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Squash the wrong bug, go to jail The price of selling your home in Santa Barbara? An illegal warrantless search. Free speech wins one in California legislature! Brief filed in Oklahoma First Amendment right to say who you are case Oral argument in Florida takings case Allies file amicus briefs in support of our bird island in the ...

On Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court issued its opinion in Women's Surgical Center v. Berry, a case that challenged Georgia's anti-competitive Certificate of Need ("CON") laws. Certificate of Need laws, which PLF has successfully challenged in six other states, force entrepreneurs to prove that there is a "need" for additional services in a market ...

 Julie Bruner, daughter of PLF client Raleigh Bruner, holds the injunction that allowed her father's business to stay open George Will's New Year's Day column focuses on PLF's victory on behalf of Kentucky entrepreneur Raleigh Bruner and his moving company, Wildcat Moving. As Liberty Blog readers will recall, Bruner's company was almost shuttered ...

In the last month, taxi drivers around the world have shut down city streets to protest against competition from Uber.* Traffic in major European cities ground to a halt last week. This followed in the wake of a similar demonstration in Boston last month. The taxi drivers' objections are as predictable as they are unfounded: competition from Uber i ...

The Constitution forbids states from interfering with certain individual rights. For instance, states aren't allowed to censor speech or deprive people of the right to travel from one state to another. But does that protection end as soon as a person exercises a right for commercial or professional reasons? That's the question at issue in a case wh ...

Last month, we won a crucial victory for economic freedom when a federal court struck down Kentucky's licensing law for moving companies. That law said that if you wanted to run a moving business, you first had to get a license—but when you applied for a license, you had to first notify the state's existing moving companies and give them the chance ...

Back in November, John Stossel did a special entitled "War on The Little Guy" that featured our client, Raleigh Bruner, and his challenge to Kentucky's licensing law for moving companies--the case we won just today. You can learn more about Raleigh's story in Stossel's special, which is now available on YouTube. Flash forward to 24:06. ...

PLF's Economic Liberty Project is in the business of defending the constitutional right to earn a living at the trade of their choice. Sadly, not only is that right often disregarded by courts today, but it's frequently difficult for business owners even to get the opportunity to make their legal arguments. The latest such example features Maurice ...

Tune in to Fox News Channel Saturday at 9pm to see John Stossel's special "War on The Little Guy," which features PLF's lawsuit on behalf of Kentucky entrepreneur Raleigh Bruner. He's the guy who wants to run a moving company...only to discover that if you want to run a moving company in Kentucky, you first have to get permission from all of the st ...