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While driving to work today, the satellite radio station proffered All of Me for my listening pleasure. All of Me is a popular jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons. Longtime blog readers won't be surprised to find out I'm partial to Sinatra's version of the song, but many legendary artists have performed it. The song begins: Al ...

Earlier this year, careful readers of the blog know I called your attention to a regulatory land grab taking place in the beautiful Florida Keys. That case, known as Beyer v. City of Marathon, has remained pending on a motion for rehearing before the Third District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida for three years. Pacific Legal Foundation h ...

My handy-dandy Idiom Dictionary says the expression "for the birds" describes something "worthless" and "undesirable." The dictionary goes on to explain the etymology as "based on the idea that birds eat seed, which is not worth much." (It may also have a somewhat scatological foundation, but we'll leave that conversation starter for a less-hig ...

caption id="attachment_43608" align="alignright" width="300" The Beyer family/caption The Miami Daily Business Review, "your leading source of daily legal and business news in South Florida,"* recently published a PLF op-ed about our Ganson v. City of Marathon case. The piece, titled Family That Was Rooked for a Rookery Asks for Help From Supr ...

caption id="attachment_45295" align="alignright" width="300" Birds > private property rights in some courts./caption Yesterday, we learned the Florida Supreme Court denied review of our Ganson v. City of Marathon regulatory takings case. We've previously written about the case here, here, here, and here. In a nutshell, government officials ...

caption id="attachment_49691" align="alignright" width="300" Alfred Hitchcock planning sequel to The Birds featuring bureaucrats from south Florida and helpless property owners in the role made famous by Tippy Hedren./caption This past week Cato Institute, Southeastern Legal Foundation, and the NFIB Small Business Legal Center filed amicus  ...