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“The Seventh Amendment guarantees a jury trial when the government seeks money from a private party,” said Oliver Dunford, senior attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation.

“Federal agencies cannot punish Americans while bypassing the Constitution’s promise of a jury trial,” said Oliver J. Dunford, a senior attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation.

No one should be forced to defend a case to an agency that serves as accuser, prosecutor, and judge.

Sligo Creek, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation free of charge, is now asking the Supreme Court to step in and affirm their constitutional right to a fair trial.

Author Margaret Mitchell once wrote, "Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts." For Jerry Bingham, his family's Idaho farm is more than land. It's the only home he's ever known. In 1950, his father purchased the thousand-acre farm near Blackfoot, Idaho. Je ...

Nurses spend years training to treat patients. Yet several states restrict what nurses can do—even when their care is urgently needed. Thirteen states require advance practice nurses to sign contracts with supervising physicians. Other states even restrict nurses’ speech. Consider three recent cases. Marcy Markes has run her own Missouri allergy clinic for over twenty […]

For more than seven decades, the American Bar Association has been recognized as an authority to accredit law schools. The Department of Education recently recommended revoking that authority, and an independent advisory board will be meeting to discuss the recommendation on September 23. The department's report mostly emphasizes other legal concer ...

The late Justice Antonin Scalia popularized the likely apocryphal story of Nero's edicts, in which the bloodthirsty Roman emperor is alleged to have posted his laws on high pillars so that they would be "harder to read and easier to transgress." Yet today, in our republic, which prides itself on the rule of law, it may shock many to learn that t ...

Bret Baker works in Pacific Legal Foundation’s Separation of Powers practice, where he defends individual liberty by advocating for constitutional structure—obliging the different branches of government to stay in their respective constitutional lanes.

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.   PLF client Joshua Diemert gets a win in the Ninth Circuit; blocked from pumping water for over a y ...