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Author:  Paul J. Beard II I'll be on Southern California's John & Ken Show today shortly after 6:00 p.m. PST, along with George and Sharlee McNamee, to discuss their ongoing legal battle against the California Coastal Commission.  We are challenging the Commission's decision to deny the McNamees a permit for ...

Author:  Paul J. Beard II Earlier this month, we filed a lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission for attempting to extort a mile-long public-access easement of shoreline property from a family with land in San Luis Obispo, California, that wants to make simple repairs to a home.  We argue that the easement conditon& ...

Author:  Paul J. Beard II This morning, Fox News did a segment on our most recent lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission: SDS Family Trust v. California Coastal Commission. You won't want to miss this excellent interview of one of our clients, Denise McLaughlan, explaining the Commission's extortionate demand for a mi ...

Author:  Paul J.  Beard II Today, the Times-Standard published an opinion editorial by Gary Bird—president of Citizens for a Better Eureka, which is the client in our recently filed appeal against the California Coastal Commission.  The issue on appeal concerns whether the Commission has the power to interfere in the d ...

Author: Paul Beard II Earlier this month, K. Lloyd Billingsley of the Pacific Research Institute wrote a scathing opinion editorial on the California Coastal Commission.  He asks the question many California taxpayers have on their minds:  Given the State's financial woes, why is the Coastal Commission not among the dozens of ...

Author:  Paul J. Beard II That's the question I ask in an opinion editorial published in today's San Francisco Chronicle, in light of Executive Director Peter Douglas's recent announcement that he is retiring.   If you can't pick up a copy of the Chronicle, read it on-line and offer your comments about what you think. &# ...

Individual Rights — Defending the right to petition our government. Hollingsworth v. Perry in the U.S. Supreme Court. We addressed the question whether sponsors of initiatives have standing to defend those initiatives in court — especially when a state’s attorney general refuses to defend the measure. PLF’s amicus brief, fil ...

I will be a guest on the Jim Franklin Live show on Sunday afternoon to discuss PLF’s challenge to the conditions that the California Coastal Commission is imposing on the renovation of the Marshall Tavern.  The program will air from 2-4 p.m. on KION 1460 AM & 101.1 FM in Fresno. … ...

The New Jersey Condemnation Law blog reports on a legislative effort in NJ to limit the state’s liability for taking private property in its Hurricane Sandy restoration efforts.  Rather than respecting private property in these efforts, the bill attempts to define away its constitutional obligation to compensate property owners.  The bill w ...