity.” But as a result of the nationwide protests against abusive policing, this esoteric legal doctrine is now widely understood as a significant impediment to the sound enforcement of constitutional law. The call to “End Qualified Immunity!̶ ...