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We filed our opening brief in the appeal to our challenge to Wisconsin's irrational butter grading law. I have written about this case a number of times, but the essence of the case is that Wisconsin has adopted an irrational and protectionist scheme to keep out-of-state artisanal butters from entering the Wisconsin market.  In order for any butter ...

For decades, a federal agency had forbidden people in southwestern Utah from doing things that most of us take for granted in our own communities, like building homes, starting businesses, or protecting their airport, playgrounds, and cemetery from disruption, all ostensibly to protect the Utah prairie dog. Thanks to a lawsuit PLF filed on behalf o ...

We received some unfortunate news today from the federal court in Wisconsin. The court ruled against Minerva Dairy's claims that the Wisconsin butter grading law violates the Constitution. In this case, Wisconsin adopted a law that even the government's own experts fail to understand. A butter grade provides the consumer with essentially no informa ...

PLF files motion to intervene to defend public land access for all On Thursday, PLF filed a motion to intervene in Utah Diné Bikéyah v. Trump in order to defend President Trump's decision to downsize the Bears Ears National Monument from 1.35 million acres, as originally designated by President Obama, to 200,000 acres. PLF filed the motion on be ...

Our Constitution limits the federal government's powers to those expressly listed in the document. But the government we have today is a far cry from the limited government described by our Founding Fathers. PLF is asking the Supreme Court to restore the Constitution's limits by rejecting an extreme, limitless interpretation of the Commerce Clau ...

Environmentalists warn of catastrophic sun-darkening on Monday! Support for the Supreme Court to toss Michigan's theft by tax-forclosure scheme Widespread support for "absent frog" case in Supreme Court And widespread concern for unoccupied sage-grouse habitat rules John Duarte settles with the Corps over making mountains out of farm fur ...

caption id="attachment_46515" align="alignright" width="300" Are private custodial proceedings Commerce with an Indian Tribe?/caption PLF filed this friend of the court brief at the Supreme Court today, urging the Court to take Goldwater Institute's challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act. In their petition, two Indian children are asking the ...

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 ...

This morning, we filed a petition for rehearing en banc in People for the Ethical Treatment of Property Owners v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service—our challenge to the federal government's constitutional authority to regulate take of the Utah prairie dog. Three years ago, the District Court for the District of Utah ruled the regulation unconstituti ...