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After a long legal battle, Pacific Legal Foundation client and surf instructor Jason Murchison just won the right to teach surfing lessons on city beaches. The California native has been surfing since he was in kindergarten. Always pulled toward the ocean, Jason chose to attend college at the University of Hawaii and later spent time as a diver ...

Utah developer Lew Swain sues the Army Corps for blocking a 265-home project by wrongly regulating a remote ditch under the Clean Water Act.

In his lawsuit, Swain asks the court to rein in the agency’s power grab based on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Sackett v. EPA.

Jammi and Scotty Wilson sue USDA, arguing its in-house tribunals deny rights to a neutral court and jury trial.

Navy veteran Jason Murchison settled with Newport Beach, securing a five-year right to teach paid surf lessons on city beaches.

The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox.   New England fishermen fight to protect their livelihoods against an illegal fishing ban; a Washing ...

David Iglesias is a State Legal Policy manager for Pacific Legal Foundation, where he fights for individual liberties and constitutional rights through policy reforms in state legislatures across the country.

A graphite manufacturer asked a federal court on Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought under a law that hands the government’s enforcement power to private groups.

West Virginia business argues the Clean Water Act’s citizen suit provision violates the separation of powers by giving executive power to unelected and unaccountable private actors.

Someone in upstate New York took an electric saw to them. In California, they've been knocked down and vandalized. In Idaho, a man rammed a truck into two of them. This summer, a 19-year-old worked his way down Florida's First Coast with cans of silver and gold spray paint, hitting cameras along the way; he told police he doesn't trust license-plat ...