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Watch the story of J.P. Krause

June 26, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Thanks to the Vero Beach Press-Journal editorial board for publishing a very nice editorial on Sunday in support of Pacific Legal Foundation and PLF client J.P. Krause. From the editorial: Krause and his parents knew how unfairly he’d been treated when he was disqualified from his senior class presidency and called Laurence Reisman, a TCP ...

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Teaching the teachers about the First Amendment

June 19, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Following a warning letter from Pacific Legal Foundation, today officials at Vero Beach High School and the Indian River County School Board have finally withdrawn all punishment of student J.P. Krause – a rising senior whom they unlawfully penalized for the “offense” of delivering a tongue-in-cheek speech in his successful candidacy ...

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An unjust loss for property rights in Florida's Fifth DCA

June 16, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Earlier today, we learned that Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed a jury award for millions of dollars to a family that had its property rights basically ignored by a small town on Florida’s east coast. The family relied upon the town council of Ponce Inlet’s invitation to develop several pieces of property at gre ...

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ICYMI : Fox & Friends welcomed PLF client J.P. Krause

June 10, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

On Sunday morning, the Fox and Friends Weekend morning show on the Fox News Channel welcomed PLF client J.P. Krause, a rising senior at Vero Beach High School, as their guest. J.P., the young man who should serve as Vero Beach’s senior class president in the coming school year, will be on the show to discuss his high … ...

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The EPA tries to evade judicial review. Again.

June 09, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Earlier this week, Pacific Legal Foundation filed its principal brief on behalf of the Marquette County (Michigan) Road Commission in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. In this appeal, we represent the Road Commission as it takes on the federal government and its Environmental Protection Agency. The Road Commission intends to build ...

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Vero Beach High School has a First Amendment problem

June 07, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Vero Beach High School, a public high school on the east coast of Florida, has a First Amendment problem. The school failed to respect it. And now a student—J.P. Krause, a top student, rising senior, our client, and the young man who should serve as VBHS senior class president in the coming school year—understands better why the … ...

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Short-term home rentals and safe neighborhoods can coexist

April 28, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

This week in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Goldwater Institute‘s Executive Vice-President Christina Sandefur and I encourage Florida cities to stop punishing responsible home owners who share their homes with tourists on a short-term basis. Floridians have rented homes out to vacationers and ‘snowbirds’ for decades, but in ...

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Florida Supreme Court rules for birds, against Fifth Amendment

April 14, 2017 | By MARK MILLER

Yesterday, we learned the Florida Supreme Court denied review of our Ganson v. City of Marathon regulatory takings case. … ...

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Florida city unconstitutionally authorizes public trespassing

April 12, 2017 | By CHRISTINA MARTIN

In recent years, many local and state governments have used crafty methods to take access to private beaches without first paying for the right. Governments have imposed easements on private land, declared private land public, declared a right of custom where none existed, and attempted to expand the public trust doctrine beyond its limit. Today, ...