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Usually a medical practice that provides innovative, cost-effective, and relatively less invasive care for patients would be seen as a benefit to the community it serves. But that is not the case in Georgia, where Women's Surgical Center, LLC, has had to fight the state's anti-competitive Certificate of Need ("CON") laws in order to expand their pr ...

The Washington Post has published my op-ed regarding our newest Competitor's Veto lawsuit on behalf of entrepreneur Arty Vogt. As you may remember, Arty owns a moving company based in Virginia, just miles from the West Virginia border. Arty started working for the business after graduating from college, and eventually, he and his wife Stefanie wer ...

A recent article details the unsuccessful attempt to shut Uber out of Nevada. The piece contains interesting tid-bits about the bullying and scandal that plagued Uber's fight, but it doesn't tell the full story.  Though it focuses on the particular plight of Uber, anti-competitive tactics have long been used in Nevada to shut out new transportatio ...

caption id="attachment_35427" align="alignright" width="300" PLF client Tracie Pabst (left) and attorney Anastasia Boden (right)/caption Today I testified to the Montana Legislature's House Transportation Committee about the unconstitutionality of their Competitor's Veto law---the same law we challenged in court yesterday.  The Committee is consid ...

Jefferson City, MO; July 11, 2012:  Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed legislation this week repealing the state's anticompetitive licensing law for moving businesses.  The development marks the final victory in a pro-free-enterprise battle that began when Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys challenged the law's constitutionality in June, 2010. Rea ...

In January of 2010, Honda Motor Company began the preliminary steps of opening a new dealership in Cummings, Georgia. In the midst of a recession, the opening of any new business should be welcomed with open arms. Instead, the existence of this new dealership has been clouded by litigation for the past two years because Honda "made the mistake" of ...