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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 ...

One thing the White House's report on occupational licensing laws unfortunately left out completely is Competitor's Veto laws: laws that forbid people from entering a business not because they are unskilled or unqualified, but solely and explicitly because existing businesses don't want competition. While other kinds of occupational licensing laws ...

This morning I joined Armstrong & Getty to talk about Competitor's Veto laws and two recent California cases involving Uber that show how overregulation of the economy stifles entrepreneurship and innovation. If you missed it, you can listen online here. ...

California Supreme Court to rule on forced housing subsidies We're expecting a ruling on Monday in California Building Industry Association v. City of San Jose, the challenge to San Jose's affordable housing mandate.  While it admitted that it had not shown that the construction of new homes creates a need for more subsidized low-income housing, t ...

Sad news from Carson City today, where Gov. Brian Sandoval has chosen to keep in place the nation's most anti-competitive licensing law. This morning, Sandoval announced his veto of SB 183, a bill that would have opened the market for entrepreneurs to freely compete for jobs running moving companies, or taxi or limo companies. The state's current l ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission finalized a new regulation that abolishes that state's Competitor's Veto rule for moving companies, and adopting a new, pro-competitive rule that lets anyone who wants to start a new moving company do so, as long as they're safe and honest. That's the way the rule should be. Sadly, many state a ...

School choice -- good result in Florida A Florida trial court a dismissed a union-led lawsuit, Mcall v. Scott, challenging the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program. The Florida Legislature created the Tax Credit Scholarship Program in 2001, which gives dollar-for-dollar tax credits for donations from corporations to K-12 scholarship funding orga ...

We've released a bunch of fun materials to familiarize people with those unfair and unconstitutional statutes---and to show exactly what PLF is doing to fight them. This video explains where the Competitor's Veto came from in just 60 seconds. We released this infographic, which explain our new lawsuit in the birthplace of the Constitution. ...

More than two centuries ago, great statesmen assembled in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution that would "preserve the blessings of liberty." Among them were some of the nation's leading entrepreneurs, including Pennsylvania's own Ben Franklin, one of the great self-made businessmen in American history. How sad they would be to learn that toda ...