Mollie W. Riddle rejoined Pacific Legal Foundation’s Sacramento office in 2018 after completing a summer clerkship in 2017. As the daughter of a small business owner, Mollie’s passion for advancing liberty has only grown since starting her legal career. Mollie practices across PLF’s litigation areas including economic liberty, equal protection under the law, property rights, and the First Amendment.
Mollie holds a B.A. in Political Science and Human Rights from Southern Methodist University and earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. During law school, she was a staff editor on the Texas Review of Law and Politics, served on the board of the Texas Federalist Society, and was Vice President of Texas Law Fellowships, a nonprofit organization that sponsors fellowships for students who work in public interest.
Outside of work, Mollie enjoys cooking, cycling, and checking out the latest foodie spots.
Anthony Barilla v. City of Houston
Anthony (Tony) Barilla is a highly accomplished accordionist who wants to busk—that is, perform in public for tips—on the streets of Houston, Texas. A city law, however, prohibits busking activities everywhere except Houston’s very small Theater District. There, artists may accept tips for their performances, but only after completing an ...
Navigable Waters Cases
The Clean Water Act (CWA) has a seemingly simple purpose: protect the navigable waters of the United States from pollution. The federal agencies charged with carrying out and enforcing the law, however, have expanded the definition of “navigable waters” several times since the Act went on the books in 1972. Represented by PLF free of ch ...
Legacy Medical Transport, LLC and Phillip Truesdell v. Adam Meier, et al.
Phillip Truesdell and his family launched Legacy Medical Transport in 2017 with one ambulance and high hopes of thriving in the wake of job losses. Their hard work paid off—today, their non-emergency ambulance company in Aberdeen, Ohio, has grown to seven vehicles. Located just miles from the Kentucky border, the company often takes clients from ...
In an emergency order, Florida’s Surgeon General Scott Rivkees has suspended Florida's Certificate of Need requirement for ambulances. This is an encouraging development for both consumers and healthcare entrepreneurs, and a change that the state legislature should make permanent. As PLF explained in a letter to Governor Ron DeSantis, on beha ...
The Clean Water Act protects the navigable waters of the United States. One of the ways it does this is by prohibiting the discharge of pollutants to these waters. These are important aims, but the current definition of "navigable waters" is unconstitutionally broad. This overbroad definition means that ordinary activities like farming, digging pon ...
Students are being turned away from some of Connecticut's best schools simply because they have the wrong skin color. Connecticut law caps Black and Hispanic student enrollment at its world-class magnet schools at no more than 75%. This blatant racial quota is an unconstitutional outgrowth of a lawsuit involving Hartford schools. The Connecticut Ge ...
Originally published in the Courier-Journal, January 25, 2019. In Kentucky, six counties, each with more than 50,000 residents, have just one ambulance service. In a medical emergency, time is of the essence — but a lack of ambulance providers threatens to prevent the residents of these counties from getting timely emergency care. Welcome to the ...
We filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit supporting en banc rehearing in the case of Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra. We argue that the panel's decision to uphold California's donor disclosure law invites donor harassment, undermines free speech, and harms nonprofits nationwide. We urge the court to reconsider this case because ...
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