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Weekly litigation update — May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

PLF fights for booksellers’ First Amendment rights On Thursday, PLF filed a major civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Book Passage, a bookstore in the Bay Area. The lawsuit challenges a California statute that requires businesses that sell signed items to demonstrate the authenticity of the signatures. This is a particular problem for bookstore ...

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PLF's Damien Schiff announced as future nominee to the Court of Federal Claims

May 08, 2017 | By JOSHUA THOMPSON

President Trump has announced his intent to nominate PLF Senior Attorney Damien Schiff to the Court of Federal Claims. There, he will join former PLF attorney, Judge Victor Wolski. We at PLF are very grateful for having had Damien for the past 13 years, but our loss is the Republic’s gain. We fully expect Damien’s confirmation … ...

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Federalist Society publishes Hawkes piece

March 15, 2016 | By MARK MILLER

Earlier today, the Federalist Society published a close look at the legal issue the Supreme Court of the United States will consider later this month in Pacific Legal Foundation‘s Hawkes case. The piece, written by PLF principal attorney Damien Schiff and yours truly, is called U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., Inc.: Wetlands Juri ...

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PLF's Damien Schiff speaks at the Cato Institute today

September 18, 2012 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

Damien Schiff, who won the case of Sackett v. EPA before the Supreme Court earlier this year, will be speaking about that case at the Cato Institute’s annual Constitution Day Conference at 1pm Eastern, 10 Pacific. You can watch live on C-SPAN 2, or over at the C-SPAN website. Update: You can watch the archived … ...

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Reason.tv interviews Mike & Chantell Sackett

February 28, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Reason.tv visited the Sacketts in Priest Lake, Idaho, and put together this great interview with them and with their attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation’s Damien Schiff. httpv://youtu.be/40iHXAOjJ3U … ...

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PLF attorney Damien Schiff and PLF clients Mike & Chantell Sacketts to testify before Western Caucus

February 23, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

On Tuesday, February 28th, the Senate Western Caucus, chaired by Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, and the Congressional Western Caucus, chaired by New Mexico Representative Steve Pearce, will be holding a bicameral hearing on “Washington Barriers to Prosperity and Property Rights in the West.”  Testifying at the hearing will be PLF clien ...

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A supreme case for liberty

January 25, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

PLF’s Damien Schiff recounts his oral argument in Sackett v. EPA before the United States Supreme Court.   … ...

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Peter Schiff interviews the Sacketts and Damien Schiff

January 13, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Following oral argument at the Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA, the Sacketts and their attorney, PLF’s Damien Schiff, were invited to appear on several radio shows to talk about the case, including the Victoria Taft show out of Portland, the Lars Larson show which is syndicated nationwide, and by Peter Schiff.  Here is a … ...

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Panel discussion of Sackett v. EPA oral argument at Georgetown Law Center on January 9, 2012

December 28, 2011 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law Center is hosting a panel discussion of the oral argument in Sackett v. EPA on January 9, 2012 at 1:30 p.m., just a few hours following the actual oral argument in the Supreme Court, which takes place at 10:00 a.m. that morning.  All are invited to attend this … ...