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Last year, Iowa property owners earned a cool $9.3 million renting out their properties through the popular home-sharing service Airbnb. That's $9.3 million that helps the owners to pay mortgages on those properties, as well as other expenses like school tuition, groceries, and emergency savings. In addition, the 100,000 or so bookings raised ab ...

caption id="" align="alignright" width="567" Is this navigable? An exposed permafrost layer -- considered to be a "water of the United States" by the Corps of Engineers. Permafrost underlies roughly 85% of Alaska's 663,300 square miles./caption PLF asks Supreme Court to hear Alaska permafrost case This week, PLF filed a petition asking the ...

caption id="attachment_60903" align="alignright" width="201" John Locke knew all about how to regulate websites: don't./caption Today, we filed a motion for summary judgment in Rentberry v. City of Seattle, asking a federal court to throw out Seattle's ban on rental bidding websites. We argue that Seattle's regulation by reflex is contrary to th ...

Another lawsuit to challenge Seattle's war on landlords This week, we sued to challenge Seattle's Fair Chance Housing Ordinance on behalf of several landlords and the Rental Housing Association of Washington in Yim v. City of Seattle. The Fair Chance Housing Ordinance forbids landlords from asking for a criminal background check or denying someo ...

PLF Asks Michigan Supreme Court to Review Taking of Home for an $8 debt Oral Argument at the U.S. Sixth Circuit in Marquette County case Seattle's "involuntary speech - forced democracy" scheme appealed First Round Loss in Extortionate Permit Fee Case PLF, Ranchers tell federal agencies they cannot ignore economic costs of their dec ...

Amicus brief filed for contractor long frozen out of contracts Settlement reached in mobile home park case Cap and trade appealed Prairie dog ruling petition to the 10th Circuit Reply filed in Kinderace petition to Supreme Court Affirmative action case goes back to district court Amicus brief filed for contractor long frozen out of co ...

On Friday, PLF attorneys filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case, 616 Croft Ave, LLC v. City of West Hollywood. The petition asks the Court to review a California Court of Appeal decision holding that a city or county can force landowners to dedicate private property to public use, without providing just co ...

caption id="attachment_44937" align="alignright" width="300" Seattleite begs a local bureaucrat for permission to use his own stuff./caption More and more, we have to receive government permission to exercise basic rights. This subverts a fundamental notion of liberty: first comes freedom, then comes government to secure that freedom. We've beg ...

Today we filed our reply brief on the petition for review in our challenge to a special tax levied by the City of San Ramon's community facilities district. Our petition asks the California Supreme Court to review the court of appeal's first-impression interpretation of the Mello-Roos Act's limitation on municipal services financing. Our briefing ...