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Government is blocking Black kids from great schools while seats sit empty

May 18, 2018 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

In February, eight Black and Hispanic families filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Connecticut State Department of Education’s race-based enrollment quotas for Hartford’s magnet schools. This policy mandates that 25% of a magnet school’s seats be reserved for white and Asian students. This quota is so inflexible and rigid th ...

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Arizona's crazy abusive civil forfeiture law

August 12, 2015 | By JONATHAN WOOD

Many states throughout the country have terribly abusive and unconstitutional civil asset forfeiture laws. These laws unfairly stack the deck against innocent property owners by presuming their property is guilty of a crime and forcing the owner to prove innocence to get it back. But Arizona goes one step further. Any property owner that tries  ...

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PLF supports the ACLU in the Supreme Court

February 23, 2015 | By WENCONG FA

Today the Pacific Legal Foundation, along with our friends at the Institute for Justice and the Cato Institute, filed this brief supporting the ACLU in Rosebrock v. Hoffman, a free speech case that is even more interesting for what it could say about the government’s promises to stop behaving badly. … ...

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PLF supports school choice in Colorado

August 04, 2014 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

This morning PLF submitted an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court in Taxpayers for Public Education v. Douglas County School District.  This case is being brought by a number of anti-school choice groups to prevent Douglas County from allowing students and their parents to choose the school that best suits their needs.  PLF’s brief ...

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St. Louis license requirement has street performers singing the blues

June 26, 2013 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

The Missouri Watchdog had this article yesterday about the lawsuit challenging St. Louis’ requirement that street performers audition before a city official before they can get licenses to perform. We filed a friend of the court brief arguing that the law is unconstitutionally vague even aside from its obvious First Amendment problems. From ...

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PLF joins with ACLU to defend the rights of St. Louis street performers

June 17, 2013 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

If you want to play a guitar on a street corner in St. Louis, you have to get a license. That’s not so unusual—but what is unusual is that unlike just about any other place, in St. Louis you also have to audition before a city bureaucrat, who gets to decide whether or not you’re … ...

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PLF supports school choice in New Hampshire

April 05, 2013 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

We have previously reported on New Hampshire’s Tax Credit Program — New Hampshire’s recently adopted school choice bill that gives less affluent families the opportunity to send their children to schools of their choice.  The New Hampshire Program is very similar to the Arizona plan that the United States Supreme Court held const ...