Author: Joshua Thompson There has been a lot of great coverage of PLF's excellent settlement with the Los Angeles Unified School District, whereby LAUSD agreed to eliminate its race-conscious Teacher Integration Transfer Program. Here's a snippet from the Los Angeles Daily News: Wednesday's announcement by the Pacific ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur Our friends at Reason.tv have prepared an outstanding video about the legal issues surrounding the commerce clause, and how courts have expanded Congress' powers under that provision. The best part is when Prof. Chemerinsky concedes that Congress could force people to buy cars if it wanted to. … ...
Author: Reed Hopper Read my op-ed in the Duluth News Tribune. Here is an excerpt: "In a recent letter to colleagues, U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar claimed his new bill — “America’s Commitment to Clean Water Act” (H.R.5088) — would “restore, but not expand, the geographic scope of the Clean Water Act” that existed bef ...
Los Angeles, CA; August 25, 2010: In a legal settlement responding to a Proposition 209 lawsuit by Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has rescinded its policy of race-based discrimination in teacher assignment. Therefore, PLF announced today that it has dismissed the lawsuit as of this week. “U ...
Author: Damien M. Schiff The Ninth Circuit this week issued another decision in the longrunning dispute over whether and how to protect populations of salmon and related fish under the Endangered Species Act. In Modesto Irrigation District v. Gutierrez, the plaintiffs challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service's decision not ...
Author: Daniel Himebaugh The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will not rehear the appeal in Leu v. International Boundary Commission. You may recall that this is the case in which former International Boundary Commissioner Dennis Schornack claimed that President Bush lacked the power to terminate his appointment as a commissioner. ...
Author: Brian T. Hodges Kipp and Marilyn Dunlap bought a vacant residential lot in Nooksack, Washington with the dream of building their home there. But the city had other ideas. You see, Nooksack slough runs through the middle of the Dunlaps’ lot, and the city declared that land adjacent to streams constitutes an environmentall ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur I’ll be speaking about my new book, The Right to Earn A Living, to the Puget Sound Federalist Society on September 2 at 12:15 p.m., at the Nakamura Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, in the Judge’s Conference Room on the 6th floor. The public is welcome, lunch is provided, and there’s only a … ...
Author: Brian T. Hodges They say that bad facts make bad law. Well, here’s a doozy. Noel Proctor and Ford and Christina Huntington purchased neighboring parcels in Southern Washington. The Huntingtons unwittingly built their home approximately 400 feet onto Proctor’s land. Proctor discovered the encroachment ...
Author: Timothy Sandefur Jonathan Adler makes some very good points about the unfairness of many occupational licensing laws. These kinds of abuses are precisely why PLF’s Economic Liberty Project exists. Some licensing laws aren’t even just abused for self-interested (“rent-seeking”) purposes, but are explicitly designed to ...